10 Things You Should Never Let a Puppy Do
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1)Jump on or off furniture until minimum 11 months - constant jumping for a young pup can damage their undeveloped joints.
2)Chew a show that you don't care about - Dog's can't differentiate between a old shoe and a new shoe.
3)Pull on leash - If you let your puppy pull on a lead, you're teaching him that pulling gets what he wants.
4) Go ahead of you through doors - Letting your pup run out of any door ahead of you is dangerous, you never know who or what will be on the other side, it could be a aggressive dog that would attack your pup and now you have a dog that is fear aggressive at other dogs.
5)Chase other animals, such as a cat, squirrel, bird ect. - It's cute and funny when they're young because they can't catch it, but when they're older it becomes prey and sometimes obsessions.
6)Touch his or her teeth to human flesh - if a pup never touches his or her teeth to human flesh they will never learn from it. If you let your pup chew on your hand he or she learns that it's 'okay' to chew/bite other people and that may be a small child or baby.
7)Thrust against a person or object - This is usually just excitement especially as the pup is coming into sexual maturity, but you want to show your pup that they are not allowed to thrust against objects or people or dogs (use a positive interrupter).
8)Eat then exercise right away - After you feed your pup wait 45 mins before any strenuous exercising and after any exercising wait 30-45 mins before feeding. This will help the muscles calm down and work at their proper pace. If you feed too soon before or after the bowels move very quickly and can cause diarrhea and twisted stomachs for you pup.
9)Eat his or her feces or other dog's feces -(use a positive interrupter to redirect, such as a whistle or the dog's name in a happy tone). For puppies, this is quite normal, they explore with their mouths and feces happens to be on the ground everywhere. After 6 months old it should stop only if you have been consistent with not allowing it (using your + interrupter), if it continues into adult hood you should check with your vet for pica or an underlining medical problem.
10)Barking that lasts longer then 10 seconds.- Barking is NORMAL for a dog to do, quite like us speaking, but excessive barking is a whole other story. The main culprit for puppies excessive barking is attention getting, at some time they learnt that when they bark they got what they wanted, whether this be attention, food, potty break or whatever. The best way to stop the barking is not to make it reinforcing. If your puppy is barking at you to play or get attention, ignore him or her and wait until they STOP barking for a moment then give attention.
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2)Chew a show that you don't care about - Dog's can't differentiate between a old shoe and a new shoe.
3)Pull on leash - If you let your puppy pull on a lead, you're teaching him that pulling gets what he wants.
4) Go ahead of you through doors - Letting your pup run out of any door ahead of you is dangerous, you never know who or what will be on the other side, it could be a aggressive dog that would attack your pup and now you have a dog that is fear aggressive at other dogs.
5)Chase other animals, such as a cat, squirrel, bird ect. - It's cute and funny when they're young because they can't catch it, but when they're older it becomes prey and sometimes obsessions.
6)Touch his or her teeth to human flesh - if a pup never touches his or her teeth to human flesh they will never learn from it. If you let your pup chew on your hand he or she learns that it's 'okay' to chew/bite other people and that may be a small child or baby.
7)Thrust against a person or object - This is usually just excitement especially as the pup is coming into sexual maturity, but you want to show your pup that they are not allowed to thrust against objects or people or dogs (use a positive interrupter).
8)Eat then exercise right away - After you feed your pup wait 45 mins before any strenuous exercising and after any exercising wait 30-45 mins before feeding. This will help the muscles calm down and work at their proper pace. If you feed too soon before or after the bowels move very quickly and can cause diarrhea and twisted stomachs for you pup.
9)Eat his or her feces or other dog's feces -(use a positive interrupter to redirect, such as a whistle or the dog's name in a happy tone). For puppies, this is quite normal, they explore with their mouths and feces happens to be on the ground everywhere. After 6 months old it should stop only if you have been consistent with not allowing it (using your + interrupter), if it continues into adult hood you should check with your vet for pica or an underlining medical problem.
