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Any Breed, Any Size, Any Age
Rolling Meadows Academy of Dog
Training
148 Bingham Industrial Drive
Denton, NC 27239
USA
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
The largest staff to dog ratio
on the
East Coast with 1 employee
to every 4 dogs!!!
Barbara Simpson
Questions? 336-859-5530
barbara@rollingmeadowkennels.com
Find out why people drive
100 miles and more to bring their dogs to Rolling Meadows Academy
NC Prison
New Leash On Life Program
Official Consultant / Trainers
Members of:
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The Association of Pet Dog
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Doggie College
The "Harvard" of Dog Training!
A Modern Day Finishing School For Dogs
No Dog Left Behind!!!
 Welcome to Rolling Meadows
Academy, North Carolina's First and Leading Specialists for In-Kennel
Obedience and Etiquette Training! Established in 1995, we have had
over 13 years to establish ourselves as leaders in the education of pet dogs
and their families!
We invite you to look around and see the wide
variety of
dog training,
dog boarding,
and
doggie day care
services available to both present and future dog owners. Our mission is to present universally accepted, modern, dog training
and boarding services in the highest professional manner available today,
"Guaranteed".
Our nationally certified
trainers/instructors specialize in the most up to date, positive
reinforcement dog training methods for all sizes, ages and breeds of dogs, including
pure bred and mixed breed.
Our goal is to create a
life-time of dog/owner relationships by teaching you how to properly
communicate with your dog using voice commands and hand signals. We have
trained over 8,000 dogs in our In-School dog training program for satisfied
clients in over 42 US states including Alaska and Puerto Rico.
 Are
people reluctant to come inside your home because it looks like they'll get
slobbered, pounced, or peed on by your dog? Do your dogs love to greet a
visitor with all the joy of meeting a new playmate? Does your dog defy
gravity to get a good lick at a visitor's face? Even if you don't mind this
behavior, the odds are very good that your visitors do. Submissive urination
can be controlled, and you can teach your dogs not to ambush your visitors
with a little (okay, a LOT) of patience.
Regardless of the amount of training your dog has had, a dog
without Manners isn’t any fun to live with. All dogs need Manners. Manners are different from Basic
Obedience, and are rarely covered in Group Obedience Classes… In our
In-School Obedience Courses we educate dogs in proper etiquette and manners
to become a joy to live with and socially accepted as a Canine Good Citizen.
Manners are polite, socially accepted, appropriate behaviors.
For example, we teach Manners to children. We teach them to
not talk with their mouths full; how to properly answer a telephone call and
take a message; we teach little boys to put down the toilet lid (!) and
little girls to not stick their tongues out at little boys (!). We teach all
of these things, in addition to teaching them how to read, write and do
arithmetic.
In a similar way, we teach dogs a degree of self-sufficiency
so that they can manage themselves in social situations or when left alone.
Manners should be taught in addition to the command-oriented behaviors like
Coming when called, Sitting, lying Down, and Heeling.
I’m not very impressed with a dog and handler that can obtain
a high-level obedience title. I AM IMPRESSED with a highly trained companion
dog, that’s welcome everywhere because it also has good Manners in addition
to basic obedience skills. In other words, just because a dog has completed
an obedience course, or has a few titles, doesn’t mean it’s any fun to live
with on a day to day basis!
Likewise, with a dog, it’s much more challenging to have an
obedient and well-mannered companion, than to get the dog to perform in the
controlled environment of the obedience ring. In the real world, there are
many things that challenge your dog that won’t be there in the obedience
competition ring.
The goal in teaching a dog Manners is for you to have a dog
that is going to be welcomed, not a nuisance, and trustworthy wherever you
go, even if the dog is left with someone else. In other words we don't just
train obedience commands, we train manners (Doggie Etiquette).
Manners are not usually command-oriented behaviors although
we do teach commands to remind him of his bad behavior. Behaviors are things
that you expect the dog to learn and practice without you having to
supervise them when they are adults. Manners should be a way of life for
your dog.
In our specially designed 3 week basic obedience and
etiquette course we concentrate on teaching manners to dogs in addition to
obedience, so that they are welcome and accepted into social situations. All
dogs enrolled in our 3 Week Basic Obedience and Etiquette program are taught
the following Doggie Etiquette (Manners):
Acceptance Of Guests: All dogs need to be taught a
proper greeting routine at the front door. The dog doesn’t get to jump up on
the guest, sniff them in inappropriate places, continue to bark or growl, or
mouth their hands. Once the guest is invited in the home, the dog should not
be allowed to bother the guests, but instead be taught to go and lay down at
a designated Place. It is your job to supervise your dog and make sure your
dog isn’t a bother to your guests. It’s not only the polite thing to do, but
you aren’t putting your guest in the position to have to correct your dog
for you. If you don’t correct your dog, then they will (and don’t be
surprised if they resort to methods that you wouldn’t approve of).
Respect For Boundaries: I believe that a dog should be
taught that it can’t run out the front door, go into the garage, open or get
into cabinets and closets, or get on some or all of the furniture; and it
can’t leave the car w/o permission. This is an issue of safety as well as
Manners. It’s no fun chasing after a dog that’s run away, and it’s no fun
having to hold or block a dog at the front door every time it is opened.
