[Sam]

@buoy_is_a_frog

[Armando]

My dog training business page

https://www.instagram.com/armandomorales77

[Leslie]

Hi!

Here is Riff’s Instagram account. I just started it yesterday!

https://www.instagram.com/riff_raff_scrappy_pants/

[Andy]

Done

[Ariane]

Hello, I have 3 Cane Corsi and here is our IG, I also foster as well.

https://www.instagram.com/plantsandpups26/

[corrinna]

Hardog_rogue

[Melissa]

Anubis_dog_god almost 2 yr old belgian malinois x malamute 🙂

[Ashley Thurston]

Here is my 2.5 year old male Ridgeback’s page. I post a mix of our training and just general fun dog stuff. @atticustheridgeback . Will have a trainer page soon and will add at that time.

[Leo]

I have to get better at actually posting to my dog’s page, but here it is nonetheless:

https://www.instagram.com/solanthemalligator

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[Georgina]

A bit of a long story here. My problem is slightly different. I joined Robert’s members very recently. I’m in the UK. I got my first mali puppy as a retiree, with lots of time. A beautiful bitey female from two working parents. I brought her home and let her settle. She was difficult in those first 10 days but not worse than I was prepared for. I’d recently lost my Rhodesian Ridgeback, who I adored. I just couldn’t live in a silent house and went to pick her up, to help me with my bereavement, as I knew she would be a lot of work and I was prepared for that. Two weeks after I got her, early in Nov 2020 I succumbed to Covid, got pneumonia and spent twelve days touch and go in hospital. She was 12 weeks when I came home, virtually disabled, by not being able to walk more than a few steps, without getting breathless. No environmentals for my pup until 5.5 months. Training facilities had still not really opened up, so although very experienced with working breeds, I found myself on her first walk at that advanced age with a dog who lunged so much that she was on her back legs for most of the walk, a snarling terrified mess of a dog. I did manage to go to a mali experienced trainer a few weeks later. After two sessions he said ‘she should never be allowed around people and definitely nowhere near children. Give her to a night watchman where she can do a job. She’ll never be a pet.’ I never went back to him. The one good thing he did was introduce me to a prong collar. I started working with her the next morning. Walks were used for training. Basic commands which I’d taught her at home, every few hundred metres. I sat her when people and other dogs passed and kept a safe distance. Day in, day out for 8 months or so. Repetition, praising and rewarding or at times admonishing. At 11 months I got rid of the prong collar and was able to walk her on a flat collar. She was still very watchful and I think she will always be. It’s no bad thing, as she’s never attempted to bite a person or another animal. She’s now great around other animals, even our cat. I started her on flyball at a 18 months. The people persevered with me and her and she learned very quickly, with a military precision. She went up hit the box and came back back with the ball. She would often nose bump the incoming dog at the electronic timing and it reduced the number of dogs she could team with, as some were terrified of this intense starey looking dog hurtling towards them. She is now a valued member of the team. 100% reliable and instead of being feared by handlers and dogs, she now gets lots of love from the majority. She’s trustworthy. I got my second mali, a male who at 15 months now is a giant. She has a companion.

So in the last 18-24 months I’ve started her on Nosework and Competitive Obedience. She’s a super clever mali. She’s pretty good at everything she tries……..except heel on and off lead.

She will walk to heel but getting her to look at me, more than fleetingly is a major goal. My male more or less started off the real deal with obedience (still would go home with another dog if I let him off leash with total freedom) he watches me no problem. He is not as switched on or half as clever as my girl but he could do very well at obedience and scentwork. So there is my very long story. The bond between me and my dogs is very strong now. However I share this desire to get my female’s head up and looking at me for more than .5 of a second, at a time. I’ve watched Robert’s videos, implemented a few new tactics light spitting cheese. My girl generally gets in the rosettes because she is clever and does retrieve and recall perfectly but in competitive obedience heel is everything so that first place eludes us. Please everybody, give me your tips. My Dolly is nearly 4 and she and her brother by another mother, are my world. Please tell me about your struggles with heel and importantly what you tried to overcome them.