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🚨🔥 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 🔥🚨 🐾 LARRY KROHN SEMINAR – TORONTO 2027 📅 March 19–21, 2027 📍 112 Turnberry Avenue, Toronto 🎟️ Working Spot: $750 CAD 🎟️ Audit Spot: $550 CAD ⚠️ LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE! 🔥 Don't miss your opportunity to learn directly from Larry Krohn! ✅ Full payment required to secure your spot. No deposits. 🚨 DON'T WAIT — REGISTER NOW! 👉 LINK IN BIO! 🔗 🐾 Hosted by Dankroft K9 Services #LarryKrohn #DankroftK9 #DogTrainingSeminar #TorontoDogTraining
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When people refer to "Livin' the Dream" This is the dream they mean.... There will never be enough moments like these 🧡🍁🍂
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POV: You work with dogs for a living... your clothes are approximately 70% fur, 20% someone elses slobber, 10% mud and/ or treat dust, and your personal space ..... is officially gone. 😂🐾 Would I change it? Not a chance. The chaos, the cuddles, the crazy personalities... the owners who TRUELY love training their dogs — this job has my whole heart. 🐶❤️
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Ozzy here building on the “bow” taught by @hellehoundz. I am also working on differentiating “down” and “bow” by swapping up my hand direction. Facing away from him cues to bow, while facing towards him cues to down. This trick loving party boy is still looking for his forever home! Adoption app: https://form.jotform.com/92111104800135 Petfinder: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/ozzy-759f43ff-f7ed-49ee-a4b0-32d8c2a48305/la/metairie/hail-mary-rescue-la339/details/
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🚨 OHIO BULLDOG BASH REGISTRATION IS OFFICIALLY OPEN! 🚨 Ohio, get ready! The Bulldog Bash is coming October 23–25, with plenty of new and exciting things to expect this year! The routines are available on our website, and registration is simple to follow. Study the routines, prepare your dog, and be ready to step onto the field! 👉 Register using the link in our Instagram bio, or click the link below: https://www.irondogcanada.com/upcoming-events 🎉 FUN EVENTS — SIGN UP ON THE FIELD: • Puppy Sprint Race • Adult Sprint Race • Hardest Hitting • Driviest Puppy • Hang Time No advance registration is required for the fun events, you can enter on the day! Let’s train. Let’s compete. Let’s have some fun. OHIO, LET’S GO! #irondogcanada #irondoginternational #OhioBulldogBash
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Feeling so lucky to get to explore the world with sweet-guy, Sai-Guy! Feeling more steady in my craft after attending the PADT Seminar in Tennessee and excited bc I made a new bestie @masensk9s!! Thank you @jonas.black for another amazing seminar and thank you for welcoming us Canadians with open arms @dogandme_university!!! So so lucky @hellehoundz let us join her crew and giving me my first camping experience!! Sai’s one of the girls now 💁🏻‍♀️ The Smokey Mountains without the smoke was a treat 👨‍🍳😘🤌🏽 So many firsts on this vacation and I got to meet so many amazing incredible people who share the same passion as me. That’s all a girl can ask for 💕 I can’t wait to see you guys next year!
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This is a black German Shepherd and his handler. He is reactive. He is also a trained protection dog. But that is not what created this problem. They were attacked while he was holding a heel position beside his handler. In that moment, heel stopped meaning connection, clarity, and safety. It became the position where he was trapped when danger reached them. The position had been poisoned. So we did not treat this like a dog who simply needed stricter obedience. We did not obsess over suppressing the reactivity or repeatedly force him into a heel that no longer felt safe. Compliance was never going to repair what happened there. We rebuilt the relationship. We restored communication. We gave the handler back relevance inside difficult moments. We rebuilt movement together without conflict, reduced pressure, created predictable outcomes, and allowed the dog to experience heel as a position of partnership again. That distinction matters even more with a protection dog. You cannot remove his ability to recognize a legitimate threat. You cannot punish him for remembering the moment his handler was attacked. You have to help him separate what happened then from what is happening now. The behavior was only the visible part. Underneath it was a dog who no longer trusted that this position allowed him to respond, escape, or rely on his handler. Once we addressed that meaning, the behavior began to change because the relationship supporting it had changed. This is what we teach inside my mentorship program: Stop staring exclusively at the behavior in front of you and start asking what happened to the relationship underneath it. We did not just rebuild the heel. We rebuilt what heel meant. And here you go.
