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Human Aggression Isn't Always Big Dogs! So just w

Human Aggression Isn't Always Big Dogs!

So just want to start todays post off by saying how proud I am of my clients for getting help with Elvis despite him being such a small dog. It's often to forget how important it is to train these little guys especially when there's fairly serious behaviour going on.

So Elvis has aggression to humans, and has bitten almost ten people, been to see a trainer, been to a three week residential and so far to no avail.

Now, the joy is, when it goes wrong with a dog this size it doesn't really go wrong like it would with a bigger dog but the dangerous dogs act covers all dogs so it's just as important to fix!

I took Elvis' lead and he had a few seconds of making noises like the devil, trying to argue etc but he settled surprisingly quickly so as soon as I saw that I knew there was a fairly straight forward way of sorting this little guy.

Elvis has negative associations built into his psychology and he's learned that going forwards makes humans go away, so we've put some plans in place to counter condition that response and create a new response moving forward.

Within about five minutes he was sat chilling with me, taking food from his owner, paying attention, relaxing. He won't be a difficult fix at all, we just need to get the reps in now!

Well done guys! Small dogs need training too!
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Sad News But Silver Linings So after much deliber

Sad News But Silver Linings

So after much deliberation, and long chats, between me and his breeder we’ve decided Kodiak will be heading back to his breeder to possibly pursue a life in the police, or as a GP dog.

Kodiaks food drive from young has been absolutely amazing, his obedience is excellent, he tracks like a machine but that real, deep work ethic and insane drive just isn’t there. In training we often call it heart.

Now this in no way means he’s a bad dog - far from it but like I said in yesterday’s post you’ve got to have the right dog for what YOU want. He will be a perfect dog for someone and I can’t sing his breeders praises highly enough.

She’s been mega supportive and helpful, and I continue to recommend her constantly. we’ve tried with some awesome trainers to bring it out and it might just come out as he gets older but it’s always a maybe and I don’t want to push him into a lifestyle he doesn’t absolutely love!
Dog training is about a team working together, enjoying themselves and nothing annoys me more than when people push dogs into things they don’t enjoy!

I’m gonna miss this little man like mad and I’m gonna thoroughly enjoy him and keep working hard with him till he goes. He’s taught me loads and he’s got some great foundations ready for his next chapter!

I’ll absolutely be keeping in touch with his journey so although today is a sad day, I know soon it will be silver lined and he’ll be happier in a slightly less full on home!

Right Dog for the Job So everyday I get messages

Right Dog for the Job

So everyday I get messages from people who just didn’t get the right dog for what they want to do and that’s not their fault because we all start somewhere and make mistakes but I wanted to write this post to outline how important it is so others don’t.

See dogs have very different personalities and interest inherently bred into them and they’ll never change no matter how much training we do. It’s called Genetic Predisposition.

Take Khaleesi for example. I got her because she absolutely loves protection work and her work ethic is through the roof. She never wants to stop or settle down or relax, she’s 500mph at all times... amazing dog... but if I wanted her to be a sofa buddy she’d be terrible!

And then take Jack my Shih-Tzu whos amazing at laying on the bed, relaxing, chilling by the fire but he’d make an awful working dog!

That doesn’t make one dog better than the other it just means that they needed picking properly for the correct role! If Khaleesi lived on the sofa she’d be miserable as sin!

Then you’ve got the whole minefield of puppies too! When you get a puppy you’re having an educated guess about how they’ll turn out. Kodiak was bought because his bloodline was amazing and should’ve produced a crazy dog, yet he’s not that crazy and he’s quite chilled out. He might stay here, he might prefer life with a gamekeeper rambling around the countryside, who knows! It’s always a guessing game with puppies!

So think carefully about what you want from a dog and then make your decision from there.

Don’t buy because they look nice!
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How To Build A Wall Dog training can be seen like

How To Build A Wall

Dog training can be seen like building a wall. How do you build a wall around your garden? Well, you lay brick after brick until you have a complete wall. But you can't lay a brick until the brick prior has been laid because there's nowhere for it to go. The brick in your hand needs another brick to sit on... You can't lay the last brick first... That's just not how it works.

