24th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
There is not much to say today - the post says it all. I’m deeply convinced that our hearts speak louder than any voice. It’s up to us to decide to learn to listen to it.
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Merry Christmas to all of you and your families - sending your warm greetings from the heart!
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About the dogs: Camilla is the cuddliest dog I’ve ever met. Last year for Christmas, I worked on a farm in Costa Rica with horses and dogs. Camilla belongs to the farm and lives a happy life up there. She would follow me around, play ball with me at any time and convince me to let her into my bed or the hammock for snuggles. If given the chance, she would prefer to lay on my chest, putting her head right on my heart. I realised that she quickly calmed down and fell asleep when listening to my heartbeat. I then realised that my own heart-rate would slow down and that my whole body relaxed. Most of the times, I didn’t even know that I actually was tired or a lil stressed out until Camilla showed me. It became our little routine to have a nap at noon where I would let her tell me what I needed - her head on my heart, me hugging her and having my hand on her heart.
23rd door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
If our dogs have clear rules, they know what is allowed and ok to do and what isn’t. Let’s say a dog is not allowed to jump up at people. Most of the times, the owner interrupts the behaviour with gentle correction and reminds his dog of the rule. But sometimes, doggo is allowed to jump up at people without being gently corrected in his behaviour.
What happens in doggo’s brain is “Oh I see. Sometimes I can jumps up at hooman. I better try each time then.”
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Make it easy and predictable for your dog and be consequent with the rules you set up. Keep in mind, with predictability always comes a fair amount of safety - I bet you don’t want to miss out on that.
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About the dogs: That sweet, strong and equally soft curly girl is Abby. Abby’s biggest talent is to warm up to you after some time and then give you the sweetest , most convincing looks with her black round button eyes and nudge you at your leg. My heart melts on a regular basis when she does that. Abby has a jackpot reincarnation this life, she shares a home with her doggo siblings Baxter and Dax and receives training, love and all the cuddles & adventures from mom Lana & dad Nigel. Life and how to behave in a wanted way became much easier for Abby since Lana & Nigel set up their rules for Abby and consequently follow through with them. Heaps of reasons to celebrate success here. The picture shows Abby obviously enjoying her birthday cake
22nd door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
You need more play! That’s a sentence I heard quite often and each time, I felt it’s true.
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Luckily, playing is something that every dog I’ve ever met loves doing which was my way of getting back to actually play. By this I mean, doing something fun just for the fun, without any greater goal in mind. Of course, play often comes with greater goals but these usually aren’t the reason to initiate play in the first place. The result always has been super convincing: I get filled up with joy! And this joy is shared between the dog and me. If you’re looking for the superglue of bonding, play with your dog!
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About the dogs: You met them already, well last time all 4 were in the picture. These goofy, snuggly and kind souls are my favourite Boxer family: Boss, Bruiser, Barley (f.l.t.r). When you take more than one dog on a walk, playing with each of them is quite a task as you skilfully divide your attention to everyone's joy and satisfaction. That day where I took this pic, I found only 1 stick to throw. Everyone was keen on it, they almost fought a bit to get it. So I grabbed the stick and played with it myself until Boss joined me. Then Bruiser, then Barley. In the end, 3 Boxers and 1 stick were happily playing for 15 minutes whilst I was cuddling the 4th Boxer Bella :)
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How do you feel when you take your dog on a walk? We gotta do this several times a day so I feel it would just natural if some routine establishes itself.
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The question is, does your routine maybe decrease the potential outcome of your walks? Does it hinder you and your dog to have more fun, get more tired and be happier? Just check in with yourself when you decide to take your dogs for a walk - how does it feel? Is there some excitement because you know you’ve planned something? Exactly this emotion can make all the difference: our human excitement is super contagious for dogs. If the excitement then leads to some walk enrichment ideas, you make magic real for your fur face.
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About the dog: These wild souls are Che (the big poppa) and Achi, the pup. Both belong to a little hostel on the pacific coast of Nicaragua where I spent a lot of time early this year. As understandings about dogs and what they need are different from culture to culture, these two didn’t get walks, they were just either tied-up or free for some time of the day. Beach walks happen to be another thing I love doing, and I really wanted to take the dogs. So I created myself a win-win scenario and just took the dogs with me on my walks. Seeing them go nuts in the sand and waves, having them checking in with me and nudging my leg (or jumping up on me and getting me all wet and sandy) was absolutely what I needed and so did they. I love win-win scenarios.