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So incredibly grateful to have attended this year’s PADT Seminar led by @jonas.black 🙏🐾 Appreciating each individual trainer’s talents, seeing dogs make authentic progress in such a short amount of time, and exchanging ideas and thoughts with some of the best trainers I’ve ever met - I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible, and an extra special thank you to @dogandme_university for preparing your space for us and being a wonderful host. ❤️ Now I’m back to work and ready to apply all this inspired energy and knowledge into the clients and dogs I love most. See you guys soon! 🐾🥰 #dogtraining #canineneuroscience #seminar #dogs #letstrain
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🔥 THIS IS IT. THE FINAL TRIAL OF THE YEAR. 🔥 Registration is officially CLOSED for the Iron Dog Canada Trial — September 12 & 13. No more signing up. No more talking. No more “we’ll see.” Now it’s time to step onto the field and show the work. Every early morning. Every repetition. Every mistake. Every correction. Every breakthrough. It all leads to this weekend. To every competitor: come ready. Stay focused. Trust your dog. Trust your training. And when you step onto that field, own the moment. Titles are earned. Lessons are earned. Respect is earned. Win or lose, the goal is to leave that field better than you entered it. We’re ready for a massive weekend of working dogs, pressure, competition, sportsmanship, energy, and people putting their training to the test. 🏆 IRON DOG CANADA — YEAR END CLASH 📅 September 12 & 13 Let’s close the season with a bang. STRENGTH. COURAGE. SPEED. ENDURANCE. 🔥 SEE YOU ON THE FIELD. 🔥 #IronDogCanada #YearEndClash #WorkingDogs #DogSport #TrialWeekend E
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We talk a lot about what dogs were bred to do, but on Labor Day, lets take the day to recognize just how much much dogs have actually contributed to the work that built and supported American life. 🇺🇸🐕 For generations, dogs weren’t just hanging around the house or farm, were they? They had jobs. They moved livestock. Protected barns, animals, property, and families.Kept rodents away from food stores. Retrieved game that helped feed households. Pulled sleds and loads. Worked alongside farmers and ranchers through long days in the field. For a lot of American households, having a dog that worked wasn’t unusual. It was part of daily life throughout America. And while our lives have changed, dogs really haven’t stopped working. Their jobs have expanded as the world has changed, and SO many breeds have great contributions to labor in America. Today these dogs are still herding and protecting livestock, but they’re also detecting firearms and explosives, finding missing people, searching disaster sites, assisting fire investigations, protecting agriculture from invasive species, supporting conservation work, and helping people through specialized service and medical alert work. Some of these dogs wear badges, work farms, work airports, forests, hospitals, or disaster sites. Some simply wake up every morning and help keep a household running in ways we probably don’t give them enough credit for. Different dogs. Different jobs. Same incredible ability to work alongside us. Some THINK for a living. Some MOVE for a living. Some PROTECT for a living. And plenty have been doing all three for generations. So while we celebrate the people who keep America moving this Labor Day, we’re saving GREAT recognition for the dogs who have worked beside us along the way, too. 🇺🇸 ➡️ What was your dog’s breed originally bred to do? And be honest… can you still see it in them today? 👇 We hope you all have a beautiful Labor Day! For those of you who show up sight unseen in all you do to contribute to thriving American homes, THANK YOU! #laborday #workingdogs #farmdogs #dogsthatwork #petmatrx
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HELP! I need your help coming up with FIVE different how to videos for an October project! Comment here or send me a DM with your ideas! If I get more than 5 suggestions ill put them to a vote✌️✌️
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🇨🇦 IRON DOG CANADA WORKING TITLES — OHIO BULLDOG BASH 🇺🇲 🔥 TWO DAYS OF WORKING DOG ACTION! 🔸 DAY 1 IDCTT • OB1 • OB2 • OB3 • SPORT OB1 🔸 DAY 2 GDT INTRO • GDT1 • DHT INTRO • DHT1 and 🔥 PROTECTION TOURNAMENT 🔥 🚨 REGISTRATION OPENS SEPTEMBER 15TH ⚠️ IMPORTANT IDCTT (Temperament Test) PREREQUISITE⚠️ The Iron Dog Canada Temperament Test (IDCTT) is required before moving into Iron Dog Canada’s bite-work titles. Competitors wishing to title in GDT Intro, GDT1, DHT Intro or DHT1 must first successfully pass the IDCTT. Temperament first. Control first. Then the work. Come prepared. Practice matters. Before the Ohio Bulldog Bash, visit our website to watch the official videos for the titles being offered and download the corresponding maps. Watch the videos. Download the maps. Learn the routines. Practice with your dog. Know what is expected before you step onto the field. 🌐 www.irondogcanada.com 🇨🇦 IRON DOG CANADA IS COMING TO OHIO! 🇺🇸 Two Days Working titles. Protection. Competition. Registration opens September 15th. See you on the field!
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