And dog training is no different at all. You can't train the last, most advanced things without having the things before it... The foundations. The issue is that the foundations can be difficult for a couple of reasons.

Foundations are hard to lay in dog training because often they are the first thing that people need, and they don't have the knowledge on how to lay them so they have to ask for help... And asking for help in itself can be hard. It makes people feel useless, feel weak, feel not good enough and that couldn't be further from the truth.

ALL of us dog trainers ask for help on a regular basis, whether it be from other trainer friends, or from books, or even from our clients! We all need help and that's normal.

The second reason that building foundations is hard is because you have to actually get going. To build the wall, you've got to mix the mortar, buy the bricks, buy the trowel, you need a masons line and a bunch of other stuff... But you need it to build the wall!

So you've gotta get going, and you've gotta accept that the start is the foundations. The flashy heel work, the immaculate recall under high distraction, the tracking, the scent work, all that jazz comes loads later.

Build the wall - It won't build itself!
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How Long Should I Train My Dog? So this is a ques

How Long Should I Train My Dog?

So this is a question I get every single day without fail and it's one that I thought deserved a bit of time to come up with a good response for people because the short answer is: 'It depends'... But that's not really enough of an answer is it.

As human beings we love to measure things. We love to know how long, or how often because we live in a world where time is such a prevalent part of our lives but our dogs really don't care. What you have to remember is that time is a man made construct. There's no other animal that measures time... You don't find a Lion walking around checking his pocket watch.

So when you think about how long you should be training, or how often you should be training, think about it slightly differently and turn the question around so it's something else.

You definitely should be measuring your training sessions, but frequency and duration aren't the metrics that are really all that important. The important metric surrounding dog training is progress and that's always been my most important metric.

So you should be training as long, and as often it takes to make progress, but you AND your dog also have to be enjoying the process too so there's no point in training so much that it makes one of you sick of it.

Some of my training sessions are literally three minutes long, and sometimes I train all day long. It depends how you and the dog are feeling. So my advice is to stop measuring minutes or session numbers and instead measure progress, measure happiness, measure contentment, measure results.

You'll be much happier for it mate
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I Want To Help Rescues So this post is something

I Want To Help Rescues

So this post is something a bit different and was prompted by a chat we had on a live video earlier.

The point of the post is that I want to go spend a couple of days for free with a few rescues this year, helping them more clearly understand dogs, canine psychology and training so in turn they can help more dogs to find happy homes.

When we were looking for Basil it was clear that many rescues are underfunded, struggling for good, knowledgable staff and struggling to see beyond red tape and as frustrating as that can be for people looking to adopt, it’s not the rescues fault.

Rescue centres are busting at the seems, working for little money, just enough to feed the dogs very often and that’s a hard way of living for long periods of time.

So if you’re a rescue centre, I want to come and spend a couple of days with you, your kennels, your dogs and your staff to try and help improve everything just a little bit completely free of charge.

I can’t help every rescue dog in the country but I can do my bit to help. I don’t care where in the country you are, I’ll travel over and we’ll do a bit to help staff learn, train dogs and give the guys a better chance of finding their home.

If you’re not a rescue centre and you know of one that would like the help, then send them the post and tell them to get in touch!

Peace out guys!
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Evening guys So this big lad was at the vets not

Evening guys

So this big lad was at the vets not long ago after he was throwing up a bit too much. Turned out he had an inflamed bladder which wasn’t a massive concern, and assumed UTI.

We put him in antibiotics as advised and did a full urine panel to try and find out which bacteria it was specifically to get a faster fix for him.

Yesterday he had some blood in his pee so I pushed for the results... The results came back today and there’s no bacteria present which means no infection.

This is really, really not good news so we are off to see the specialist Friday to scan for cancer, look into potential Glomerulonephropathy and a few other nasties.

As it stands this second, prognosis likely isn’t going to be good so please keep us in your thoughts.

I love this dog an insane amount and I’m nowhere near ready to say goodbye.

Will keep everyone updated but might be a bit quiet over the next few days.

