Soul Pup Training

28/07/2024

Baby steps after a significant loss is to get back to doing what you love 💕 🐾

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25/07/2024

It’s been a week since we said goodbye and my heart still feels so broken 💔

Being here at the lake has helped remind me of all the good times we had together in your life. I know I will carry this aching until I see you again my soul puppy 🐾🌈

You will always be an especially special dog in my life and I will never, ever forget all you have done for me. I hope you are playing in the water and the mountains with all your friends again, living the carefree happy afterlife you wholeheartedly deserve 💕

I love you now and always Bing 💕🐾🌈💔

19/07/2024

Goodbye my Bing 💔 you will always have a piece of my heart🐾🌈

13/07/2024

12/07/2024

Thoughts?

09/07/2024

Animal mimicry is responsible for this type of adorable behavior 💕 there is also a cool training technique known as “Do as I Do” that can hone mimicry skills. The more you know!!

08/07/2024

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30/06/2024

New dog enrichment idea video!!

06/06/2024

Worth repeating

04/06/2024

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04/06/2024

Mar 21, 2024 - Do you -- and your dog -- struggle to get enough exercise? This is one challenge you can face together. Research suggests people who exercise with their dogs are more likely to stick to a fitness program. The key is finding activities you both enjoy. This WebMD slideshow offers you so...

26/05/2024

Soul Pup is now on pinterest!!

Follow us at soulpuptraining to get lots of dog tips, information, enrichment, and training ideas!

22/05/2024

21/05/2024

So true 🥰...!

12/05/2024

New professional name tag for the business! 💕😁🐾

10/05/2024

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Flowers dog beautiful 🐕

08/05/2024

Authoritative meaning working together and responding to needs. 💕

The opposition is authoritarian which is demanding obedience. 👎🏻

Did you know the way you train, or 'parent' your dog affects their attachment style?? 😮

It has been long recognised that a secure attachment style is the most optimum attachment style for human children, as it allows the child to feel more comfortable exploring and interacting with the world, and in the long term being able to grow into a well adjusted adult. The same parallel has also been found in dogs, and that secure attachment provides the optimum starting place for a well adjusted canine companion!

There is now even research showing that the pet parenting or training styles you use with your dog similarly mirror the parenting styles used for human children, and how they impact whether or not a secure attachment will form. With human children the styles of parenting are separated into several distinct styles including:

🔹Authoritative (responsive to needs, solves problems together, with clear expectations and rules)

🔹Authoritarian (demands obedience rather than working together, punishment based and little care of the child/learners needs or feelings)

🔹Permissive (no real boundaries or structure, indulgent of wants and needs of the child/learner)

And..

🔹 Neglectful/uninvolved (inconsistent boundaries, generally uninvolved and unresponsive to feelings or needs).

It has also been found that the authoritative style of pet parenting (shown through positive training, supportive and nurturing but not permissive) has the best outcome for producing securely attached dogs, and that the dogs were 'highly social, sensitive to social context and were more persistent and successful on the problem solving tasks'. Whereas authoritarian pet parenting (shown through balanced/alpha based training, strong boundaries and punishment based) had a significantly lower chance of producing a dog with a secure attachment. Permissive pet parenting styles (training with little to no boundaries or structure) also were less likely to have a secure attachment style (this research did not cover neglectful parenting styles).

This is further evidence, backed by scientific study, that punishment based training does not produce the most well adjusted canine companions, and that structure and boundaries taught with kindness rather than fear is the way to go! 👍

You can check out the study mentioned in the graphic for yourself here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36175745/

And learn more about attachment in our previous graphic here: https://www.facebook.com/DogNerdSussex/posts/pfbid02vKQKArqRNLn44TnsCQi7v4ck565piEE8idrT7rA5jEFN1SZvMGKo6aVnn9cz4yTjl

17/04/2024

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31/03/2024

Reactive dog walking tips!! 🐾💕