SHILOH K9 OBEDIENCE Training & Boarding Center, LLC

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The Attached PDF file, to read about our "PHILOSOPHY & PRACTICE OF DOG TRAINING METHODS!"

They are provided in an outline form!

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Whatever Breed or Mixed Breed of Dog you own, we will be able to help you learn how to train and handle your K9 Friend.

Our Engaging Training Methods will equip you to work with your dog in fun and functional ways.

What Qualities Must A Good Dog Trainer Possess?

By David R. Dee

What are some of “the best of the best qualities” that a dog trainer must possess to train you and your dog, so that your dog’s obedience and behavior is qualitatively good to excellent in all kinds of environmental and social settings?

1.)   The dog trainer must love people and dogs.

2.)   The dog trainer must be able to communicate, with words and body language, so that both humans and dogs understand them.

3.)   The dog trainer must be able to read and understand dog behavior, by observing a dog’s body language.

4.)   The dog trainer must be a well-rounded person, intellectually, socially and spiritually. They must be a person who is able to relate to people and dogs of all kinds of backgrounds and potentials.

5.)   The dog trainer must have received a well-rounded education and the experience of interacting with people and dogs. Whether through academic instruction and/or through being mentored by an expert dog trainer and handler!

6.)   The dog trainer must be a patient, persistent person with high but achievable expectations for both the people and the dogs that they are working with in training.

7.)   The dog trainer must be able to fine tune their well thought out training philosophy so as to apply it with training methods that fit each individual dog’s genetic predisposition, the dog’s temperament, and the dog’s prey drive.

8.)   The dog trainer must be consistent and constant with the application of their training methods. The human handler needs to be predictable to the dog, so that the command words and hand signals, along with the corrections and engagements with the dog, are always being experienced by the dog with regularity.

9.)   The dog trainer must be constantly developing themselves educationally and experientially in the art of training dogs and in their understanding of animal behavior as a human being.

10.)   The dog trainer must be faithfully fair and firm with each and every dog while engaging the dog in obedience training, service work, socialization with people and other animals, and in correcting and conditioning a dog to be a well-rounded canine that is a good citizen among both people and other animals.

 Meet Elaine and her

THERAPY DOG, "LILO!"

Elaine brought her French Bulldog, LILO, to approximately twelve of our "1 0n 1" ONE HOUR training sessions.

After LILO was trained to pass her AKC "Canine Good Citizen" test, and with further training and conditioning of LILO with our "trust-building" methods, Elaine was able to introduce LILO to a residential elder care facility. There LILO put her willing obedience and fine social skills on display with wonderful canine to human interactions.

[LILO is being conditioned by Elaine to sit on a chair to be close enough for a person in a wheelchair to pet her!]

 Elaine working with her THERAPY DOG, "LILO!"

Everyone loved visiting with this lovely little French Bulldog!

GOOD WORK, "TEAM LOLA!"

October - 2019

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 Meet Matthew and his

SERVICE DOG, "TOBY!"

 [We share Matthew's Story with his permission...]

 Due to a car accident several years ago, Matthew suffered a TBI, (traumatic brain injury), and he has frequent seizures which can cause blackouts. Though Matthew does not have to use his own wheelchair very often, you can see that we also trained and conditioned TOBY to work as Matthew's SERVICE DOG, around a wheelchair.

Matthew contacted us about TRAINING & BOARDING his Standard Poodle, TOBY, with the desire to have TOBY become his SERVICE DOG.

TOBY had to be able to provide

Matthew with both the ability to do

"mobility" and "PTSD" support work

in all kinds of conditions.

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 The Following Pictures Show The Progression

That TOBY, and his owner MATTHEW,

made during the seven weeks that TOBY

spent in our TRAIN & BOARD program...

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 The starting point with TOBY was to condition

him to LOVE TO WATCH his human handler.

(Our assistant trainer, Makayla, began by training TOBY with a hand gesture and the phrase, "WATCH ME," to help TOBY focus his eyes on the person he was working with, to keep him from focusing on other distractions.)

Of course TOBY liked receiving a little tastey treat

for learning his SERIVC DOG skills!

Matthew used our handwave over the head,

to signal and call TOBY to come to him...

Having a SERVICE DOG respond to a CALL COMMAND by coming to his owner, sitting down and looking up at Matthew, gives Matthew the ability to take hold of TOBY by his leash and to walk with TOBY without the dog running off.

When walking with his SERVICE DOG, "TOBY," the best thing for his dog to do, after TOBY has obeyed the command to "HEEL" by walking calmly at Matthew's side, is for TOBY to automatically stop and look at Matthew when Matthew stops to rest, to check traffic on a street corner, or to simply meet and greet another person that Matthew may want to visit.

TOBY needed to learn to "HEEL" by walking along the side of Matthew's wheelchair too.

Training & Conditioning TOBY to "TRUST" his owner, MATTHEW, has been a major benefit for the relationship between Matthew and his canine companion!

[After taking several steps to have TOBY trust Matthew to walk around and then across the ramp, TOBY was trusting and willing to obey Matthew's command to "DOWN & STAY" on the ramp, even with Matthew walking away from his dog.]

During TOBY'S seven week TRAINING & BOARDING time with us,

he was socialized with many different dogs.

TOBY was trained to "BACKUP" with his human hander,

by backing up with him!

