Bianca's Dog Training and Behaviour Consulting

12/02/2025

Tuesday social hour crew 🐶🥰☀️

The Social Hour Play Group is designed for training clients and provides dogs with the opportunity to interact in a secure and supervised setting. This group allows dogs to play with both familiar and unfamiliar peers while practicing important skills such as recall, sit, down, stay, and treat sharing. This controlled environment ensures safety and reinforces training in a fun and social context.

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12/01/2025

Monday social hour with the small and medium dogs 🐶❤️🥰

The Social Hour Play Group is designed for training clients and provides dogs with the opportunity to interact in a secure and supervised setting. This group allows dogs to play with both familiar and unfamiliar peers while practicing important skills such as recall, sit, down, stay, and treat sharing. This controlled environment ensures safety and reinforces training in a fun and social context.


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12/01/2025

Monday social hour with the big dogs 🐶❤️🥰

The Social Hour Play Group is designed for training clients and provides dogs with the opportunity to interact in a secure and supervised setting. This group allows dogs to play with both familiar and unfamiliar peers while practicing important skills such as recall, sit, down, stay, and treat sharing. This controlled environment ensures safety and reinforces training in a fun and social context.


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11/30/2025

Silly Sunday 😂😂

11/30/2025

Excellent podcast — and as many of you know, Felix, Hugo, and I absolutely love Bonnie’s nosework classes. We’ve been attending for almost a year now. Her team Ocean Park Dog Training set up each class with so much love and attention to detail it is remarkable. Go and see it for yourself!

Learn all about this fun activity for you and your dog from Certified Nose Work Instructor Bonnie Hartney in the latest episode of The Pawsitive Post.

11/29/2025

🐶🎄 During holiday festivities, Westpaw Toppls are an excellent way to help our pups relax in their own cozy retreat, their "safe zone." 🏡✨

Amidst the hustle and bustle, designate a quiet area with their bed, toys, and water, where your dog can unwind away from guests and noise.

Get creative and involve your pup in choosing Toppls ingredients! Offer them choices like fruits, veggies, frozen sardines, quail eggs, yogurt, peanut butter, or wet dog food. Let them decide which ingredients to pick by presenting two dishes with one ingredient each and see which one they pick first! First pick goes into the Toppl. Continue the ingredient selection until you have a good mix and a full Toppl.

For ingredient safety, check out Pet Poison Helpline's website if unsure.
Easily prepare frozen treats using Kongs, Westpaw Toppls, muffin tins, or lick mats.

No tools? No problem! Stuff apples with treats and peanut butter, then freeze.

Your pooch will adore these special holiday treats packed with nutritious goodies like cottage cheese, sardines, quail eggs, cornish hen feet, blueberries, raspberries, apples, and of course, peanut butter! 🍏🐾

11/29/2025

Friday social hour crew ❤️🐶🥰

The Social Hour Play Group is designed for training clients and provides dogs with the opportunity to interact in a secure and supervised setting. This group allows dogs to play with both familiar and unfamiliar peers while practicing important skills such as recall, sit, down, stay, and treat sharing. This controlled environment ensures safety and reinforces training in a fun and social context.


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11/27/2025

For years, we called dopamine the pleasure chemical. But that label doesn’t hold up.

When researchers blocked dopamine in rats, the animals still made “yum” faces when tasting something sweet — but they stopped working for it. They’d happily eat what was right in front of them, but they wouldn’t push a lever to get more.

Sound familiar?
Some dogs will snack on treats you offer but won’t engage in training to earn them. It’s not that they don’t like the food — it’s that dopamine (the “wanting” system) isn’t active enough to fuel the effort.

This helps us reframe “non-food-motivated” dogs:
It’s not about finding something tastier — it’s about addressing emotional and physical needs enough for motivation to kick back in.

Berridge, K.C. and Robinson, T. (1998). What is the role of dopamine in reward: Hedonic, impact, reward learning, or incentive salience? Brain Research Reviews, 28, 309-369.