Ty The Dog Guy On The Daily

In this post, I’d like to talk about the speed with which you train your dog. This morning I was working with a client whose dog is learning some service dog work in public. The dog is young—only about seven months—so she isn't fully ready to take on her job just yet. She’s been coming in for about a month, and today her owners saw her working for the first time since she started training. Their comment? “I can’t believe how different she is in just a month!” For an exercise, we took the dog went into a giant, very busy thrift store that was full of all sorts of distractions: tons of people, weird smells, slippery floors. It was one of the dog’s first times being handled by her new owner. All these things (young dog, new handler, distracting setting) would typically converge against you in your efforts to have a well-trained and obedient dog, but she did phenomenally well! There were areas that could be improved, of course, but the owner thought she was great. This incident reminded me that balanced or st