My friend taught me this while I was living with her and her dog. One day I came down the stairs and her dog was in the trash, and I gasped in shock. She immediately fled the scene. She heard me coming down the stairs, it was the gasp that…
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Rubber Band Ball
Recently I’ve been working with a dog to unravel her anxiety. She’s very well loved and is overweight. We were walking down a hill to exit the park at the end of our session. Every couple of feet she would speed up and begin to pull us down the hill…
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The Whirlpool Effect | Part 1
I have had this implanted in my head for a long time now and is really why I wanted to start the blog. The whirlpool effect popped into my head while doing mostly off leash work with dogs either on hikes or in a daycare setting. For a hike, imagine…
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Influence
From the moment your dog can sense you, you are “training” them. You are teaching them how to treat you, how to act, what you expect, what to be scared of, etc. I’m going to share my personal experience of raising Gunther to communicate how I learned this. When Gunther…