Christi's Dog Training

04/01/2025

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01/12/2024

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10/11/2024

Posting this here, because I am against retractable leashes. This has happened to more than one person. It’s not the only thing wrong with them, but please be careful y’all.

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27/10/2024

I am SO PROUD of Sora today!! He struggles with dog reactivity. We’ve been meeting trying to find his trigger. After a couple other attempts, I concluded that he was self- rewarding by barking to “chase off” other dogs. This reasoning is very hard to correct.
So I brought my good boy Axel (Rottweiler) in to help. The first lesson I had him wait at a distance until Sora realized he wasn’t going to leave, and wasn’t going to react. Then I started walking him by. Getting more and more distracting as we continued. In less than an hour he had calmed down and no longer saw him as a threat.

Today we met with Axel for the second time. I learned that after our interaction Sora was able to meet 2 other dogs with no reactivity, and even watched the dogs at the dog park play with no barking whatsoever! To top it off, he remembered Axel and they were able to safely meet one another and even share treats! Such a huge improvement! ❣️

15/09/2024

Let’s talk about potty training! Teaching your doggo to go potty where you want them to, can be one of the most difficult tasks in puppyhood! But don’t fret! There’s hope! This can have many steps and take some time, but with consistency, your pupper should be trained in 2-4 weeks.
1. Decide where you want your dog to go- forever
This means, outside, on a pad, litter box, p**ping, and p*eing. If you want them to go outside, find a spot for p*eing and a spot for pooing. If you want it on a pad, decide where you want the pad to go (and stay) and keep in mind most dogs like to p**p and p*e in different locations.
2. Know how long your pup can “hold it”
Dogs can hold their p*e roughly 1 hour for every month of age they are up to 10 months. So in other words, a 3 month old puppy can only hold it up to 3 hours during the day (if they get enough exercise they can sleep and hold it for 8 hours at night), and a 5 month old, only for 5 hours etc. Please try to take your baby out accordingly. ** keep in mind this could vary with food and water schedules and availability
3. Dogs are denning animals
Denning animals like to keep their homes clean and tidy. So it helps dramatically to use this to our advantage! Using a crate to help with potty training can help get them used to a crate, it will help them understand when and where to go, and it can help build bladder muscles so they can learn to hold it for longer! ** make sure your crate is a “den size” or this will prove to be unsuccessful. This means only room to turn around. They will feel more secure this way and won’t have room to potty on one side and lay on the other.
4. Use play and walks as a reward!
When you take fluffy to their “spot”, make sure you stand there on leash all boring (no talking or moving around, petting etc) for as long as you can tolerate. If fluffy doesn’t go, fluffy goes back to the crate for about 10-15 minutes. Then repeat ( by the way, exactly the same for potty pads unless you want them to “miss” the pad). Once fluffy DOES go, then he gets to run around the fenced in yard and play and explore, or we can then start our walks! ** Be careful of using treats as a reward for potty as sometimes they will earn their treat then “finish” once they go back inside. Hope this helps! Good luck!

05/09/2024

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It’s that time of year I feel the need to touch on this subject. I personally believe, and require all my clients with service dogs to not attend any spooky Halloween event with their service dog. I don’t think it’s ethical or fair to the dog to be at these events. I firmly believe you should have more than one way to mitigate your disability. Going to an event like this is asking for your dog to experience trauma and stress. Even if you think your dog is trained to the highest standard, even if you think your dog is bombproof, you cannot predict what other scare actors will do to your dogs. You cannot predict your dog’s emotional thoughts and feelings to things they haven’t been exposed to. I firmly believe there is no place for a service dog at Halloween events.
Have a happy and spooky Halloween, but leave the service dog at home.

23/07/2024

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19/06/2024

Skye is doing so well with her training 🥰

02/04/2024

I’ve seen all of these happen! Plus, it nearly impossible to train a dog to walk with you correctly on one of these.

02/04/2024