Place and Down Command

One of the things that we work on in every single Real World situation is the Place command and a Down/Stay, so many of the bad behavior that drives us crazy and has people turn dogs into animal shelters to eventually be killed for lack of adoption. Most bad behavior can be eliminated and corrected with some basic obedience. When a dog is in the above commands, they are not jumping on guests, jumping on you, knocking over kids, stealing food from the table, chewing the woodwork and countless other bad behavior that drives us crazy.

 

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It is important that your dog learn how to do a downstay on at least 12 different surfaces so your dog is able to always do a down without any excuses. So it is important that your dog learn and you will never make excuses for your dog not doing a command.

 

Remember in my world dog training is not a series of tricks that are rewarded with food. In my world I find that by using treats and over praise it actually increases the dogs breathing and heartrate and actually does create calmness in your dog which is what you want.

 

Cleaning Day

We clean every day of the week on the property, one of the fun things the kids can do is use the power washer in our dogs personal area. It is a wonderful sight to watch the dogs respond to Romy and Clover, they have full control of the 11 dogs in this area of the kennel.

 

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Romy-age 4 and Clover -age 6 can handle over 1000lb of dog with minimal interaction, we all can learn alot from these 2 strong pack leaders...

Leaf the rake alone

It is quite common for dogs to bark at and "attack" rakes, shovels and vacuums. We do a baseline training of the PLACE command and a DOWNSTAY and then ad distractions

 

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above are some photos of what we do all day long 7 days a week.

 

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a short video of dogs with some pretty high level distractions, with the PLACE command we want dogs to stay on the mat, they can sit, down, stand or spin around as long as they don't get off the matt

Life's a beach

One of the great things that I love to do is start working dogs off leash at the beach, the sense of freedom that you and your dog will have unleashing the true spirit of a dog.

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I train dogs for true off leash work with remote training collars, I have found that utilizing my layering system of training commands, you can get your dog to do a 100% recall within a couple of hours with high levels of distractions