10)Barking that lasts longer then 10 seconds.- Barking is NORMAL for a dog to do, quite like us speaking, but excessive barking is a whole other story. The main culprit for puppies excessive barking is attention getting, at some time they learnt that when they bark they got what they wanted, whether this be attention, food, potty break or whatever. The best way to stop the barking is not to make it reinforcing. If your puppy is barking at you to play or get attention, ignore him or her and wait until they STOP barking for a moment then give attention.
Treibball
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Welcome To The World Of Treibball!
What IS Treibball?
A very popular German dog sport that involves you sending your dog off to herd the large exercise balls back to you at the net! This sport has become very popular not only in Europe but the United States and soon to be Canada.
How to play Treibball?
Eight balls of approximately 45–75 cm are set in a triangle formation, similar to billiards, with the point ball farthest from the goal. The object of the game is to get all eight balls into a confined space the size of a soccer goal within a set time period, usually about 15 minutes. The handler may not move outside of an area that contains the left half of and several feet beyond the goal area. The dog works in close cooperation with the handler, who is only allowed to use whistles, verbal or hand signals to direct his dog. No verbal or physical corrections are used in Treibball. The dog and handler must communicate effectively to herd one ball at a time into the goal, in fifteen minutes time. The dog and handler team are scored on cooperation and direction, within that fifteen minute time limit,and can earn extra points or accrue demerits accordingly.
What dog can play Treibball?
Any dog over the age of 6 months can start training. Of course herding breeds will excel at the sport but any dog with a hunting (strong prey instinct or enthralled by movement) can play and compete.
Here is a great video on how the sport is played by a experienced handler and dog
Be the one of the first play Treibball in Canada
To play Treibball you don't need to set anything up! You just need one or more yoga exercise balls and you can practice on a field or in your home.
How To Get Involved
MCT will be holding classes this summer. Please contact ModernCanineTraining@Gmail.com for details. Start dates and prices for classes will be announced in May (once the weather is better).
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A very popular German dog sport that involves you sending your dog off to herd the large exercise balls back to you at the net! This sport has become very popular not only in Europe but the United States and soon to be Canada.
How to play Treibball?
Eight balls of approximately 45–75 cm are set in a triangle formation, similar to billiards, with the point ball farthest from the goal. The object of the game is to get all eight balls into a confined space the size of a soccer goal within a set time period, usually about 15 minutes. The handler may not move outside of an area that contains the left half of and several feet beyond the goal area. The dog works in close cooperation with the handler, who is only allowed to use whistles, verbal or hand signals to direct his dog. No verbal or physical corrections are used in Treibball. The dog and handler must communicate effectively to herd one ball at a time into the goal, in fifteen minutes time. The dog and handler team are scored on cooperation and direction, within that fifteen minute time limit,and can earn extra points or accrue demerits accordingly.
What dog can play Treibball?
Any dog over the age of 6 months can start training. Of course herding breeds will excel at the sport but any dog with a hunting (strong prey instinct or enthralled by movement) can play and compete.
Here is a great video on how the sport is played by a experienced handler and dog
Be the one of the first play Treibball in Canada
To play Treibball you don't need to set anything up! You just need one or more yoga exercise balls and you can practice on a field or in your home.
How To Get Involved
MCT will be holding classes this summer. Please contact ModernCanineTraining@Gmail.com for details. Start dates and prices for classes will be announced in May (once the weather is better).
Me & Luna Practicing Agility
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The power of positive reinforcement
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Understanding Reinforcement
Reinforcement Definition: An event, a circumstance, or a condition that increases the likelihood that a given response will recur in a situation like that in which the reinforcing condition originally occurred.
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT IN YOUR DAILY LIFE
Think back to a time where you were given something that was rewarding; such as a bonus at work, a sticker in class for good behaviour, praise or money from your parents on good grades.
Now what did you do after?
Did you get the bonus from work then start slacking off? Or did you work harder to get a bigger bonus next year?
After you got a sticker in class did you go and smack the kid next to you? Or did you continue being good in order to get another sticker maybe the next day?