Some dogs also become too big for their britches when allowed on furniture,
and then feel that they have the right to use aggression to "discipline" the
family and guests.
Respect For Family including pets: Adult dogs
shouldn’t be allowed to jump on, mouth, mount, discipline, or body block
family members. In addition, dogs shouldn’t be allowed to beat up the cat or
another household dog (but they should be allowed to create and maintain a
reasonable pack order). Adult dogs shouldn’t also be allowed to do any other
"bratty" behaviors. Leaving a dog in the back yard all day doesn't teach
these lessons. Instead, they are learned by living with the people, and
getting the 100,000 little corrections that dogs need to get as they grow up
to become adults. Dogs need a family to become part of the family. These are
things that YOU have to do with your dog — you can’t just send your dog off
somewhere to be fixed, like a broken VCR. I can show you, but it will still
be up to you to teach them because living with a dog is about establishing a
RELATIONSHIP.
Respect For My Things: No destructive chewing, no
stealing of objects, no urine marking in the house. Sometimes a dog is being
destructive because the dog is suffering from Separation Anxiety. That’s not
an issue of respect, and shouldn’t be treated that way. On the other hand,
normal puppies should be expected to tear up your place until you teach them
what is and isn’t acceptable to chew on. I don’t believe that you can trust
a dog to be alone in your car or home until the dog is around 1 year old,
AND you’ve actively worked on teaching the dog acceptable chewing habits. If
you aren’t sure whether your dog is chewing because of a lack of Manners, or
because your dog is suffering from Separation Anxiety, you SHOULD NOT apply
a remedy until you’ve talked to me about it and gotten a diagnosis.
Able To Play On Their Own: I don’t like going over to
people’s houses when their kids can’t play on their own. I feel that
children should be taught to live a balanced life: able to both interact
with people AND be able to entertain themselves: a coloring book, Disney
video, eating a snack, playing with a toy, etc. When a child cannot allow
other people to visit, then the adults need to teach the child, and
encourage them, to learn to play by themselves. We want them to learn to be
self-sufficient adults. Likewise, I believe a dog should be taught to chew
on a chew toy or play with a play toy, if it has nothing else to do, instead
of constantly pestering the owners and guests for attention.
No Inappropriate Aggression: No "stink eye" (staring
and posturing against friendly people or animals), no growling, and no
biting. There are several reasons why a dog should be allowed to be
aggressive: legitimate self protection, establishment and maintenance of a
pack order with the other dogs in the house, protection of territory,
protection of the family from attack, legitimate police or sport or
protection work, and legal hunting purposes. All other forms of aggression
are unacceptable Manners and need to be suppressed.
Manners In Public: Your dog should be welcome
everywhere that dogs are allowed. All dogs should be expected to be able to
Heel, Sit, Down and Come in public, plus have proper public Manners.
Respect For the Pack Order: Dogs need to become a
member of your human "pack." That means they view the world as them being
accountable to the family, not on a "hunt", and not the leader. You can’t
properly manage a dog, especially one of the more dominant breeds, without
being your dog’s leader. For example, dogs shouldn’t take YOU for a walk,
which is tantamount to them ignoring your leadership, but you should be
taking THEM for a walk. It makes all the difference in the world when you
need them to obey in a distracting environment. You need to be a loving
"parent" of, and leader to, your dog. Dogs should be allowed to set up a
pack order with the other animals in the household. When we interfere with
the formation of a pack order among the animals in the household, we can
cause our dogs to fight with one another.
Dogs don’t come pre-programmed with good Manners from the
"factory." Manners have to be taught. Teaching a dog Manners isn’t any fun.
It requires a lot of hard work and constant supervision. I tell customers
that when you are reading dog books, trying to find the perfect breed for
your family, they are always describing an ADULT dog that was well bred,
socialized, trained and one with good Manners. They never describe how
ill behaved the puppy will be, or how much work it will be to make that
puppy into an easygoing adult dog!
If this running pup image bothers you, then you might want to
purchase a pre-trained adult pet dog. You will also have to be careful to
allow your dog to just be a dog and have some free fun time without you
getting irritated. Some breeds, and some individual dogs, are especially
difficult to teach good Manners. It takes daily work to get the dog to be
what you want the dog to be. Some dogs take us longer to finish training
then others. I find that especially true with Golden Retrievers. People
fall in love with these dogs, not realizing that the great dogs they see
were both bred and made that way. Golden pups are extremely sociable and
active, can be really difficult to live with, and they need lots of
supervision, appropriate leadership, and training in order to turn out to be
manageable adults.
One of the biggest mistakes I see people make with their dogs
is to avoid dealing with Manners at all; they instead just put the dog in a
crate or kennel or back yard. A dog isn’t going to learn good Manners on its
own. All you are doing, by putting the dog away, is just postponing the
inevitable work that needs to be put in to make the dog a good citizen and
family member. Using the crate as a way of punishing a dog WON’T WORK, so
stop being lazy, bring your dog inside, let the dog make mistakes, and work
with your dog.
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