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11/6/2020 0 Comments An Evening Management WinYou know how you get to the end of the day and you just want to put your feet up?
Maybe even enjoy a glass of wine. Drown in a little tv...but as soon as you sit down, your dog is ready to go...
Yup, me too. Willow is notorious for it. The picture above doesn't happen until long after I'm ready for it. Willow's trigger for needing to go outside and pacing or needing to bring me a toy or needing needing needing...is me sitting down. You know what? I have kids. I'm virtually schooling. I'm creating content, answering emails, taking videos, posting on social media, keeping the house somewhat tidy, feeding everyone, throwing the ball, doing the dishes, doing the laundry... must I go on? So at the end of the day, I like to put my feet up - watch a little TV and maybe enjoy a glass of wine. Do I want to play with Willow at that point? No, not so much. Do I want to cuddle with her? Sure. But she's not ready for that. She hasn't settled. So we started a routine. I shared it on Facebook a couple of nights ago and it was appreciated by many so I thought I would share it here too!
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11/4/2020 0 Comments The 3 Reasons Why Dogs Jump Why does your dog jump? Before you can do anything about it, you need to know why it happensEvery behavior has a function with dogs. In the case of jumping, let’s look at what those functions might be so you can look at your own dog and breakdown which one(s) are most likely at play. Function #1: For attention Function #2: It feels good - It provides a Dopamine boost Function #3: To access to a resource In social animals, our attention plays an enormous role in our dog's behavior. They are often either trying to get closer to or further away from us. They are trying to increase or decrease distance. Attention seeking behaviors are distance-decreasing, by nature. There was a study done in 2012 (Dorey & al., 20128(11) that showed that dogs significantly decreased their jumping when access to what they wanted was not available for at least 20 seconds after jumping. Function #1: Attention SeekingWith attention-seeking dogs, they learn to jump when they realize that our eyes, face and hands (the things that give them the attention they want) are up above them. This starts at a young age when they tend to get reinforced for it more often because they’re little, and cute, and relatively harmless. Then they grow, and grow, and grow. Pretty soon, they’re still cute but a little less harmless when they jump! But while we changed the rules, we didn’t make that clear to them. We continue to reinforce the jumping, usually unconsciously.
10/31/2020 0 Comments Reasons why your dog keeps jumping Boing, Boing, Boing! 🤦♀️ Does that describe your dog?
I hear it all the time. My dog won't stop jumping on me when I walk in the door. My dog gets so excited to see people and jumps all over them. My dog started stealing things off the counter now that he's big enough. I feel like I'm constantly pushing my dog off of me. While it's not a new problem for me to hear about, when you're in it, it can feel very overwhelming, embarrassing, and like you somehow created this problem... 10/28/2020 0 Comments Uncomplicate the behavior
What do Lego bricks have to do with dog training?
You can take a big behavior that you want to work on and pretend like it's a Lego creation. Within your giant Lego creation, you can take this really big behavior and if you just teach the little pieces, you're soon able to put that big behavior back together again. It's really solid because it has a really nice foundation to it.
 I don't know if you've ever heard of Brené Brown but she has a famous talk and framework for trust, called the Anatomy of Trust. Here's a link, in case you haven't heard of it. In my humble opinion, it's an important understanding for all humans for grasp: Anatomy Of Trust She also talks about the concept of the Marble Jar. A marble goes in when trust is built. A marble comes out when an aspect of trust is removed. She talks about 7 key aspects to trust, several of which I believe also directly apply to our pets. 
9/12/2019 0 Comments Nail Trimming Issues?
9/3/2019 0 Comments My own reactive dogCategoriesAll Behavior Competition Dock Dogs Dog Dog Training Kids Kids And Dogs Management Muzzle The trainer's dog. What's your expectation? Good manners. A perfect stay, a rock solid recall, a happy-go-lucky, well-socialized, perfect advocate for my training skills and services? Let me introduce you to my dog. Meet Willow. Willow is my dog-reactive, kid-reactive, work-boot reactive, cat chasing, wild girl. Does that mean she's aggressive? No. It means she gets emotional in those circumstances. It means she has some trouble controlling her arousal level when triggered by the above.
8/27/2019 0 Comments Science > MediaThe most important 10 minutes you'll spend watching YouTube. This really doesn't need any further introduction but to say that.
What did you learn?
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