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Obsidian K9 - The Project. Rescue Dog Rehabilitation and Training.

17/03/2023

Don't walk your dog for a week.

So it occurs to me that the general populace thinks that walking their dogs is the superior form of daily exercise both mentality and physically for their dogs.

Now while a walk can be enriching most people walk the dog around the same scenery, areas all whilst doing practically nothing with their dogs!

So! Instead of going for a walk! Get your dogs daily rations of food and go to a mega quiet environment literally nothing going on!

Then just feed your dog for looking at you, following you around when you run away, listening to commands etc.

Generally speaking, bin walks off and replace them with training, play and just having a great time with your dog!

In a weeks time you're going to have a more biddable and engaged dog outside! This starts a phenomenal habit in engaging with the handler!

Thank me later!

13/03/2023

It's not all about problems!

So many people get consumed by their dogs problems in this game and its so vital to remember that a dog is not his problems!

I can think of dozens of words to describe dude before I get too reactive! But the unfortunate reality of the modern rescue system is that a dog is identified as its issues..

If a dog has a bite history he's a bite risk - if he's dog reactive he can never be around another dog etc etc.

Your dog is an individual with a complex personality that should be the foremost consideration when it comes to its wellbeing!

We've just started filming episode 5 of Dudes journey in the series that will be launched on the platform that I've dubbed - The Dude Diaries and in this episode I'm taking viewers through the various aspects of Dudes personality and why these factors in who Dude is has to be considered!

Very excited for the platform to launch! NOT LONG NOW!

12/03/2023

The Dude Sporting his new Gard K9 Collars UK personalised collar!

This isn't a sponsor but absolutely belting quality and value in these guys products! Would highly recommend!

02/03/2023

Method over Mania.

The rescue industry is absolutely saturated with force free dog training and ideological virtue signalling and I truly believe this is the reason that they're all full to capacity.

I've witnessed several different so-called "in house trainers." Be too scared to get a dog out of a kennel so it's been left there for months on end..

No work being done on the dogs connection with a handler, no problem solving, no nothing... Just throw cheese at it until it stops barking.

I cannot fathom how these people sleep at night! Like it truly hurts my soul to think of all the dogs in my career that "at the time" I didn't have the ability to help.

I have so much apathy for this part of the industry because of the nature of these people who claim to be moral sentinels stood tall above us balanced trainers and yet I've not seen one serious dog be rehabilitated by any of them in over a decade now.

4 weeks.... 4 weeks it's taken me to begin to get a handle on Dudes behaviour 4 weeks from not knowing who I was and being severely dog reactive to today where he was about 3 feet away from another dog happily wagging his tail engaging beautifully!

These people need to give their heads a spin! Dogs are dying and the blood is on their hands!

01/03/2023

Little dots.

When we start out with our dogs their behaviour can feel like a bunch of little dots on a page.

Randomly spread out with no relation to each other..

But over time we begin to draw a line that starts at one dot and leads to another.. we quickly then realise that the rest of the dots are linked to our first bridge.

We start to go from one dot to the other and before we know it the picture becomes clearer!

It's up to you as the handler to sharpen that pencil, and pull the ruler out in the sense of learning what your dog needs!

Help build a formatted relationship, paint a clear picture of behaviour to you and your dog and before you know it those dots will weave a web that explains absolutely everything your dog needs from you.

So get to work!

28/02/2023

Have some fun! 😂

One of my favourite things about training Dude so far has been seeing his personality flourish! This dog makes me laugh loads and is just very high levels of bants!

Now the reason I can recognise this is because I'm not dialled in on fixing every single problem as they arise! Having fun with your dog training is so essential!

I much prefer to build fun, happy and engaged dogs over boring subdued polite pets personally! The Dude is a great example of why!

We spend time building our bond and pepper in sessions surrounding the issues we're having for this exact reason! Because I spend so much time just having a great time, he smashes the problem areas out the park when we DO address them!

Really love seeing this lad progress as much as he has in such a short space of time!

26/02/2023

Reactive Rescue To Demo Dog in 4 weeks!

Hard work and consistency! All it takes to make any dog the best version of itself!

24/02/2023

Putting dogs in boxes..

So the other day an academy member messaged me a screenshot of a dog's trust advertisement for an 18 month old shepherd.

This dog wasn't allowed to be housed with children, dogs or cats.. (immediately taken out half the country there) it wasn't allowed to be homed with someone with a full time job..It had to be housed with someone with tall fences around a large back garden and to top it all off it wasn't allowed to be housed with women.

Now I'm sorry but this dog is 18 months old and has probably been dealt an absolutely terrible hand at life and nobody is willing to train the problems - that are putting the parameters around this dogs rehoming - out of it???

This ladies and gentlemen is where we are continuously and violently failing rescue dogs! Dude had 10 days in a council run shelter to find a spot somewhere otherwise it was likely game. over for him.

He would've had all the same boxes put.arounr his behaviour and very likely would've ended up a victim of the broken system!

The legislative red tape we put around rescue dogs in this country is put there by ideologues who couldn't care less about the dog and are more interested in virtue signalling the dogs issues away!

THIS is why the project exists.. because every dog in a rescue deserves to have all avenues exhausted before putting it in a God damn box.

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