Wicked Good Walks

Got to hang out with dog friends Zoe, Potato Nox and cat friends Cartiste this past week 💜. We enjoyed activities such as pizza crust time with Aunty, exploring Dogsense's training facilities and residential K9s, and staring out windows judging people. They wear gps devices which let me keep a very accurate location viewed on an app which was pretty neat-o!

Training isn't scary. It's teaching dogs what they are capable of 💜
Leash reactivity does not make for a fun walk. We've been "rewiring" Ruddy's leash reactivity from barking and lunging at dogs, to "hey I see a dog, do you see that dog too?"
Brenda Downs is also teaching Ruddy to jump up- with the goal of being able to jump in the car. His retired parents had to pick his heiness up before.
We humans are very demanding. The least we can do is give them the right tools to successfully navigate our world.

I've been stealing Lottie every Thursday for a couple months now to learn agility training with Caroline Ross Dogsense Training Services. It's been so fun learning about an entirely different brand of training. Agility is a lot of fine tuned handler work and showed me I have a lot to learn!
Caroline has been nothing but patient with me (which if you know me is impressive), has been letting me shadow her classes, and welcomed me into her community 💜
I've even signed Todd up for a class and have been pleasantly surprised to see my couch potato enjoying the new movements in class.

The end of week two for Pippa and Yoshi. I love teaching the dogs "find it" as a way of keeping them distracted when there's other dogs or people around. "Find it" means put your nose to the ground! There's something yummy to find. We are also working on Yoshi's ability to remain connected with us with outside stimuli. Which he picked up pretty fast! Lastly we always want to teach the dogs to wait to be let out of the car, we don't want anyone flying out as soon as the doors open!
Follow along to see how we introduce/ test Yoshi and Pippa with other dogs.