Who’s the Best? Dog Training

Tired of bringing moms.dog to the groomers. Puffy a.little.less puffy today!

My Patsy, the retriever delivering a package

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Will miss you Ella. See you in October

Taught and evaluated my first Canine Good Citizen class this semester. Three of our students got their CGC and were able to get their Novice Tricks title tonight.

(Pyro the shepherd, Yumi the lab mix and Trixie a.doodle. )

This is the best book that I have ever read explaining how your dog thinks and how to train it.

Had Ella here for 12 days (this is her "I'm bored in the cage look!) She was here for boarding, but no one leaves without being trained!!

While she was here, a very dangerous behavior surfaced, Ella eats socks, she doesnt chew them, she tries shoving them down her throat whole, like Joey Chestnut at the Coney Island Hot Dog Eating contest. She could choke and die!!

How we fixed it was to give her a sock in a controlled environment and then reward her for either bringing it or leaving it. We did this repeatedly, she was allowed to mouth the sock. Eventually, she lost interest in choking it down whole!! Mom will continue working on it at home.

Luna. Then and now

Yuki then and now

I don't train dogs. I condition them.

A.dogs brain is simple and it tells the dogs Genes (for what it was bred to do) to turn on or off.

I can an condition my dog to react to the command "sit" the command is the stimulus, followed by a reward and the dog learns to react to the stimulus.

I can counter condition the dogs brain to turn off the genes that are programmed to react to a squirrel by conditioning the dog to turn to me when she sees the squirrel.

I learn what tools I can use to do that since each dog is bred differently and has temperaments within that breed

There is a canine good citizen class at 1130 am in Rock Hill at Charlotte Dog Training Club that still has spots available. Cost is $130
Www.charlottedogtaining.org

Ella!! She doesnt come to Camp Good Dog any more, she goes to "Aunt Vals House" when mom is away and she feels right at home.

Ella is back for a week for boarding. We will work on recall while she is here.

Did a training session with Ginger and her parents. I love shepherds and Ginger is beautiful.