Dog Obedience Training

Linn Boyke, Professional Dog Behaviorist, offers his tips for the most important type of training to do with your dog before a baby arrives
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If I could find one thing that parents could do to make things easier for them to prepare for the baby it’s to create one behavior for the dog. And everybody in training, they call it place or bed. I don’t want it to be one place or bed. I want it to be any place or bed. That’s where I want them to stay until I ask them to do something different. And it’s nothing to be mean about. It’s not a punishment at all. They need to learn. They want to learn, but they don’t know what you want, because most humans don’t know what they want. So if we pick one spot, and we put the dog there, anticipate it getting up 1K times. Just place the dog back in there with no words. If we get frustrated that the dog gets up, the dog doesn’t know how to count. This is the 15th time I’ve had to – the dog does not know how to count. Don’t bring anything personal into it. Place the dog. When it gets up, place the dog. When it gets up, place the dog. When it gets up, place the dog. When it gets up, place the dog. Sooner or later, the dog will say, I think you want me to be right here. And I’m going to pay close attention to you in case you want me to be somewhere else. And when you master one place here pick a different place. And you do it again. As if the dog never did it before, because it didn’t do it before in that spot. Context is everything to a dog. But the more places that you put the dog and expect it to be there. Don’t ask it to stay. I just want you to be there. The more places you put the dog and expect it to be there, the easier it is for the dog to understand that when you put me here, you don’t want me to move until you ask me to do something else. I have a job. And that is to pay attention to my next direction.
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Linn Boyke, Professional Dog Behaviorist, offers his tips for the most important type of training to do with your dog before a baby arrives

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Linn Boyke

Founder, ZEN4K9S Behavioral Recovery Center and Beyond the Dog

Linn Boyke began his work with dogs in 1997, after the tragic loss of his dog Ginger fueled his desire to help other dogs. He started with a dog walking business and later, began offering private lessons of training in obedience. Linn quickly found that traditional methods of training had little effect on his clients' dog behavioral issues. He wanted to provide the help they needed and began searching for answers to the concerns they had about their dogs. When he failed to find this information, Linn became very frustrated. It became clear to Linn that his emotions had a dramatic effect on the dogs, which caused their behaviors to escalate. He nearly gave up all together before finally hearing about a man people were calling the "Dog Whisperer", Cesar Millan. After spending only a few minutes with Cesar, Linn knew that he was in the right place to get the information that he sought. With Cesar's guidance and consistent invitation to be in the present moment, Cesar helped Linn to discover that he already had the answers. It clearly was not a dog issue, but a lack of communication.

In 2004, Cesar's life changed forever when National Geographic Channel picked up his show, "Dog Whisperer", that quickly caught the world's attention. Soon after, Cesar was informed that his busy schedule would not allow time to provide private consultations and rehabilitation. Cesar's "Ripple Effect" then changed Linn's life forever too. For the next three years, all calls to Cesar's Dog Psychology Center for consultations and rehabilitation were referred to Linn. Linn was extremely honored to be asked to continue teaching Cesar's philosophy.

Many lives have been changed after meeting and working with Linn. Clients have driven from all over California and from as far away as Connecticut, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Las Vegas, Montana, Michigan, Arkansas, and Washington to have consultations with him. Linn will always be grateful to Cesar for showing him what is possible through self-awareness. Cesar is his greatest role model. Linn has also spent time with three greats in the dog world: Martin Deeley, Mark Goldberg and Robin MacFarlane, learning their unique methods of using the remote training collar. Linn is very proud to be a professional level member of International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP).

Although Linn was trained directly by Cesar, he has developed many ideas and techniques that he has combined to create his own philosophy. He is teaching these methods to hand-picked applicants from around the world at his School of Dog Psychology in the LA area. Linn is dedicated to educating as many people as possible to help them better understand how dogs communicate and how to provide for them.

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