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Marathon Not a Sprint Today we live in a world dr

Marathon Not a Sprint

Today we live in a world driven by instant gratification. We impulse buy the newest phone, we see everyone succeeding in all areas in a social media driven world, everything looks like it comes overnight.

As much as this looks awesome on social media it’s often not the reality and it’s absolutely not the reality in dog training. Any amazing dog you see anywhere in the world has had hours and hours and hours of time put in.

The other aspect of dog training nobody talks about is keeping motivation for such long periods of time. Training dogs takes years and you will no doubt go through massive low times on that journey.

We all do, but in a world where DVD’s promise worry free walks in seven days it can feel very demoralising to be training week in and week out over and over again.

But that’s the reality of training. It’s a marathon, not a sprint and having down days is a completely normal part of that journey. Find me someone who’s run their first marathon and didn’t feel like quitting.

All you’ve gotta do is keep moving forwards and keep your eye on the bigger prize! The end goal is what matters most.
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Something Different! Today we had Enzo and Jase c

Something Different!

Today we had Enzo and Jase come up for a full day training all the way from London so hats off to them for the dedication!

Jase has been a member of my online academy for a while now and he’s absolutely killed it. Almost completely fixed his reactivity, got stuck into much more advanced stuff like competition heelwork etc and now he’s also joined Evo too!

Today we went through a bit of work regarding his food drive because as a herder his prey drive is through the roof which means his food drive has been neglected a bit.

Food drive is really important for teaching a lot of the foundational stuff especially at the higher level behaviours so we got stuck into that and got a plan in place!

Jase has done EXACTLY what I wanted people to do when I first joined the academy! He got in, took action and then watched all 260 videos and got to work. Then he kept making adjustments and asked questions where he needed help.

Then he fell in love with dog training and took his training to the next level and joined evo. Today we had an awesome day and started getting the new associations built ready to unlock another new chapter!!

Onwards and upwards!!
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It's Your Best Friend Sometimes we get so stuck

You Never Stop Learning! Today we had something a

You Never Stop Learning!

Today we had something a bit different through the doors here at Obsidian HQ! Katrina is an aspiring Dog trainer and she booked her session today and didn't even bring her dog!

Katrina booked a session to spend a good chunk of time picking my brains 1-1. She wanted to know everything she could to become a better trainer herself in the hopes to some day become a professional trainer herself.

I absolutely love days like this when people are really keen to learn and investigate different methods, approaches, psychology, etc. We had an absolute blast!

We went over behaviour adjustment in massive detail and talked about counter conditioning truly aggressive dogs and how that differs from training normal dogs. We discussed the sport world and how many different levels of trainer there are and we discussed about six million other things because she came prepared with a massive list.

Most trainers and aspiring trainers fall victim to The Dunning Kruger effect which is where people with low ability over estimate their ability and think they are leaps ahead in knowledge which causes them to stop learning. I can count SO many people who have shadowed me a few times then opened a dog training business and immediately think they are the bees knees.

Well I've been training dogs over eight years now and I STILL learn something new every single day. There will always be someone who knows more than you and if you choose to learn from them, they will make you better too!

No egos, no agendas, just people who love learning about dogs. Today was an awesome one!
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More Dog Reactivity Solved (Video In The Story)

More Dog Reactivity Solved
(Video In The Story)

By far, the most common problem we deal with is dog reactivity and it's becoming more and more common. For those that haven't heard the term, reactivity is when dogs are barking at other things, in this case, other dogs.

Today, Dexter was no exception and in fact we have seen his full sister Sass a few weeks ago with the exact same issues that we managed to resolve, so it was time to get to work with this guy too!

We chatted through Dexter's story with his owner and then got him out and it was clear straight away that he was reacting in exactly the same way as his sister. Frustration led the behaviour and then nerve meant it carried on longer than it needed to so there was a couple of emotions to address!

We got stuck straight into it and started teaching some communication methods with the lead and then we got Kodiak out and Dexter was awesome. His owner managed to get a handle on his behaviour really fast!

Then we got Flak out and he was almost perfect throughout the whole training session and then we got Khaleesi out to finish and he was absolutely flawless. No barking, no lunging, no kicking off... Just nicely engaged with his owner, no issues whatsoever.

