Harvey The Rescue

Meet Mindy 🤎

i’m already so in love with her, even with how stinky smelly she is right now!!! harvey and azula have not met her yet, we’re keeping them separate until we get her to the vet at least, and will take intro very slow so she has time to decompress and heal. right now, the priority is just getting her skin healthy again. she’s so itchy 💔

p.s., pls stop buying frenchies from breeders.

the key isn’t reinforcing your dog for engaging with you, the key is teaching your dog their trigger predicts good things!

a marker is crucial, but if your dog is not disengaging from their trigger when you mark, it means they are over threshold (usually meaning too close to the trigger) and we need to get more space and adjust the environment before we expect them to be able to learn and disengage.

i regularly see people make the mistake of waiting too long to reinforce their dog, then their dog reacts and they start trying to get them to sit or focus on them. it’s so well intention to attempt this, but one small tweak and you’ll start seeing so much progress 👏

🫪🫪🫪🫪