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Canine Services International Professional dog training and canine behavioural consultancy based in Melbourne, VIC Australia

13/10/2026

➡️ 5 Tips To Do Better ⬅️

✅ Build operancy and agency, fostering a profound awareness in the dog’s mind between to it’s actions and the outcomes they produce;
✅ Create a strong, persistent, protective positive affect and optimism in the dog’s mind surrounding the work
✅ Develop the dog to become an enthusiastic expert generalist learner
✅ All of this prepares a dog more completely to percieve and process a punishing event as being connected specifically to its behaviour.
✅ This typically reduces both the frequency and/or intensity of punishment required, and creates more rapid and complete understanding.

If you’re a dog trainer and you can’t quite make sense of what I’ve said here - hats off to you for trying…most will dismiss it, because knowing that you don’t know is an uncomfortable place to be.

The next step is to take action and upskill so you don’t just understand it, but you assimilate these understandings into your practice - with your own dog, and with your clients and their dogs too.

If you’re a dog owner, run that through AI for more explanation - but the short answer is that if your trainer is big on using aversive for seemingly everything AND they don’t seem to put much value on reinforcing your dog profoundly throughout their learning journey…then it’s probably a big part of why you feel stuck working with them.

⛔️End thing.

05/10/2026

➡️ Hands In Heelwork ⬅️

Oh man, do people bicker about this one…so many strong opinions about what is right, and what is wrong.

If you just train your dog to truly understand the **task at hand** then these kind of considerations are just an afterthought.

Our Train With Me classes are the perfect opportunity for you to get some targeted individual attention in a very unique small group format.

If you’re sick of trying and failing to put all the pieces together, but you’re not quite ready to commit to 1:1 coaching…here’s the closest thing you’ll find.

Just DM or SMS us this term: TWM
We’ll get you all the details.

0483 983 647

**See what I did there - brilliantly clever dog training humour.




03/10/2026

Play is a skill.

You’ll never regret investing the time and effort to learn how to set your dogs souls on fire.

Having a coach on your shoulder whilst you play is a real advantage…but having a top notch coach is 10x better.

Real time form adjustments, bringing your attention to the right elements of your game at the right time, a nudge to push things further and hit new peaks of achievement.

That’s what our Attuned Play class is all about!

Wednesday nights - get amongst it!

DM or SMS this term for info: PLAY
0483 983 647

01/10/2026

➡️ Are They Missing These Pieces? ⬅️

If the influencer you’re investing your time and attention in can’t demonstrate these pieces in their work…it’s time to upgrade your feed.

If this helps you, then you’re buying the coffee.



01/10/2026

🖐️ Hands up if your dog would love to learn to play like this?

30/09/2026

➡️ Powerful Free Advice ⬅️

70% of the time it works every time.

If you think you’re already doing this then perhaps you’ll assume you’re the exception.…but first examine the work you’re investing in:

The wrong format?
The wrong approach?
Unsuited to your dog?
Poor quality curriculum?
Focussed on compliance?

Just watch what happens when you lock in and do the right work, in the right way.

Thank me later.

28/09/2026

➡️ Impulse Control ⬅️

MY TAKE: You’ll rarely hear me discuss ‘impulse control’ - in no small part because seemingly the entire training industry uses that term as an excuse to punish dogs for wanting to do things. 

FACT: All too often you’ll see a dog being suppressed in that process, as opposed to specific behaviours being addressed…and almost always you’ll see that same dog never does anything with reckless abandon.

🖕But I’m not in the business of building less dog…

THE REAL FLEX: Building a dog that can manage multiple strong impulses at the same time, and discriminate between them under increasing amounts of cognitive, emotional and/or physical load.

CONTEXT: I’ve started bringing together multiple pieces of groundwork I’ve been laying with Lunchy since puppyhood. Here we’re putting them together in one of the most challenging ways.

THE CONFLICT: Two completely opposed goals - routes to achieve the very same endpoint.

The need to get close to the kong and bark furiously, with focus on that object…at a distance from me, and after being initiated to perform the first behaviour, for duration…and all on cue.

The strong desire to run in and smash the kong…thousands of reps deep, with a profound self-reinforcing component.

THE RESULT: It’s early stages here, and we’re enjoying the process together…plus I get to see where the next set of challenges lies in refining this behaviour into a finished product - spirited expression of a complex behaviour, under stimulus control.

NEXT STEPS: In true Build More Dog® spirit I’ve already built every single piece of what we may need to help Lunchy put the picture together in her head.

✅ More to come in future.



24/09/2026

➡️ We All Make Mistakes ⬅️

Taking care of multiple pieces of the puzzle means when you do make those mistake, the impact will be reduced…and the solutions that you have will be more readily available.

This is true in behavioural work, obedience, high performance dog training, detection, protection, lifestyle based training, etc.

Of course YOU don’t know how to do that (yet)…that’s why you pay a professional trainer help you…

Your learning with that trainer will always be limited to what they can see, what they can do, and more importantly what they can teach.

Going fast doesn’t mean you’ll go further…but it likely means that it’ll hurt more when you hit the wall.

Steady progress built on strong foundations makes the most sense…it takes a few weeks longer in the start, but you’ll go much farther and it’ll be much more fun into the long term.

More in the video folks.

DM, SMS or call 0483 983 647.

BG

24/09/2026

➡️ The Sum Of Many Pieces ⬅️

Keeley has spend most of her life as a bit of a handful for her owners:

Profoundly anxious, hair trigger flight responses to both internal and external triggers, underexposed and underprepared for the world.

Nearly completely lacking any level of emotional resilience, phobic responses and avoidance behaviours.

Once they realised that things didn’t have to stay that way for her next 5 years of life, her owners were all in.

You’re seeing weeks of work come together here for the first time - and for Keeley it’s truly landmark stuff.

We’ve patiently built Keeley to be see my touch as collaborative, taught her that her behaviour is increasingly powerful.

We’ve developed her to have a much higher tolerance for stress, and built behaviours to hold enough benefit for her that she willingly chooses to enter into (and remain in) discomfort in order to keep making those desirable outcomes.

You may think this looks like work you see other trainers do - but I can assure you it’s not…and that’s why this moment came together as it did.

Build More Dog is a philosophy, not a system.

If you’re committed to getting the kind of coaching and oversight that truly moves the needle for the dog you’ve been struggling to help…

We’ll hear from you soon.

DM, SMS or call 0483 983 647

23/09/2026

➡️ INTENT VS REALITY ⬅️

What we intend our dogs to understand is one thing - but what they actually make of that process may be another thing entirely.

Adding challenge in the way Natasha does here with Oskar is a great way to get that kind of insight that can help you assess just that.

It was remarkable watching how Oskar the Dobermann navigated these ‘wrinkles in the fabric’, and it showed us that he truly does understand the exact criteria that produce him the reinforcement he’s seeking again…and again…and again.

Natasha didn’t quite understand when I told her that her dog was essentially doing quite clean performance heeling after a very short period of time…something you’ll see a lot of pro dog trainers struggle years to learn across years.

The irony is that we’re not even aiming to build a focussed heel, but we got one because of two coaching considerations:

1 - We targeted the learning with the intent of Oskar actually understanding all the criteria involved were the only way to the reinforcement.
2 - We drilled Natasha on simple, sound basics to the point they became second nature.

If you’re keen to get yourself the kind of coaching that ACTUALLY drives you towards the goals you have with your dog…hit us up.

DM, SMS or call on 0483 983 647

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