Showing posts with label Classes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classes. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
Some of my Favorite Places to get Free Education
We are all at home, so I thought I would give you all a list of great places to get some free education:
Dog Star Daily - Dr. Ian Dunbar's page
Whole Dog Journal
Patricia McConnell, PhD
Suzanne Clothier - relationship centered dog training
https://www.dogwise.com/
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Does your dog do jumping Jacks?
Dogs like to interact with one another face to face. In the wild, dogs will gaze into each other’s eyes and lick each other’s faces to
communicate, but your face is just up so high! Your dog needs to be taught something other than jumping Jacks! Here are some tips!
Reinforce the sit always, everywhere and constantly! Be proactive. Sit means please!
Reinforce down, it is incompatible with jumping up.
Teach your dog "Touch": When puppy is targeting a hand with his/her nose, puppy is not jumping on you!
Play "Go Find It": When your puppy is looking for the treat, s/he is not jumping on you.
Settle: Teach your puppy to settle down on a mat or his/her bed or in the crate.
Doggy Zen: Teach your puppy impulse control. A toy held out to the side will only be tossed when the puppy is sitting. Petting only happens when puppy sits or lays down.
Polite Greeting: Done on a tether, holding puppy on a loose leash. Your puppy is reinforced for sitting as a person approaches. Jumping puppies are ignored and walked away from.
Relaxation: Shape Relaxation by sitting in a calm setting and mark and pay any behavior showing increased relaxation such as standing still, slower breathing, ears neutral, blinky eyes, looking down.
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Monday, November 18, 2019
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Project tRade
How Would You Like to Trade Your Old Dog Training Equipment for Great Discounts?
My Best Buddy Dog Training wants to swap great discounts on our services FOR your choke, prong or shock collars or any other qualifying pet gear. By participating in “Project tRade” you can earn 10% off your first service simply by giving us old pet gear* you have laying around. It couldn’t be easier!
What is “Project tRade”?
Project tRade is the Pet Professional Guild's (PPG) international advocacy program that promotes the use of force-free pet training equipment by asking pet guardians to swap choke, prong and shock collars (and any other devices that are designed to change behavior through pain or fear). Because we want all pets and their guardians to experience the huge advantages and long-lasting effectiveness of force-free training and pet care, we will give you great discounts on our most popular, effective, fun and pain-free training and pet care services in exchange for your old gear.
Effective, humane animal training and pet care methods are the foundation of any animal’s healthy socialization and training and help prevent behavior problems. Since a wide variety of equipment and tools are commonly used when training pets, the pet-owning public needs to be aware of the potential problems and dangers some equipment may pose. Specifically, the use of collars and leads that are intended to apply constriction, pressure, pain or force around a dog’s neck (such as ‘choke chains’ and ‘prong collars’) should be avoided. Distinguished veterinarians and behaviorists worldwide are joining the discussion and calling for the elimination of such devices from the training efforts of both pet owners and professionals.
What Do the Experts Say?
Respected veterinarian and thyroid expert, Dr. Jean Dodds, recommends against choke or prong collars “as they can easily injure the delicate butterfly-shaped thyroid gland thatsits just below the larynx and in front of the trachea. These collars can also injure the salivary glands and salivary lymph nodes on the side of the face underneath both ears.”
Bestselling author and canine behaviorist, Jean Donaldson, says: "These devices (choke and prong collars), when they work, do so to the degree that they hurt. With the advent of modern methods and tools they are irrelevant.”
According to veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist Dr. Soraya V. Juarbe-Diaz: "Using punishment to stop behaviors is not new. Notice I say ‘stop’ rather than ‘teach’ -- I can stop any behavior, but I am more interested in teaching my students, animal or human, to choose the behavior I want them to perform because they can trust me, because I do not hurt them and they are safe with me, and because the outcome is something they enjoy.”
PPG thus encourages all pet owners and pet professionals to embrace modern, scientifically based, training techniques and tools, especially the latest generation of no-pull harnesses which are free of the risks posed by traditional collars and offer far more benefits.
So swap your gear and help create a kinder world for you and your pet! The following discounts are provided on your first service.
Choke collars , prong collars, shock collars, bark collars and e-collars - trade them for 10% off your first service with us.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Summer Training Clinic-Advanced Puppy Class
Summer Advanced Puppy Clinic Begins 6/6/16 - This force free, science based puppy advanced training clinic (4 weekly classes) is for any dog 1 year and under that has some basic training (leash walking, sit/stay, recall) who is dog and people friendly and who has been fully vaccinated. We cover improving the basics you taught your puppy. Our classes are small, a maximum of 6 dogs per class.
Your dog will learn a reliable recall in week 1! We will work on advanced leash walking skills, really reliable sit/down/stay and focused attention. You will have weekly assignments that will be fun games to play with your dog. Dogs will also spend time off leash to socialize with each other and humans. Much of the class will be taught outside with distractions!
The class begins on Monday, June 6 at 6:45 pm and is held weekly for 4 weeks. A summer benefit is that the class will repeat in July and August! If you miss a class, you can make it up! This class is taught at our Tyrone location. Children over the age of 8 who are accompanied by a parent are welcome to attend (one parent per child please). Contact Robin for details. Sign up via our website, email to: Robin@MyBestBuddyDogtraining.com or call us at 678-292-8960 to reserve your spot. Cost (includes training materials). $100.00
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Preventative Puppy Training
Why Preventative Puppy Training Is So Important
I am completely baffled. I have wracked my brain trying to figure out why the dog training profession can’t make more progress with the one thing that would completely change the world of dog training and pet homelessness. We have the key to stopping the inflow of unwanted dogs into shelters, preventing aggression, and creating long, happy partnerships between dogs and owners. For some reason, we just can’t get it to click with the general public.
The answer is not spaying and neutering, even though that’s a good idea for most family pets. The answer is puppy class. Even as I type that, I know that some people will be thinking, “Oh, yah. Puppy classes. Don’t you have something more dramatic?”
I would respond by saying there is nothing more dramatic, more powerful or more life-altering than a well-run puppy class. Sure it seems like nothing but fluff and fun, but it is extremely serious business and it absolutely saves lives.
What puppy classes do
All aggression is based in fear. Fear comes from a lack of positive experience. A well-run puppy class provides positive exposure to the most common doggy fears at a time when a dog is most open to those new experiences.
There are thousands of adult dogs who are totally panicked by fireworks, Halloween costumes, children, other dogs, tall men, and certain types of floor surfaces. When these things are introduced in puppyhood and paired with positive things such as food, praise, and play, the resulting comfort with these things can last a lifetime.
Add to that the all-important bite inhibition training, resource guarding prevention, and basic manners, and you’ve got a dog with a frame of reference that makes everything after puppy class much easier.
Do you see the power in that? That means that even if a puppy eventually ends up in a shelter or needs to be rehomed, that dog is easy to place and will have an easier time adjusting. Such dogs can be around kids, men, and other dogs. They will have learned to bite softly in puppy class, so that even if they find themselves in a situation where they feel the need to bite, they will not do any damage.
That skill alone could save a dog’s life. They will be house trained and know some basic manners. Even if they’re now 1.5 years old and have forgotten some of their manners, the important foundations will be in place and their retraining will be quick and easy.
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