Dream Dogs Training Co

28/11/2021

Lovely to see this little lady and her human enjoying their outings together. Winnie can have a tendency to disengage on a walk, scan her environment and chase things that move (or fly!). Today, she showed us how she's learning to check in and engage with mum as an alternative behaviour, use her nose and chill out!

Well done team Winnie, keep up the great job.

21/06/2021

Kayla and her dedicated caregivers have been working hard to help Kayla feel calmer around other dogs and build a more reliable recall. We played lots of fun recall games together with arousal lowering activities, and broke down the 'picture' of other dogs into manageable and achievable chunks for Kayla, so she could practice alternative, rewarding behaviours in the presence of them. Keep up the great work, team!

If you have a social butterfly who finds it hard to dial down the urge to say hi to every single dog they see, then reach out for help from a force free trainer.

22/05/2021

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16/05/2021

Team Flint (and Alby) have put in so much effort with their loose lead walking skills over the past fortnight. Look at those happy check ins!

07/05/2021

Team Ziggy smashing it at the local park. Taking in all the new sights and sounds while having a good time. Engagement with mum in the presence of lots of distractions, practicing skills we learnt at home first.

02/05/2021

How to choose a dog trainer

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Every second week I have the pleasure of teaching final year veterinary students about canine behaviour and canine mental health disorders. They are eager and enthusiastic students, but just like the regular dog owning population they too have bought into dog training myths and need direction about....

21/04/2021

Little Ziggy is being set up for success in life with our 5 week Puppy Program:

• Socialisation - creating a confident, resilient adult dog in all things sights, sounds, surfaces, body awareness, experiences, people and dogs.

• Toileting - how to teach toileting where you want pup to go and how to handle mistakes inside.

• Home set up - how to encourage rest and sleep and to actively supervise or manage pup's environment to prevent them from practicing undesirable behaviours.

• Appropriate play and games - ways to interact with puppy that embody positive communication, engagement and fun!

• Mouthing/biting/jumping up - how to manage pup's arousal levels and teach alternative behaviours.

• Dog body language - how to speak dog and advocate for them.

• Handling - preparing pup for future vet and groomer visits.

• Mat training - capturing calm (and peace and quiet!)

• Alone time and enrichment - teaching puppy that being alone is a good thing and ways to enrich their urban lives.

• Foundation skills to help with manners, lead walking and happy recalls

• And more!

19/01/2021

When is the best time to practice a training skill? When we don't need it.

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09/01/2021

Meet the rediculously handsome Marley.

Marley has been dealt a couple of unfortunate health issues that could be contributing towards him feeling a bit worried about his world and other dogs. His dedicated and experienced owners have had many rottweilers prior without issues, reminding us that every dog is different and has different emotional needs, just like us.

We worked on calmly acknowledging novel things through fun engage/disengage type games and Marley's ability to sniff to gain information and feel safe about his environment (and as a reinforcer for loose lead walking! Bonus!). Marley's proactive caregivers also want to work on cooperative husbandry skills so they can prevent ear infections and make Marley's vet visits less stressful for everyone. Marley is already working with the amazing team at Morley Vetcentre for Fear Free happy visits, so I'm excited to support this with training in the home.

We are working through the 'A Lot of Help' package and I look forward to seeing this amazing team progress towards their goals.

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