🐾 Casey’s Blow Dryer Progress! 🐾
Every step forward is a victory, and today we’re celebrating Casey’s progress with the blow dryer! While she may not look thrilled in this video, she’s showing incredible improvement. She’s sitting on the grooming table calmly, not biting the dryer or trying to get away—a big milestone for her!
We’ve been working with Casey every day to help her feel more comfortable:
🔹 Step 1: We started by simply running the dryer near her while rewarding her for staying calm.
🔹 Step 2: Today, we introduced a low setting on the dryer and rewarded her for sitting nicely.
This daily practice, combined with lots of patience and positive reinforcement, is helping Casey build confidence and trust in the process. She’s proof that with consistency and care, even the most challenging tasks can become manageable.
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Puppy training with a French Bull dog. Little dogs love to learn. Instead of carrying them around all day put them down and train them.
Follow up from our earlier post…. Will Bethany finish her nails or will Cleo settle first?
Well….. today Bethany finished her nails and after 45 minutes and a few bites to Miss Bethany because she was ignoring Cleo. Cleo was still raring to go! This little girl is a little sassy and sweet all mixed together.
You might be wondering what kind of job allows you to do your nails while working? Well when you’re teaching puppies the art of doing nothing this job does. Cleo will get better and better at this exercise and before we know it when we sit down this will be a cue for Cleo to lay down and relax too.
It takes time and patience but they all get it eventually. The key is not giving up. We see so many dogs that truly have no idea how to just relax. Cleo is on her way to being a well balanced dog.
Taking bets. Will Bethany finish her nails or will Cleo settle first? What do you all think?
Sadie is here to work on her manners! She is completing our Board and Train program. Right. Ow Sadie LOVES to jump and bite and pull on the leash. We are looking forward to watching her learn and become the best puppy she can.💖🐾
Sam checking in! When he came to us he would launch himself off of you to get his toys. Now he’s making better choices. Sitting nicely and waiting instead of using us for a launch pad! Sam will be heading home soon and we are very happy with his progress.
Bru is enjoying some early morning play time this morning. The weather has been hot and humid requiring less outside time.
Ecollar 101 Class is just about complete.
Each of the owners in this class are leaving with knowledge and an understanding of how using an ecollar is just another way to communicate with our dogs. When properly educated about using different tools when training they not have to be scary.
We will address it right now! Because we know everyone has an opinion. Yes we can and we do train without ecollars and each one of these families that attended this class are all capable and knowledgeable of training. Just like all things in life we have the right to choose things we want to do. (All and we mean all negative naysayers are banned and deleted straight away) We are extremely proud of each person in this class that asked for help to be educated on learning how to properly use a training tool!
Last night we worked on handler confidence in their dogs and adding in more distractions. During this part of class we used the place cots to help the dogs have a clear boundary of where we wanted them to stay. We started with one person walking around and by the end all people were moving about while their dogs stayed in place. When adding is distractions we start out small and keep working up until we are confident that our dogs understand and we know they are reliable in what we are asking from them.
A Jack Russel and a French bull dog get together and you get! A sassy energetic short legged little monster that is sweet until things don’t go her way then she screams bloody murder (if you know you know!)