It's so cool to see how fast dogs can change their behaviours when we just give them the canvas to learn on! Onwards and upwards!!
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Meet Basil! Massive thank you to each and every o

Meet Basil!

Massive thank you to each and every one of you that helped us fill the awful Greyhound shaped hole in our house!

Basil came today to stay. He’s two years old, he’s super nervous and very wary but we always wanted a rescue project and not a perfect dog!

Time for me to spend a bit of time doing some rehabilitation of my own and as always I will share the progress with you all.

He’s in and he’s starting to settle but as with all rescue dogs, we’ve got work to do for sure to get him harmonious with our lives!

I will miss Spencer till the day I die. He helped rehabilitate so many dogs, he was an absolute gentleman and he will forever have a special place in my heart, but the next chapter begins today.

Let’s go Basil - time to build some confidence!
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Little Thor (Video in the story) Well we’re ba

Little Thor
(Video in the story)

Well we’re back to work after a great Christmas off and to my surprise the first dog back was a small one! We don’t see small dogs all too often because so many people don’t think they need training but they deserve the same as the big guys!

Thor came today with a few noise issues. He was barking at a few different things but dogs were the big one so that was the focus of the session.

When he first arrived he was screaming the car down, barking, wailing, kicking off so we had a chat through everything and got to work.

Within minutes he was walking completely fine with other dogs, no issues at all, no problems and there was just one real problem to resolve.

Thor had never had communication that what he was doing wasn’t wanted so he had no idea not to do it and as soon as we communicated that together he was great.

As you can see in the video he’s super engaged with his owner and they’ve done some awesome pre-session work in the online academy which helps massively!

Huge well done to Thor and co!
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Learn to Be Disciplined A question I get a lot is

Learn to Be Disciplined

A question I get a lot is how I stay so motivated to train all the time even when things are going wrong etc and there's a few parts to the answer.

The first and maybe one of the most important parts of the answer is that you need to be disciplined because you won't always be motivated. There isn't a single person in this game that gets up every morning super eager to get going every single day of the week no matter what is going on.

I, just like you get up some days and think how little I want to train. How I just want a day off, how I just want an easy day. Today for example, it's snowing and it's freezing and I am not remotely a fan of either of those things. It's completely normal to feel that way, but what you do next is the important bit. People who make really good progress with their dogs will crack on.

A little phrase I like to live by is: 'Do the work required no matter how you feel.' If you are tired or fed up, stressed or upset, just get on with it and get the work done.

Dog training is a game of reps and without the reps you don't get the progress and without the progress you end up feeling even worse which sends you into a downward spiral.

The second part is to pick your tribe. Tomorrow is Sunday and We’ve got EVO club to train and get on. When I wake up I will likely fancy laying in bed but I am surrounding myself with other goal driven people day in and day out. We are all working towards the same thing.

So my advice is to go and find a group of people you can meet up with REGULARLY to work towards the same goal. In the perfect world you will all share the same goal. You can all work together to improve and it makes the whole thing even easier!

Crack on!
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Help My Puppy Is Biting! So we are now a couple o

Help My Puppy Is Biting!

So we are now a couple of weeks past Christmas and unfortunately a LOT of people got a puppy for Christmas... Usually for their child that's far too young to look after it.

The message I am getting more than any other at the moment is how do I stop my puppy biting and there's a short answer to this and a long answer to this, so let's do the short answer first.

The short answer is that puppies bite. It's like buying a fish then messaging the shop owner and saying 'Help my fish is swimming round the tank what do I do?'. See how mental that sounds?

Puppies are exploring the world and teething and if you bought a high drive breed like a German Shepherd, Malinois, Rottweiler etc then expect it to be even worse.

Secondly, redirect the dog onto something else. You will hear a lot of trainers advising against this because 'you are rewarding the dog for biting' when it's just not true if your timing is good. It's not a case of, the dog is biting you and you grab something for it to bite.

You set yourself and your dog up to win.

Crate train your puppy then as soon as you get him out, get out to the toilet to start building that habit and then get straight back inside and start training for some food, and when you've done that get something out for him to bite and play with.

