A Better Companion Dog Training ~ Helping dogs make Life Appropriate choices. Better manners=Freedom
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Yuzu is learning to deal with a lot of "scary" stuff. Obedience is super useful in bridging the gap for an underconfident dog - through it we already have a relationship of trust and communication that he can rely on when something is new or "scary", through that he can trust me that I'll take care of him and he can relax more rapidly around new and often "scary" situations.
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Yuzu working on Place - he and Breacan are so happy together - Breacan has never had a dog who likes grooming him đ
And Yuzu did great but you can tell it's so hard for him to stay down!
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Yuzu got to go on a couple mile walk today - here's a few quick clips. He's doing great!
Yuzu is too tired from training to really play but he's still so cute!
While this should be obvious, itâs unfortunately anything but.
Owners, before you spend your money, please be aware of how the training process works. Youâre paying us to lay a foundation and to then train you how to build on it and maintain it.
Dogs will happily âforgetâ all they know if not held to the standard of ârememberingâ by those they live with daily.
âFixesâ may look impressive initially, but they fall apart all too quickly if the trainer they learned from isnât replaced by the trainer they live with.
Yuzu is learning down - he says 18 minutes is hard for a 9 month old puppy but give him a few more days and he'll be doing hour long downs with no problem. Good job Yuzu!! đ€©
Today's pack walk - we had fun despite the chill đ
Letâs set the scene. This may become a bit sensitive for some, and I apologise in advance.
Youâre out somewhere. You might be at a restaurant, a bar, a public park on a sunny day enjoying the sunshine with your family. It may be that youâre on your way home from work or trying to catch the bus. Youâre just minding your own business.
Suddenly, a person comes straight up to you. They give you anxiety. What is this person going to do? I donât know! The person is walking with a friend and the friend sees youâre a bit anxious and calls out to you saying âDonât stress, she/heâs all good!ââ ïżœïżœBut they keep approaching you. And when they finally reach you they randomly hug you. Touch you. Walk circles around you. Start talking to you. Donât let you leave.
What would you call that? Harassment? Assault in severe cases?
How would this make you feel?
Now, after the initial shock you find your courage and you ask the person to go away. Leave you alone. But the person doesnât stop and instead touches your arm or your hair. âOh come on, weâre alright. Iâm not doing anything bad Iâm friendly! Just let me be around you.ââïżœïżœYou get upset and might push the person. Shout at them. If youâre a bit more of an assertive person you might punch them. Who knows.
ïżœThen the person and the friend get upset. Well? WHY are you here then? What are you doing in this public space if you donât like being around other people? You have no business to be here, minding your own business in this park with your family without allowing me to sit with you, play with you, touch you, talk to you. Actually, you know what you should do? You should be more social! You should go more often to random groups of people.
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Do you see what I did there?
If you thought any of the above situation is not okay (and I sure as heck hope you do), then why do we think itâs okay to let dogs run up to strange dogs and say âItâs okay heâs friendlyâ?
What we do in the dog world is the exact opposite what we should be doing. We label the harassed dog as aggressive and the harassing dog as the victim.
Dogs have emotions. They have feelings. They have their own characters and personalities. There are many, many dogs that are not interested in making new friends or being with dogs they donât know they can trust.
And sure, some dogs love playing with other dogs. Those are the extraverted dogs. Just like we have people that LOVE hugging or love making new friends even as adults, but to be honest.. how many of those people do you know? I think if you put it into a % its lower than the people that rather just are with their select group of people and be left alone by random strangers in public spaces.
So donât assume the dog your dog is running towards on the beach, is willing to play with your dog. Being in a public space means you need to have your dog under effective control. And if you canât call your dog back, it should be on a long line until you can.
It's a good day to be inside with a buddy đ„°
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Ever noticed those slits at the sides of a dogâs nose? Why do dogs have them?
Once again, nature proves her elegance in the design of our dogs. When we humans inhale and exhale, air comes in the same way it goes out. Any smells that come in through our mouths are forced out as we exhale.
When a dog exhales through his nose, however, the exhaled air is released through those slits and off to the side so that nice, smelly air going into the dogâs nostrils doesnât get diluted with the outgoing air. Put another way, the slits allow the dog to avoid smelling what he just exhaled.
The slits help the dog hold scent particles in the nostrils even as exhaled air passing out the slits creates a swirling air turbulence allowing interesting odors to be inhaled directly into the centre of each nostril. Since dogs breathe faster when trying to sniff a certain smell, they widen their nostrils to pull in more air which makes it possible for a dog searching for smells to have a steady stream of air coming in for up to 40 seconds, maybe even longer.
The slits also allow dogs to wiggle each nostril independently which gives them the ability to know which nostril a smell entered. This is how a dog can pinpoint where a smell is coming from, and why a dog searching for smells on the ground will weave back and forth as he follows a trail.
We all know the superb smelling abilities of dogs, but letâs use an analogy between scent and sight to really put it into perspective: What we as humans can see at a third of a mile, our dog can see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well.
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Flirt poles are a great way to exercise your dog's body and mind in a short amount of time - it's one of my favorite training tools!
The same way you do. đ
When mom said you were grounded for a month, but paroled you after three days. When your mate found a questionable text, and let it go. When you realized you could âclock outâ from work even while still clocked in.
We all notice when rules have gaps. And seeing as weâre all susceptible to being opportunistic, when those gaps are either not enforced, or you realize they go unnoticed, things can get interesting...fast.