20th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
To commit to something means to make a promise to oneself to be dedicated to a cause or activity, which often involves other people … and dogs :)
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It comes with a certain pressure as one decides to stick to that cause or activity which implies following along even when on some days, it wouldn’t be our first choice of activity. What makes us take on this pressure often is an underlying strong emotion, like love. And this is exactly what today's post is about. Allow yourself to be guided by love to make a commitment to continuously spend time with your dog to train him. How sweet this pressure just dissolves when viewed from this perspective, eh?
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About the dog: This fluffy & sweet boy is Baxter, a 9yo Portuguese Waterdog living his best life in Vancouver together with his doggo siblings Dax (you met him already) and Abby (you’ll meet her soon). Baxter’s mom Lana and dad Nigel are just wonderful in making commitments for their dogs: Consciously they have been making decisions over and over to engage into dog training, learn about their dog’s body language and emotional states. Or with other words: Lana & Nigel demonstrate their love towards their dogs by making time for them, working with them and by that, meeting their needs which comes with the desired changes in behaviour. I’m happy and glad to be working with all 5 of them :) Sending a big hug to you guys!
19th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
Working with our dogs can be a tough job, especially when we don’t have much time and/or not much experience with how to train dogs.
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And I am here to say that this is totally ok, there is nothing wrong with that at all. Just because you have a dog does not mean that you have to know how to train him. Equal to just have a car doesn’t mean you have to know how to fix it. More so it’s important to acknowledge the situation you’re in and then to just seek out help with a dog trainer - as well as you would seek out help with a mechanic when your car is not working.
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About the dog: My best good boy Kalitu is who you see happily enjoying himself on his back on this pic. From the day I’ve met Kalitu, he would roll on his back as an expression of pure joy about being alive. Despite plenty of bad experience, Kalitu had made before he got rescued by the shelter in Berlin, he always kept his love for life. I feel that’s one of the big lessons I learned from him, to look out for joy in my life, no matter what else has been going on.
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“Success comes with practice” is probably a familiar phrase for most of us. For a good reason and it’s nothing different with training our dogs. Success is the natural by-product of regular, patient and positive reinforcement based practice - no chance to miss it when you go down that road.
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Today’s post is all about patience and repetition, swipe left to read about what it exactly means and why it will take you exactly where you wanna go with your session.
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About the dog: Pepper is Gigi’s sister, you met Gigi yesterday. Pepper is the brave sister, Gigi’s rock to lean on and hide behind though physically, Gigi is stronger than her braveheart Pepper. As I mentioned yesterday, both dogs were treated with shock collars as her owner has been lacking all understanding of animals and how to work with them. Whilst Gigi’s trauma response is distrust and being very nervous, Pepper has been coping with always carrying something in her mouth, always having job to do. This coping strategy allowed her to express her nervousness in a way that still provides shelter and protection for her sister. Pepper is a true and brave leader. Up to the day I had to leave the two sweet girls, her owner never admitted to his fault nor had he been capable of understanding that he is torturing them. So I did not engage into trust-building exercises with Pepper and Gigi towards their owners. In my opinion, I would have caused them to open up their hearts and minds which would have been abused again. All I could do was loving them, adding safe and gentle touch and adventures to their life. No words for how helpless this made me feel.
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17th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
No matter what your dog’s currency is for your training sessions, or with other words, what his biggest motivation is you use to encourage him to learn new behaviour, over time you want to introduce disorganised rewards.
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Disorganised rewarding means we don’t reward each action with the same reward. We switch between treat (or toy, or cuddles) to voice rewards or a gentle pet. We pair those rewards with each other and we give them individually. Swipe left to read more about this technique and why it will be helpful for your practice and longterm success.
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About the dog: Gigi is a young pittycross living with her sister Pepper (you’ll meet her tomorrow) in North Van, together with a family with their two kids. She is a super sweet and cuddly dog once she made sure she can trust you. Her trust doubts are a result of firstly, that she grew up in Mexico as a stray and secondly, her current owner, unfortunately, didn’t know better but put shock collars on both dogs to “teach” them behaviour. This is one of the hardest parts of my jobs, to acknowledge that dogs were additionally traumatised by “training methods” and then to find a way to tell the humans. So far, I always come back to the sentence “I don’t know of any case in the world, no matter what species, where adding pain and fear would have sustainably helped an individual”.
