Adaptive Canine Training

19/02/2025

Teddy is one of our newest private lesson pups 🐶 He is learning how to be calm around other dogs and people and not bark and lunge!

18/12/2024

Welcome our newest board and train, Chappy! 10 month old golden retriever who’s here to work on his greeting manners and leash manners.
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Here’s a pro tip for dog owners struggling with their pups jumping on guests, counter surfing and digging in the trash. Prevent them from practicing the behavior. The less “reps” they get in, the less practice they have doing it. This will help make the work you do with either correcting the behavior or rewarding a different behavior or both, much easier.

18/10/2024

Woah! Look at this doggo!!

16/10/2024

Our social media manager Ruby has been a bit behind on posting. I guess she’s been sleeping through her alarm.

12/10/2024

surprise, more doodles… 🫣Meet Blue (left) and Finn (right). They are in the 2-week Board and Train and ready to “surprise” their owners expectations!

01/10/2024

When the hotel has a welcome sign and complimentary dog toys, you know you are going to have a great stay!

19/09/2024

When your pup trains with us or even stays with us, they are treated like a member of the family.

23/08/2024

Straightforward post: just a happy dog in nature. What is your favorite place to bring your dog?

14/08/2024

Stitch is having a blast at day training. There is still some availability so book your pup’s spot!

30/05/2024

Nothing better than sandy pups

25/05/2024

“Like a glove!” I love how versatile the is. It can go from a mall crawler to an adventure rig! Not in the picture are 2 kids and 2 adults.These are a perfect fit too. Enjoy the long weekend and stay safe

18/05/2024

Happy Cat-urday!!! You read that right, this dog training page is making a post! Can you find the in this picture?
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First 3 people to message me get an Adaptive Canine Training trucker hat or 1 free night of boarding!

12/05/2024

Shocking……..

THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT KAREN PRYOR,
THE QUEEN OF CLICKER TRAINING

Karen Pryor, the author of “Don’t Shoot the Dog,” and the queen of clicker training, kept her own much-loved Border Terrier behind an Invisible Fence with a powerfully aversive electronic collar that delivered several thousand volts if the dog tried to cross a buried wire.

Did punishment make her dog aggressive?

It did not.

Did punishment make her dog fearful?

It did not.

Did punishment ruin her relationship with the dog?

It did not.

And did punishment work to keep her dog in the yard?

Yep. Like new money.

Did Ms. Pryor need to know WHY her dog wanted to leave the yard?

Nope. She just needed to provide persuasive and consistent punishment when it did — and an electonic fence collar did that, and does that.

And so we get to the bottom line: Punishment and only punishment will stop a powerfully self-rewarding unwanted behavior.

A tug on a web collar is punishment, same as a tap on an e-collar.

If you do not know what punishment means — or how to apply it in the context of dog training — then you need to go read up on that.

Punishment is not torture, nor is it ongoing, nor does it create a massive amount of psychological damage to the dog, nor does it always need to be powerful. Electric and electronic fences do not torture the dog or the cow — they provided perfectly timed negative consequences and the “no go” lesson is quickly learned.

You do not need to know WHY the dog is doing the unwanted behavior.

The Invisible Fence does not care if the dog is chasing a deer or a squirrel.

It does not matter if the dog is interested in the bitch in heat seven yards over, or if they hear a yowling cat on the neighbor's porch.

The Invisible Fence does not care if the dog is bored or excited, curious or enraged.

The Invisible Fence does not care because correcting unwanted self-rewarding behavior is not about psychology; it's about sending a clear, consistent, and insistent NO signal. And, in a well trained dog, that signal can be fairly subtle and slight.

If you are talking to a dog trainer that does not understand this one basic thing, go elsewhere, because it's a simple and provable fact that you cannot keep a dog inside a small yard with cookies alone.

Karen Pryor knew.

What did Karen Pryor NOT know?

Believe it or not, she did not know how to walk her Border Terrier off-leash in the woods.

Cookies and a clicker, it seems, were no match for the prey drive of a 15-pound working terrier.

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For Karen Pryor, in her own words, see >> https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2017/04/terrier-training-that-works.html

12/05/2024

Happy Mother’s Day from Timber and Tater!
We had a fun outing at the on Saturday!