Stone City Canine Coach

08/16/2026

I’m very proud to call these professionals my colleagues and teammates in the dog training space 🥰

02/07/2026

Whenever I’m working with my dogs, I’m watching their body language to see if 1. They understand what I’m asking and 2. If they actually like the way I am teaching them.

Here is an example of different ways of teaching the cue “back up”. For some dogs, they may be worried about being within a confined area like the chute while others might not like having a person encroach on their personal space (like the options of having them come between your legs or pushing into them).

You can see from these first three examples, my dogs are stiff with their movements, they each sit to look up at me like “WTF are we doing?” and in the case of the luring/pushing, Gamora is actually trying to resist moving back.

My preferred method for teaching “back up” is to use a mat/blanket/platform to reward placement of the back feet and then use a technique called backchaining - starting with the end position and building to the starting position. This prevents frustration, gives them clear steps, and they are moving their bodies by choice (not by pushing or crowding them).

12/01/2025

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10/30/2025

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10/30/2025

TL;DR - follow our *new* Instagram account .coach

It turns out that, while jumping through hoops with your dog is really fun, jumping through proverbial hoops to access a lost account is not so fun 😣

We have been trying to get back access of our old Instagram account with no luck for almost a year and finally decided to just make a new one. If you followed our Instagram account , please come follow us on the *new* account .coach 💚

04/27/2025