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16th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
When it comes to dog training and following along a schedule to reach our over all goal, we sometimes might get caught up by those things that do not work well.
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We might focus too much on these things and ask ourselves, what we’re doing wrong and why isn’t working all the time. Today's post comes to encourage you to clap your back as I’m sure you’re doing a really good job. Watch the video to read about in detail why you should clap your back and what you can do to figure out if everything is going well.
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About the dog: This gentle dog is a shelter dog in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Back in 2017 I got to see her amongst plenty of other shelter dogs who were lucky enough to find their way into the shelter and get off the streets. This good girl stuck out to me, she has been such a calm and careful dog. When she wanted pets, she would lie down next to you without even touch you but softly gazing up at you. It was her warm and patient gaze that captured my heart and that I would respond to with a lot of pets.
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15th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
Come! Come Here. Heeeere. HEEEREEE! The all-time-favourite recall shouts of people in dog parks - and so often the dog doesn’t come, so often they don’t even turn their ears towards their shouting humans. Why is that? Because they are asked for a behaviour that they haven’t sustainably generalised yet.
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Recall is super important, it’s the invisible leash of trust for a relaxed off-leash walk or a decent run. So how do we teach and practice recall, how can we improve recall? Swipe left and read through it, also check out what wonderful benefits will come with that approach.
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About the dog: German Pinscher Rudy belongs to a kind family living in New Zealand. Rudy joined them as a pup and from the very beginning on, he has been full of energy almost every day. It felt like Rudy is either switched on or off. As he needs the runs on a regular basis, recall was a super important topic for him I’ve been working on with him inside the house, on the porch, in the orchid (you see him succeeding here despite the chicken distraction) and together with his loving mom at our regular beach sessions. Working with Rudy and making friends with him and his family marked a wonderful time for me back then in NZ.
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14th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
Do you know this feeling when you leave the house, fully motivated to work on your dog’s ability to nicely walk on leash, and then he starts pulling right away and you get frustrated?
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There is a super simple and empathetic approach to this very situation which may surprise you but definitely will save you your motivation to work on leash with your fur face. Swipe right to read about what actually helps here and how it will benefit you. I keep repeating myself, but so often it’s the little things that can make a huge change and more so often the magic lies within empathy.
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About the dog: This high-energy and super gentle Jack Russel is Oscar, another happy dog of Berlin, living a wonderful life with a family with kids. Oscar’s mom did a lot of training with him from the very beginning, always made sure that he had the amount of physical and mental exercise he needs as Jacky. Meanwhile, he is a senior and brother of 2 hooman siblings - it warms my heart how much he is part of his family. Big hug to Josephine :)
13th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
Did you ever realise that sometimes your dog does a really good job because he replied to a signal super promptly? Or when he resists a distraction and decided to reply to your signal instead of going for the distraction? This is the perfect time to jackpot reward him.
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Jackpot rewards are special rewards: when you work with treats, it would be a bigger piece of treat or a tastier one. If you work with voice rewards, it would be a friendlier, more encouraging voice (more happiness), when you reward with toys & playing, we talk about some extra excitement along with super friendly voice and playing a bit longer.
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Swipe left to read about jackpot rewards and this little tip will benefit you!
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About the dog: May I introduce Paul to you: He is a super sweet Black Lab Pup, living his most beautiful live in Berlin with his hoomans Steffi & David. Never before I’ve been working with a young dog being that much trained already like Paul is. David & Steffi put a lot of effort into seeing the world from Paul’s perspective, meeting his needs which created a wonderful & deep bond between them. This trust they established allows us to practice really advanced online training together where Paul demonstrates on a regular basis that he knows how things work. Sending love to the three of them :)
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12th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
We talked a bit about odd transfer already, also about how to get your own and your dog’s focus right for a successful session.
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If you happen to find yourself in a situation where your dog still is either too excited or too distracted, chances are that you yourself are either too excited or to distracted. Swipe left and read about how to adjust your very own energy in order to allow your dog to attune to you and what awesome effects come with that technique.
