RRK9 Dog training

02/11/2024

04/08/2024

Different breeds. ✨ Same expectations ✨

21/07/2024

How stunning is Echo the timber dog 😍

07/07/2024

Met the lovely Clive today, don’t be fooled by the cuteness. He loves to resource guard and tell his owners off if they’re near his bed / sofa / food & toys🤭🤣 we got straight to work and his owners was quickly on the job 💪🏼

Dachshunds are working dogs which a lot of people seem to forget. They were originally bred to chase and flush out badgers & rabbits and hunt them. Their digging and barking behaviour which many of you with one of these dogs have noticed 👀 is purely genetics.

There are ways to minimise the barking but not fully get rid of it due to it being genetically imprinted into them.

Working dogs thrive off an ‘outlet’ where they can display behaviours that they love such as chasing for a dachshund. We worked on this today with Clive and he was soon genetically fulfilled. 🥰

Please get in touch if you’re struggling with your little dogs aswell as your big dogs 🤩

05/07/2024

There’s a strange asymmetry I see over and over: Dogs engaging in all manner of poor behavior—from the annoying to the truly dangerous—and owners who are more concerned about hurting the dog’s feelings, or making them sad, than they are with ensuring that they the owners aren’t compromised, saddened, stressed, anxious, or even injured. It’s a strange, dysfunctional, and unhealthy world where we as owners place ourselves so low on the priority list, and our dogs so high.

Is there much difference between dysfunctional, unhealthy, abusive human-human relationships? Of course many of the dynamics are different, but far too many are the same. The allowances, the excuses, the rationalizations, the justifications. At the end of the day it still comes down to allowing others to compromise you because you’re not willing to stand up for yourself, value yourself, and draw the line. And while it’s definitely more complicated with human-human dynamics, that should be good news for sorting the dog-human dynamic.

Dogs are amazing. They’re also incredibly opportunistic. And if the “right” dog comes across the “right” human, pain, suffering, and problems will occur. It’s up to you to reset the priorities. It’s up to you to value yourself over the concern of hurting your dog’s feelings. We’ve become so disabled in this regard that the shear volume of struggling owners, and terribly behaved dogs grow daily. And while we continue to see dogs as angelic creatures, capable of only good, and ourselves as less than, and therefore deserving of less, this dysfunctional, sad, and unnecessary dynamic will play on.

03/07/2024

Blake has all the basics now so we’ve started to do some fancy stuff 🥹 he’s maturing into a great young man

26/06/2024

465 likes, 41 comments. “Comparing the Head Halti to the Prong Collar 🤔💭”

25/06/2024

18/06/2024

Obi 🥰

14/06/2024

Maple 😍

11/06/2024

We’re not magic! 🪄
We have all the knowledge, damn good timing & discipline (keeping OURSELVES in check to reach the goal) on our side 👌🏻

You can bring all of your excuses to class or you can own it & admit what you’re doing differently 👀

But you can’t move forward if you’re stuck in denial 🤷🏻‍♀️

10/06/2024

Feedback from Buds owner. Hard work pays off 🥰 So proud of them both, from our first session of him reacting to dogs / people & pulling his owner over to now enjoying cafes, beach strolls & more. smashing it 🤩😍💪🏼

09/06/2024