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Text Box: Meet our Trainer "CINDY" Cindy is a certified professional trainer from Florida. She is currently serving in the United States Army. She had her own training business in Florida called Lucky Dawgz Professional Training. She was the Vice President for the Humane Society of Citrus County. She was active in adopting unruly and unadoptable shelter dogs. She taught them obedience and good house manners. Every one has been adopted and one named scooby is doing commercials for ford Motor Company. She believes that by understanding the dogs actions you understand why they do what they do. She teaches you and your dog a language that both of you understand. Creating a stronger bond and better understanding for both. She uses positive motivational praise both physical and verbal. She is an expert in behavioral problems. She can help if all you need is advice for a particular habit or if you need lessons. Call her to find out what training would be best for you.

Text Box: 50% Deposit Is Required For All In House Training

Text Box: PRICES   Personal Sessions $35.00 Session   Six-week Class $90.00 Saturdays 9:00- 10:30 A.M On Leash Basic Obedience $350.00  14 Days

Text Box: Training Commands That Will Be Taught   HEEL SIT DOWN   COME   STAND FINISH SIT & DOWN from a distance

Text Box: Instructions and Hints Leash Control- Hold the leash in right hand. Place right thumb in hoop. Place excess leash over thumb and grip the entire leash with hand like holding a baseball bat. Allow your left hand to hang free.                                     Hint: Put left hand behind back or in pocket to avoid using it. Praise- When the dog is in the ideal position or doing something correctly you want to praise it. Verbal praise- Good girl or That's better if you had to correct before they obeyed Physical praise- When the dog does whatever the command is the first time without needing any correction. Stroke the dog while giving verbal praise. You are giving it something to work towards. Hint: Praise must be authentic! Correction- Your first correction must be your best! When the dog is not obeying, you can correct verbally and physically. Verbal- Saying "No" Physical- Leash correction, snap and release of the leash. The zip of the chain gets the dogs' attention. The dog associates the physical correction with the verbal correction. You can use a squirt bottle or a can with pennies in it as a physical correction as well. When the dog is inside and off leash and you need to make a correction those suggestions are a good substitute. Heel/Auto Sit- Dog should be at your left side. Start walking forward, give hand signal and say "heel". When dog starts to go in front take a sharp right turn and correct, saying "No" pause "Heel". Once dog gets into the exact position praise "Good girl/boy". When dog is lagging behind, motivate it up to the proper position, by saying " let's go let's go." Once in position praise, "good girl." As the dog gets to understand the heel you can make sharp left turns to make the dog stay back a little further. Hint: Always correct in the direction you want the dog to go. Ex: correct back if the dog is ahead. Correct to the left if the dog is hugging your leg. Timing of the correction is very important. As you prepare to stop raise up on the leash directly over the dogs' head and say "sit", with your left hand you can press down a little on the hind between the hip bones. There is a pressure point there. Don't push down on the hip bones. As the dog starts to sit lay off the help and stand up straight. Motivate her as she gets into the position, "that's right that's right, good girl." Hint: As the dog starts to sit automatically stop giving it the verbal command and start correcting her for not sitting automatically. Gradually make it hold the sit and step away slowly to the right then step back over and praise if it didn't move or correct for moving and try again until it succeeds. Down at side- while dog is in auto sit position you raise your left hand at the elbow so your hand is horizontal to the dog. Then say d-o-w-n-n in a slow drawn out soft tone. Repeat the command as you slowly bend down with the left hand you push down on dog and reach over with the right hand grab a hold of the leash under the neck and gently pull and release, pull and release. Once dog is down you slide leash under foot and stand up slowly. Then go into a heel. If the dog jumps up before you can go into a heel repeat the down instructions.  Note: This is a very submissive position for a dog so it will fight this position in the beginning until it trusts you enough that you won't allow anything to happen to it while it is down there. Note 2: If the dog rolls onto its' back stand up and walk away quickly saying Heel. Do this until the dog goes down without rolling on its' side. When you start to notice the dog going down before you bend down, stop bending down. Let them do it on their own. Always give the hand signal first then say the word. The dog will soon catch on and start going down just with the hand signal and not the verbal command. You can also use the foot to pull the dog down. While dog is at side in a sit. Let out enough leash and slide it under your right foot. Give the hand signal and then the verbal command, meanwhile, pull up gently on leash using your foot as a lever. When you notice the dog is going down on its own you can start using the correction when it doesn't go down.           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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