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About the dog: This sweet big boy is Dax, he lives with his siblings Abby & Baxter in Vancouver, the 3 of them share a wonderful dog-welcoming home with their hoomans Lana & Nigel. Since August this year, I’ve been lucky to work with all 3 dogs and through that experience beautiful bonding with them. Dax is, as my friend Lily said, the pure manifestation of happiness: he loves all dogs and all people! His specialty is to sit in peoples feet, look up at them super convincingly cute to receive all the pets and sweet words.
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11th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
So yesterday we would dive into the level of difficulty and how important it is to start off easy with everything new. I love companions, so this one is helpful here: When we ourselves want to learn how to surf, we practice at the beach first how to lay on the word and paddle, then how to stand up. Then we transfer these acquired skills to the water. It’s nothing different with our dogs and recall in a crowded park vs. at home.
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Closely connected to the level of difficulty is my slower is faster approach. Swipe left to read what it is about and how it will improve your training sessions. Little spoiler: When the surf newbie takes his board to the water but fails again and again at standing up on the board, he might wanna go back to the beach and practice the actual move again to firstly ensure that he really understands what he needs to do and secondly to gain back some confidence that he actually can stand up on the board.
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About the dog: Long story short - this is the best good boy in the whole wide world, it’s Kalitu. Kaliti was the old shelter dog from Berlin who rescued me when I adopted him, he became my most beautiful mirror and fuel & fire for my personal and spiritual development. With Kalitu, I very often needed to take steps back as he had been traumatised and therefore the smallest steps ever sometimes could overwhelm him. The picture show a lovely result of that: Kalitu peacefully napping in my back-then-office, being entirely comfortable with many people around. I’m still in genuine love with that face.
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10th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
When it comes to teaching our dog new things, it’s a common mistake to ask to much from our canines which will cause them to fail at it. Subsequently, many people then believe their technique is not good enough or that there is something seriously wrong with their dog.
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So often, however, it’s about the small things to keep in mind. Learning new stuff is super exciting for dogs, so we want to create an environment that is welcoming to learn new things. If I want my dog to to have perfect recall outside in a crowded park, teaching him that skill in that very crowded park is a huge request as there are so many distractions. We want to make it as easy as possible, so we start practicing recall inside, in our home, ideally in a room they hang out a lot. Swipe left to read about what to keep in mind when it comes to levels of difficulty and what benefits come with that kind of thinking and training.
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About the dogs in the pic: These two sweet souls are stray dogs on Koh Rong Island, Cambodia. During the weeks I spend there, I could establish trust through play and food with them, teach them how to sit and how to play with humans without biting them. The beautiful thing that happened then: locals would observe our interactions, tell me they are surprised about the communication I had with the dogs and eventually start feeding them. It caused me deeply satisfying happiness that my interactions softened their heart a bit towards these dogs.
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9th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
2 days ago we talked about how to build a closing routine and yesterday we had a look at how to actually realise that is time to blend into the closing routine.
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Today I want to introduce an exercise to you that you can perfectly apply to your closing routine and that will help you to provide your dog with physical relaxation when he needs a lil support for it. Swipe left to read about signs of physical relaxation in body language and how to condition these. Keep in mind that though conditioned, later on, this is supposed to be applied to a dog who just needs a little reassurance that everything is fine and that he can totally relax.
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About the dogs: With a big smile and feeling my heartbeat loudly I introduce Bruiser, Barley, Boss and Bella (f.l.t.r). These 4 Boxers are a father (Bruiser), daughter (Barley), son (Boss) and mama (Bella), living in New Zealand with such a warm-hearted and kind family - all of them became my friends during the time I spend with them. Falling in love with Boxers comes super easy to me, with these 4 it took me a couple of minutes, they are each such unique, loving and interesting characters! What all of them have in common is the wonderful desire to snuggle up tightly for a nap. Mr. Bruiser, the old sweet soul, passed away not too long ago. Hearing the news whilst traveling in Bolivia, I cried and deeply felt with his family. I’m sure he’s chasing all the cats together with his dad Bono and my dog Kalitu wherever they are now.
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Now we know how to build a closing routine and why it is equally important to teaching new behaviours to our dogs.
