New England Puppies and Dog Training tips

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To accompany the Fear In Dogs series I'm doing on my blog, today I'm releasing this helpful infographic: 5 Ways Fear Is Acquired In Dogs. Download your copy here: http://rescuedbytraining.com/fear-in-dogs-infographic/

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27/12/2020

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17/12/2020

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16/12/2020

Hi,

This is actually about my own dog. He is a 13-month old Lab who wakes up and whines and barks approximately 15-45 minutes before it is time for everyone in the home to get. As far as we know, he stops barking the minute he hears us moving around on the other side of the home, so he has stopped barking before we get anywhere near the kitchen. There is quite a long distance between the two rooms, lots of hallway space to hear us walking around. We do not try to even get out of bed until he has been quiet for a few minutes.

He is sleeping in a large pen in the kitchen with toys and food always available. He is not doing this because he needs to potty as he has a dog door attached to the pen!

He lives in an enriched environment. We use food filled toys, goes on long walks or to the park or plays loads of time in our backyard with us and our other dog daily. He has no patience and low frustration tolerance. He really tends to bark for attention a lot, which, needless to say, gets firmly ignored.

He can’t be left loose anywhere unsupervised as he will pick up and chew any nonfood item he can fit in his mouth (and yes, we have worked on that).

Anyone have any ideas on how to diminish this behavior? My family and I would be most grateful!

Thanks,
Client

22/11/2020

POTTY TRAINING EXPLAINED

1. Set it up so the dog wins. Take the pup out 1st thing in the a.m. attached to a leash. Don't allow smelling or playing, keep the dog's head up and body walking. They will eventually lose all distriction and p*e.

2. Reward immediately after p*e and immediately after p**p with a good reward. **** this is the most important of all the step

3. Watch for dog to be completely drip dry and done squeezing out all the poo, before returning inside the house. This may take 20 or 30 min sometimes more.

4. If you think they're done return inside(if unsure if they completely emptied, ...enter the home and immediately return outside. At times the entering into hiuse triggers the dogs need to5
go inside.

5. Restrict access to one room only until potty training in that room is good. The more rooms the dog p*es in the harder it becomes to train out of the dog.
6. Use hospital bed pads rather than disposable p*e pads. Machine washable and won't get chewed up.
Clean off poo but let p*e stay if smell is tolerable to humans. This helps get the dog to return the the pads.

7. No reprimand or yelling at the dog for potty. You're already too late for it to be effective for potty training.

8. Put the pads in multiple p*e spots and each day move them closer to each other by only a FEW INCHES. go too far and you will have to start all over again

9. Once you have all the pads moved together, then keep only 1 pad. Now start moving that pad toward the exit door the dog uses for outside potty.

18/10/2020

It's so important that we put our dogs reinforcers on an intermittent schedule.

What does that even mean?

We randomize the quantity and quality of rewards (food or freedom or toys)...remembering PRAISE can also be used but this is what I call secondary rewarding. It's used when we don't have primary rewards available.

Randomizing our quality and quantity also keeps our behaviors from becoming extinct.

All training will fade without some sort of reward/ consequence offered.

I always treats and toys available somewhere close by.

There's always an opportunity to train your dog therefore we need to have these things ready in anticipation of training.

Take an old candy dish and put it up on a shelf or mantle and fill it with kibble....

Now you're ready to RANDOMIZE.

GO forth and do good by your dog. After all..they deserve more than humans can ever give them.

-Chris Maynard
Master Dog Trainer
Boston

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20/05/2020

Don't REPRIMAND or yell at your dog.

If you haven't taught them, step by step, they don't know what you want of them. They DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH

19/05/2020

Instead of feeding your dog out of the bowl tomorrow a.m., use it to treat your dog for performing obedience for you. It'll take you 20min max to run through the whole bowl. That's easily 100x of habit building.

17/05/2020

Try not spending every minute of every day with your dog. Yes it is fun and loving, however, the anxiety you are building up in your dog is going to bring on other behaviors, like begging, whining, crying, barking...and so on

17/05/2020

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