There's nothing wrong with your dog not getting to greet people when they're over-excited.
Because here's the thing:
The absence of the unwanted behaviour is just as powerful as training them to stop the unwanted behaviour.
In other words, your dog not practicing jumping up is just as important as training them to do polite greetings.
Management comes first.
Skills trained second.
And polite calm greetings will be your result.
Giving you the step by step on training polite greetings without your dog jumping up in my 4 on the Floor Workshop.
Saturday Feb 1 & 8
Vic West Community Centre
521 Craigflower Rd. Victoria BC
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The best day to start training your dog will always be today.
Have you read Atomic Habits by James Clear?
In a nutshell, if you can make a 1% improvement every day for a year, you'll have a 37 fold improvement after 365 days.
1.01^(365)
Now if you do a 3% improvement daily for a year, it's a 48,482x improvement.
1.03^(365)
And it goes both ways.
In other words, if you're not making effort in your desired direction, your results will shift in the unwanted direction.
Here's the BONUS:
⢠the efforts you do make don't need to be complicated
⢠You only need 3-10 mins per day of consistent effort applied to the individual.
And I can show you how.
Ready to start training your dog a reliable recall?
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Ya'll are letting your dog off leash and then trying to manage them when they're 50 feet away.
Which actually leaves a whole lot riding on that recall cue.
Making off leash freedom quite stressful for you.
And not a lot of fun for them.
In other words, nobody wins.
But when you train them to have the skills of:
⢠disengaging from distractions.
⢠valuing being close to you over being far away from you.
⢠emotional regulation to do both those things
Well, then you not only have a reliable recall cue, but you have true off leash freedom for them and you.
A place is a spot that your dog can easily identify as a space for them to anchor.
Not because we've disciplined them to do so.
But because they have a strong reward history and value for it.
And it doesn't need to be fancy.
Sure, you can buy a $200 bed.
Or you could use something you already have, like an old beach towel.
It's simply about having an identifiable target that gives your dog the, "if I fits, I sits" kinda vibe.
If you want to train your dog to love their "place" comment PLACE and I'll send you the link to my 3 Steps to Place Training ebook.
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Training our dogs isn't about making them obedient. It's about showing them where the value is.
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If you've been training your dogs recall for 3 months or more and it's still not working outside, you gotta hear this.
Now I'm sure you've tried doing the typical recall training you found on YouTube.
The one where you put them into a "sit, stay" and walk away and then cue them.
Maybe you've tried the restrained recalls across the yard where they run from person to person.
And that's all great for getting them to know their name or recall cue.
But what about when there is a squirrel or a cat running across their path?
What about the stinky half eaten McDonalds wrapper drawing them in?
How do they recall when they can smell a lake nearby?
How do they respond when a tennis ball goes flying past them?
Can they come to your call in spite of all those things?
If not, then your dog's recall training needs to include Disengagement and Proximity games.
Plus the Calmness to be able use those skills in exciting situations, like being distracted by a "SQUIRREL!"
If you have a dog struggling to disengage from distractions and see value in sticking close to you and you're ready to change your recall training game...
Comment RECALL and I'll send you my free Recall Recipe eBook.
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Getting your dog to recall outside will be so much easier when you make yourself as interesting as you are inside.
Because let's be real, inside you're the best thing around!
Inside you represent and bring all their favorite things - food, play, snuggles, love, interaction, walks!
So it's easy for them to recall and engage with you inside because they know it will be a good time.
But when we get outside, us humans tend to become a little, dare I say it... boringđ´ in comparison to the mud, water, other dogs, and sticks.
Especially when we pull out our phones and zone out.
If you want your dog to recall and engage with you on walks, ya gotta be engaging.
It doesn't mean for the entire time. But when your dog looks back at you like "Hey, ma! Did you see this?!" Give them some enthusiasm.
If they come around the corner with an obnoxiously large stick, laugh with them.
If they parkour like Tony Hawk, cheer them on.
And heck if you feel like it, parkour over that log too.
