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Low Stress catheter placement
Here's Poodle having his first catheter placement. Unfortunately this was a situation that needed to be done and we didn't have time to...
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Example of low stress cat grooming
Meet Mercury, a Persian cat who has medical issues preventing him from grooming himself sufficiently, and who also finds the vet clinic...
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Cooperative Blood Draw from leg
A few days before the catheter placement video above, here is Poodle having his first cooperative blood draw. There is lots in here to...
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Jugular Blood Draw - practice at the vets #1
Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.
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Jugular Blood Draw - practice at the vets #2
Tory's progression towards a cooperative jugular blood draw.
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Example of a cooperative care health check
Tory's first cooperative health check. She isn't aggressive about being handled, but she definitely doesn't like it. Here we use a...
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Platform training to combat frustration 2/3
Video 2 in Chester's 3 part series looking at starting to proof his place behaviour to withstand all manner of distractions etc.
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Platform Training to Combat Frustration 1/3
Chester came for a 2 week long board and train to work on his compulsive tail chasing, which occurred whenever the energy in his...
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Good play vs. bad play - what to look out for
Hannah recorded this little interaction between Eddie and Stella and there was so much that was going on that people might miss I thought...
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When to end a session
Dog behaviour can be very subtle. Most of us will miss a lot of cues, including us trainers. Here's a breakdown of a session with Marley...
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Focusing on associations, not just behaviours
In the first part, I'm creating expectations along with associations toward the car. I don't want it to JUST mean exciting things. So...
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Week 1 board & train with a dog who's wary of strangers
This is Gem, a recent foster of ours. Gem was found wandering the streets with a litter of puppies, even though the vets think she's...
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When things don't seem to be working: A Checklist
When we get a little bit down about the progress we're making, here's 6 things that might be the reason as to why things aren't working...
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An Introduction to Scent Work
As we progress through teaching our own dogs how to play scent work games, we'll film and post those here so you can follow along. We'll...
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Reward Makers - why we use them
In this clip I run through why we use the markers and when we use them.
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Scratch board session #2
As promised, here is a follow up introduction to teaching a dog to use a scratch board, using Poodle rather than Tory because he learns...
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Teaching a dog to use a scratch board
The idea behind the scratch board is to teach dogs to scratch/dig at the sand paper and wear down their own nails, rather than train them...
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Back to Basics: Recall
There's not much point in a recall that only works when there are no distractions around...
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'Clean' Training
Here’s a video of how we train our dogs to really understand what each marker means.
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A simple counterconditioning technique for cooperative care training
Adira is blind and has underdeveloped eyes. She also has entropion where her eyelids are misshaped and the hairs surrounding her eyes rub...
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