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Sundays are for....

….training.

Sundays are the perfect day to teach your dog a silly or useful or fun behavior. You have the entire day to yourself. I stopped by Home Depot this morning while I was out doing a pet sit and picked up a light switch for 75 cents to work on teaching Jellybean to turn specifically my bedroom light off and on.

I don’t usually finish my Sunday training projects. I started this morning with teaching Jellybean to jump on a chair placed just under my bedroom light switch and will sit down to work on the flipping the switch behavior tonight but if that is as far as we get? That is fine. To me Sunday training projects are less about completing a trained behavior and more about doing something fun with my dog and building our learning relationship.

POSTED Nov 01 2009 @ 14:25

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Fun with Dogs

by Creature Comforts

Since 1992, through my pet sitting business Creature Comforts, I have been providing pet care solutions tailored to individual animal needs in Lexington, Kentucky including vacation care, daily dog exercise options and specialized care for flighted parrots. I am now expanding that to fun, free group outings in local Lexington parks. Our third Fun With Dogs Meetup is currently To Be Determined

Please join us for a fun clicker training workshop focusing on how to clicker train a retrieve so your dog will bring BACK that ball! We will start with the basics of clicker training and then move on to the more advanced things so we will be working at all levels so if you have never used a clicker or if you use one daily hopefully you will still get something out of this little workshop!

I believe we will definitely play at least one round of the ever popular Training Game to give the dogs a break and sharpen our own training skills!

My emphasis is on using positive reinforcement and non-corrective based techniques to solve the basic problems people have with their dogs. Or rather, the problems dogs have with their people ;-)

Upcoming Fun With Dogs activities:

Basics of Clicker Training
Shape your dog to bring back the ball (often called an inductive or inducive retrieve)
Learn how to teach your dog to play casual (as opposed to competition) frisbee (tm)
Recall!!!

There is a whole world of fun things to do with our dogs!

Please let me know if you have any suggestions, requests or questions

Looking forward to walking with you :-)

Barrie