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𝐈𝐆: @kaizen_k9
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🔎 Ben Guerts has a long history of training dogs for all types of outcomes - sport, K9, and even pet dogs.
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👀 Kaizen is more than Ben and his wife Sam though - together the whole Kaizen team have a lot going on over in Perth, Western Australia.
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🔎 If you want to know more about Ben in particular he’s also been a guest on @the.stim.podcast
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✅ 𝗚𝗼 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗞𝗮𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝗞𝟵 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝘁 ’𝗲𝗺 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸.
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#dogtrainer #dogtraining #dogslife #dogsofinsta #dogsofinstagram #dogbehavior #dogbehaviour #hopeisnotaplanofaction #positiveinfluence #development #education #improvement⁣⁣ ...

What you'll see here is the entire session of boot familiarisation with Dammit from yesterday.⁣..mistakes and all.
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FYI: I can't immediately recall if we've ever done this before so this may actually be a first exposure.⁣
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I thought this was useful to share because of some of the high-jinx Dammit gets up to surrounding giving me his foot.⁣
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You'll see how I worked by way through it, but more important to consider is where this behaviour comes from.⁣
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Dammit LOVES his feet and leg being stroked - it'll put him in a trance and he'll bliss out for long periods of time enjoying that form of attention.⁣
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You'd think that would bode well for doing this work...but one of his favourite games when having a morning cuddle in bed is to put his paw on top of my hand. ⁣
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We go back and forth this way as I lazily manage to get the upper paw. He adores this game...and that's the training scar I refer to here in the title.⁣
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If you saw both of these scenarios here you'd consider them nearly identical.⁣
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For the dog training nerds - I believe that this is an example of 'near transfer' - a concept I'm still learning about via @dancooper_msc who may be kind enough to chime in on this below as he's an expert on that.⁣
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There are many little games and interactions that folks have with their dogs which hold either more or less benefit on things they're trying to achieve in training.⁣
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One common example which can often cause a huge amount of grief for folks is playing 'chase me' in some form with their dog, where the dog learns that running away from the handler produces a highly desirable game.⁣
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Do you have an example of a similar situation you've encountered in your dogs training and development? Go ahead and share it with us below.⁣
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#dogtrainer #dogtraining #dogslife #dogsofinsta #dogsofinstagram #dogsofmelbourne #realworlddogtraining #hopeisnotaplanofaction #malinois #instamalinois #belgianmalinois #puppydevelopment #workingdog #belgianshepherd #clickertraining #k9 #performancevsappearance #developingdammit #dammit ...

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💥𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐩 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.⁣
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💪 This is our second day of me running these two together.⁣
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⏰ I've got a very tricky timeline driving some of this decision making, so I've had to make a bunch of stuff including this all this happen way faster than I would prefer...but so far, so good.⁣
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❤️ It's pretty nice to see mother and son run together...but for all his bravado and his stupid size, the boy knows Snappy runs the show.⁣
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#dogtrainer #dogtraining #dogslife #dogsofinsta #dogsofinstagram #dogsofmelbourne #realworlddogtraining #hopeisnotaplanofaction #malinois #instamalinois #belgianmalinois #puppydevelopment #workingdog #belgianshepherd #clickertraining #k9 #performancevsappearance #developingdammit #dammit #lifeofsnap ...

'𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲' - it's a term I hear a lot from the owners when describing their dogs behaviour.⁣⁣
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🎯 Very often owners can pinpoint an exact moment or two that they feel caused their dogs reactivity.⁣⁣
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👁 Most often - 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 - there's lot more to the situation than that.⁣⁣
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💭 If we can't identify the contributors to what is all too often a very complex situation, then how can we hope to address that situation in a meaningful way?⁣⁣
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𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬:⁣⁣
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1️⃣ - Offers another lens through which owners in this position to view their dogs;⁣⁣
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2️⃣ - Helps owner that hope to prevent such issues from occurring for their dog in the future.⁣
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#dogtrainer #dogtraining #dogslife #dogsofinsta #dogsofinstagram #dogsofmelbourne #dogstagram #dogoftheday #hopeisnotaplanofaction ...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 - 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀.

Not only does it affect what we're able to learn and understand, but it also affects the relationship that we have with learning generally.

This seems to be a universally accepted fact with humans, and yet be most frequently overlooked by folks in regards to their dogs.

𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜'𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴.

🙏 I hope this helps someone out there make an even better decision about the investment they make in their dogs training and development. ...