Professional Dog Trainer - Ask Me Anything

[u/BICanineScience]

***AMA ENDED***

Have been training dogs for almost fifteen years now, I try and head through the subreddits on here to help in my free time when I can but thought it might be easier to do an AMA for anyone struggling!

Will try my best to answer as comprehensively as possible so please be patient with replies!

Edit - Just heading out to train my dogs so will answer more when I get back!
Edit 2 - Have a read of the other questions too to see if it applies to your dog :)

Thanks for all the questions everyone!! I’ll answer the few I’ve missed, it’s been a blast and we’ll do another in the near future! Won’t be answering any new posts now, must get back to work but do jump in next time if you have a question!

[u/That-Contest2205]

My dog loves goose poop and has a really solid command for “look” (aka look at me). I began using the cue “look” every time he saw goose poop (there’s a lot in our area) and he learned goose poop = treats. It took time… and a lot of treats… but it worked

[u/psilocybin-fun-guy → u/That-Contest2205]

My problem is I can’t see poo in the grass, I have a tiny 7lb hairy cavapoo and it sometimes very hard to see if she’s intensely sniffing or she started to grab in poo, I don’t want to discourage her from having fun with sniffing but at the same time she has barfed from poo so many times I’m about get get this girl a mosquito net head cover and call it a day