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Segen's Way Dog Training

Providing private in-home training to the Topeka area.
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09/12/2026

Meet Tobi!

He began training with us due to heightening reactivity toward people, cats in the home, sounds, and fast movements.

We have begun working through processing some small-medium level triggers, developing emotional regulation skills, and building impulse control and frustration tolerance.

We were so happy to see Tobi relax enough for tummy rubs while being around several unfamiliar people and being triggered-stacked by Sarah... at a park!

He only felt the need to bark-lunge once (No passive barking/growling at all this time!) and was clicking in and coming back for more training (and triggering).

We have seen a tremendous improvement from the beginning and we are SO PROUD!

👏👏👏 Great job!!

09/05/2026

We are closed for the holiday weekend!
We will continue to follow-up Tuesday. ❤️

We hope everyone has a fun and safe weekend!

08/29/2026

Say "Hello" to Maverick!

He began training with us due to new reactivity arising surrounding his peoples' grandchild walking around.

While he was absolutely comfortable with her when she was a baby, he's not quite sure how to communicate with and feel about her walking around his home. He showed signs of anxiety and insecurity while also being curious and engaged.

Since lunging and nipping is not what we want to become the "norm," we are working on helping Maverick process his overall emotional state to a more neutral, calm place. We began laying the foundation of impulse control to promote critical thinking skills. We will eventually work up to trigger processing and defining expectations.

We are so excited to see how his journey progresses! It is so much fun training with multiple generations.

Way to go everyone!! 👏👏👏

08/25/2026

Sylvi update!

When she began training with us, Sylvi would hide behind her mom shaking.

We have worked up to her accepting treats from Sarah (and her trainer helpers). She has been confidently walking around unfamiliar people and dogs outside without reacting, and she did a fantastic job in her first group lesson.

It was time tackle our next goal- being confident in a public enclosed environment. While she was not comfortable most of the time, she was able to regulate and even accepted treats after a while! Her body language eventually relaxed and Sylvi chose to lie down for a bit in the middle of an aisle with carts, dogs, and people going by.

We will continue to work in these situations to help build her expectations and confidence.

We are sooo proud of how far she has come!

Great job!!! 👏👏👏

08/07/2026

Favorite Friday!

Post a recent picture you've taken of your favorite fur friends 🖤

08/05/2026

What does group training here at SWDT look like?

We don't focus much on cued behavior, instead we are looking at helping people and their dogs: communicate expectations in these situations, learn to read their dogs and other dogs body language more, learn how to respond (and understand what leads up to) emotional arousal and reactivity, and how to regulate around unfamiliar people and dogs.

We discuss and demonstrate threshold, triggers, handling skills, and regulation/focus techniques, so that the dogs and their people are front and center- not the trainer. Our goal here is to provide the information, skills, and practice for dogs and their people to be able to handle these and other situations confidently!

Shout-out to this group of dogs and people for doing an absolutely FANTASTIC job!! 👏👏👏

Can you guess what the most difficult trigger usually is in these groups?

08/03/2026

I know some of you guys were asking if I knew the date for this year!

07/23/2026

We had a great time at Christ the King Early Education Center giving several Dog Safety and Bite Prevention Presentations today!

Thank you so much for reaching out and letting us connect with your kiddos and staff!

If any groups, organizations, schools, etc. are interested in scheduling one of these, please reach out. One of our greatest missions is to help teach dogs and people how to communicate and preventing dog bites! Our presentations are always 100% free and each one is tailored to the age group in attendance - from toddlers to seniors! ❤️

07/03/2026

From triggered to curious...

One of the most frequent questions we get during initial contact and consultations is:

"Is there hope?"

Reactivity has a lot of faces and emotions attached (for everyone involved) which is why every dog and family have different training paths. Learning is rarely linear and never works the same way for two individuals. Every individual expresses and feels emotions differently; we help by taking the time to figure out how and why. Then, provide the dog and their family the tools they need to process and work through the reactivity, communicate effectively, and develop new behaviors.

There is always hope.

Indy started out with us highly fear reactive- barking, lunging, afraid to move out of the space. Extremely passive aggressive when people try to leave.

After a few lessons working through impulse control, emotional regulation, frustration tolerance, and confidence building, we took Indy to a new place and introduced one of our trainer helpers.

She started off with a little bit of uncertainty barking, but as the lesson continued her curiosity grew. We allowed Indy to get closer to him, feel safe in that space and then come out of it. By the end of the session, she was comfortably approaching, sniffing, and moving in and out of his space.

We are so proud of her and her people!! Great job 👏👏

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