Dog Training with Cindy Noland

04/12/2025

Save your spot NOW for a dock diving lesson with Zak Filler right at my place in Grove City, PA! Don't wait and miss out! And while you're here, book a lesson with Cindy for agility, obedience, rally or even a photo shoot! Will be $75/30minute lesson, we will train 10am-8pm everyday from 7/9-7/22.
Signup- https://form.jotform.com/k9dockleague/signup-CINDYNOLAND
If you have any questions message Zak on facebook or [email protected]

02/07/2025

Did you know I was a dog groomer? Yes, for 17 years!

12/25/2024

https://youtu.be/ZYGOqdtNxsA?si=C3IDQtw6w8FpxAeQ

A very impromptu obedience routine for Christmas eve 2024. Stark and Cseze are Belgian Malinois, 11 yr and 5 yr old and owned and trained by Cindy Noland. (D...

11/02/2024

AGILITY RUN THRU! This Sunday 2:00 at my place! The weather is going to be great! Current students are free, anyone else $10. Come enjoy an afternoon of fun and friendship with your dogs and get some practice in, take a walk on the property, and of course some food will be available too. There will be a jumpers and standard course set up in the fenced agility field. Respond in comments if you are planning to attend.

08/26/2024

Client Appreciation Picnic! Sept 22, 2024, the first day of fall. All current and former clients invited for some food, fun, dogs and good people. Please rsvp to me at [email protected] if you are coming and if you are bringing a human companion. Of course, dogs are to be included! More info when the date gets closer.

06/17/2024

05/30/2024

MACH Mo and Mary Blom. April 17, 2024.

04/08/2024

MACH Ch Stark!

03/17/2024

Practice at Northern Border in Washingtonville, OH next Sunday, 3-24. Message me if interested.

02/14/2024

Both Stark and Cseze qualified for the AKC Rally National Championship again this year! I won't be going as money is going toward Malinois Nationals again. Maybe next year, but proud of my teams anyhow!

12/06/2023

Happy helps me work with reactive dogs and so.etimes a distraction for performance dogs. Tonight he had a ball and Elma Jean wanted it. Lol!

11/20/2023

Getting back to the agility trials lately and I want to recognize some of my students who have been trialing, many with their first ever agility dogs! Congratulations to you all for putting in the effort, being faithful with your lessons and practicing at home and attending the special practices at other facilities. Effort pays off!

08/12/2023

When working with dogs, especially with performance and sport dogs, we all strive to be the perfect trainer or handler but sometimes the human part of the team is flawed in some way. It can be a physical limitation that prohibits the handler from performing the traditional cues, or a mental issue that keeps one from remembering or being timely with cues or various other problems. Most people are not experts and most people will have some kind of limitation and our dogs need to be able to adjust for their individual owners. This is where cookie cutter methods don't always work out. This is where individual and in person instruction is most beneficial. Methods can be adjusted to conform to the needs of the team. So while I might be able to take someones dog and make it work for me it doesn't always transition back to the owner of the dog. Even fast agility dogs can learn to work with mobility challenged handlers, strong dogs can learn to walk with frail owners, and obedience dogs can learn to be patient with handlers whose timing is off.
We all know dogs are perfect, and sometimes they just have to put up with their less than perfect counterparts.

06/17/2023

Fun event for all you dog owners and lovers! Cseze and I will be competing in dock diving as Team Jumping Puma on Saturday! Come on over and cheer us on at 1:30, 3:30 and vertical at 5:30. I hope to see a lot of my clients with their well behaved dogs!

02/08/2023

This week I drove an hour each way, or more, to go practice rally and obedience. Two different days. Not a show, just a practice. Why? Because I want to do well at the Malinois National in May. Rather than let my performance fall to chance I am putting in the work and preparing my dogs for what is to come. Each practice, especially at a new place, gives me valuable information on how my dogs feel, what they know, and how they will perform. With that information I make a plan that will help us to improve. Each of my dogs are different in almost every way, so each has their own plan. One has to get comfortable and one has to have time to calm down. My expectations are also based on the individual dog, what level of performance is their "best". My goal is that each dog will do the best of their abilities, and those abilities are mostly dependent on me and how well I prepare them. The next couple of months will be busy and full of preparation. I believe in being over prepared so that I can relax (relatively) and enjoy our performance.
Years ago while getting ready for the Doberman club obedience Top 20 event with my dog Britta a wise friend told me "don't get so nervous that you don't remember everything." I plan to store lots of memories this year!

01/13/2023

Generalizing the "hold" behavior using reward availability. As soon as the item is taken by the dog the reward, the ball, is made available. (The dog already knows not to grab it until permitted.) The presence of the reward makes the dog hyper focused and prevents chewing and grip shifting of the retrieve item. Reward availability is very valuable for a lot of behaviors and easy for the dog to understand. If a mistake is made by the dog, such as dropping the item, the reward is instantly NOT available. Even if I show the reward for one behavior I don't have to give it to the dog every time. Once I ask for another behavior, such as coming closer to me, the item is temporarily unavailable until the new behavior is accomplished. I can make it unavailable simply by twisting my wrist to block the view of the toy. This hold behavior was shaped to start with. She is panting from excitement and activity, not stress. And the eagerness to take it is her attempt to make the reward come quicker, not an avoidance of any negative consequence such as an e-collar. Distraction provided by Stark, as usual.