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Best Friends Obedience

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Best Friends Obedience
Andrew Perkins
Mississauga, Ontario

416-576-5001 | cellular

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Saturday, March 9, 2024

A really great evolution in dog-owner trends is returning to allowing dogs to sniff and explore on their walks, instead of exclusively marching along and focusing on the human holding the leash. Gracie finds it calming, and that means her human finds the walk more pleasant and less stressful.

Posted at 06:30 PM


Thursday, March 7, 2024

As promised a few weeks ago, here's an update on Indy's progress. Watch as she chooses to explore the ground instead of barking at dogs (off-camera to the left, you'll see them eventually) on the walking path up ahead, and how her handler rewards her for showing casual interest and disengaging without getting aroused. Great progress!

Indy is calm near dogs in the park at https://y2u.be/s4yBc40vYOI


Posted at 06:30 PM


Wednesday, January 24, 2024

How gratifying when a family you worked with for a previous puppy calls you again for their next puppy! Better still, when you get there and the adult dog you knew as a baby is now such a well-mannered, delightful pet.
I worked with Bode's family in the first summer of COVID, meeting exclusively outdoors. When they adopted Penny, whom you see here, they called me just two days after they brought her home, hoping, as they said, to have her turn out as wonderful as Bode did. She's off to a great start!... more

Posted at 06:30 PM


Monday, January 22, 2024

Super-cute little Finnley would prefer it if you didn't get too close to his people, or any food you might have dropped on the floor. The two pieces of solving resource guarding are changing how the dog feels about the proximity of someone to the thing/person he's guarding, and changing what the dog does about the proximity of someone to the thing/person he's guarding. Working on one without the other is an incomplete job.

Posted at 06:30 PM


Saturday, January 20, 2024

I'm meeting more and more dogs who start out every walk already so excited that anything they see can set them to barking and lunging. The customary approach of trying to teach obedience skills and train the dog to white-knuckle its way through a stay or watch me despite being madly aroused is backwards. I'm helping people like Indy's family address the arousal itself. Here's a picture showing her tense body language in our first visit. Watch this space for the update.... more

Posted at 06:30 PM


Thursday, January 18, 2024

We expect our dogs to be love-sponges and to crave our cuddles and petting. It's hard to resist putting your face right up to an adorable face like Milo's to ask for a kiss. But not every dog feels the same way, or wants physical affection all the time, and some may view our expressions of affection as invasion of their safe space. A combination of social handling exercises and learning to invite instead of invade goes a long way to improving the relationship.... more

Posted at 06:30 PM


Friday, January 5, 2024

Stormy really, really, really wants you to throw her chew stick for her. When you look at that face, you can see how hard it is to say no. But when she gets wound up - at this or other things - she has trouble winding down again. We're working on it together.

Posted at 06:30 PM


Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Gentle giant Rocky just moved in with his new family right before Christmas. Adopters of adult re-homed dogs often find there's an adjustment time where they're not seeing the same personality they will after the dog settles in, and Rocky's served up a couple of surprises his people have wisely opted to address proactively. Between their quick action and his settling-in time, I bet they're all headed towards a good life together.

Posted at 06:30 PM


Sunday, December 17, 2023

A big accomplishment for Onyx when I came to the door and he calmly greeted me on all fours. His favourite person's been practising, and it shows!

Posted at 06:30 PM


Friday, December 15, 2023

Routine is really, really valuable in teaching your puppy how to occupy himself when you're not interacting. Cosmo has some great routines established that just have to be extended so they apply no matter who in the family is present.

Posted at 06:30 PM


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