When you got money for every A on your report card did you stop studying so hard? Or did you continue studying in order to get all A's next year?
Rewarding a behaviour is the quickest way to have the behaviour repeat itself. I have alot of clients who tell me that they can't stop their dog from jumping on the counter and grabbing food off of it. The majority of the time the dog is counter surfing because it is REWARDING to find food up there, therefor accidentally reinforcing his counter surfing. Another reason is when the dog jumps up, you yell at the dog to get off, if dogs are lacking social interaction in their home this yelling is the closest interaction they get so therefor it is REWARDING to jump up. The accidental reinforcement being your interaction with the dog.
We as humans tend to think our dogs know exactly what we want and they're just being bratty or difficult on purpose, this is so far from the case. If you give a command and your dog doesn't do it, it's not because he is purposely trying to push your buttons, he's clearly not understanding what you want from him. Some dogs if you have used aversive methods, are actually afraid to make the wrong choice because if it's not what you want they are going to be yelled at or get a leash correction, so therefor they don't do anything and the owners complain,"my dog refuses to sit on command because he's dominant, or, he knows I want him to so he won't."
It's in human nature that when we get frustrated we end up repeating ourselves and raising our voices, so as we're repeating words (that our dogs don't understand) and yelling the poor dog is throwing us dozens of signals to calm us down, such as sniffing the ground, looking away, yawning and we take these as our dog is ignoring us and the cycle goes on and on.
Poor dogs right?
Throw away the scary voices and choke collars and try reinforcing your dog today just by a simple treat for a good behaviour, you'll start noticing a change for the better! And your dog will love you for it.
I highly recommend The Other End of the Leash by Patricia Mcconnell. Such a wonderful book on why we do what we do around our dogs.
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Reinforcement Definition: An event, a circumstance, or a condition that increases the likelihood that a given response will recur in a situation like that in which the reinforcing condition originally occurred.
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT IN YOUR DAILY LIFE
Think back to a time where you were given something that was rewarding; such as a bonus at work, a sticker in class for good behaviour, praise or money from your parents on good grades.
Now what did you do after?
Did you get the bonus from work then start slacking off? Or did you work harder to get a bigger bonus next year?
After you got a sticker in class did you go and smack the kid next to you? Or did you continue being good in order to get another sticker maybe the next day?
When you got money for every A on your report card did you stop studying so hard? Or did you continue studying in order to get all A's next year?
Rewarding a behaviour is the quickest way to have the behaviour repeat itself. I have alot of clients who tell me that they can't stop their dog from jumping on the counter and grabbing food off of it. The majority of the time the dog is counter surfing because it is REWARDING to find food up there, therefor accidentally reinforcing his counter surfing. Another reason is when the dog jumps up, you yell at the dog to get off, if dogs are lacking social interaction in their home this yelling is the closest interaction they get so therefor it is REWARDING to jump up. The accidental reinforcement being your interaction with the dog.
We as humans tend to think our dogs know exactly what we want and they're just being bratty or difficult on purpose, this is so far from the case. If you give a command and your dog doesn't do it, it's not because he is purposely trying to push your buttons, he's clearly not understanding what you want from him. Some dogs if you have used aversive methods, are actually afraid to make the wrong choice because if it's not what you want they are going to be yelled at or get a leash correction, so therefor they don't do anything and the owners complain,"my dog refuses to sit on command because he's dominant, or, he knows I want him to so he won't."
It's in human nature that when we get frustrated we end up repeating ourselves and raising our voices, so as we're repeating words (that our dogs don't understand) and yelling the poor dog is throwing us dozens of signals to calm us down, such as sniffing the ground, looking away, yawning and we take these as our dog is ignoring us and the cycle goes on and on.
Poor dogs right?
Throw away the scary voices and choke collars and try reinforcing your dog today just by a simple treat for a good behaviour, you'll start noticing a change for the better! And your dog will love you for it.
I highly recommend The Other End of the Leash by Patricia Mcconnell. Such a wonderful book on why we do what we do around our dogs.
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