Leash Wonders Training

06/03/2026

06/01/2026

Introducing Apollo

Apollo is a 4 year old mixed breed who within the past year started attacking his family. He’s attacked 5 people 7 times. After being cleared by the vet his owners found me and we talked.
He’s not aggressive, he’s not going out of his way to attack people. According to his people he acts like he wants to be pet by climbing into your lap and then when you do he attacks you.
So for the next month I’ll be figuring out what his boundaries are and why he’s attacking.
His owners started muzzle training before this board so I can get a jump on training.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

05/31/2026

Now I’ve had a ton of complaints about what I’m doing isn’t force fetch. So let me explain something.

Force fetch is molding a retrieve and hold and applying MINIMAL PRESSURE with negative reinforcement.
Literally the definition of force fetch.
Does the “trainer” with the GSP look like he’s applying MINIMAL PRESSURE to the petrified dog?

How am what I’m doing force fetch? I put it in his mouth, gently hold his mouth shut, hold his collar and release when he grabs the dumbbell.

That’s molding and minimal pressure. You don’t have to do it like me, there’s other ways to do force fetch.
I rarely actually use force fetch to do retrievals and holding anyways.

If you have to force a dog bred to retrieve to retrieve are you a good trainer and is that dog a good representation of its breed?
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

05/29/2026

Introducing Dexter

Dexter is a big, handsome, 3 year old mixed breed. He was here for the day to be evaluated for his recent dangerous behaviors. His owner is pretty scared he might hurt someone and doesn’t want to return him to the shelter. He’s on his third home. So today I was interacting with him and walking him around to evaluate his behavior towards others to see what we need to work on in the future.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

05/29/2026

Everyone say bye Beau!

Beau was a bit of a butt for showing off his skills, but dogs have days lol. He went home with a lot of management tips and new information and so much excitement to be reunited with his people.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

05/27/2026

How to get to our Linktree?

What’s Linktree?
Linktree is a third party that essentially holds a multitude of links under one click! That way you don’t meet the limit on your page or clog it up.

What’s in our Linktree?
I have Placement Void’s kofi where you can donate there to help her owner pay her off, Venmo and PayPal so you can pay for your session or donate monetary, Amazon wishlist of various treats and chews you can buy to donate to our placement dogs, placement dog application and all my social media!

05/25/2026

In the month Beau has been here we’ve worked on

•reactivity
•confidence building
•sit
•down
•implied stays
•recall
•crate skills
•building food drive
•heel
•free
•body awareness
•not jumping
He goes home later this week with a lot of foundations and skills for his people to continue with.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

05/23/2026

Beau braved his first farmers market

He had a couple barking incidents, but he was quick to engage when prompted. He ended up getting so tired he took a couple naps.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

05/21/2026

Yesterday evening Beau and I went to the Wednesday art walk!

He did great. We didn’t really work on obedience, though he was very willing too. We worked on exposure, engagement and some light reactivity. He’s not reactive enough to label him as such for me, but he’s interested in saying hi to people and staring at dogs. So we worked on not greeting others and playing with me.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.