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Brida & Honey Playing "bitey face"

Pedicure for Mr. Bean

Appropriate enrichment activities are a huge part of a dogs behavioral and wellness needs! While we do take advantage of many wonderful enrichment toys, there are also loads of "in a pinch" opportunities to be had as well 😁 And the best part is, it doesn't cost anything extra! Here's just one fun example.....

Ok, so here finally is the “exciting things we’ve been working on” as promised over a month ago😳😂🤩! My definition of soon may be a bit skewed lol. That being said, I’m not one to remember getting everything set up to film when doggos and I are doing all the things (plus it’s just little ‘ol me 90% of the time) so thats loads and loads of videos which are NEVER recorded 🤣 We’re brand spanking ne...

While our session covers a lot of behaviors that I really like and am continuing to build layers of by reinforcing in various ways, the MOST IMPORTANT aspect is always the dog’s emotional state during activities/training. I want this partnership to be one of mutual enjoyment 💕, so my goal is to create stability as best I can within the environment and provide support clear guidance. By doing th...

Brida is only 9 months old so we just practice concepts building up to formal heeling etc for now. Keeping sessions short and fun makes for better learning (that goes for latent learning as well). We’re working on a few things here: engagement with me, disengagement from the environment (interesting smells, loud traffic, another dog), duration, and as always - relationship 🐾💖. I may start addin...

😁🐾 Brida Burrito (9 months) and her Great Grandma Beretta (12 years) enjoying a little adventure despite the rain 🌧💜

There’s a few things being worked on here: relationship, trust, & disengagement. The basic explanation is: Relationship building by “foraging” together, trust by learning that when I’m pointing/directing there’s value, and disengagement by working with three snuffle rugs at once and reinforcing her moving among them even when they still all contain food leaving them at the end for a higher valu...

By playing with two toys of fairly equal value at once, we start to build the idea of releasing one (outing) to play with the other. Most important: the toy being played with needs to go still or “dead” while the other is then animated or made “live” - this helps her to distinguish which toy I’d like her engage with. I’m not actually using the verbal “out” cue, as building understating of relea...

I use a variety of play tactics: encouraging Brida to push her toy into me, pushing her away fro me - gently but dramatically - to get “bounce back” (opposition reflex at play here), moving away from her and pretending that I can’t get a hold of the toy to engage in playing. All of these encourage continued “play with me” behavior rather than taking the toy off alone or creating a game of keep ...

🐾😁 Lots and lots (did I mention LOTS!) of time/practice on low stress handling cooperative care to get to this point! ✨ Mr. Bean demonstrating the payoff! Absolutley worth the while to build up a dog that's comfortable and cooperates willingly with having all the necessary husbandry practices. I didn't include brushing or special procedures (ear cleaning, vaccine practice, temp taking, etc.) bu...