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From the second your puppy is born it starts to learn. Before it can even open its eyes it is smelling and learning how to feed. Later it will learn to play with other dogs by wrestling with its littermates and it will be guided on what is appropriate and what is not by its mother. Its first human interactions will come from the breeder and it will learn what it thinks of people and what behaviours with people bring it success. As it enters your home for the very first time it learns all about this new situation and starts making decisions about how it will interact with the environment and the people. Everything it is learning along this journey will shape and mould it into the dog it will soon become. The way you train your dog, therefore determines the kind of dog it becomes.
Like it or not, our dogs are always learning from us. Any behaviour that gets rewarded will be reinforced, and by that I mean become more likely to happen. Any behaviour that goes unrewarded will become extinct, and by that I mean stop happening. Every reaction you give your dog to any thing it does will affect the dogs likelihood of doing it again. So without even realising it anyone that owns or lives with a dog is in fact an amateur dog trainer.
As professional dog trainers we are almost always called out to help FIX a problem. The average dog lover and owner is usually REACTIVE when it comes to training their dog. They wait until there is a problem with the dog and something it is doing. They hope it will go away, usually without changing how they train the dog and in turn, the dog perceives some sort of success in what it’s doing and therefore, increasing the chances of this behaviour reoccurring time and time again.Take pulling on the lead as an example. That’s a very common issue that our clients want to address. Usually that beha
viour in a puppy, is something that humans ignore and don’t correct. “He pulled on the lead; he was having fun on his walk”. Dog owners never worry too much because it was a little 5 kilo puppy and it was cute to watch. But now that your dog is a 40 Kilo dog, still pulling on the lead, thinking he is doing nothing wrong, as he drags you into traffic, you start realising he needs to be trained! When hiring a dog trainer it becomes time consuming and therefore expensive
Our goal is to help dog owners become PROACTIVE dog trainers! The first step is to help them to understand that every action and interaction they have with their dog will mould the dog’s behaviour. In order to save time, money and stress we (MSK) have developed our puppy rising and dog training tutorial video series. It’s a step-by-step guide to developing a great relationship with your puppy or dog, and learning how to communicate with it in a way that it can understand.
We filmed the series over a 12 month period all with one dog, so you get to see our beautiful demo puppy grow into an amazing little dog. We cover everything that any dog owner could possibly need to know. Starting with techniques for feeding a dog to ensure maximum health and contain excitement, all the way up to off leash obedience. Allowing dog owners to keep their dog safe anywhere, all of the time.
As professional dog trainers, addressing behavioural issues in adult dogs keeps us busy day to day; our real passion lies in raising and training puppies. The techniques you see in our video series are tried and tested over many dogs of various breeds and temperaments. Best of all you get to see them work right in front of your eyes as our demo puppy grows up through the series.
We are most proud of the cost savings that our video series can give dog owners. One home visit by a good trainer or behaviourist will cost around $300 and classes usually about the same. For just $99 we will teach dog owners everything they need to know in order to go out and make their fur child the well behaved, happy healthy dog they want.
For the valued members who would like to experience our video tutorial, you may start the trial today for just $1.
Your dog is always learning from you. Invest a couple of hours in teaching yourself to make sure what he is learning is good for you and him.