Emma Hutchings - Dog Training

13/01/2024

Who’s your dog rooting for tonight? 👏

Jambo is all geared up for the game tonight! Who are you rooting for? 😍🖤 The Kansas City Chiefs

13/01/2024

🎥A new video is up!

Jambo is learning the sweep snoopers method with me. This method is a a step by step approach to applying conditioning principles to train a dog to consistently and reliably detect specific scent and alert their handler to the presence of the target scent.

Follow along for part 2! 🖤

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25/12/2023

Merry Christmas from my family to yours! Here’s to making myself post more content this year. 😂🎄

🖤Queso, SDiT, went with us to the Christmas lights for more socializing, distraction training, and building confidence for future tasking!

16/11/2023

Quick gun dog session after work!

🖤Jambo
-Wait (impulse control)
-Gun fire (sound desensitization)
-Free (release)
-Retrieve (bring me the bird)

✨BIG PARTY✨

It’s important to start this in small successions to not overwhelm the dog or make the job confusing. Each step was taught individually, and slowly added together to get the chain videod below. My phone storage was full so did not ge the full retrieve! 🥲

So proud of this boy. 🥰

CH Halestorm’s AM GRILLIN’ & CHILLIN’ CGC CGCA CGCU TKN TKI RATN

23/08/2023

This is Lucy, she is also a SDiT I have at Snowy Pines White Labradors. She is learning to nose boop my leg so that she can alert her handler of a high heart rate. 🖤 She is doing super well and this was only after one lesson once we had generalized the nose target behavior!

23/08/2023

Been a while, but here’s a new tiktok of Queso and I doing some training tonight for part of her dinner! 🖤⚪️

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08/07/2023

11/06/2023

A quick demo of how in about 10 minutes you can accomplish so much. Don’t just go on a walk, make it beneficial for both of you. 🖤🐾🤎

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10/06/2023

🐾Today I taught a new task to Dutch. I taught him to “pick up” on command while practicing with different objects and textures.

🖤This was only our first lesson, but he learned very quickly and we were picking up keys by the end!

❓How is this beneficial to service dog handlers?
This allows some in pain, has trouble moving, or that is wheelchair bound if they drop something and aren’t able to pick it up. That’s why it’s so important to introduce new textures/shapes when teaching this.

‼️Today he picked up: a pen, baby keys, and a clicker. He also picked up a set of real keys and a leash (not videod).

08/06/2023

THIS.

On leash greetings can create tension and frustration leading to improper/inappropriate greetings.

One thing ALL trainers can agree on is NO ON LEASH GREETINGS.

Here's just a handful of reasons why:

Most owners are not skilled enough to read body language. A wagging tail DOES NOT mean a dog is friendly.

"He just wants to say hi." So what? Even if that is the case... You're going to reward your dog that's pulling you over to another dog or human with exactly what they want?

Even if your dog is friendly, they do not. I repeat. Do not need to greet every person and dog they meet. Period.

It's really unnatural for dogs to greet each other in the face. When Dogs are introduced at my ranch, they have off-leash, freedom and two whole acres to greet or not greet each other.

Dogs being forced to meet on a leash have no way out. The leashes are tense which builds anxiety and they will feel the need to defend themselves or react.

More often than not, most dogs actually need to learn proper socialization. They need to be engaged with you while ignoring other people and dogs not the other way around.

It takes less than a second for things to go wrong. If they do, most owners don't know how to stop a dog fight. This is also a great way to make your dog extremely leash reactive or get yourself or the dogs injured.

We don't tell you this because we don't want your dog to have friends. We're telling you this because there's much better ways to go about doing this. Your dog should have solid training and engagement with you BEFORE worrying about "making friends."

27/05/2023

🖤Stimulus control and generalization is probably the most important aspects in service dog training. It lets us really know if the dog is ready to task anywhere at anytime.

🐾Today Rogue and I worked on 3 different interruption tasks at Starbucks after a zoom meeting. Previously she was in a down stay socializing with the world.

The 3 Alerts Are:
🤎leg shaking interruption (paw)
‼️nail picking interruption (nose boop)
👊🏼closed fist interruption (jumping up)

If you watch closely you will see her get more aggressive with the leg alert as I didn’t stop shaking after the initial interruption. This is important as it shows she understands what she need to do for the handler! 😍

Her reward was leftover cream cheese from my bagel

26/05/2023

According to research performed by Harvard psychologists, dogs frequently dream about their owners while sleeping. 😴❤️

The study found that dogs dream similar to humans in that their dreams are often representative of their daily experiences. Of course for involved pet owners, a dog’s owner is a large part of that daily experience and would frequent their dreams.

So next time you see your beloved dog twitching mid-dream while fast asleep just know there is a high chance they are dreaming about you.

🐶📸

26/05/2023

WHO AGREES?!? 🖤🐾🤎 show me your best friend/friends!

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19/04/2023

‼️Penny learned to “Lip Lick” tonight on our nightly training session! Keep submitting those videos for tricks. The winners will be posted toward the end of the week! 😍🐾

Penny learned to licker her lips on command tongiht! 🐾🖤✅

16/04/2023

📸 Featuring Remi (GR) and Rogue (GSD)

😍Practicing down-stays with distractions!

Some distractions present:
🥎 Softball game
✨ New Place
🐶 Another Dog
😊 Multiple People
🆓 Off Leash

❓Why are distractions important? They help dogs generalize behaviors (understand behaviors/cues in multiple senarios)!

Have you ever had a dog do a new trick perfect in the house but when you get to a new place they seem like they’ve never heard it before? They most likely were because the behavior was not generalized yet.

14/04/2023

🐾I am so excited to share this with you. This is so you can get to know me better and learn more about my passions, experiences, and the alphabet soup behind my name. Take a few moments to check it out!

14/04/2023

👀Look at all those ribbons!

Our featured dog from the scent-work post!! 🖤Duchess is killing the scentwork game with her mom/trainer Mollie Carpenter (She will be our cover photo for the week)

‼️I love to see and share accomplishments with fellow dog people!

14/04/2023

🐾Please share this post so everyone can have a chance to show off their pooch!

‼️Who doesn’t LOVE a cute trick?! What cute tricks does your dog know? Submit a video below/in messenger for a chance to be featured on a trick dog post!!

🖤Erya is a 9 month old GSP who learned to “Bow” tonight! We taught this behavior by ”capturing”, she bows a lot on her own so I waited for her to offer it, and I immediately marked and rewarded. Within in a couple sessions she started offering it more and more, and eventually I paired a cue with it to get the final product you see below!

✅Capturing can be compared to a picture. You wait for the perfect moment before you ”capture” the image. Same with capturing a behavior. You are setting them up to offer it on their own…. and CLICK when the behavior presents itself!