I love my board-and-train clients. Everyone of them brings a unique personality, special interests, and challenges to their training program. I see similiarities within breeds and differences from dog-to-dog. I’ve yet to meet a Labrador Retriever, for example, who would turn her back on a ball or interesting toy. What’s interesting in a toy depends on them! Then there are dogs whose interest in toys is dilute. With that said, the training games I use to help each dog learn to control him or herself are in-line with what interests them. If a dog isn’t interested in playing with balls, then playing dog training games with balls isn’t going to benefit their training and we use something else.
My most recent board-and-train was a young yellow Lab who was interested in every toy she ran across. Even if the toy was a stick or pine cone. She loved to run with a toy in her mouth especially if someone chased her. So we played a lot of impulse control games with toys. Here’s how they went.
Would you like your dog to humanely learn to control her impulses? Does your dog need obedience training in general? Contact me and let me know what you need in a board-and-train dog training program for your dog. Perhaps your pet will be my next student. And after the training, you’ll learn how to play the games your dog learned while enrolled in the Outsmarting Dogs boot camp.
Helen Verte Schwarzmann
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Certified in Training and Counseling
Certified Pet Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed
Certified Trick Dog Instructor
AKC Canine Good Citizen/CGC and STAR Puppy Trainer and Evaluator
Your Board-and-Train Dog Trainer for Fort Myers, Lee county, Naples, Collier county, and southwest Florida
