Ideal Way Dog Training

Ideal Way Dog Training At Ideal Way, we are committed to fostering healthy relationships between human beings and dogs.

07/20/2026

Fun game to play with your doggies, and a good way to keep them using their noses, which helps them relate to the world better.

Enjoy!

If anyone has space/time/energy to take care of an older little pup, please let me know.Rescue has labeled her unhomeabl...
07/16/2026

If anyone has space/time/energy to take care of an older little pup, please let me know.
Rescue has labeled her unhomeable because she bite at the other dog in a territorial rant.

The living situation really wasn't ideal for her to be her best self.
She walks wonderfully and is very affectionate.
Guards food and toys a little bit, but I can help anyone who takes her with that.

She is 10. Just needs somewhere to live out her senior years.

07/11/2026

Ever look into a dogs eyes and see yourself?
Your own reflection looking back at you?
For a moment, inner silence.
Just the raw experience of seeing. No labels, no "trying" to see something. Just seeing.

This is what Zen people meant by "your original mind".
The mind we all enter with. Pure.

There is a reason we all love that feeling.

Now, can ya train them from there?
As an "original mind"?
Or, do you attach a label like "nervous" or "anxious" or "aggressive" as if they are fixed in place?

Do ya think they label you as "good" vs "bad" as an owner?
🤔

07/04/2026

This time of year is always tough on our pets. They want to hide or flight so often and it can get extremely dangerous.

A good way to handle their fear is similar to how we handle our own feeling of being stuck or frozen or paralyzed with fear or anxiety....movement.

Imagine someone dear to you passes away, or leaves you, or you lose a job....situations where people can curl under the covers with depression. Get stuck, frozen.
Mentally fixating on a situation. Verbally rehearsing a script that leaves them stuck in the bed.
Imagine someone who cares for you comes over to help.
What is the first thing they say generally?
Ya gotta get up!!
Move forward...physically.
This will force your mind to move some. Get off the train of repeating verbal patterns that kept ya locked under the covers for days. Ya see your home, or remember emails, or think of food, or friends...whatever.
It moves again.

This same process happens in dogs.
They get stuck mentally on the sounds and sights and retreat to the cave.
If you get them moving forward physically, even following you around the house on the leash, they can begin to mentally move forward too.

Allowing them to hide or petting them for feeling afraid is akin to telling them you want them that way. That it is actually the thing to do.
It's better to lead them.
Show them it is okay by promoting they move forward in life.

In Zen or Toaist thinking, nature isn't seen as something conforming to a set of laws or a boss. It's more like a dance....
06/24/2026

In Zen or Toaist thinking, nature isn't seen as something conforming to a set of laws or a boss. It's more like a dance.
The symbol below is "ziran", meaning "of itself so", or spontaneously arising.
A hiccup, how your bones grow, how you beat your heart, how a child dances....these are "ziran".

It essentially means, what comes naturally. Not forcing it.

In dog training, this equates to patience.
Not rushing something that will happen on its own, in its own way.

It also means you're not battling with your dog.
You're helping it relate to the natural world it finds itself in.

06/22/2026

Trying to get something from them while they are so active, and off a leash, is not gonna end well generally.
Let them settle first.
Then, don't "pull" it from them.
Wait for them to let it go on their own.
Ya can also use food to swap items, but ya don't have that all the time and don't really want that habit built up either.
If you're gonna swap for food, ask them to settle a bit before they get it. Just 5 or 10 seconds.

Comet had an issue with not dropping "stuff", toys or otherwise.

06/21/2026

Happy Daddy Day everyone!!!!

06/21/2026

The benefit to teaching hand signals is we tend to get very repetitive very quickly.
This can make teaching something that is supposed to create a sense of calm (like sit) much harder, obviously.
Especially when the stuff hits the fan.
We tend to get mildly to moderately frustrated.
Then, repeating commands with that frustration and getting moreso when they don't listen.
Teaching ourselves to be more like they are, quiet inside, makes connecting to them much easier.

I like to pretend I'm parenting a deaf child.
The noises are meaningless a lot of the time.

06/21/2026

Here, we are teaching Comet to give some distance from the door when the bell rings.

The closer some dogs are, the more excited they can get when new people come in.

Asking them to sit and then offer a treat low so they bow (up high promotes more jumping up and also encourages nipping for food with teeth) helps them learn to meet people a bit calmer and that they are friendly right away.

Again, my kids at work with me while a family was on vacation.

06/20/2026

Make sure the paws are fully on the treadmill before starting the it up and take time teaching them to be okay with it first.
Lots of treat leading them onto it, no leash.
On and off, over and over.
Then leash and treats.
Then leash and no treats, on and off, over and over.
Then, leash, and turn it on. They usually freak out. Stay calm, guide them to the center, and let them begin to "trot" some, then turn it up slightly to get them jogging some.
Once they are used to using it well, ya can have it faster to tire them out physically, or slower to tire them out mentally (like a slow stroll thru a park for us). Slow focus.

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