Southwest Dog Training

09/08/2025

Very Well Done “Milo” on your S.P.E.E.D. Training Completion! 💪 …a few clips of the 15 different Drills Milo was put through.

09/08/2025

Beautiful moon tonight in GC! iPhone doesn’t do it justice!

09/08/2025

Reminder: Next B.L.A.S.T. Training is Sept 20

Every dog that has passed Phase I & II (16 Drills in Total) is simply a different level of Calm, Cool & Collected Confidence compared to other dogs.

Don’t take our word for it - find out for yourself! This training may just save your dog’s life if and when 💩 hits the fan.

(Photo from Sept 2024)

09/07/2025

We are very honored to have yet another incredible five star review! For the longest time, I never felt comfortable asking people for reviews, but now they are starting to come in and it is an incredible feeling to know that people are so appreciative of the results we guide them to create! It would be impossible to attain the results we see without you, the incredible dog owners who live with the dog 24/7; doing the majority of the work in between lessons 🙏

★★★★★ "Been working with Southwest Dog Training for 5 months retraining my service dog, Samson, to get him trained at a higher level than the previous trainers brought him to. I love Southwest Dog Training and highly recommend Carlos and Stephanie! Their standards are very high. Samson's a...

09/07/2025

Mae’s Pack Leaders, Jason & Jessica,
taught her to fetch in the water! Very impressive considering she is still a puppy!

09/06/2025

We’re honored to receive another fantastic review! TY again Ryan Furman for referring Ivy Floresvilla to us!

★★★★★ "I’m not quite finished with training - and it’s mostly because I’ve rescued yet another dog, but Carlos and his team have been so helpful all the way! With my OEB (Olde English Bulldogge) named Whiskey, I’m seeing not just results with his training, but seeing his confidence...

09/05/2025

Union coffee break (and Cod skin) with the boys.

08/31/2025

🙏 ty Payton! I’m honored that I could assist you and your mom, Angela, in helping Griff to become the best pack member and Rover Realty mascot possible! ❤️

★★★★★ "I’m really grateful for the help we got from Carlos. Before we started, I was feeling overwhelmed and unsure how to handle some of my puppy's behavior, but Carlos was incredibly supportive and knowledgeable."

08/30/2025

Using corrections to attain Immediate Gratification is a much longer route to attaining Immediate Gratification. There is a faster & simpler way which has taken our humane approach and made it even more humane! Again, Ty to Chris & Bre Altherr! Combining “E-Flo” into our program has been a blessing! Looking forward to touching more dog’s lives and attaining faster and better results!

08/30/2025

Simple Tip:

When faced with “Trouble shooting” in Dog Training, I approach each situation from the viewpoint of, “what will accomplish what I want, starting with the least amount of effort; keeping the dog calm and engaged?”

(I get it that sometimes more effort is necessary right away. This isn’t one of those times).

Mae (yellow lab puppy) did two miles with us off leash this morning then we had all 5 dogs “place” on the boulder. She’s learning how to maintain commands until released, despite the other dogs releasing.

She wanted to maintain the command so well that she didn’t release the first time I released her, so rather than continue prompting her to “off,” I released a few others and came back to her - she observed them and figured it out fast!

Thats the “Tip,” I want you to take from this…We allow new dogs in training to analyze; figure out what is expected without us repeating commands, bribing them, using their e-collar or correcting them. It works well for their Confidence and Competence, when they can observe, then solve the problem without being commanded repeatedly, prompted (touched with the e-collar or leash) or correceted!

With our approach, they will become quick at executing correct decisions when commanded the first time (as the other 4 dogs showed).

If I bribe a dog with treats, they become fixated on the treat; they become robotic rather than analytical and solution-oriented. If the goal is to get the dog “eventualy” off the bribes and teach them to be analytical etc., why even waste time training them to work for a bribe? It’s completely unnecessary and time-wasting. Likewise,
if I jump to more “effort” than necessary (repeat comands or go right to a correction), I override the dog’s chance to analyze and make correct decisions.

I encourage you to adopt simple Logical Viewpoints and apply them to your own dogs training - you will see that it speeds up results!

Remember…

“What will accomplish what I want, starting with the least amount of effort; keeping the dog calm and engaged?”