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Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer

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@missionpawsitive
Reward-based dog training that’s fun & effective 🏠In-home & virtual services 💻 🎓 CPDT-KA, Victoria Stilwell Academy Grad 📍 Los Angeles, CA 🌴☀️
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  • Followers 55.1K
  • Engagement 0.86%
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About Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer

Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer (@missionpawsitive) is a Pet Service creator on Instagram, also filed under Pets. The account has 55,117 followers and 1,553 published posts. Recent posts average 515 likes and 14 comments, an engagement rate of 0.86%.

With 55.1K followers, Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 1,064 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 52 followers per account Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer follows. Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer under Pet Service, with Pets as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer runs to 17 words across 4 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer dates from June 2026.

1,553 Posts

All 10 recent posts Flinque holds for Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer are videos. Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer has built a substantial archive of 1,553 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 35 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 185 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include dogs, dogtrainingtips, because, dogtrainer and being. The captions tag #dogtrainingtips, #dogs, #dogtrainer, #australianshepherd and #dogtraining.

Foxtail season is here and doing regular body checks after walks and outings help prevent any Fox tails that got stuck on your dog from piercing their way into them and causing an issue. And yes, this has something to do with training because in order to do this, your dog has to be very comfortable with you touching them everywhere and physically manipulating them. Starting when Aspen was a puppy, I positively conditioned her to be comfortable laying on her back in my lap like because I find that is the easiest way to do lots of different types of body handling, grooming and checking for things like this. Dogs can also inhale them from sniffing around and can get in their ears, so check around their face too!
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#dogtrainingtips #dogs #summer #australianshepherd
Just like with people, dogs can be great at a skill in some context, but not others. For a little while, Mookie was having a hard time responding to his recall key when he was up on this hillside in the backyard. There are tons of smells up there, he likes to enjoy the view from higher up and his size & age were a factor 2. Being that he was about 80 pounds at 6 months old, that’s a ton of rowing in a short amount of time so stamina was a challenge. So this is how I was able to get him responding well to his recall and just about 10 minutes or so of backtracking up the hill.
As a sidenote, I always encourage my clients to come up with creative words and phrases to use as cues. Since his name is Mookie, they came up with “home run” as his recall cue since they are big Dodger fans!
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#dogtrainingtips #dogs #rottweiler #dogtrainer
Dogs are foragers by nature and they are opportunistic creatures. So it is very normal for them to seek out food and take advantage of opportunities to get it. However, that goes against what most people want their dogs to do! And of course, dogs can easily get a hold of things that are not safe for them. The best way to teach them not to act out of instinct is to teach them how to make a different choice, but make it a choice they want to make! Rather than doing something to get them to make that choice because there is an unpleasant “or else” attached to it if they don’t.
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#dogtrainingtips #dogtraining #puppies
When it comes to building a rock solid recall where your dog will drop on a dime and run back to you immediately with great enthusiasm, it doesn’t happen overnight or with a magic wand. It takes tons of repetition, in all environments, with all different kinds of distractions. One of the best ways to build your dog’s responsiveness to this life-saving cue, is to randomly call them when they are not expecting it, but aren’t overly distracted. This teaches them that you can call them to come to you at any time, gives them easy success in all different types of places, and that it is worth responding to! And you do this until it becomes muscle memory where their body moves before their brain even fully processes what you’ve said. They just do it. And even when it is an automatic response like this, you still keep practicing it consistently like this, for life.
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#dogtrainingtips #dogtrainer #dogs #australianshepherd
It is still very common to hear that it’s bad to comfort your dog if they are showing signs of fear or discomfort because you will reinforce the fear. That is a huge myth. You cannot reinforce an emotional state, regardless of species. Can you create more stress, depending on how you react? Sure. What is comfort supposed to do? Make you feel better! If anything, comforting your dog reinforces to them that you will help them if they don’t feel good about something, they can trust you and look to you for safety. Because I respected what this dog was telling me, took all extra time to make sure he was comfortable, I was able to get the job done with no issues and made that process much better for him going forward. The dryer is scary! So his feelings are valid and just because he has experienced it multiple times four, doesn’t mean he should automatically be fine with it. Since I am not a groomer who has a tight schedule, I didn’t have to rush through it and make him deal with it.
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#dogtrainingtips #dogtraining #doggrooming #dogs
The dog training industry is completely unregulated so unfortunately, there is a lot of bad training out there. So just because someone works as a trainer, doesn’t mean they do things the right way. There are tons of trainers out there who believe you need to use punitive techniques like this in order to train dogs effectively, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. But I’m not just going to critique a training method and not show alternatives, so here are multiple alternative methods that teach dogs exactly what we want them to do instead, and how to regulate those big feelings by learning impulse control. The only reason that puppy was not jumping up at that guy again was because he just didn’t want to get another knee straight to the chest. He wasn’t thinking about what the right thing to do was because he was not given any alternative. And this is also a great way to make dogs uneasy about approaching people in general, because meeting people leads to getting kneed to the chest. I don’t ever want a dog to avoid interacting with me because they think I will hurt them.
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#dogtrainingtips #dogtrainer #dogs #puppies
All dogs should be comfortable being picked up regardless of their size, but little dogs can have an extra hard time with being picked up sometimes. The reason for that is because they oftenget picked up all the time and that gets annoying! It’s easy to pick them up a lot when is not necessary, which can make them want to avoid being picked up. Which can be a problem if you do need to pick them up. It can escalate to a dog growling or snapping when you try to pick them up. one way to fix or avoid that is to teach them how to jump into your lap/arms on cue so it’s more voluntary. And think about how big you look when you bend over a small dog to pick them up. It can definitely be uncomfortable for them, so by letting them come to you, is much more inviting, less confrontational and makes them feel like they have more of a choice.
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Lumi likes to jump into laps when she gets nervous and when she wants affection, so I just started adding a verbal cue to it when I knew she wanted “uppies.” Followed up with a treat of course to reinforce the behavior and make it really positive.
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#dogtrainingtips #dachshund #dogs
This is a follow up to my last post: The only time I ever go to dog parks is to do training sessions with dogs on the outside. I’ve never been to a dog park where I didn’t see a scuffle and plenty of other bad things. I worked with this dog outside the dog park for around 30 minutes and these were just some of the things I saw and was able to get on video. Do some dogs who go to dog parks play very nicely? Yes, absolutely. But all it takes is for one interaction to go wrong for your dog to become permanently traumatized or worse. The doodle puppy who was pacing the park looking for his owner and for a way out is a great example of why dog parks are bad for puppies. He clearly had zero interest in being there, was scared, and that’s not going to teach him to be confident around other dogs, especially when continuously being exposed to other dogs getting into it and practicing undesirable behaviors. There were multiple small dogs on the big dog side and two of those small dogs were terrified. It’s hard to see in here, but one of the little white dogs was barking frantically and trying to get away from a bigger dog. Before that, I watched that dog repeatedly give signals that they wanted to get the hell out of there. The reason leashed dogs inside the park is bad is because dogs who are on leash can feel trapped when off leash dogs approached them and puts them in a vulnerable position.

