Eastside Dog Services

Eastside Dog Services Helping your dog thrive through science based training. Compassionate, force free approach, with proven results!

Judgement free coaching & support your dog and the whole family. Eastside Dog Services provides a variety of customizable options for your canine companions! Our goal is to get to know your dog and understand their needs. We want to be a part of creating and maintaining a healthy routine for your dog! Sometimes that includes walks, playtime, feeding or cuddles- we love it all! We provide you with the peace of mind that your best friend is well taken care of.

08/26/2026

1) Crates work and aren’t cruel if trained properly
2) Decompression walks in the park solve problems 3) Dogs can sleep in the bed once they’re potty trained
4) Feeding out of bowl is a missed opportunity for training or enrichment
5) Off leash is overrated, leash skills are more valuable
6) Doggie daycare & dog parks are not for everyone

08/24/2026

Decreasing Jumping on guests in 10 steps
1. no guests have food or offer attention to a jumping dog.
2. Attention is achieved through call behaviors
3. start with your dog on leash & a pocket full of yummy treats!
4. Start practicing with familiar people, and don’t knock right away. Just enter.
5. Let them notice the “guest” and then reward them with food for looking away from the guests. Repeat until easy and dog is offering the look away.
6. Ask for sit. Reward.
7. Release dog to greet, call them back as soon as they get to the “guest” backing up if needed and reward for the return to you!
8. Repeat on leash until they return to you before you call them!
9. Add in a bed or crate cue if you would like! ☺️
10. Call me! I’m happy to help!

08/22/2026

Learning is always happening.📚📓

You may not always be “training” but your dog is always learning. The mammalian brain is sponge for information and figuring how to get what works for its needs & wants.🤓

You don’t always have to do a formal training sessions to take advantage of this or get ahead of it.

Simple Things you can do all the time:

1. catch your dog being good 👍 praise and feed!

2. use impulse control like sit & wait for things they want. Like opening doors or food. - check out my series on Impulse control.

3. Reward attention to you and calm behaviors whenever you can. With praise, life rewards (opening doors for example).

4. Consider how their behaviors are working for them. Is jumping getting them pets, is whining getting the door open?

5. Use crates, gates, space, leashes to prevent the practice of unwanted behaviors.

6. Give the dog what they want by having them produce a behavior you prefer. See example below!

7. If they jump at the back door and it gets opened. They will jump again. Jumping made the back door open.If they jump up and get attention or they will repeat these behaviors.

8. Instead - consistently having them sit BEFORE getting the back door open or pets can help change the behavior.

08/19/2026

Old dog zoomies is THE BEST!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

08/19/2026

Distance matters in every way -
How far away the trigger is, you are from your dog or how close they are to what they want. How far away from you can your dog preform the behavior successfully?

Duration - how long? Have you been working? between treats? Between triggers? Have they been sitting or laying down? Build duration slowly and work within their abilities to begin with grow from there.

Distractions - how many distractions are there? The more distractions the more difficult it is.

All these variables matter and we need to adjust them individually to make each dog succeed and then slowly work up from that point of success.

08/02/2026

Dog scratch pads offer an alternative to clippers for trimming a dog's nails, but are they effective? Whole Dog Journal puts them to the test.

07/28/2026

Giving your dog an exit strategy like “Let’s go” helps them to learn a new way to handle their triggers instead of just react to them.
You can see here little Wooloo wants to react but is happy to build space when we ask him. Most dogs want to build space when they’re reacting they just don’t know how. Their reactions are desperate cry for space, so teaching them to let’s go or leave it into open space can be very useful and often dogs pick up on it quickly!

Want help or how to video drop a comment below!

07/26/2026

Rooney really showing off in this video! Nikki Fuller
Notice these things that are important for improving recall -
💫I mark when she looks at me and even THINKS about checking in, which get her to come all the way back. Winning 🥇
✨my rate of reward is high! I’m completing with the woods, and dog with a fast brain I want to be quick with food in the beginning stages. Slow it down later.
🌟reward her when she makes choices I like not just when I call her.

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Webster, Penfield, Pittsford, East Rochester, Fairport, Irondequoit
Rochester, NY

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+15856905300

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