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Dog training school safety management
#hondenschool #hondentraining #dogtraining #dogtrainingschool At OhMyDog, we don’t kid around with safety: We have strict screening rules for acceptable dog behaviour for group class. We have clear, often repeated and diligently implemented policies about distance between the dogs. We have a compulsory team safety guide. Our First Aid boxes are in order and always in […]
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Littermate syndrome (nestgenoot syndroom)
We sometimes get a mail in our inbox asking to register 2 pups at once. Instead of filling us with joy, we dread the moment that we’ll have to explain littermate syndrome to the unsuspecting owner. Littermate syndrome: what is it? Littermate syndrome is a phenomenon that we often see, whereby littermates who are raised […]
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A look at SATS training in practice – SynAlliance Training System
Today, we started working on the ‘go-to-your-basket’ exercise, on the request of the dog’s owner. Easy – peasy, right? Not so much in this case, because there’s a twist. The dog in question has Generalized Anxiety, and one of the symptoms is neophobia (fear of unfamiliar situations, persons, animals, locations and objects). How do we […]
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Dog behaviour therapy behind the scenes: chasing the cat and dog-dog aggression
Allow me to lift the veil on behaviour therapy and share a typical progress report. This is one I’ve received this week. These reports illustrate the peaks and troughs of behaviour therapy: rare are the quick solutions and smooth sailing cases. It also illustrates how much we rely on management, particularly at the beginning, when […]
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9 November 2018: Letter to Parliament about high-risk dog breeds
Minister of Agriculture Carola Schouten wrote a letter to Parliament informing them of the current state of affair regarding the proposed legislation on High-Risk Dogs on 9 November 2018. OhMyDog! has studied the document and is summarising it for you below. In short: The municipalities, the police and the government will collaborate to tackle the […]
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Teach your puppy to be a great patient
As a Certified Fear Free Veterinary Handling professional, the “learn to love vet procedures” is my favourite puppy lesson to give. “Fear-Free” stands for reducing the chance that animals are traumatised by veterinary intervention through behavioural prevention, teaching the pet and treatment. We don’t just leave it in the hands of professional trainers and behaviourists, […]
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Dog training: How do I get my dog to ignore skateboards? (and horses, and mopeds, and kids)
[pictures shared with explicit owner permission] ‘Check!’ dog training exercise: the steps The ‘check’ exercise features in nearly every puppy lesson at OhMyDog!, where we stage different real-life situations for the pups to learn to deal with. When it’s been practised to death, it looks like this: You spot a horse/skateboard/moped/screaming child/fast cyclist/whatever has the […]
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Scientific discovery by one of your dog nerds in The Hague
As you know, OhMyDogs aren’t just dog trainers, we are dog nerds. Most of us have a scientific degree in an animal- or behaviour-related field. Iva (Dr. Njunjic to give her her full title), for example, is not only a dog walker in Leiden (https://www.facebook.com/petsittingleiden/) and a behaviour coach in training with us, but she […]
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OhMyDog theory evening on dog behaviour in The Hague
I had a great time presenting the theory evening in The Hague last night, even though I had my puppy brains on (supervising the puppy class before the theory can be hard on ye old trainer). Thank you so much for your participation, particularly Zehra, who was our ‘French’ victim for the free-shaping game. As promised, […]
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New class schedule is out for December 2015
The latest class schedule is out. Our new cycle for Obedience 1 starts on 2 December 2015. To register, click here. For the timetable in Dutch, click here.
