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Welcome!  As Canine Coaches we feel it is our responsibility (and our passion) to offer resources to assist you in making "informed decisions" about your puppy/dog's education and well-being.  We encourage positive-reward-based-training focused on awareness, understanding and building a trusting relationship.  After reading this, consider clicking one (or all) of the areas of interest below.  These will help "get you started" on a positive path to a healthy, long and loving relationship with your dog:

From experience, we can share that it truly is not just about the puppy!  Adding a puppy (or adult dog) to your family is a decision requiring careful planning (not impulsive).  All puppies need socialization, housetraining, healthy nutrition, careful and appropriate exercise (based upon age & condition), and grooming.  All dogs need an overall sense of well-being and a leader that they can trust as a reliable guide.  Being a good canine guide is very similar to learning a foreign language,  a new culture or a new job.  Learning body language, communication skills and how to successfully motivate aids the learning the process.    

Dogs are remarkably resilient and adaptable. They learn to survive; a lesson that humans would bode well to consider.  As with human children, puppies can have a beginning blessed with understanding, awareness, patience and love.  As with humans, other puppies can be ignored, misunderstood, abandoned and abused.  Some will become more resilient, surviving in spite of their conditioning and environments.  They are lucky enough to meet role models, kind people and mentors who will empathize and intuitively know that with a little care, consideration and an open-mind, most dogs will integrate into a family and make good companions.

Our passion is to teach and offer resources that will open-your-mind to new possibilities and alternatives in teaching your dog.  It is all about awareness, education and building a trusting relationship (with any species).  It is about teaching in a way that puppies can understand.  For puppies, it boils down to the basics of adjusting from a litter of puppies to a human household.  The following are some basics to help you along the way with the first tip being:

• Learn to breathe consciously

• Get centered, focused and in the present moment (dogs live here)

• Set an intention:  what kind of adult dog do I want my puppy to be

• Don't train when you are stressed out

Puppies are simply guessing!  They live in the here and now. Okay, take a deep three part belly breath; first filling your abdomen, your core area being the ribs and lastly, your chest!  Hold that for 4 seconds and exhale slowly.  Do that at least 3X and before reacting anything, especially puppy pee!  Puppies are learning!  While teaching your puppy, you can teach yourself how to be in the "present moment".  So, let's begin ...

[Breathe in fresh oxygen with an open mind, breathe out stress and anxiety[

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