Bridie is LOVING her new Christmas present I purchased from GutzBusta Slow Feed Hay Nets. This Parallax Soft Hay Ball is like a giant treat ball for horses, encouraging slow feeding and enrichment 🥰🐴
Phirun’s afternoon enrichment!
After a day full of spending time with other people’s dogs, Phirun gives me the 3rd degree when I get home 😂😂😂
Brilliant lesson for Kiah today, who has recently become fearful of having her nails clipped. We set up her environment so that she could have full control over her choices- if she wanted to leave, she could. We introduced some free shaping with the nail clippers…..previously she would’ve been running from the room just SEEING those clippers! By training this way, we are allowing her choice, for her to consent to the experience as opposed to being restrained and “forced” to have this done. In time, this also creates confidence. Such a beautiful moment seeing Kiah catch on to this style of training and be happy to engage with the nail clippers as it becomes part of her reinforcement history #positivereinforcement #cooperativecaretraining #freeshaping #waggingwisdom #kiahthekelpie
My old boy hasn’t been out much in suburbia since being on the farm, so you could imagine how much his nose was in overdrive this morning on the way to the groomers 🐾💕
Let them sniff …
Kraken is loving some retrieve fun with his Cherry Bomb in between the showers of rain 🍒
We love this ball on a rope from Rover Pet Products…..it’s tough and it definately goes the distance 👌
Had to use Slo Mo function for effect 🤣🥰🐾
This is Block 💙 A 12week old Mastiff X who we are puppy sitting for a few weeks. He’s only been here 2 days and settling in really well. We have a whole range of subjects to socialise him with….kids included!
Today we fitted a flat collar and played around with a few basic exercises. He’s pretty switched on 🥰
A loving dry off for Shoey, from Phirun 💕😂
It’s like feeding the chooks 😂 🐓
My trio this afternoon engaging in some scatter-feeding.....throwing out kibble for them to find.
Reasons we do this:
* its a form of mental stimulation as searching and sniffing require processing from the brain and this tires it out (think about us completing crosswords or sudoku)
* it aids in connection with me....I’m the great person delivering these yummy morsels
* it helps train in the environment we are presented with and enables good associations with any stimuli we come across such as getting used to distant livestock, other animal smells (kangaroos, foxes, wombats), motorbikes, barking dogs etc
It really is a lot of work for the nose and the brain......Just listen to them all sniffing!!! Lol And they will be tired after this activity, I kid you not!
You could feed your dog their entire meal this way and know that you are also contributing to daily enrichment activities 😊
Marlee has her 3rd lesson this afternoon and just look at her progress! 🐾🎉🌟
Off leash and in an open area!!
We have been building up her recall with lots of engagement games, focus exercises, high rate of reinforcement and the use of long leads.
Such a great result today.....well done 👍👏👏
A big happy birthday to our Lilly! 🐾💕🎉 🦴
Beautiful puppy play between Tyson & Bella yesterday at the end of preschool classes 🐾
Hope you’re having a lovely weekend.....we are finishing ours off with a little “out and about” training with Guru 😎👍🐕 Some socialisation for him with passing dogs and then restrained recall work at the dog park. He is definitely enthusiastic!!
A quick little video from our Puppy Preschool class tonight...Odin, Frank and Molly are learning how awesome it is to participate in some handling exercises ie touching ears, feet, body.
Lovely positive associations 😁🐾👍
So proud of these two....From the bush to k9 Nosework classes :)
Lilly has been attending a Nosework Course with K9 Scentral.
This is great at satisfying her hunting instincts, its mentally enriching and is also helping with her dog reactivity!
The goal is to search for the bbq chicken hidden in boxes....Lilly is a natural 😁👍
Lilly's new crate arrived this afternoon so we started some positive crate training....food motivated Lilly nailed it! Even when I tried to challenge her with treats outside the crate, she chose to stay in 🤗👍
Sahara was also interested in the session....Lilly's wagging tail!
Pippa had her final lesson today and it was such an amazing lesson!!
Due to her foster carers hard work and lots of homework sessions, Pippa and their resident dog Rocky could get to this stage.....walking past each other and accepting close proximity while playing Find games.
Pippa still has a little way to go before she is totally comfortable but today was excellent progress :)
And the other good news....Pippa has now been adopted and will be heading to her forever home in a few weeks 😄🎉 We wish you all the best!!
WALK & TRAIN SESSIONS: A whole lesson dedicated to loose lead walking...and Ezzie is being very successful 👏
Lexie and Jinx having a play in last night's preschool class 😊
These 2 had very similar play styles and Jinx (Jug) has previous larger puppy play experience.
They had been playing 5minutes prior to this video and you can see towards the end Jinx asking to be picked up....this was a clear signal that he was tired and wanted a rest so both pups were placed back on lead for settling.
It's important to read your dogs body language and respond to what they are trying to say.
Chewi's mum has sent me this video of him using the doggy door all by himself!!
Way to go Chewi 👏🐕🤗#trainingpaidoff
