09/30/08

 

 

 

Professional Puppy Training

With soft and loving eyes that melt, the feeling of puppy breath on our checks, and the endless hours of entertainment and love, no wonder we all love puppies!!!  Puppies can bring such joy into our lives, but as some have found - they can bring stresses as well.  Some new owners just don't understand what they are getting into - bringing in a new puppy. 

So we have decided that we would offer professional training - for those that are interested in getting a more well behaved puppy.  Those wonderful bundles of bliss, not only need love - but time, care, attention, and training.  This is where our Professional Puppy Trainer comes in.

A puppy's first year, is equivalent to a human's first 15 years of life.  What is learned during the first year - is taken throughout the life of the puppy.  It is therefore important that owners focus on helping their impressionable pups become well-mannered and happy adult dogs.

With that said, we have decided to offer our new future pet owners a chance to have their pup professionally trained prior to your pup coming home.  There are two options that you can choose from - read about them and we can discuss in further detail if you are interested.  You will be able to keep track of your own pups personal advancement with photos and video from the trainer.  And the trainer also send each pup home with a video, walking you through each command with the trainer.  So that you can continue to follow through with each command at your own home.

I am so confident with these trainers - that my young boy Pride is heading over to be trained himself.  These people are wonderful, and you will see for yourself with your new very well trained pup!!

 

Training Methods our Trainers use:

Praise and discipline are the key components to our training and approach.  Boundaries which consist of right and wrong behavior are clearly defined and shown to the dog/puppy.  The dog/puppy is then rewarded with physical and verbal praise every time he/she makes the right response, even if the dog is 10 years old and has done it a million times, it is still rewarded with praise, because we never take the dog from granted!

Likewise the dog/puppy is disciplined in an appropriate manner provided we are certain the dog/puppy is not possibly confused, but is instead refusing a command by choice.  The dog/puppy is also disciplined for any inappropriate behavior, beginning with verbal corrections and then following through with physical corrections if behavior continues.

Our discipline and corrections are never harsh or abusive.  For adult dogs, we simply follow through when they refuse, by making them do the command again with our help and a firm leash and or firm "NO".  For puppies, we try to emulate the puppy's mother, by giving a firm "No" in a deep voice, for inappropriate behavior.  For dominance issues, such as biting and growling, the next step is to gently place the puppy on it's back, holding it down until it submits.  The last resort is to give the puppy a firm, but gentle shake of the scruff of the neck, also using a verbal "No" in a deep voice.

It is our firm belief that consequences are the greatest teachers in life!!  What this creates is a happy, secure, well adjusted dog/puppy, who flourishes because it clearly understands right behavior from wrong behavior.  And the dog quickly learns that there is always a consequence, good or bad for every choice or action made. 

So we choose to make the dog/puppy responsible for its own actions by giving the dog/puppy the choice to obey or disobey, thus instilling responsibility, respect, and decisiveness in the dog/puppy.

 

Two Different Training Choices to choose from:

               

Puppy Canine Good Citizen

 

Description:  10 weeks of training preparing the puppy for the real world - ending with the CGC test.

Age Requirement:  8 weeks minimum

 

What is taught:

  1. Puppy will be house trained and crate trained
  2. Puppy will be taught to accept brushing and nail trimming, as well as tolerate being examined all over.
  3. Basic Obedience, which includes: (heeling on leash, sit, down, short stays, and recalls (coming when called).
  4. Any behavioral problems are addressed and dealt with such as: biting/nipping, chewing, barking, whining, growling, possessiveness of food or toys, jumping up etc.
  5. Puppy is socialized to and around different people (and children), places, and other animals such as dogs, cats, horses, cows, chickens etc.

This training produces a well socialized and really well mannered puppy.

Your puppy will be tested for the CGC test at the end of the 10 weeks and you will be provided a certificate to send in for their reward from the AKC.

Click here for rules of the CGC Test

(A video is made of your puppy throughout the training process to insure that you have a clear understanding of the proper techniques).

 

 

 

  

Puppy Retriever Training

 

Description: 10 weeks of training to lay the proper foundation           for the hunting retriever.

Age Requirement: 8 weeks minimum

 

What is taught:

  1. Puppy is taught the basic commands of sit, stay, and come,         as well as taught to heel on a leash.
  2. Introduced to whistle training
  3. Introduced to Birds and quartering (working a field)
  4. Properly introduced to guns, as well as retrieving
  5. Will be evaluated as to how much potential it has for        becoming a hunting retriever in the future

 

You will not have a finished Gun Dog by any means (it usually            takes 1-2 years worth of training).  But what you will have                  is is a proper foundation laid for a hunting retriever.


  (Videos are made throughout the training process to
insure that you have a clear understanding of the
proper techniques).

Photos of our Well Trained Pups

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Video's of our Well Trained Pups

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  TRAINER INFORMATION

  John and Dawn Robertson live in Burwell, Nebraska.
They started training dogs in 1983.  They began showing
in Obedience Compitition in 1989.  Dawn trained and showed her
tiny black Pomeranian Sunway's Black Breeze finishing
her C.D.X. in high style with a High In Trial at the Pomeranian
Specialty in Desmoines, I.A.  She was rated the #6 Obedience
Pomeranian in the nation.


  John trained and showed his Newfoundland Playguards
Carebear Barimor to his C.D.X. title and was rated the #1 Newfoundland in the nation.


  Then two years later he showed the dog and recieved his U.D. title
and was again rated the #1 Obedience Newfoundland.
  They then rescued a Great Pyrenees from the local shelter,
Sunway's Carebear Paravel.  John finished his C.D. with a tie
for High In Trial with a score of 198 out of a possible 200.
He was rated the #1 Obedience Pyrenees in the nation.


A year later he finished his C.D.X. title with two back to back
scores of 197.5.  He was again rated the #1 Pyrenees in the nation.
  After seven years in Obedience, they began training dogs for other
people.  They also began training hunting retrievers for about five
years.

                                    

CREDITS
 
   We would like to give credit where credit is due!
First of all, we would like to give credit to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior,
who makes all things possible!
   Secondly, to the late William Koehler, whose books and methods,       have led, guided, and inspired us along the way.  They are our             solid foundation for all of our dog training.


   And lastly to our dear friends Shane and Angela Alberts who             have the most beautiful and highest quality Golden Retrievers that            we have ever seen.  You are also two of the nicest and most              giving people that we have ever met.  And you have shown us               that honesty and integrety really do exist in some people!