Taylor Made Canine Training

Taylor Made Canine Training Walk & Trains
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Auckland 📍
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Toby, ft bailey and rocky in the background 😂😂
23/01/2026

Toby, ft bailey and rocky in the background 😂😂

That Friday pack 🥹😍
16/01/2026

That Friday pack 🥹😍

Been a minute since I’ve gotten any pics. Tada!
28/11/2025

Been a minute since I’ve gotten any pics. Tada!

30/10/2025

Counter conditioning isn’t about avoiding pressure — it’s about helping the dog learn they can move through it safely and building from a minute level to change how dog feels about every step. Slight discomfort but choosing not to react and engagement, that’s the sweet spot for effective counter conditioning. Next time, the bar for slight discomfort will be higher ❤️🐾 BUT that doesn’t mean we’ll push him to the highest limit each time, the reps are 10:1 of easy or smaller stress levels to higher stress.

In this clip, Terence is having his chest shaved for an echocardiogram. You’ll see a small moment where he glances at the vet, licks his lips, then checks back in with me — and I don’t stop the process there.

That’s intentional. This isn’t a cooperative care session where he controls the pace — it’s a counterconditioning moment designed to help him cope and build confidence while something mildly uncomfortable happens.

Instead of pausing at the first sign of uncertainty, I let him work through it while keeping focus on me and the toy. He chooses engagement, earns his reward, and learns that he can handle that pressure and recover — that’s resilience in real time. If this were his first time with this level of pressure, I would have rewarded as soon as he checked back into engagement. But as we’ve worked to build him beyond this and it’s perhaps the clippers have hurt a ni**le (which I knew would be momentary), I chose to let him process it and time in engagement with me pass before rewarding him to build that resilience.

💡 Counterconditioning changes how a dog feels about something. Cooperative care teaches them to participate voluntarily. Both are valuable — but here, we’re reinforcing engagement and neutrality during a necessary and prolonged test.

The result? He completed a 20-minute echo without stress, and celebrated throughout by playing with me, the vet and techs.

Where time allows, counter conditioning or cooperative care training are fantastic tools to help a dog averse to touch or examination.

03/10/2025

Olive is going from strength to strength in her walks, learning to be neutral, and appropriate play ❤️

She’s a very sweet girl and watching her learn and grow, and take feedback from other dogs is so rewarding

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