But as I said in my last post, going to a dog park is a personal choice and it’s up to you if you want to take these risks with your dog.
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#dogtrainingtips #dogtrainer #dogpark #dogs
When it comes to dog parks, the only safe way to do them, is to stay on the outside and never go inside. I’m going to make a separate video showing every bad thing I saw happen at this dog park in just the short 30 minutes that I was there. To keep it short, it is way too easy for your dog to get into a fight, get bullied, learn to become a bully, learn other bad habits & poor social skills, and catch a disease. So, if you choose to go into a dog park, know the risks and decide if it’s worth it. It will never be for me!
HOWEVER, I do enjoy working dogs on the outside of a dog park to work on dog distractions. Whether it’s for reactivity,, practic being neutral, learning to focus around other dogs, etc.
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#dogs #dogpark #dogtrainingtips #dogtrainer
When it comes to training style & philosophy, There’s a bunch of labels out there. Those labels can be confusing & misleading. So what does being “force free” mean to be force free to me?
I do not use any methods or equipment that a dog would find physically aversive in order to teach them what to/not to do. My goal is not to use force and physical discomfort in order to get a dog to comply. Does that mean I don’t ever punish undesirable behavior? NO! And that is one of the biggest misconceptions. I focus on the entire dog. I don’t just look at the behavior itself, but what drives the behavior, what emotion is the dog feeling, what does the dog need in that moment… what do they need in order to be successful, to feel better about something.
Behavior is information and it’s always a symptom of an underlying cause. I could give a lot of examples on how so many things are overlooked because of behavior looks “bad“.
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Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.86%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 116 followers. An average post collects 515 likes and 14 comments, close to 37 likes for each comment.

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Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer (@missionpawsitive) is a Pet Service creator on Instagram, also filed under Pets. Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer runs to 17 words across 4 lines.

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Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer has 55,117 followers on Instagram (55.1K). Set against 1,064 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 52 followers per account Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer follows. Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer has built a substantial archive of 1,553 posts.

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Melissa Goodman | Dog Trainer's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.86%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 116 followers. An average post collects 515 likes and 14 comments, close to 37 likes for each comment.

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