Regal Animal Training

01/03/2025

01/03/2025

At Open Farm, we pride ourselves on transparency and our commitment to doing good for pets, animals, and the planet. Since we launched Open Farm in 2014, our priority has always been to help pets live their healthiest, happiest lives by delivering exceptional nutrition made from the world’s best r...

03/27/2024

Welcome Murphy aka Smurf to The Charming Canine family! We will be working on his leash reactivity and reinforcing his basic training.

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10/01/2022

Continuing education is so so so important!

"You know what you know until you grow" - Jennifer Shryock, BA, CDBC

We always do the best we can with the information we have at the time but we should strive to learn more and grow!

07/19/2022

Rafi, my new crooked-eyed bestie 🤣 This good boi is a rescue from Armenia and is having really big feelings so confidence building here we come!

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07/02/2022

My dogs know their place.

Every year, I hope the people spewing nonsense about being pack leader, about being the alpha, about how you need to show the dog who’s boss, will disappear. Every year I’m hopeful that they will pick up a book (that isn’t written in their little echo chamber), do a course worth its salt, or even just watch the most basic YouTube video explaining why they are wrong.

Every year I am hopeful that I won’t see any more dogs wearing prong collars, e-collars, being strung up on a slip lead, being yanked back, alpha rolled, pinned to the ground, shaken, prodded, hissed at, kicked. Dogs that are just babies, dogs that are traumatised, dogs with behavioural problems that, whenever they ask for help or reassurance, are punished. Dogs that are petrified of something scary, only to be told “Stop crying!” as the thing they’re phobic of is drawn closer and closer to them.

Every year, I’m disappointed.

It’s 2022. The basis of this training was debunked DECADES ago. Why do people still feel it’s acceptable to treat dogs this way? To lazily slap the word “dominant” or “stubborn” on their foreheads and take that as an excuse to now treat them however they like.

Do freaking better.

“Oh, but my dog is a German shepherd/ Rottweiler/ staffie and they need a strong hand”

No. If you are incapable of handling a powerful dog without beating the crap out of it and walking it with ligatures, sometimes spiked ligatures, constricting their throat, seriously consider getting a smaller breed. It doesn’t make you look like a tough man, walking an incapacitated large breed dog, it makes you look like a coward. Nothing screams “I’m an incompetent trainer” like somebody reliant on choking their dog just to get them to walk nicely.

One day, we will look back as a society on the people who treat their dogs like this, and be totally repulsed. We will think “how did they get away with it?” I hoped, by 2022, we would be at that point already. But clearly not.

Yeah, my dogs know their place. It’s right beside me.

TLDR: you’re not the alpha, you’re insecure.

06/06/2022

We’ve known Obi for awhile and we absolutely love him 💜

04/24/2022

This industry is sooo unregulated. Please, please always do your research, ask for certifications, ask for references, ask what methods are being used. If you are ever in doubt, or unsure of a trainer, find someone else. Do not ever feel bad to pull out from a program or away from a trainer if you feel uneasy about anything.

01/25/2022

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