Leash Wonders Training

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Leash Wonders Training

Leash Wonders Training has been working with dogs since 2011 and professionally since 2019.

Offering placement dogs since 2024.
✨AKC evaluator
✨Multiple certifications
✨Specializing in behavior mod and service dogs

10/30/2026

“But why does he need to know how to back up and hold something”

He doesn’t. It’s a training game to ✨work out his mind✨
Your dog doesn’t need to learn useful skills for you to teach it to work their mind. Fenrir knows probably close to 200 tricks so finding stuff he doesn’t know or has difficulty with is hard. Backing up with something in his mouth is something I quickly figured out he has a hard time with so I used it to exercise him.
If it’s hard, but doable use it. It will tire out your dog with minimum effort on your end. Physical exercise isn’t the only exercise you can use.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

10/28/2026

Dogs walking ahead of you is natural. They naturally move faster and at a trot speed. Asking them to heel is NOT natural and hard for them.
Giving them an outlet to get that natural movement out is important. Give them a long line walk instead.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

10/28/2026

“I don’t buy my dog toys because he just tears them up”

THAT’S THE POINT

Dogs don’t have hands and imagination. They have paws, claws, teeth and instinctual needs and drives to be met.
Tearing stuff up is how they destress, cure boredom and “kill” stuff.

If you have certain toys that you don’t want torn up for training or play purposes then put them up and only bring them out to use. Like a tug toy or ball.

Dogs need to be able to tear into things and if it’s not a toy it’ll be redirection bites, your couch, your walls, your shoes- whatever they can get to get that frustration out. If you’re too poor for toys, because believe me I know it gets expensive no judgement here, then you can use card board boxes or an old towel you knot up. Your dog doesn’t care about a 20$ “unbreakable” dog toy. So get creative!

10/22/2026

Update on Xena!

Xena was a dog aggressive and human reactive bite risk board and train I had last year.
She was a dog that took me half an hour to get a leash on just to be able to take her potty until day 3 when she realized walks are kinda fun with me.
We worked on muzzle training, heeling, recall, reactivity. She went from not being able to be walked to being able to heel in a lowes. She still needs to be managed for her dog aggression, but her owners have more confidence and knowledge than they did before. Loved working with this girl and glad to hear she flew to another country well and the vets love her muzzle skills. Train hard and be responsible guys!

10/22/2026

Realizing now I never got a picture of Juno, but 😅
Cleo here was part of a duo and while working with them the past month I was too focused on the sessions to get videos. These two and their owners made a lot of progress the past month and I’m proud of their hard work!

Juno was struggling with dog reactivity, lack of engagement and therefore not listening.
Cleo was struggling with lack of engagement and being in her own little world.
The owners asked a ton of questions every session, we worked on engagement games, heeling, reactivity and various house skills.
They still have a lot of work to do, but with the information I gave them and their protectiveness I think they should be fine.
Train hard guys!

10/22/2026

Lately I’ve found myself educating a lot on what I like to call “good stress signs” aka displacement behaviors. Let’s talk about it!

When a dog is stressed for any reason they should be able to emotionally regulate themselves to calm down. How do they do that? Most of the time that’s by disengaging from the trigger and engaging with something else. Looking away, yawning, smelling the ground etc.
These are all signs we WANT to see to tell that a dog is regulating themselves. Essentially saying “whoo that’s stressful! Let me shake off”
If a dog isn’t doing any of these then we have to teach them how to make themselves feel better. And if they are doing these then we have to encourage them to do it more often and quicker.
That’s how we do behavior modification with reactive dogs. Dogs who are struggling with excitement, aka hyper arousal, or fear. Dog trainers who perform behavior modification are essentially therapists and teaching your dogs how to regulate their emotions and once they can do that then you have a more confident, stable and engaging dog which is the key to the dog people want to listen to them outside and in new environments.
Before you can start with your heel and sit and stays you have to focus on the emotion aspect and that starts with encouraging displacement behaviors. Every dog trainer- even YOU- has to start with the boring stuff first.

10/18/2026

We’ve had better outings, but we’ve had worse lol.
Placement Guy took a trip to a salon
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

10/18/2026

Jasper is working on muzzle training before I introduce him to my demo dog. With multiple supposed attacks under his belt against dogs safety comes first.
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

10/18/2026

Placement Guy got to go on a camping trip with a volunteer and I hear everyone loved him and he did great!
Misrepresenting your pet as a service animal is illegal. All dogs shown in a non pet friendly outing are service animals or in training. The state of MO gives service animals in training access rights with the accompaniment of their trainer.

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16720 City Center Dr
Lenexa, KS
66219

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