Raleigh Canine Consulting

13/03/2025

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13/03/2024

I love taking our dogs on vacation with us ⛰️😁

…and all their stuff

🥩🍗 30lbs frozen raw food

⛑️ First aid supplies

💩 bags

🚙 Slip leads for travel breaks

🍻Prong set ups for brewery visits

🏕️ E collars for exploring the woods around the cabin

🥾 Flexis for hikes

🧸🦴 A couple toys

🍪 a stuffed treat pouch

*not pictured: crates, beds, dogs 😉❤️🐾

28/02/2024

You can now find us on SniffSpot!

Don’t have a yard big enough to let your dog stretch their legs?

Do public dog parks scare you as much as they scare me?

Need a secure open space to work on recall?

We have that!

Located 30 minutes north of Downtown Raleigh and within 20 minutes of Wake Forest and the surrounding areas.

Contact or follow the link to book your time!

Misfit Acres, Zebulon, North Carolina

03/01/2024

What to consider:

🧬 Genetics: What was this dog made to do? Is this an innate behavior or a learned behavior? If your herding dog isn’t getting the outlet they need to quiet the voice in their head saying “PUT IT ALL IN A CIRCLE!” They’re going to find a way to control the movements of anything around them and it tends to present as:
-Reactivity
-Obssesive behaviors (pacing, tail chasing, self harm, barking)
-Nipping/biting
-Chasing
-Destructiveness

🏠 Environment: Is this dog’s environment conducive to their needs? This doesn’t mean their physical home. I know German shepherds who live beautifully in apartments and others with giant yards who can’t cope. All due to the commitment level of their person. If you have a naturally nervous or easily overstimulated dog living in a chaotic home with a lot of noise, people/animals in and out all the time with constant routine changes and overall lack of stability and you don’t provide that dog with an appropriate outlet, guidance and a safe place away from it all you’re going to see issues such as:
-Aggression
-Reactivity
-Resource guarding
-Running away
-Potty accidents

📚Education: I hear “this dog just doesn’t listen” all the time. What they’re really saying is my dog doesn’t respond to commands the way I want them to and most of the time that means the dog doesn’t actually understand the thing your asking in context of what’s going on around them. If you taught your dog to sit in your kitchen with nothing else going on but never practiced it anywhere else you can’t expect them to immediately respond the same way in Petsmart on a Saturday with 100 kids and 40 dogs barking around them. It’s not the same.

Dogs are dogs. All of the things we see is behavior PROBLEMS are just dog behaviors that feel natural and necessary to them. It’s your responsibility to get them everything they need physically and mentally and provide rules and boundaries for them to be successful. Dogs are gonna dog if you don’t teach them otherwise.

20/12/2023

Trainers work with multiple dogs every single day. We see patterns. We see the scary, bad and sad all the time. We also have zero emotional tie to most of these dogs so we can see things for how they are without the cloud of how they used to be or how you wish they were or how your old dog was. That’s why you’ll often see behaviors resolve near instantly when a trainer takes the leash. The only thing the dog knows about us is leadership because that’s all we ever show them.

Many owners struggle because their emotions and ego get in the way when they realize the trainer has more to say about their behavior than their dog’s. Dog specific problems are easy because the dog doesn’t take instruction personally.

When I was playing sports as a kid I had a hard time with intense coaches who yelled. But it had nothing to do with the coach personally.

It was my ego and crippling fear of perceived rejection paired with an insecure need for outside validation. (Therapy will set you free)

Then while I was crying in the stairwell of a volleyball tournament my dad told me I don’t need to worry until the yelling stops because at that point they don’t care anymore or believe you can do it. That was the real rejection I needed to fear and all I had to do to avoid it was €ucking listen.

As your trainer I won’t yell at you. I won’t call you names. I won’t shame you. But I will tell you the truth and I won’t sugar coat it and I can’t promise that that truth won’t stir up some uncomfy emotions. But I promise it’s only because I believe you can do better and because I want better for you and your dog.