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Canine Connoisseur Relationship-based Dog Training

Canine Connoisseur
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Relationship-based Dog Training
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Educating Owners & Rehabbing Dogs
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Serving Marion, Indiana & Surrounding Areas My mission with Canine Connoisseur is not only to “train dogs”, but to rehabilitate and ultimately fulfill as many dogs that come my way while also advocating and spreading awareness for Dog Psychology.

Far too many dogs are deemed unfit for society and then destroyed, due to behavior issues stemming from Human Error and our lack of understanding for Dog Psychology. Through Canine Connoisseur, I aim to educate owners on the “Why?” behind their dog’s behaviors, as well as how to properly reinforce, prevent, manage, correct, and extinguish those behaviors. Once you have an understanding of the “Why

Operating as usual

05/11/2022

Canine Connoisseur
Relationship-based Dog Training

05/11/2022

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05/10/2022

#TongueOutTuesday

05/09/2022

“If you set your goals
ridiculously high and it's a
failure, you will fail above
everyone else's success.”

05/09/2022

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05/09/2022

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05/08/2022

Rocco putting in work

05/08/2022

“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”

05/08/2022

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05/07/2022

Rocco & Lassiter 🖤

05/07/2022

Alhamdulillah

05/06/2022

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05/05/2022

Rocco 🖤

05/05/2022

“Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud.”

05/04/2022

Sit, Down, Stay, & Tone-Recall w/ Lassie

05/04/2022

Lassie 🖤

05/03/2022

Photos from Channel 27 News and Entertainment, Grant County's post

05/02/2022

Photos from Canine Connoisseur Relationship-based Dog Training's post

05/02/2022

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age.

05/02/2022

Alhamdulillah

04/29/2022

Memes are social media fun. They are visual, clickable, and good for a laugh. As advocates, a fun meme can drive a point home in a way that an article or wordy post may not.

But sometimes memes come across our radar and make us a bit uncomfortable. People will tell us that we are overthinking things, and find them funny even if they aren’t totally accurate or on-message. There’s one that went around recently that made us a bit uncomfortable:

The post had the title of “most aggressive dog breeds ranked”. Then the numbers 14-2 consisted of the message “you…can’t…rank…them….because…aggression…isn’t…breed….specific…it’s…a….learned….behaviour”. Under the #1 spot it listed “chihuahuas”.

This was shared widely, and we understand why. There are lots of clickbait lists out there that purport to list the most aggressive breeds. Anyone who knows about dog behaviour knows that a list like this is pseudoscience. While aggression might be present in some breed standards, the majority of dogs around us are mixed breeds and a very low percentage of them are bred to a standard.

There’s also no agreed-upon benchmark for aggression. Do you count threatening or unfriendly instances of behaviour? Behaviour to strangers? Behaviour to animals? Bites? All of these are contextual and predicted by a number of factors that don’t include breed.

The meme was mocking these “most dangerous breed” articles, which is a fair criticism! But it makes two other statements that aren’t quite accurate or fair:

1) Aggressive behaviour is not necessarily learned behaviour. It can be, but just as with humans, dogs are born with a certain personality types and predispositions. There are plenty of owners who have had their dog since puppyhood and have done all the right things, but the individual genetics of their dog predispose it to aggressive behaviour.

2) Chihuahuas. Sigh. We know it’s a joke, and we know it can be frustrating when the standard of ownership/behaviour seems lower for small dogs. But if we are trying to communicate to the world that all dogs are individuals, then all breeds deserve the same benefit of the doubt. As tempting as it can be sometimes, let’s not throw other breeds under the bus.

We propose this meme instead! What do you think? Can it get the same number of shares?

1) You
2) Can’t
3) Rank
4) Them
5) Because
6) Aggression
7) Is
8) Contextual
9) And
10) Not
11) Associated
12) With
13) Breeds
14) Do
15) Research

04/28/2022

Absolute MUST.

No compromise, no bullsh*t.

04/28/2022

B+T Orion

04/28/2022

All Praise Be To The Most High

04/27/2022

Best dog in the world 🖤

04/27/2022

Orion 🖤

Address

Marion, IN
46952

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 10pm
Tuesday	8am - 10pm
Wednesday	8am - 10pm
Thursday	8am - 10pm
Friday	8am - 10pm
Saturday	8am - 10pm

Telephone

+12605780737

Website

Connoisseurofk9s.com

Products

Services Include but not limited to:
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Phone Consultation
Behavior Modification
Structured Dog Walking
Private/In-home Lessons
Basic Obedience B+T
Rehabilitation 3 week B+T
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Educating Owners & Rehabilitating Dogs.

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