San Diego Dog Training Resuce Dog

As a professional dog trainer in San Diego, CA with the belief that exercise for people and dogs can fix a lot of things in anyone’s life, it became clear the need to encourage people in ways to get out and get started… and then stick with it. It is such a rewarding feeling to see people make the change to a healthy fit lifestyle.

Here’s a great training partner for someone who is committed to exercise as a lifestyle and at the same time wants somebody to also be committed and wagging to go every single time!

Meet Dozer, 9 months old and most likely a Lab/Pit Mix although her paperwork shows this dog as a Border Collie/Lab mix., female, spayed and micro chipped. She is friendly with dogs, and unknown with cats.  Dozer was well trained with all commands, house/potty training, crate trained and proper leash walking from 18 weeks old. She’s now older and ready to add the running to her workouts as well but will be completely happy with walking…. a lot of walking or running, or both.

Her original family did not have a commitment to exercise for themselves and that meant the puppy lost out. Dozer is a great dog, but has a couple of things that are important to her continuing to be an awesome dog; exercise being at the top of that list. 

The family “felt bad” because as it turns out they didn’t realize what kind of energy they had signed up for and were just looking for a little puppy that would be fun for the kids. Unfortunately it’s a mistake easily made and without intention. Never-the-less not researching what kind of temperament or personality type a dog has first, many people are mismatched with a dog choice.

Dozer needs a family or individual committed to continued exercise including 1 plus hours per day of controlled exercise (walking/jogging).  She is trained to jog on a treadmill, potty trained, crate trained and knows:

Commands:
Place (Although she believes the sofa is “her” place)
Sit, down, wait, off (no jumping up or bothering people/other dogs),
Out (drop anything in mouth),
Quiet
Let’s go (for recall and on leash prompting)
Let’s go potty
 
She knows the previous mentioned commands by hand signals, snapping fingers and voice command combined. She has been fostered with Carla, a professional trainer, since August 14, 2009.

She is trained with a remote collar on a low-level or using the vibrating pager and can do well leash walking with this training collar. Her adoption fee of $100 includes the collar and additional lessons training lessons with the family or individual.

She’s a way cool dog and really has the ability to be not only your best training partner but your best friend as well.

Contact Carla at 760-587-7879 or www.SitK9Sit.com

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As we are cruising back into San Diego after a 4,000 mile road trip in 14 days with 3 dogs in an RV, reflections of the trip are not only already such great memories but some very interesting learning experiences as well.

We were very proud to have our friends tell us how great our 3 dogs behavior was. How awesome it was that we could let them out with no leash and not worry they were going to run off into unknown territory. How great it was that we could introduce them and not have them jump up and leave some nice paw prints on dinner attire. And how fabulous it was that they would quietly hang out in their kennels while we went to dinner with friends.

We were able to do so much with them simply because they have some basic training and dog manners. We took them to a park and taught them the new game of frisbee without worrying they were going to take off after someone’s neighborhood cat…. ya know, dog things like that.

What was even more amazing to us was how miserable it would be to have dogs that are untrained. How it honestly can effect friendships. For instance, we stayed with some friends who have four dogs. Sounded like great fun in the beginning. Dog people hanging out with dog people… until we realized what kind of a nightmare we had walked into.

First the dogs start barking at the sight or sound of anything, jump up on us and simply will not get down. Then there was the idea that we should take them all out, get a little exercise. Oh my, what a nightmare that was. Put them all on leashes… some sort of front harness contraption that’s supposed to stop a dog from pulling. How funny was that… watching these people trying to hang onto these dogs as they proceeded to drag the owners down the street towards the park.

Wait, let me back up though… lets talk about trying to even get out of the house. One has to barely crack the door, hold all the dogs back and slide out without one escaping, while the owners stand there and basically do nothing simply because this is “normal” behavior to them.

Anyway, lets put it this way, it ended up being a very long 3 days, we couldn’t really “do” anything with the dogs, it became obviously a very stressed situation for everyone, and we did hear the comment more than once… “it’s hard to get friends who understand the dog thing”!

What’s sad about all of that is it would just take a little very basic dog training for these people to gain back many of their friends or make some really great new ones.

Since I had yet to post final pictures of Jiggs, who had boot camp in October… well here they are…

I spent a gorgeous afternoon in San Diego last week with Jiggs, his person Janet and pack mate Lucky. Lucky (six year old, male, yellow lab) had his first lesson leash walking with friend Ruth, Jiggs & Janet. Ruth jumped right in with Lucky and did a great job keeping Lucky on track and leash walking like a pro!

Jiggs looks amazing and behaves wonderfully. Janet & Ruth have been walking & training Jiggs daily since boot camp. Now they are ready to add Lucky to the daily routine. They have canyon trails & a great park just up the street and have been making full use of the neighborhood to continue socializing and exercising Jiggs.

I could see a difference right away with Jiggs & Janet, she is in control and they both have a new confidence and look great from all the exercise and controlled diet. Good job Janet & Ruth your hard work has paid off… it clearly shows in the well-mannered Jiggs. I can’t wait to see what improvement you’ll have with Lucky’s manners, when I visit in the New Year!

Carla Weed

K9 Coach Temecula