Okay /an/ I just got a new job as dog handler/trainer/babysitter.

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2015-12-22 17:00:48 Post No. 2021504
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Anonymous 2015-12-22 17:00:48 Post No. 2021504 [Report]

Okay /an/ I just got a new job as dog handler/trainer/babysitter. I'm on my sixth day today and this job is trying my patience. At any given time I have 15 dogs (yesterday upwards of 25) in a pack setting.
Does anyone have advice on how to be a better trainer/handler? I find I lose my patience easily, especially when it comes to the smaller dogs picking on the larger dogs, and then having to stop the larger dogs from stomping wee lil dachshunds into jelly.

Any advice for a starter dog trainer/handler?
I worked in a kennel setting previously, and as is common sense, dealing with one dog is easier than dealing with 15-25 at a time.

Pls halp, I love the dogs and I love this job but it drives me up the fucking walls. It's like babysitting a shit ton of toddlers, it's hilarious but extremely taxing mentally.

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 04:20:54 Post No.2021952
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 04:20:54 Post No.2021952 [Report]

I don't know where you work, but every "doggie daycare" I've ever been in has separated dogs by size first, and then activity level. So you'd have a small dog yard, and then maybe a high energy big dog yard and a lower energy big dog yard. Is your place of employment just letting the chihuahuas mingle with the mastiffs?

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 10:05:29 Post No.2022066
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 10:05:29 Post No.2022066 [Report]

sounds like a shitstorm and a liability

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Anonymous 2015-12-23 13:59:42 Post No.2022110
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Anonymous 2015-12-23 13:59:42 Post No.2022110 [Report]

>>2021504
First, recommend separting large and smalls. Some large dogs play well, but otherwise it is just a liability.
We use a plastic cricket bat with a bit of gravel in it to distract and scare off dogs when they're getting too rowdy.
Have a smaller pen you can separate a specific butthead into so the rest of the group can get a break.
But yeah, that job is always going to be like watching a herd of toddlers. Is called daycare for a reason.