If you do all this, he'll be tired not long after. People are having trouble with their puppies because they are letting them free roam the house, causing havoc, eating bleach bottles, hanging off peoples legs, and then the behaviour becomes habitual.

When you have a puppy you have to be prepared and ritualised and the more consistent you are the better it is.

If pup is awake, you're doing something with him, and if he's sleeping he's in his crate.

It might seem a bit rubbish for a pup so young but you do this for a short time so you get a lifetime of peace and freedom.
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Engagement Is King! Okay so anyone who has been a

Engagement Is King!

Okay so anyone who has been around a while has heard be harp on about this until I am blue in the face and I will keep harping on about it until the day I die because it's SUCH an important fundamental in your training.

Every year we see around 350 dogs come through our facility gates and we see another thousand or so come through the Academy doors and the VAST majority of them have one thing missing... Engagement.

Engagement is the absolute bottom building block to success in dog training and without it you won't get very far very fast. Engagement is your dogs desire to work with you in any environment and it's something you have to work on constantly.

People often say 'My dog is great in the house but doesn't listen outside' and that's because they haven't applied the correct fundamental exercises outside and the dog ends up hyper aroused by external stimulus and then the behaviour becomes habitual.

Still to this day I work on engagement with all three of my dogs and it's why all of you that come for 1-1 sessions see the massive amount of focus I get from them no matter what distraction is about.

Capture the dogs mind and the world is your oyster.
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Academy Member Shoutout!! Well, we've done a loa

Getting Back In The Swing of Things So if you are

Getting Back In The Swing of Things

So if you are anything like me, then from tomorrow until New Year, life feels really weird. You're not sure if you should be knuckling down yet or enjoying more down time. Both feel so wrong to me!

So I am striking a compromise. I am going to write a Daily Email every day between now and New Year for the email list and I am going to spend my time off knuckling down on my own dogs training. I am working Monday and Wednesday next week but booked the rest off.

Sometimes though it can be hard to get into the swing of things. Many of us haven't been training as much as we should have or could have and that's completely fine because you have to live your life too... I am no exception.

Yesterday, my dogs were flirt poled in the morning and then we didn't train and today we've done maybe ten minutes with each dog so you aren't alone.

We have to get moving again though so all the hard work doesn't go down the pan so here's my advice on how to do that.

Go right back to basics every day between now and New Year. When I say back to basics I mean the real fundamentals of engagement and relationship.

So my sessions now won't be exciting, they won't be interesting but they will be laying really nice, strong foundations ready to hit the ground running on the 3rd when I get back to it with my Evo guys!

All I will be doing is hand feeding every single bit of food my dogs eat, and building them foundations back in with very easy obedience etc. The joy is, when they are already there, getting them moving again takes no time.

So I won't be doing anything exciting over the next week or so but my dogs will be SUPER engaged come January so I massively advise you do the same.

It's an amount of training you can do without spending all your down time on it, but it's enough that you can really make some headway ahead of all those that are doing nothing until the New Year.

Hammer the fundementals and you will be rewarded!!
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It's A Game of Repetition So it's the day before

It's A Game of Repetition

So it's the day before Christmas Eve and I imagine the vast majority of the population are on the wind down ready to enjoy the big day and I really can't say I blame you because I want to enjoy it just as much as the next person!

However, today, whilst my wife, mother in law and daughter sat and watched Toy Story I went out, in the pouring rain, in the wind, in the mud and went tracking. And here's why...

I went out today and got some amazing work in with all three dogs and it took me a little over an hour which is nothing. Now it's just after lunch time and I can enjoy the rest of the day doing whatever I want to do but I got another rep in!

Dog training is a game of repetition. You have to repeat things over and over and over again until they are perfect. It's a game that requires your attention almost every day of the week but that doesn't mean you can't do other things.

Now I've got all day to do whatever I want to do. I can sit around and enjoy the festive season and it's just that little bit sweeter because I know I went out and got the reps in earlier on.

So go out and do one thing to push you a bit closer to your goals. Then enjoy the rest of the day!!

Reps = Progress = Achievement
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