Rex the Shiba Inu is continuing to make great progress in his 4 week puppy obedience board and train. We are even progressing into some off
Madison is a 4 year old border collie that is with us for five weeks of board and train. Madison comes to us not knowing any basic commands and having never been walked with a leash on a collar, only a harness. She will pull you like she is a sled dog on a harness. In this video we start with building a relationship with Madison and then begin to teach her our verbal marker system, and her basic commands using a combination of food rewards and play rewards. First we had to fix the way she plays fetch. It was terrible in terms of being used as a reward. She would throw the ball six to ten feet in front of me and expect me to fetch the ball. She will also self gratify by thrashing her h
Conditioning chill-out behavior in the house with a place command, crate games and low intensity rewards contextualized in the house, while
Rex is wrapping up his first week with us and I wanted to show some of his progress. Since I was set up for my Wednesday Night Lights group class I brought Rex out to do a quick session with him.
Rex is a very energetic 12 week old Shiba Inu. Like many Shiba pups Rex has a very independent personality and responds poorly to pressure. He becomes frustrated very quickly when he does not understand a task and will resort to biting and snarling when a hand is placed on him for help. With this in mind, we focus on building relationship and positive reward based value in our training work. We are also non-reinforcing biting by not allowing it in play, removing reward when it happens and when we work with him intensely, wearing gloves so that we can be non-reactive to biting while teaching him to take rewards without biting skin. Rex becomes stable in behaviors very quickly and we put his i
