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•Real world handling/training based within your lifestyle to help set you up for success for the overall development of you and your dog.

✅Insured and Pet Tech CPR & First Aid Certified (2025)

🐾Now also offering dog walking services and drop-ins.🐾

✨Welcome, Checkers!🐾We first met this sweet girl last week and since that time, life happened and plans changed.For at l...
05/31/2026

✨Welcome, Checkers!🐾

We first met this sweet girl last week and since that time, life happened and plans changed.

For at least the next two weeks, she will be a sponsored board and train here at Kobo Animal Solutions.

She is absolutely still available for adoption which comes with our free continued help and support.

We will work on building her confidence and some basic obedience which will help her transition and settle into her forever home!

Can't wait to work with her more and see her personality pop.

05/31/2026

I'm pretty big on having options for what the dog values...

That goes beyond just food...

The reason we want a level of versatility is because different things will have different values at different times...

I want these two to be monsters for their regular food for example, so we do meals in different ways to make sure it remains valuable enough...

Someone else may have to opt for peanut butter, cheese or some other type to increase the value...

It's not that I don't use high value because we absolutely do but in moments where the environment has more value to offer food can fall short.

A smart trainer once mentioned "dog currency" and it changed a lot of how I thought about things.

I even ran the test to see where I stood at the time with Ghost and Corlie at the time where they had the choice between me or the food.

I was later told by another trainer that that doesn't make any sense but that was probably because their dog would only ever choose the item over them...

The idea that we want is that no matter what the form of currency is or it's value that we set it up in a way where the dog understands that these things flow through us.

To me that's true engagement.

That's why in this clip for example Mae understands that while I am luring her we're only trickling food when the position is absolutely right where she needs to be.

The same concept applies through play and affection.

Or even if you have the level worked enough release to the environment to chase lizards.

Like the opportunity she got yesterday, but only after she showed me her brain was in the right space to do so.

If we can find what the dog finds valuable we can then use it to help guide them into the right set of circumstances.

Then we aren't stuck in what we could consider to be "structured bribery" and our own value to the dog actually has a chance to increase.

Then we can ultimately use whatever payment methods we want because we mean more to the dog since we are the one constant component.

That's when we start to see them make choices based on what was taught that they offer without only ever seeking the "high value" item or activity.

Just something to think about.

05/31/2026

This video was shortened so you don't just see her staring at me for nearly 10 minutes...

Amongst all the different distractions and me hyping the crap out of her before ending like this she did pretty well.

She's got a pretty good concept to this inside already but that doesn't translate to her being solid on it outside.

Add in the payment method being slightly different since it's a bit harder to go to the ground and we add a whole other layer that becomes another option for her to try.

Again, I'm not against obedience, but there is absolutely a point where we absolutely over structure the dog.

This can and does happen within any style of training when we over rely on systems of management structure in terms of how we use obedience.

We don't really develop the critical thinking skills that most dogs require in day to day life.

There's a super fine line and a lot of nuance to the subject and it can and will vary dog to dog, home to home and handler to handler.

The point of teaching the dog is to open up their world and ultimately restrict less and less.

Yes, obedience does often times help us get there but in so many cases we end up stuck on a plateau of sorts where we ultimately get stuck in always having to micromanage the dog in some way.

It's probably one of the biggest hidden traps we see with most trainers and we can very easily overshadow the needs of the dog.

Levels of management will always fluctuate as life does...

Sometimes we have to fall back on obedience and that's ok...

But if we never get to a bit where we can allow the dog to express within their known environments freely then we are often times not teaching them in the way they need to be taught.

It's not flashy training but it is natural...

We have to teach more of what they need, not just what we need...

Just something to think about.

05/31/2026

We talk a lot about process rather than what the final goals are here...

It's more about the journey than the destination...

Those daily troubleshoots...

Goals can often feel daunting because they can feel almost impossible to get to.

Which is why most people don't get there.

We tend to constantly compare the distance of where we are and where we want to be...

The key is to measure from the opposite side.

Where we were to where we are...

Aaand, gooo...! 🐾
05/31/2026

Aaand, gooo...! 🐾

05/30/2026

Short story...

Still no idea how he got in there but made sure there's a channel to keep it from happening again...

Hopefully...

Pulled him out, gave him a once over and sent him on his way on a different part of the property...

Pretty neat little creatures.

Saw a post earlier...In all fairness...I do understand where they were trying to come from, because real empathy is unde...
05/30/2026

Saw a post earlier...

In all fairness...

I do understand where they were trying to come from, because real empathy is understanding how someone else gets to their perspective.

Not just disagreeing with them like that "anybody can get it" type post while you're trying to claim to empathize with the dogs...

But God damn...

These interwebs sometimes, man...

Arguing over whether or not pineapple should go on pizza or not probably means you should have crayons on it instead.

My favorite flavor is blue by the way.

We can argue about that if you want.

In all seriousness, we can always find information that will support our feelings...

Especially on social media.

And let's be honest, 90% of it is honestly smoke and mirrors anyway.

Ghost isn't even a real dog...

He's just some guy I hired to wear a dog suit...

And I don't pay him well...

05/30/2026

My feeds been an absolute mess lately and sometimes it gets a little disheartening...

Combine that with a few other, "why bother" moments and motivation can dip pretty low...

This is where discipline has to take over...

Slow things down, work it through...

Take the time to take the time...

The more I see on the feed for example...

Just proves that there's more of a reason to be doing this...

Keep on keepin on...

05/30/2026

Probably one of my favorite leash/lead manner games whether with dogs or horses...

Now...

How animated we need to get is a direct reflection of the animal itself...

Since Ghost is on restriction it's also something we can do since he's more seasoned and we can control speed a bit more so...

This particular one might look way more boring than say a dog and handler who are green.

Plus nearly any variation of tools could work on this.

The only concept is that the animal moves with you and this is always suggested when people want to start doing heel work.

It also helps allow the animal to choose to change their natural stride without "making" them change their natural stride.

Pretty fun little technique overall, picked it up from a horseman and it works pretty well on both.

It's a really good platform for teaching most pieces of equipment too rather than trying to force fit them into the position this helps them find it more naturally then we can add the cue in and clean it up much easier from there.

Most times we want the dog in our general bubble rather than in an actual heel so this can help most people and dogs find a comfortable level that suits them both.

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Off Highway 70
Las Cruces, NM
88012

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