Acchindra Amstaff

02/12/2024

Little Rambo went on little plane ride other day. He’s having the best life and has settled into his new home so well. Miss his little face 🐾

28/11/2024

Little miss Necate off to her new home. Can’t wait to watch her grow up…going to miss her cheeky face 🐾

06/11/2024

These 2 little cuties growing so quickly 🐾

31/10/2024

Just loving this boy so much like his daddy ❤️
Pm for info 🐾

31/10/2024

This little girl is such a character love her ❤️

24/10/2024

23/10/2024

How cute are these 2. Starting to get up and about 🐾

20/10/2024

Omg they are so chubby 🐾

16/10/2024

Puppy spam 🐾❤️

15/10/2024

So excited to announce we welcomed these 2 little gems into the world. Little boy and girl. Huge thanks to Paolo for all your support and special thanks to Candice from Nissen st vet.

11/09/2024

Super excited to announce confirmed pregnancy via ultrasound. Can’t wait to see what these two produce. Huge thank you to Paolo at Saintsoldier, Craigieburn animal hospital, Pakair and Candice and her team at Nissen st vet for making this possible for me.

18/02/2024

Our first show back after some time off and had an awesome day!!
Acchindra Yuki Senshi come home with BOB and Intermediate in group under judge Ms M Clegg. Thanks to Tab for showing Yuki for me 🏆

04/04/2023

Happy birthday to Zeus and Nyx babies…hope they got spoilt rotten ❤️🎉🎂

25/03/2023

Little cutie she was 🥰
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10204132745355341&id=1726946427&mibextid=0cALme

19/03/2023

Happy 2nd birthday to Jet and Nyx babies hope they all get spoilt rotten ❤️🥳🎉

25/10/2022

So true 🐾
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=490499389790765&id=100064921230581

Here’s another post I share annually. Many, many owners (and trainers) have found life changing insight and value from this short read. I hope it’s helpful. 🙏
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Okay, so this is a word that gets an awful lot of play in the training world, and it’s definition has come to mean an awful lot of things. Many of which, are incredibly counter-productive, if not downright dangerous.

So let’s see if we can’t clarify a few things.

Socialization isn’t:
-About letting your dog freely interact with dogs at the dog park, day care, or with friends dogs.
-About allowing your dog to meet other dogs on-leash.
-About allowing all manner of people, in all manner of mental/emotional states interact/pet/pressure your dog.
-About exposing your dog to the sights and sounds of cars, buses, motorcycles, bikes, skateboards, joggers...and allowing them to freak out, panic, aggress, hide, bark etc.
-About exposing your dog to the sights and sounds of dogs, cats, and other animals, and allowing them to freak out, aggress, lunge, bark, growl etc.

Socialization is:
-About teaching your dog the proper responses to dogs. What is and isn’t appropriate behavior, and correcting the unwanted when it appears.
-About teaching your dog to walk by the barking, lunging dog(s) on walks and ignore them, completely. Correcting if necessary to achieve this result.
-About advocating for your dog and ensuring people aren’t allowed to pressure your dog, by touching, crouching down, attempting “kisses” etc. That means being a big boy or girl, and stopping others from engaging in unwanted, uninvited interactions.
-About exposing your dog to all manner of daily life “things” and ensuring a proper response. If aggression/arousal is present, it’s corrected, if fear/arousal is present (and causes an overreaction/fleeing etc.) it’s corrected. Ask your dog to learn to ignore and not care about these “life” distractions/concerns/temptations. Teach them to listen to the training, not the world around them.
-About teaching your dog to leave other creatures alone. The cat, the bird, the cow, the goat, the other dog, is simply none of their business. If they decide those things are their business, it’s your job to correct and clarify what is and isn’t their business for them.

Socialization has become a ridiculously simplified, dumbed down, all-encompassing idea. Free interaction and exposure have been presented as a panacea, the magic gateway to a balanced dog. That’s a whole lot of B.S. you’ve been sold, by a lot of people full of B.S. 🙂

Socialization is all about teaching your dog how to behave and exist in the world...properly. People have a belief that only interactions create a well socialized dog. They don’t understand that existence is almost always preferable, and more valuable than actual interaction. Yes exposure is critical, but exposure without 100% clear guidance, and corrections for poor choices, isn’t socialization, it’s chaos, and it’s not teaching your dog what’s right, what’s wrong, and that you’ll keep them safe, so they don’t have to.

A well socialized dog isn’t fazed by the world around them. And that doesn’t come from simple exposure and interactions without guidance. Ironically, that’s precisely how you create anti-social dogs.

Think on that for a minute.

01/10/2022

😂😂😂
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5561329813958749&id=557681190990328

We do not discuss this topic.

24/09/2022

https://www.facebook.com/100063678620569/posts/493943839404899/?d=n

Proactive v Reactive

We aim to be proactive in our training.
We look ahead in every situation and try to predict all the potential scenarios. With that in mind, we then set ourselves and our puppies/dogs up for the best outcome, avoiding the scenarios we don't want.

We wouldn't allow a puppy play outside with our kids and wait for puppy to nip kids and then go outside and clip on a lead... too late!

We would go outside with the kids.. with the puppy on lead so we can give clear direction to the puppy on how to behave appropriately.

We don't wait for the mistake and then correct it... we instil the correct behaviour in the first place.