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⚠️ PRETTY PLEASE PUPPY PEEPS… ⠀ 💭 I need y’all to do me a solid: ⠀ ⛔️ Stop expecting 3, 4, 5mo puppies to do extended ‘stays’; ⠀ ✅ Consider that learning specific skills is far, far less important than developing a strong desire in your pup to work with you – it’s all about […]
Puppies And COVID-19 Lockdown – 7 Steps To Action Now
It’s a fact that dogs that haven’t had sufficient positive and neutral exposures to the world around them – the world they have to live and function in as adults – have a much greater chance of developing behavioural issues later in life. Making up for lost time isn’t really a ‘thing’ when […]
Enjoying a moment together with Snap and Kana
🥶 Man it’s cold in Melbourne today. 📧 I had to swing past the office this morning and knock out some emails, as well as finish a couple of reports. 🔥 I threw the heater on, but I knew from the way the dogs cuddled up closely on the couch that it wasn’t doing too […]
Anxiety in dogs cannot be ‘trained away’
💊 It’s a hard pill for some folks to swallow, but it’s 100% true. 🚫 If you punish the very behaviours that allow you to infer the dog is feeling anxious in the first place, then using the absence of that behaviour in that context as a basis to claim that the dog is no […]
Your dog training may not work for the reason you think it does
🎉 Congratulations – you’ve produced a training outcome with your dog that you’re happy with. 🐕 The truth is that for the most part, most dogs will learn basic things pretty well in most training programs. 🧠 After all, the ability of the dog to adapt and learn in the human world is perhaps the main […]
What breed is right for you?
Here’s an ‘off the cuff’ video designed to answer a question from Ruben about choosing a dog to suit his specific family situation. There’s a lot of stuff to consider here – it’s easy to just rattle off some breeds, but there’s far more to making that choice than most would think…if you want long […]
Ecollar Essentials: Practical Ecollar Training For Professionals 2-3 May 2015
Learn. Apply. Examine. Adjust. Repeat.© Ecollar Essentials is designed to empower participants to make informed decisions about how to effectively and humanely apply ecollars in their training based on a working understanding of the potential benefits, contingencies and contraindications of the tool. Delivered in a very hands on format, Ecollar Essentials provides participants the opportunity to take what they […]
A message of gratitude for the 2014 festive season.
2014 is now quickly drawing to a close, though not before the festive season is done and dusted. I put together this quick video (after many failed takes I may add) to try and formally thank those that made our amazing 2014 possible – namely our amazing clients, the indispensable folks that make up Team […]
Pets Haven Live Q&A |Exclusive Training Promotion 2014
To celebrate the Live Facebook Q&A that we have just done for the Pets Haven FB fans we have decided to put together a special offer that will allow those of you out there that want a better trained, more adaptable dog to realise that goal CSI are only offering this package to our existing […]
