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THE SIRIUS PUPPY RAISING INITIATIVE FOR DOG PROFESSIONALS: BREEDERS, VETERINARIANS, PET STORES, TRAINERS, AND SHELTERS

• Breeders, Veterinarians and Pet Stores are the first point of contact with puppies and any successful puppy raising program depends on you. Please do your best to ensure that puppy owners contact trainers as early as possible to prevent them from going to shelters.
• Puppies must be safely socialized to people and taught to enjoy being hugged and handled (restrained and examined) before they are three months old, otherwise, during adolescence they will likely become wary and fearful and maybe aggressive towards people. Socialization is an ongoing process and must start very early and is on ongoing process.
• Puppies need to be raised with housetraining, chewtoy-training and alone-time-training programs up and running from the outset in order to prevent housesoiling, destructive chewing, excessive barking and separation anxiety.
• Puppies benefit from early manners training — lure/reward training is as quick and easy as it is enjoyable.

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One of the main benefits of developing a leadership position with your dog is that you will easily have much more of your dog’s attention. Once you have attention, the skills will come more readily. Some of the skills we value the most are a reliable ‘come’ when called, control at doorways, keeping all four feet on the floor, a sit and a down. We are skilled at helping you teach your dog all of the typical beginning commands, as well as most, if not all of the advanced skills often seen in dog sports and obedience trials.

Private training provides a format that is customized for you and your dog’s individual needs and issues. We look to maximize your efficiency as you learn what you need for deepening the training and improving the relationship with your dog. We come to you so that we can meet you and your dog in the environment where you likely spend most of your together-time.

We usually want skills for our dogs as solutions for unacceptable behaviors. We agree that skills have their place. However if your dog had essential manners, never jumped on you, escaped through open doors, barked inappropriately, pestered you to meet desires, soiled the house, ran off, or pulled you all over the place on the leash, you probably wouldn’t care so much if he could sit or down. And you likely wouldn’t be looking at this website!

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At Joyce’s Dogs, we focus first on helping you help your dog understand that you are a leader worth listening to. Every dog is different and your particular dog’s leadership needs will be looked at individually.

On walks, he would run and yank off our arms…We were at the end of our rope. Over the past several years, we’ve had Joyce come into our home from time to time to work on new areas, and to see how we (and Spock) are doing. Now, when he starts towards something he is not supposed to and we call, he stops and returns.  He is excitable, but that is what we love about our dog.  If it were not for Joyce, our family would be missing out on one of the most loving, happiest dogs I have ever owned. -Scott and Laurie on Private Training