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Artist Week 15 Videos
Shake Paw. This is a behavior that many of the puppies perform naturally. However, Artist didn’t raise his paw to seek the food reward as a natural behavior. I had to teach him to “Shake” the way that I do with adult dogs which arrive for Service Dog training that…
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Jazz Week 15 Videos
Jazz is a very calm, relaxed pup. He’s easy to train because he is attentive and able to focus without being overly distracted. “Circle” is a behavior that can be a fun parlor trick, but it’s also used as a Service Dog task to alert or respond to a medical…
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Canon Week 15 Videos`
Name Recognition Before anything else, even before I teach a puppy to sit, I like to work on name recognition. That means repeating the pup’s name, especially when delivering rewards. Don’t take life too seriously – especially when training puppies! Funny #2 Gotta love a dog at your feet. Canon…
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Rhyme Week 15 Videos
Natural Retrieving I am keen to reinforce / praise a pup’s natural desire to retrieve. Circle is a behavior that can be implemented as an Alert task (like diabetic detection of low/high blood sugar scent or a “shift from normal” like an impending seizure, panic/anxiety attack or PTSD episode.) Sit…
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Riff Week 15
Riff is the male puppy we retained for Service Dog training. He’s happy, confident, interesting in learning new things and is a real people pleaser. Sit & Sit-up / Paws-up Lucky for me, dogs are very plastic in their learning. This is probably a contrary comment from the exclusively-positive-reinforcement community…
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Week Seven Puppy VIDEOS!
I got this super huge, octopus dog toy and couldn’t wait to watch the puppies interact with it. What’s fun about an eight legged creature is that the puppies love to play tug and this Big Daddy Purple Octopus gives them lots of places to tug. After the puppies had…
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