Shy Dog TRAINING – Confidence Building for Timid Dogs

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Confidence Building for Timid Dogs! Help Your Dog Feel Better!

Is your dog shy in new situations or outside? Around other clogs or people? Does your clog hide or stay in your lap a lot? Sounds like my Shy Dog Class in Sydney is perfect for you!

This type of training is suitable for dogs that are shy, timid and/or fearful of new people, dogs, objects and/or situations and environments.

This class focuses on confidence-building and exercises for the shy and timid dogs that need a little bit extra help with new situations and socialisation. Owners will learn to help their shy dogs feel more comfortable, relaxed and happy when out and about. This Shy Dog Class is focused on exercises that will help the timid dogs cope, build confidence, and gain trust by providing a rewarding and safe environment for them. Positive reward-based training methods will be used to boost their confidence.

This class is excellent for puppy mill dogs, rescue dogs that lacked socialisation and naturally timid dogs. Class sizes are small to ensure a calm environment for the dogs.

This class is NOT suitable For reactive or aggressive dogs. If your dog shows any aggression towards other clogs or people, this is not the right class for you.

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4 - Week Shy Dog Class suitable for all dogs from 16 weeks of age.

What’s included in Eazy Dog Training Shy Dog Class in Sydney

1st Lesson

Basic obedience training, including sit, down, stay and come. This class is all about teaching the shy dogs to Focus on work, not on the other dogs. There will be no socialisation with the other dogs during the first lesson.

Sound and object desensitisation training. We’ll start building the dogs’ confidence by introducing them to different sounds and objects in a positive way. We’ll try mental stimulation games and toys to build up their confidence.

2nd Lesson

We’ll start building a positive association with other people and dogs. We’ll do this slowly, according to everyone’s comfort level. Calm handling training included. Socialisation with other dogs according to everyone’s comfort level.

We’ll continue with environmental desensitisation and confidence-building incl. walking on different surfaces, sound training while playing/training, more potentially scary objects. People and dog socialisation included.

 

 

3rd Lesson

This time we’ll step outside to train the dogs. We’ll learn how to encourage the shy dogs to feel safe and secure outside. Socialisation with people and dogs included.

4th Lesson

We’ll continue our training outside and will walk around the community area to build up the dogs’ confidence while we encourage and build a positive association with being outside. Socialisation with people and dogs included.

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Anxious, Nervous and Timid Dogs

Do you wonder why your dog is timid? Unfortunately, fearfulness and anxiety are quite common behavioural problems. Some cases are genetic, studies show that the mother dogs personality passes on and fearful mother dogs produce fearful offspring. However, unfortunately, most timid dogs are created by the very people who really wanted the best for their dogs. Vets tell us to avoid taking the puppy out before the last vaccination at 16 weeks of age. If you Followed this advice, you missed out on the crucial early socialisation. Unfortunately, it is often the breeders and the first dog owners that create this debilitating problem due to lack of positive socialisation within the first 16 weeks of age.

Positive socialisation early on is crucial.

Socialisation with different situations, environments, people, dogs and animals is so crucially important that it almost outweighs all other considerations. Lack of early socialisation is the most common contributing factor in creating fearful, anxious and timid dogs. The Fear of infections and diseases has led breeders and owners to make the tragic mistake of keeping their puppies isolated until they have completed their vaccinations. However, your puppy can mix with people and other vaccinated dogs from the day they are born. Not having had all the vaccinations should not be a reason to skip early socialisation.

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OUR OPTIONS FOR PRIVATE TRAINING FOR TIMID AND INSECURE DOGS

Private Home Training for Shy Dogs

  • 90-Minute Home Training Visit for $299, 1h Follow Up Lesson $149 if Required

We Can Help With:

  • Insecurity and fear towards other dogs/people/objects/situations/environments
  • Fearfulness/Shyness/timidness
  • Confidence building
  • Not wanting to go out
  • Not wanting to interact with people/other dogs
  • Anxiety outdoors 
  • Anxiety around other people/dogs
  • And a Lot More!

Over 90% of all cases of dog aggression are fear-based.

The breeder should play a vital part in this early socialisation by socialising the puppies during the first 8 weeks of their lives. They should be inviting different types of people to handle their puppies at a very young age, introduce the pups to healthy and well-behaved dogs, other animals, objects, sounds, handling and situations. Puppies learn important communication skills, bite inhibition and body language from the play with other young puppies or dogs, that’s why puppy classes are important early on. Older dogs do not usually play as puppies do, therefore puppy classes that allow the pups to play together are absolutely crucial to your pup’s future confidence and mental health.

Shy Dog Training in Sydney
– Confidence Building for Timid Dogs!