BE on that walk WITH them and you'll have a dog that wants to walk with you.
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The most common mistake I see in reactivity training:
Hyperfocusing on exposure therapy to countercondition the trigger.
Is counterconditioning helpful? Heck yeah. But counterconditioning is only 1 piece of the pie.
Before we can expose our dog to the stimulus, we need to make sure they have capacity to learn a different option than reacting.
Otherwise it's like trying to paddle upstream with a hole in your boat.
Comment BUCKET and I'll send you the link to my FREE Calmness building and Bucket emptying resource.
Comment DMT and I'll send you the link to my FREE resource on how to build a rock solid counterconditioner.
The solution?
For example, say your dog is pulling on leash when walking in your neighborhood.
Maybe they know how to walk at your pace.
Maybe they're even great at accepting treats.
Maybe their "heel" or "side" cue is perfect.
But the second you leave your house it all falls apart.
Well that's because there are way more distractions outside than there are inside. And the skills your dog already has can't hold up with a difficulty jump like that.
It's like being on the second step of a flight of stairs and trying to reach for the top step.
You can't get there from there.
To break it down, you could try:
⢠moving past a low level distraction inside with more time between rewards
⢠have a higher level distraction inside with more frequent rewards
⢠moving past a distraction inside (like having the door open) with a medium rate of rewards but moving faster
Have you reached a plateau in your dog's training? Comment below!
You may be sitting there thinking, "But doesn't my dog need to BE on a walk to learn how to walk nicely?"
And if that's you, yes, I agree! The picture of being on a leash is part of the learning process.
But can you imagine learning how to drive for the first time while on the actual road, with traffic, pedestrians, cyclists, and other hazards?
*cue anxiety lump in the chest*
That's what it's like for our dogs when we start leash training by walking them outside with all the distractions.
Anxiety and overstimulation rises and they immediately start pulling and literally no learning can happen because they're thinking, "Okay, how do I not die? I know! I'll go as fast as I can so that it's over faster."
And then we're on the other end of the lead trying to stop them.
Doesn't sound like a good time, does it?
But hey! There's a better way!
It starts with building the skills of Disengagement, Optimism, Calmness, and Proximity in an easy and safe environment and then advancing outside.
If you're ready to rebuild your walks with calmness I'll show you how in my Loose Leash LOVE workshop so that you and your dog can start loving your walks!
Saturday Oct 26th & Nov 2nd
@6:00pm
Vic West Community Centre
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Here's why your "Leave it" cue isn't working in real life...
It's almost fool proof, I'll start teaching this game to them and their dog and theyll immediately say "oh he's really good at "leave it" at home. I can put a treat on his paw, say "leave it" and he won't eat it until I say."
Really good!
AND there's more we can train.
Because what happens when the food falls off the counter suddenly?
Or when you don't see bear poop before they do?
Or you're not home and the garbage was left uncovered with chicken bones in reach?
We need our dogs to be able to make the CHOICE to leave it without relying to be told all the time.
Because as smart as we are, we can't always be as quick as our dogs are.
There's one more secret to Self Control we cover in my 4 on the Floor Stop Jumping Up Workshop.
There are a couple spaces left, register at missionpawsdogschool.com/groupclasses
Asking your dog to sit when greeting others and it's not working?
"Sit! Sit! SIT!"
And they're still bouncing off the walls, planting paws on grandma's new dressđŹ, oblivious to your requests.
And you're getting frustrated and ever more hopeless that they can't be trained.đ
We've all been there.
I feel you. I hear you.
Here's what's actually going on:
The sit you're asking for needs some pre-requiste skills. đ¤
To have a "sit" we need Stillness.
To have Stillness we need Self Control.
To have Self Controll we need Calmness.
To have Calmness we need Optimism and Confidence.
This is what you and your dog will learn in my 4 on the Floor Stop Jumping Up Workshop.
All the skills needed for polite greetings so that you can greet your guests without the anxiety of your dog crashing the party.đ
Details and registration at https://missionpawsdogschool.as.me/jumping
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