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But when shall we blend from main session to closing routine? Well, either if time is up or if we realise signs of mental exhaustion in our dogs. Mental exhaustion is as common to dogs as it is to us. When we study for a big exam, read a challenging text or intensely focus on some handwork, we also find our selves eventually mentally exhausted: we get tired, silly or feel the urge to really do something else now.
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Advance your training skills and swipe left to read about signs of mental exhaustion in dogs, why we need to acknowledge them and how they can look like.
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About the dog: That little dude is Bandit, he is the brother of Gavin and Orla and all together they live in beautiful New Zealand. Bandit is a super cuddly and friendly dog, very gentle with humans. He loves playing with Gavin and being play eaten by him :) Gavin was the first super little dog I ever worked with, I realised how quick and careful he moves to be seen and get his treat but at the same name not being run over by his huge doggo siblings. Bandit definitely is a Mum-dog, once in the arms of his mom Charlotte and he is the happiest boy ever.
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7th door - Kalitu Dog Training advent calendar
Last week we’ve been dealing a lot with focus, how to channel communication and how to use timing to increase wanted and interrupt unwanted behaviour.
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This week, we going to look a bit more on the relaxation side of dog training life as this is a super important part of training our canines. So many of the behavioural issues we want to work on are related to high energy levels, meaning a lot of emotions. So no matter if it’s excitement, aggressiveness or joy, high levels of energy usually cause a dog to act out on them in an intense way.
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Having that in mind it becomes clear that the ability to guide our dogs from an high level of energy to a rather lower one in a smooth and gentle way can help heaps in various scenarios. Today, let’s have a look at how to practice this skill, how to make it a routine. Watch the video to check out what a closing routine is, how to establish it and what benefits come with it. Look forward to a fair amount of wellness and relaxation, shared with your fur face.
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About the dog: Gavin is a super sweet, bit clumsy, extreme playful and very cuddly black Lab who lives in New Zealand. Every morning when I woke up during the weeks I spend with that pack, I found him sleeping in the weirdest positions next to me, usually this involved one of his paws in my face and his body twisted up in a way that I was worried about his ability to even breathe. :) Together with his doggo siblings Orla and Bandit he lives a happy life in beautiful NZ with his hoomans close to the ocean.
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Happy second advent everyone & to my friends at home, happy Nikolaus :)
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Today we’re looking at a super important tip that brings together what we’ve checked out so far: Correcting unwanted behaviour. So when you and your dog are super focused and engaging into an exercise where you are consistent with your hand signals and work on your brilliant timing, it’s still possible that your dog won’t show the wanted behaviour but does something else instead.
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To handle this in the most gentle, effective and sustainable way, watch the video and have a look at how to correct unwanted behaviour. This step definitely requires you to have worked on your focus and on your timing skills already, so harvest the fruits of your work by bringing it together now. You can do it!
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About the dog: Orla is a Greyhound-Pitty rescue that lives in New Zealand, together with her doggo brothers Gavin & Bandit and with their dog loving hoomans. Her breed-mix comes with some profound challenges as Orla has the desire for speedy running like a Greyhound and the pronounced cardio of a Pitty. There is no way physical exercise can totally tire her out. Plus, she is super intelligent and very curious. With her, super long walks with lots of sniffing and on-leash training and many sessions at home to challenge her mentally were the key to get her tired and content.
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Now that we know how to set our focus right, how to build a strong channel of communication and how to improve our timing skills, let’s go a bit more into detail.
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When we ask our dog for certain behaviours, we do so by using voice and gestures. Doggo learns “Ah, sit means I shall put bum down - can do that!” and also “Ah, hoomans pointer raised up means bum down”. This learning however can only take place when we’re being consistent with our signals and words! Swipe left to check out what to pay attention to and how it will benefit your training and your bond with your dog at large.
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If your sweet fur face happens to be deaf, this tip here is a super important one for ya - you want to pay even more attention to super clear, consistent and coherent hand signals. Make it as easy for your dog as possible and press home the advantage of clean communication.
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About the dog: This beautiful lady is Lyla, a super gentle rescue dog from New Zealand. I spend a couple of weeks with Lyla and we worked on confidently and safely being off-leash. Over time, this worked out really well and she gave off the emotions of joy and excitement to be off-leash and regularly chewing in with me - super delightful for me to experience. Lyla lives a happy and colourful life with a warm-hearted family with kids in NZ.
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