We begin this week’s ‘RUFF TAILS” featuring a beautiful Husky/Lab/Border Collie mix named Izzy.
Izzy is a very playful puppy with endless energy. She loves playing fetch, learning new tricks, and chasing the cats. She’s working hard to improve her leash walking skills and loves meeting new friends everywhere she goes.
At the end of the day, she loves curling up on the couch and snuggling with her human.
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K9 CORNER WITH THE CHIEF
As a professional dog trainer, I have relied on a diagnostic eye to pick out early subtle cues in canine behaviour and owner interaction. When you focus on a canine team with a keen eye, I find that it is easy to make necessary recommendations and adjustments. This is the first step in laying down an improved foundation for modification and obedience.
I endorse private one on one training in the environment of the client’s home, yard and neighbourhood. This allows me to see the natural and common triggers of the canine and the human. The humans dog experience may play a factor, and this is assessed in the training moving forward. Remember owning multiple dogs in the past does not make you a better K9 owner. Every dog is unique in temperament and your past dog training experiences may have not been ideal.
Feedback is vital for my clients. I encourage all clients to stay on their direct line of foundation training with me. The internet may have other ideas and methods, which could result in a minefield of bad training results.
I will never accept that I know everything, as I continue daily to educate myself, work with mentors in the industry and remain current in training technology and techniques, research and trends, as I must stay abreast in canine behaviour, to problem solve quickly and efficiently.
Remember EVERY DAY IS A TRAINING DAY
Welcome to Doggie Dialogue
The first 3 months of your puppy’s life, they will experience a socialization period that will shape their personality and they will learn how they will react to their environment in which they live. We recommend gently exposing them to a wide range of people, places, and situations.
As puppies develop, good breeders allow puppies to experience safe inside and outside environments.
Good breeders will expose puppies to different sounds and smells, even car rides and crates.
Socialization will help your puppy to develop positive manners, become confident and well adjusted. Proper socialization can prevent a dog from being fearful of children.
We recommend continuing to introduce new sights, sounds, and smells, when your new puppy arrives home. This is a wonderful opportunity to make a new, positive association for your puppy. Introduce your puppy to different types of flooring, carpets, rugs, tiles, and linoleum floors.
Also introducing your puppy to young people as well as an older person, someone using a wheelchair or cane, a person with a beard, using an umbrella, a person wearing a hat or hoodies or sunglasses, will help your puppy develop positive associations.
Please remember to consider having your puppy fully vaccinated before going into public places.
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