TOBY was conditioned to come and lay across the lap of a person if they fell on the ground, in order to apply pressure to calm that person.

 TOBY was trained to jump over an object if he needed

to get over a barrier between him and his owner.

TOBY was trained to weave around objects

in order to get to the location of his owner.

TOBY was conditioned to lay down and stay in place

on top of an elevated platform.

TOBY was taught to take directions to "GO RIGHT,"

(or, GO LEFT), on command!

Greeting another person with TOBY as his SERVICE DOG, means that Matthew is able to command TOBY to remain uninvolved with Matthew's engagement with another person.

 TOBY and Matthew learned to work as a team when approaching their vehicle - Toby learned to wait to approach the van and not to pull Matthew to it.

Waiting for Matthew's command to load up,

TOBY prepares to jump up and walk into his travel crate...

Safe and secure, TOBY can travel with Matthew and his family and preform his SERVICE DOG work anywhere at anytime.

TIME TO PUT

A WELL-TRAINED SERVICE DOG

TO THE TEST!

(Matthew is telling TOBY to "HEEL"

as they walk through a shopping mall together...)

If Matthew goes shopping for something, like a pair of shoes,

then TOBY has to obey the commands to "DOWN & STAY"

while Matthew tries something on for size and checks it out,

without TOBY getting involved...

If Matthew drops something like a belt on the floor,

TOBY must be trained and conditioned to not touch

an object that he is supposed to leave alone.

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Why Don't You Contact Us

And Make An Appointment

To TRAIN YOUR CANINE

COMPANION with our TEAM

at SHILOH K9 OBEDIENCE... LLC!

call: (989)-429-9138

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"A TRAINED DOG

WILL NOT OBEY

AN UNTRAINED HUMAN!"

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The picture above is of our resident

German Shepherd Dog, "TROOPER!"

The "riveted" eye contact that you can observe, as Trooper gives me his full and undivided "focused" attention, is not an accidental lucky camera shot!

TROOPER was TRAINED by me, as a "TRAINED TRAINER," to "WATCH ME" by my use of an excited engagement method to give TROOPER a welcoming invitation to keep his eyes focused on me while I took his picture!

Trooper did not train himself to do this kind of thing. Trooper did not happen by chance to look in my direction when I had my camera ready to take his picture.

As a "TRAINED HUMAN BEING" I have "TRAINED MY DOG" to "OBEY ME," to ENGAGE WITH ME, TO LIVE WITH ME, PLAY WITH ME, WORK WITH ME, to EXPERIENCE LIFE WITH ME, as TROOPER'S TRAINED HUMAN BEING who  owns a TRAINED, OBEDIENT DOG!

...And this does not happen by some accidental, lucky outcome without my HUMAN UNDERSTANDING and LEARNED SKILL TO TRAIN MY DOG TO ENGAGE WITH ME and WILLINGLY OBEY MY COMMANDS!

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In my many, many, many years of working with all kinds of dogs I have never yet observed a canine of any age, breed, or temperament, thoroughly  obey an untrained human being!

BUT, I HAVE OBSERVED many human beings who falsely, or assumimngly, expect that if their puppy or adult dog, or even someone else's dog, is "TRAINED," then that dog will automatically "OBEY" them if it is "GOOD DOG!" After all, only "BAD DOGS" do not "OBEY" a human being; "RIGHT?"

"WRONG!!!"

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"A TRAINED DOG

WILL NOT OBEY

AN UNTRAINED HUMAN!"

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Are you tired of being

an "UNTRAINED

HUMAN BEING"

who owns a puppy

or adult dog that

will not "OBEY" you?

Then call me and lets work as a TEAM,

with you and your wonderful puppy or adult dog,

to TRAIN YOU AS A "HUMAN" how to

TRAIN YOUR "CANINE" to OBEY YOU

as a "WELL-TRAINED HUMAN BEING!"

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call: (989)-429-9138

ask for: DAVID

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BEWARE OF BAD DOG TRAINERS...

DOG TRAINING METHODS

WEAR ALL KINDS

OF LABELS!

The Two Most Common Labels That People Hear

About Dog Trainers Is That The Dog Training Method

Used By Them Is Either

OLD SCHOOL [Negative/Correction Training]  or

NEW SCHOOL [Positive/Reward Training ONLY]!

TRUE OR FALSE???

If a trainer CORRECTS an aggresive or stubborn dog,

then that trainer is a BAD trainer!!!

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TRUE OR FALSE???

If a trainer REWARDS a friendly or cooperative dog,

and just ignores an aggresive or stubborn dog,

then that trainer is a GOOD trainer!!!

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IF YOU WANT TO BE EDUCATED AND INFORMED

AND ENABLED TO FAIRLY AND FIRMLY  TRAIN AND ENGAGE

AND ENJOY AND LOVE AND LIVE WITH YOUR DOG AS YOUR

CANINE COMPANION, A DOG THAT RESPECTS AND OBEYS

AND TRUSTS AND LOVES YOU -

THEN PLEASE, GET THIS BOOK AND READ IT!

IT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND HOW NOT TO BE

BRAINWASHED BY THEORETICAL DOG TRAINERS WHO

CANNOT EQUIP YOU TO LIVE WITH YOUR DOG IN THE REAL

WORLD OF DOG OWNERSHIP!