18/03/2025
🐾 Everybody meet Prince 🧡
On Saturday I met prince for a 2 hour training session. His owners have struggled to get him up any flights of stairs, and have resorted to picking him up and carrying him every time they need to.
He pulls on the lead and is incredibly reactive and loud with other dogs on walks too.
All of this stemmed from his anxiety, so rather than focusing on the stairs I focused on that. Getting in a calm state of mind, looking up to me for guidance and leadership, rather than thinking he had to make every decision for himself. The only thing he needed to worry about was what I would ask from him next. This is true freedom for a dog.
Well it took about 2 minutes to get him into that mindset. And I kept him like that for another 10 before we then set off to a flight of stairs.... Well you won't believe it but he went straight up and by the third and fourth time he was running up all by himself.
We spent the rest of the session, outdoors with his owner walking past other dogs and demonstrating to his owner exactly how Prince needed to be handled. Explaining how the canine brain is wired, and the best way to be a calm, consistent, confident leader that they need.
It was a great session with some real progress made in just a matter of minutes.