A challenging recall for Katana. She was headed to where I had dropped treats earlier. The wind was blowing the smell right to her. She got a big treat for that, because she struggles with her impulses.
My advice to everyone is always "stop being stingy with treats!" If you want a dog who responds immediately like Katana does in this video, your reward has to be better than what they want to do.
Treats are not bribing your dog, unless you aren't using them correctly. "Good" consequences (rewards) and "bad" consequences (corrections) are both part of learning. They allow dogs to develop a habit of listening. When the time comes where your dog needs to listen for safety and you don't have a food reward, they are still going to listen because that is the habit you taught them.
I use A LOT of food during training. Dogs are sent home with instructions for their owners to use A LOT of food for training. After the dog has enough time to develop the same listening habits, then we will lessen and vary the rewards.
Moral of the story is REWARD YOUR DOG and don't be stingy!
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Katana's first dremel session. I always start with back paws because most dogs are less concerned. I touch and pet her all over so I'm not going straight to the feet. The dremel was left on and sitting a few feet away while I clipped her nails to adjust to the noise. I'm touching the dremel to her nails for less than a second and rewarding. I only do a few nails per session.
She did very well for her first time. Her owner is nervous clipping her black nails so I'm getting her used to the dremel to ensure they can keep up with her nails growth. They grow fast!
Here's your reminder to trim nails weekly!
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Today we stopped at 3 new locations. One of them had lots of barking dogs in the neighborhood, which made her more aware, but she did well 👌
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Katanas drop command is coming along nicely 🤘
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Here's what you can have if you follow through and enforce what your dog learns during their board and train 😍 it's been about 2 years since Stewart's stay. He was dropped off this morning to stay for a few days and we immediately went on a walk. He did great and I can tell his owner is working with him! 🐾
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Katana working her name recognition and recall on our evening walk!
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A fun and relaxing time out with the dogs until Gremlin lost her Ecollar under a bunch of logs 🤦♀️ Guess who has to go out there tonight, find it (with the super cool flash light on it) and crawl through alll kinds of creepy crawlies to get it? 🤢 ME.
Yes, Ozzy loves water 🤣
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This is Medusa's first time working in a loud/busy environment in over a year. Before I left for a dog training school last September. Her first time since she got sick.
She was a little sensitive to the sirens this time. She wasn't perfect with her positioning and looked away from me a bit, but overall, she did great. We have some stuff to work on and then we can enter our next obedience competition!
At the end, a dog lunged at us 🤦♀️
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Field update with Huck. He had his first successful farmers market trip!
He sometimes still tries to go up to people for pets, but he is getting better about ignoring people. There were some poorly behaved dogs (surprise, surprise) who were reacting to other dogs. 2 dogs tried to go after each other right as we passed them. Huck got nervous, but he did sooooo good!
He was also weirded out about people singing and playing instruments, but settled after we hung out there for awhile.
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Here's a Dottie update! She has shown more excitement about interacting with me and is starting to like me petting her. That much progress took 3.5 months! She is definitely on her way to trusting people 🥰
She has a long journey ahead of her still, but she will be heading to a different foster home tomorrow. The same person who adopted her sister.
She is still looking for her forever home though!
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Huck practicing his recalls and I thought he was going to hurt himself by running into the pole after 🤦♀️ Watch where you're going dude!
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This is something I teach all dogs for their safety. They have to wait in the vehicle until released. People don't always pay attention when they are driving and they aren't expecting an animal to dart through a parking lot. I'm a huge advocate of training for safety and I strongly encourage all of my clients to be very strict about the things we teach to keep the dogs safe. This is also useful if you have to grab something out of the back where your dog is, but you don't want them to get out.
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