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Adira - Scent work session 3
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - Training a deaf-blind pup to give her paw
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - using tactile reward markers
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - Scent work session 2
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - Scent work session 1
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - Chin rest on hand
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - Cooperative care for eye cleaning
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - Week 1 update
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - Deaf & Blind dog navigates using her nose
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Adira - ThinkDog's newest member
Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl
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Lexi - Toy Play
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi - First Clip
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi - how to handle human errors
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi - Tackling the Knots
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi - Brushing
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi - Resource Guarding
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi - Building trust through predictable patterns
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi's Grooming
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi Day 6-11
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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Lexi Days 4-6 - consent testing
This is little Lexi. She came to us for a 6 week board and train at 10months old for pretty extreme handling aggression and resource guarding. She had to be sedated at the vets to be groomed, couldn't be brushed or have her collar or leash put on, and was quite to bite if she was touched when she didn't want to be, or if anyone came near her stuff! Here's her progress during her stay.
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