He was a aggressive boy, he grew to become obsessive about canine reveals and needed to win along with his canine: the start of a coach

The canine coach throughout one among his obedience lessons

Rosario native Leonardo Tiscornia (55) was solely 15 years outdated when he began to get enthusiastic about canine reveals. He had no concept about that world till a pedigree English cocker arrived at his home that his father had purchased, who had additionally introduced dwelling {a magazine} that had a canine of the identical breed on its cowl. “I used to be very excited in regards to the journal and the thought of ​​presenting the canine at a present. I’ve all the time been very aggressive since I used to be little and that’s the reason I made a decision that I needed to current the canine at reveals. So I did what I may, I ready the canine in the easiest way, with the little info that there was at the moment and I offered it. In fact it did not go very properly and from that second on I grew to become obsessive about presenting canines at reveals and from that age till I used to be 22 I used to be doing it in my hometown,” the canine coach introduces us to his world. In the present day he’s a reference within the subject and has already amassed 35 years of expertise coaching and fixing conduct issues.

Within the competitors, Leonardo Tiscornia presents an English mastiff, the identical breed because the canines of President Javier Milei. With this specimen he takes the award for Finest in Present.

At first, he labored principally totally free. He bought info from breeders and commenced to dedicate himself as an novice to coaching canines for folks, additionally totally free to be taught.

Whereas learning Economics, he was given the chance to go dwell in Brazil to work with the chief in present canines in South America on the time. “I spent two years there working full time with him and that is the place I discovered. At 22, I used to be knowledgeable handler.” [persona que sabe mostrar correctamente un perro, es quien además tiene conocimiento sobre estructura y morfología]. It was my studying base and whereas I used to be presenting canines, I used to be all the time within the obedience half, so I all the time did it in parallel. After these two years I got here to dwell in Buenos Aires and I began to work professionally, each within the presentation of present canines and within the obedience and schooling half,” says the specialist.

Leonardo Tiscornia with one of many college students of his canine college

Trying again, he would not keep in mind one canine particularly that has left its mark on him, however relatively all of the canines which have handed by way of his life, which he counts about eight a day, over 35 years. He says he works 12 hours a day, in case you add the executive work. He heads a group of collaborators and likewise works on weekends. “I could not do it if I did not have such a ardour for it. On weekends I give group lessons. Individuals who know me cannot consider the dedication I give to my occupation. Due to this fact, I do consider that I get pleasure from it, I loved it and I’ll proceed to get pleasure from it.

Extra exemplary college students from their college that arouses tenderness on social networks

On his social media, his followers are attentive to his new content material (he has virtually 150 thousand followers on Tiktok @escuelacanina_ and hundreds extra on Instagram) the place he already has a group that helps him in recording and modifying. He’s answerable for creating the content material. His video with essentially the most views, 2.2 million, reveals how he takes a large canine, a cane corso known as Kaiser, to socialize within the sq., who’s afraid of all of the canines simply by him. No one needed to play with him. “I make him lie down so he doesn’t be tough with the canines, as a result of they get scared,” he says within the video. Followers accumulate likes with their feedback, like Lulú’s: “Poor factor, my life, his solely crime is being large however inside he’s a child canine.” Others discover the opposite canines within the sq. which might be a part of the scene, like “the chubby pitbull,” who when talked about like this by a follower obtained 8 thousand “likes.”

“I feel essentially the most notable factor about my social media is that I present actual lifetime of what actually occurs, that pulls folks’s consideration and, most significantly, they really feel recognized with the issue. It isn’t all a cheerful ending. What you see in my movies and on social media is basically the true life of what’s taking place to an proprietor when he has a canine and the behavioral issues he has,” he says.

Leonardo Tiscornia helps socialize a large canine, a cane corso, from whom all canines flee at his presence

Leonardo says that after 20 years of exhibiting canines, he began to really feel bored and put it apart to commit himself absolutely to canine schooling, and to specialise in fixing behavioral issues, which “are essentially the most tough circumstances as a result of, notably in Argentina, I feel that individuals let themselves get too wrapped up of their canine’s schooling, they don’t educate it in any respect and solely contemplate {that a} skilled ought to intervene when the canine begins to have issues. They let time go and what may very well be easy turns into a tough job as a result of habits are shaped,” he explains. And he contrasts this along with his international shoppers from the Metropolis of Buenos Aires – the place he works and lives for a few years – who educate their canines from the start.

Tiscornia doesn’t solely practice canines that chew sneakers when they’re alone at dwelling, eat the very first thing they discover on the road or “don’t know how one can introduce themselves” to different canines. All through these years, alongside along with his expertise, he has amassed “factors” on one arm, for canines with aggressive conduct. “I should have a complete of ten factors on my arm for canine bites. Being a canine coach doesn’t imply that I can keep away from the bites from hurting me much less or that I can have an innate means or by way of expertise that if I’m bitten the answer is faster. For any coach, being bitten by a canine is irritating as a result of it’s not what we would like, it’s not what we need to attain the purpose of aggression. However I’ve had some circumstances, however none have been critical. They have been small bites and I all the time really feel annoyed when these occasions happen. Within the final 5 years I’ve not obtained any excessive bites,” he assures.

Leonardo Tiscornia educates Maggie, a golden retriever pet, Sarahí’s pet, who strikes round in a wheelchair

One of many issues that the pandemic left behind, in accordance with the canine schooling specialist, was the canine’s intolerance to being alone. “They have been accompanied 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, after which the house owners returned to work in individual, and that left the canine in a state of maximum anxiousness,” he says.

Among the many many canines he educated that had behavioral issues, he remembers one with nice affection. “Just a few years in the past, I used to be employed to coach a canine in a rustic home within the Delta. The canine was very aggressive with different canines that have been in different homes within the space. It was a rescued canine,” says the specialist. The proprietor who had rescued it had discovered it within the water and resulting from these behavioral issues, she was forbidden to have it on this nation home, which was open and likewise escaped. The answer at the moment was to offer the canine in a semi-wild state to a resident, who was about 20 kilometers away. The coach believes that the canine survived by searching. “Two or three days later, the canine returned swimming and crossing all of the islands till it met up with the lady who had rescued it. That all the time moved me as a result of extremely the canine went by way of quite a lot of hardships to have the ability to return to the one who had rescued it. So, she determined to rent me to get the canine to cease being aggressive. The canine tailored.” He then lived in Caballito and tailored completely to residing in an city surroundings,” he says.

Leonardo is all the time requested what canine he has and whether it is properly educated. And the reply is that at dwelling he applies himself like a blacksmith, a wood knife. “At dwelling now we have just one canine, who goes out solely when mandatory as a result of I spend all day working with canines, and once I return dwelling I attempt to go away the canine’s schooling within the palms of my daughter. And if she doesn’t do it, the canine received’t be taught,” he confesses.

The coach who’s going viral on TikTok says that canines, by instinctively having a fascination with people, make having a canine extraordinarily rewarding. “That’s the reason I consider that one of the best factor for a household, for an individual, is to be in fixed contact and have their very own canine,” he concludes.