Same with your dog. Initially the walk was a strict heel, but then it got a little looser. A sit, down, or place command was absolutely non-negotiableâuntil it wasnât. That impeccable recall was on a dime, until your dog realized you were happy to call him 7 times, and none of those 7 had a correction attached to it.
And thatâs how simple âunlearningâ is. Tiny little moments that donât seem all that important, start to create a little crack. And then the crack get bigger, and bigger, and...
And eventually, all that stuff your dog âknewâ is gone. Well, itâs not actually gone. Itâs still in there, but without the pattern of consistency of demands, and consequences for lack of complying with those demands, all that learning can get âmisplaced.â
And next thing you know, youâre asking yourself all kinds of questions. Questions like: how did things get so messy? How did my dog âforgetâ so much? Why is my well-trained dog, so poorly trained?
But if youâre honest, you know. Because itâs the same with you.
Rules without consequences are merely suggestions. And suggestions, in the face of more desirable pursuits, are often ignored.
But you knew that. :)
Exactly!
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9/3/2022 Pack walk - we had a scavenger hunt and it was awesome to see what everyone picked!
Yes... Kenji won - way to go Kenji!!!
8/27/2022 Pack Walk - so glad you guys could come!
Sociability is a spectrum where most dogs reside in the middle of the bell curve. Itâs important to understand where your dogâs comfort level with being social.
Happy Independence Day!!!
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It's been a very "eventful" month - Please say hi to Torvin!
Achilles hardest commitment is staying in the down when he thinks there is the slightest chance you are going to give him attention đ€Ł
More Achilles and Kyrie giggles - just wandering around working on his response around distractions.
Achilles working on his come with a distracting Kyrie.
It's nice to just get outside with your dog (and your kid)- enjoy the weather!
Achilles is such a goofball đ . Here he's working on learning Come. After the first couple he wouldn't stay away from me so I had to put him in down to get any distance - talk about an overachiever!
Saturday's Pack Walk - Thank you Achilles, Koda and Mowgli for making it a great walk!
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9/3/2022 Pack walk - we had a scavenger hunt and it was awesome to see what everyone picked! Yes... Kenji won - way to go Kenji!!!
Achilles working on his come with a distracting Kyrie.
Achilles is such a goofball đ . Here he's working on learning Come. After the first couple he wouldn't stay away from me so I had to put him in down to get any distance - talk about an overachiever!
A couple of days later - Achilles has a good grasp on heel! đ
Achilles is a 7 month old super cute softie - he's also a really sweet boy! This is his first day learning to heel. đ„°
Continuing with Athena's Place command to include the Down and starting to have her hold the Down longer. Notice the leash pressure Down and that she must be released with either Break or Let's Go to leave the Place.
Starting to add leash pressure to Athena for the come. Still using lots of praise, food and movement but leash pressure ensures that she leave the distraction and come to me. Raising my hands as she gets to me starts teaching the auto sit when she arrives.
Athena's heel is really coming along - most important: keep the leash loose, encourage, encourage, encourage and if you need to tap the leash make it a tap (not a drag).
Lucky is about to start agility training - YAY Lucky, you lucky dog! The problem is dogs are fast and in agility training you often have to start way out in front of them to be able to direct them to the appropriate obstacle. Lucky is very fast and he loves his daddy so he hates staying back at the start line. To fix this we are rewarding the behavior we want more often than his tendancy to catapult off the start line to run the course. In other words we spend a lot of time focusing on praising and rewarding the sit and very rarely calling him off the startline. Each time we work we spend more time in the sit and work toward creating more distance from Lucky. In the end he should have a very solid sit to counteract the extreme excitement of running in agility.
I love how Kyrie modulates her play, backing off when Athena is uncertain and helping to teach her the give and take that good dog interactions consist of. I espcially love it when she lays her head on the ground so that Athena can be taller, inviting her to be the more dominant one for a moment and increasing her confidence. đ„°
Puppies need play - it helps them connect, it helps them learn and it gives us another opportunity to teach manners such as not biting and drop it (thank you is the word I typically use).
Cali is anticipating commands - she's so eager to please - but she's coming along nicely.
Working on Cali's come - oh to have even one tenth of her energy! ...also makes me realize that Kyrie isn't a puppy anymore - wow!
Many people don't realize that wrestling with their dog is also rewarding them for being wiggle butts - it's a fun wrestling match with a lot of petting and attention for the dog - it's the humans who don't get any enjoyment out of the process. Max was a cronic floor flopping, fish wriggling, kennel rushing pain to collar up. He needed to be taught to hold still for collaring. It started with me only opening his kennel when he was calm. As soon as he was wiggly I would shut his kennel and wait until he calmed down. Then I would wait for him to put his head in the collar. Then I waited for him to calm down again to exit. Now he's in the habit of getting collared calmly and realizes that the only time he and I have fun together is after he's dressed in his collars. It's like I used to tell my daughter when she was small, "You can't leave your room until you're dressed." Now long after the habit was taught and established you wouldn't catch her dead out of her room without clothes on! đ€Ł
The versitality of your dog's obedience commands is limited only by your imagination. After we taught Max how to Load Up into the cars it was pretty easy to start generalizing that Load Up could also mean jump onto other objects. You will see that as this was his first day that I had to guide him a little with leash pressure, especially with the metal chair, but fairly soon he was hopping on and off like a champ. These exercises not only expand the definition of the Load Up command but they also boost his confidence and sense of accomplishment. Great job Max!
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