Even though weâre excited about the weekend⌠calm, heel walking is key⌠especially when near a road. If you need help with teaching your dog lead etiquette and to get your walks relaxed, calm and most importantly relaxing for you all please do get intouch.
A purely organic video showing just what a calm and balanced dog is like. Here we have Cooper and Cullen (he was visiting whilst his owners were on holiday) it was first thing in the morning.. (whilst I was hanging the washing after the school run) the dogs werenât exercised or âdrainedâ down and the lovely excitable dogs next door were playing but the dogs have been taught to leave and be relaxed and calm in the garden (this is an extension of their home even though itâs a busy family home) and so I took the opportunity to quickly capture the results of what the work we have done to achieve this. So if you want a calm dog that doesnât react to every sight, smell and sound and drive you and your neighbours up the wall please do get in touch. (Cooper will still alert us to any unusual activity at night time after heâs given a good night cue)
Fire work desensitisation.
This little lady Buffy came to me as a reactive and nervous girl, after a horrific experience at a puppy class she found lots and lots of new situations stressful. With the firework season upon us she began desensitisation work with her mum, this starts by giving them a relaxing and positive Serotonin job to do whilst playing the noise of fireworks softly and more and more louder over a period of days/time until eventually this becomes the result a calm relaxed dog.
Obviously with all fireworks unless you know your dog is đŻ bomb proof and non reactive or likely to bolt try not to walk them when fireworks are likely to be happening and especially not off lead.
As we are in firework season now and if your dog is struggling with firework stress, make sure they have had a good run/walk during the day, play some mental games with them. Make them a nice safe den, with a chew or stuffed kong and let them go in, close curtains/blinds play soft classical music or turn up the TV To drown out noise for them and remember to keep calm yourself.. use an ADAPTIL plug in near their den/crate and remember to try not to over react to your dogs uncomfort and keep working on desensitisation of fireworks until your dog is comfortable.
If you need any assistance with this please feel free to contact me.
Great work!
This little lady and her sister used to pull, zig zag and very loudly react to any one and other dogs and just make walking not fun at all for anyone. (Except them!) Walking became something mum didnât enjoy at all. Now look at them! All the hard work is paying off! đ
Place
Why teaching your dogâplaceâ is so important. It teaches your dog to relax and settle in even the most stimulating of places. Here we are in a busy vets, where there is an overload of sensory stimuli for a dog, with sights and smells and noises, lots of other animals, lovely nurses and Ofcourse treats and the excitement of going into see the vet! But teaching your dog to go into a full down and settle helps them to relax. This is so important to teach your dog and this video here is the exact reason for it.
Heel work dream work, teaching the dogs to walk calmly..
Heel and close work.
This is why we teach heel work, this is 18 month old Cooper walking off lead with his 12 year old handler in a new environment with lots of new sights, sounds and most importantly smells. This video demonstrates a solid walk to heel and control and trust between dog and handler. #heelwalk #dogtraining #dogtrainerwatford
Threshold control
This video was taken on a busy bank holiday Whilst we were busy doing household chores, both dogs have been trained to not go over threshold, Cooper not to go over the door and Lulu was taught not to go past the big step. As they have not heard the command âletâs goâ they wonât move even with the distraction and noises in the house and people walking past.
It is VITAL you teach your dog threshold control for ALL exits and entrances to your home!
(Itâs taken me a while to post this as we lost Lulu 4 days after this video was taken)
Puppy confidence building, whilst having fun! Mental and physical work. #happypuppies #BuildingTrust #buildingconfidentdogs #bondingtime
Walking to heel on the pack walk.
If you would like help on how to get your dog to walk calmly and to heel without barbaric outdated torture devices please do not hesitate to give me a call and we will see what we can do. (There are 6 adult labradors ages ranging from 13 months to 4 years on this pack walk and 2 are entire)
Calling all Improvers and Newbies to class! If you dog has the basic commands and you want to go further with training or your dog just needs a reminder of their training, Then this class is for you! If you want to help your dog to learn to settle and focus when out and about, and socialise politely than please give me a call on +447947739664 so we can help
Your canine friend put their best paw forward! â ď¸ Classes are limited to 4 dogs per session and the courses are 6 weeks long with an hour class time a week and home work too.