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What To Do When Your Dog Sees Another Dog: Dog Walk Challenge Day 7
Monday, January 19th, 2009 | Dog Obedience & Behavior, Dog Training Camp San Diego, Dog Training Collars & Leads, Dog Training Video | No Comments
The Walk Your Dog Every Day Challenge continues. Here in San Diego, Temecula (& we have a location in Taos, NM) there is no reason to not be out with your dog. It’s January and 70 degrees! Seriously.
Our last blog talked about he beginning stages of what to do when your dog sees another dog. As always it takes steps to get through these things. Here we go with the next step.
When walking around your own neighborhood you can probably choose times that there aren’t a lot of other dogs out.. and yet again, at the most inopportune moment it can happen… the uppity neighbors see you with the your dog who is really friendly, but you can barely hold back because of the excitement in seeing another dog.
So let’s talk about the next step. Refer to earlier blogs or of course our dog training site for one of the most important beginning steps…. After that, what any dog owner needs to remember is dogs are really unable to multi-task. Given that, with just a little bit of direction you can redirect your dog into ignoring oncoming dogs.. though it seems like an impossible task at this moment in time for the owner who has had their shoulder practically relocated over it in the recent past!
Redirect means that when you see another dog, hopefully just before your dog sees the other dog (in the beginning stages anyway), give your dog a task you’ve been working on before… though now is the best time to start if you haven’t worked on it before. One of the easiest things is to turn your dog in another direction. By this we don’t mean quickly head across the street in avoidance, but instead, do some quick short turns with your dog to keep attention. (And if your REALLY want someone else to take on this part we have the best dog training camp around San Diego, Temecula, CA & Taos, NM
When heeling, or walking with your dog in a “let’s go” you don’t have to always do a 180 degree turn and head the other direction. Law of first mention is hard to get away from… what we mean by this is doing a 90 degree turn, using whatever your command is, take a few steps, then do another quick 90 degree turn… and so on. You can do this right past a dog easily.
Of course there are many training methods you can use to keep your dog’s attention during this process and we are happy to assess what is going to work for you best… all you have to do is ask. Several options are out there from food, to collar and leash to remote collar.. and all can be done in a very kind gentle manner. That’s the only way we recommend you train your dog.
More on “what to do when your dog sees another dog” soon… for now, give these steps above a shot… and we always love to hear from dog people so let us know how it goes.
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We’ve also got a really great Facebook group going you can find by going to Facebook and doing a search on “Go Train Your Dog”.
Whatever you do… get out, have some fun with your dog, get some exercise for yourself & your dog… and you never know, that weight loss program for 2009 may come way easier than you thought it would!
What Dog Breed Should the Obama Family Choose?
Friday, January 16th, 2009 | Dog Training Camp San Diego, Dog Training Video | No Comments
If you live in the US, we are all very aware of the fact that we have a new President taking office this next week. Barack Obama and the family will be official this Jan. 20, 2009. The country as a whole is truly looking for change and a positive outlook is where it can start with all of us.
Also big in the news is the fact that every President and their family have a dog that lives in the White House with them and is part of the family. The choice has been narrowed down to two breeds. The Labradoodle or the Portuguese Water Dog.
The Obama girls have some allergy issues going on and a hypoallergenic type dog is was the reason for the choices. They do definitely have different personality types but they are both good for the non shedding deal.
Anyway, lets have a little fun with our Presidential voting and participate in our poll… give us your vote on which dog breed you think should be in the White House. Of course we’ll keep you up on the dog training that goes on for the dog that lands itself a Presidential Dog in upcoming K9 Coach news.
Leash Walk-Your Dog Properly
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | Dog Obedience & Behavior, Dog Training Camp San Diego, Dog Training Collars & Leads, Dog Training Video | No Comments
Accept K9 Coach’s 21 day challenge to walk your dog on a leash properly.
Betty was bred to be a working police or personal protection type dog. She was the runt of the litter & didn’t have the drive to make it as a military dog, so she ended up with a dog trainer, who took her to raise as a family pet & working companion. The trainer returned her to the breeder as “un-trainable” at 9 months old, a quivering, quaking, hair raised, barking terror. And I mean loud barking. She was totally untrained, including potty training! The children were afraid of her. Ouch.
That’s when the breeder sent Betty, the 9 month old F Belgian Malinois to me. She has been with us ever since and has come a long ways in the years we’ve had her. She recently turned 4 years old and if you met her you’d probably question that she ever had a scary side. She is so well-behaved. She is part of my pack and helps me train other dogs. She is a loving part of our family, and keeping up with her high energy requirements and nervous energy is a big part of my daily schedule, though I’ll readily admit, I’ve extended her work on the treadmill as opposed to struggling with her on the leash with my other dog Spencer. She is great, when we leash-walk just the two of us or when I work her with a dog I’m training, off-leash and on-leash and she is reliable, well behaved.
It’s a whole other story when she has to share her walk with Spencer my other dog, on-leash, she has a tendency to bark excitedly. I am committing to http://dogtrainingofsandiego.com ‘s 21-day challenge. I am going to walk both of my dogs on leash 20 minutes per day, together with a goal of improving Betty’s behavior when walked with her pack mate. I am going to work on timing with use of the remote, and sitting her when she is over-excited or barking. I hope you will join me in walking your dog daily on leash for 21 days… follow our blogs and free weekly web casts for dog training help and advice.
Carla C Weed - K9 Coach
Day 1. Walked Betty & Spencer right at 20 minutes, too fast for me up the last hill, so I will remember to sit them more and take my time, even though Betty, is the main puller, they both will sit when I stop, this is working well. . Minimum barking and carrying on from Betty, only a few barks at levels that might pierce one’s skull.
Day 2. 21 minutes walk with Betty & Spencer. They did much better on their pace but Betty exclaimed loudly as we started out at each new intersection through the first half of the walk. Remember this is not a race, practice sit your dogs at intersections and wait to let other people pass. Have your dogs walk beside you, not in front. The wind was blowing today and leaves rustling, which always get Betty going. It was so funny, I looked down at her every time she took off at a perfect heel, tail wagging, big smile and thought, she’s so happy, maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on her about her jubilant, loud bark.
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