Dog Training Flagstaff AZ
Dynamic Dog Training offers dog obedience training in Flagstaff, AZ. I specialize in dog obedience training and off leash e collar training for adult dogs and puppies. I address all behavioral issues such as jumping, separation anxiety, nervousness, pulling on walks, counter surfing, and reactivity. I offer board and train for dogs with mild, moderate and severe behaviors.
Flower, started guarding her house and family
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Caesar, would guard and bite his owner for food, the couch and his crate
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Dog Training
Dog obedience training is only one piece of the puzzle in rehabilitating dog reactivity. Like with most every other behavior, the first piece of the puzzle is YOU! You are the most important tool in your arsenal. You will be the one to initiate change (contacting me), follow through on the change (implementing my recommendations) and then being consistent with the change (not for one week, or two, but a lifestyle change).
State of mind training is a crucial piece of the puzzle! A crazy, hyper, spastic dog will almost always fail outside! Calm the dog and calm the behavior.
Another piece of the puzzle is the dog obedience training. In many cases, dog reactivity boils down to insecurity. Obedience training and advanced obedience training boosts a dogs confidence, it teaches the dog to look to the owner for direction rather than trying to handle it on its own, it builds a connection between dog and owner that also boosts its confidence. That connection then becomes "It's you and me against the world" rather than the dog feeling like "Oh crap here comes another dog!"
Communication is a very important piece of the reactivity puzzle. This is how I recommend you communicate with your dog: Verbal (calmly), body language, energy, and pressure (spatial pressure, prong collar pressure, e collar pressure). Dog obedience training and communication begins to teach a dog that simply put, no means no. Communication to me doesn't include yelling, standing over your dog, hitting, slapping butts or muzzles, grabbing collars. Communication should always be calm and matter of fact. You want to communicate calmness? Then be calm!
Correcting the dogs behavior is another piece. When done correctly and timely, a correction allows the dog to see what is not acceptable behavior. Without laws and rules that were upheld by our police officers, our human world would be chaotic and dangerous. In a pack of dogs, there is a alpha that sets the rules and upholds them. House dogs also need to know what the rules are and that there are consequences for breaking the rules. Without rules and consequence, their world feels chaotic and dangerous.
Then there are all the little pieces that are so small, they add up to a big piece! You need a professional to help you with those pieces--it's the little nuances that you think couldn't possibly make a difference, but put them together and they do! That's my job: Provide you with all the pieces, big and small, and then teach you how to continue putting your puzzle together, with your dog, as a team!
State of mind training is a crucial piece of the puzzle! A crazy, hyper, spastic dog will almost always fail outside! Calm the dog and calm the behavior.
Another piece of the puzzle is the dog obedience training. In many cases, dog reactivity boils down to insecurity. Obedience training and advanced obedience training boosts a dogs confidence, it teaches the dog to look to the owner for direction rather than trying to handle it on its own, it builds a connection between dog and owner that also boosts its confidence. That connection then becomes "It's you and me against the world" rather than the dog feeling like "Oh crap here comes another dog!"
Communication is a very important piece of the reactivity puzzle. This is how I recommend you communicate with your dog: Verbal (calmly), body language, energy, and pressure (spatial pressure, prong collar pressure, e collar pressure). Dog obedience training and communication begins to teach a dog that simply put, no means no. Communication to me doesn't include yelling, standing over your dog, hitting, slapping butts or muzzles, grabbing collars. Communication should always be calm and matter of fact. You want to communicate calmness? Then be calm!
Correcting the dogs behavior is another piece. When done correctly and timely, a correction allows the dog to see what is not acceptable behavior. Without laws and rules that were upheld by our police officers, our human world would be chaotic and dangerous. In a pack of dogs, there is a alpha that sets the rules and upholds them. House dogs also need to know what the rules are and that there are consequences for breaking the rules. Without rules and consequence, their world feels chaotic and dangerous.
Then there are all the little pieces that are so small, they add up to a big piece! You need a professional to help you with those pieces--it's the little nuances that you think couldn't possibly make a difference, but put them together and they do! That's my job: Provide you with all the pieces, big and small, and then teach you how to continue putting your puzzle together, with your dog, as a team!
