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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.
Dog Training San Diego & Temecula
Sunday, December 14th, 2008 | Dog Obedience & Behavior, Dog Training Camp San Diego | No Comments
The best part about dog training camp at K9 Coach is how great the dogs do once they get home. The above a slide show is of dogs I’ve trained in the past couple of months. Since we only train a few dogs at a time, each has an opportunity to improve their behavior with hours of work put in every day. From the puppy training to behavior modification, we can help your dog be the best they can be.
Here is what Clint’s mom had to say about their 6 year old dog-aggressive Dalmatian.
“Clint is doing really well with the training. We’ve been increasing outings to the dog parks so he can socialize more. Although he usually likes to stay away from the dogs, the ‘encounters’ with other dogs are much calmer. The training with K9 Coach has definitely given Tony and I some peace of mind when Clint is out. Thanks for all you’ve done for us and Clint”- Patty Serrano
Using dog obedience, dog psychology and exercise, we can help you with your dog at our exclusive dog training camps for San Diego County & South Riverside County.