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BamBam & Co.

Play school for little dogs. Indoor daycare catering to the weeny dawgs.
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05/11/2024

Skadi, Spudley & Gracie
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Let’s talk about fit. We mention in our onboarding process that during our trial, in part, we are ensuring we are the right fit for you, your doggo, for our existing dawgs and for us.
Why is it so important? Because we want to feel proud of our work, we want your dog to feel proud of themselves and we want you to feel proud of your choices.

Dog social stuff is complicated with so many layers of elements that can either work for or against your pup.
Our program is focused on creating a safe supportive space for your pups to naturally relax and unfurl. Yes, we teach skills to support that and we would never do a pass/fail assessment based on one meeting.
Yet, sometimes over several visits we may feel we just don’t have the right combination of elements to give your pup the best opportunity for success.

This means we may refer you to one of our wonderful colleagues who may offer a better fit you or your pups needs.

We are happy to grow our business slower than others might, to ensure we create and maintain a little community of dogs and their people who can enjoy a sense of belonging.

We love that you are all part of our tiny Bam Fam!
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04/11/2024

🌼Grace

28/10/2024

🌭Brian

23/10/2024

Finn and Piccolo 👑🥒 Kings of the castle!

21/10/2024

Billy 📣

21/10/2024

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17/10/2024

🧸Wellington

16/10/2024

🎪We have just opened our waitlist for a BamBam & Co friyay! A perfect way for your pups to end the week!
Playschool is now available Tuesday’s to Friday’s each week. 🙌🏽

Email your interest to [email protected]

11/10/2024

Little miss Fable 🔔 she’s grown so much over the last few weeks! 💛

23/09/2024

Macy 🌸

23/09/2024

Buttons 🎉

21/09/2024

Little mates ❤️

15/09/2024

Banjo 🪕 & Dave 🦁

12/09/2024

Indie 🍭

09/09/2024

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01/09/2024

Kanin 🥢

An actual ray of sunshine.

We love our quirky dogs. Kanin is here to learn how to be the social dog he desperately wants to be.
How to introduce himself to other dogs. How to invite an interaction. How to decline one.
He is learning how to accept invitation and how to politely move on when we get a “no thanks”.
How does he most like to play?
What games would he like to learn?
Kanin’s social unfurling has been a delight to be part of.
He is such a joyful little guy.
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30/08/2024

Hi Mr Pickles 👋🏽

28/08/2024

Buttons ☀️

We are about to pause new enrolments for a few weeks while we let our groups settle.

The success of every dog is dependent upon the stability of the collective. So we will intermittently have periods where we will close enrolments for this reason.

Our enrolments for Thursday are closed for now.
We have only two more spots currently available one each on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Please, pop onto our waitlist and we’ll give you a call to chat about your pups needs and how you can prepare them for their trial bookings.

25/08/2024

BB&C represent ✊

21/08/2024

Finn 🥹

Oh lawdy. Literal puppy dog eyes.

20/08/2024

Look. At. Them. 🥹😭❤️

18/08/2024

Cinnamon 🌥️

Timid dogs are our specialty. As a trainer, I enjoy their process immensely. They ask me to shelve all my clever tricks and just have patience. Sensitive dogs know when you have an agenda. They keep us honest.

Trust is built over time with many many small moments and gestures. Each dog has their own saturation point and while it may seem afterwards that it was that one singular moment that shifted the dog’s feelings, it will always be the consistent little messages of “you are safe” that matter.

Patience is one of the most valuable skills we have learned from our timid dogs.
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16/08/2024

Spudley 🥔

Maturity. Believe it or not, this is the poster child for a dog who has matured nicely.
The puppy years are tough- for most of us it’s a long time between puppies and our memories aren’t always honest with us. The rose coloured glasses just don’t hold up to the biting, the barking, the peeing on everything!

But, time is our friend in these early years. If we have good guidance from a trusted dog professional and stay the course with our management of the opportunities our puppies get to practice unwanted behaviours, we will eventually find ourselves with the mature dog.

Spud here was definitely a handful during his first 12 months. Pulling on the leash, bulldozing into dogs in play, barging through doors… but by reducing the opportunity for him to access moments to rehearse this while shaping the behaviours that will serve him in his life has paid off.
He is a lovely friend to all the dogs at school. He is the gentle persistent encourager shyer dogs and a tolerant rough and tumble playmate for the puppies still learning to moderate themselves.

Sometimes it feels like nothing is working when you are in the middle of it- but if you are doing the work your trainer advises, it will pay off in the long term.

15/08/2024

George 🐝

We are getting busy!
You all know me and Bones L❤️VE a chat! Especially when we get to talk to you about your dogs!
As it gets busier at pick up time, we are going to need to prioritise our new BB&Co. folks and it may mean we don’t have the space for the usual chinwag. At the end of an 11 hour day, even we run out of chatterbox gas! 😂

Please be assured that if anything particularly important ever happens for your doggo at school we will always speak with you about it, but it may be that I will call you rather than try and chat at pick up.

We put lots of effort into our social media to give you access to your dog’s experience with us at school. We hope you are enjoying being entertained by our little gang’s antics.
We hope the work we put into sharing our photos and videos is the little boost of joy we all do with after a long day of work!

Big love
Kirstie, Bones & BamBam.
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13/08/2024

Dave 🦁

📌Leash Reactivity!
There’s a bunch of reasons our dogs can get explosive on leash.
Excitement, frustration, anxiety, fear, or maybe they are straight up are just looking for a bit of biffo.
But what is underpinning all of these big feelings is most often a lack of clarity and understanding between the dog and their person.

Our modern society requires our dog to be on leash- for their safety, and for the comfort of others we share public spaces with, including other dogs.

Many of us are simply using the leash as a restraint (makes sense, it’s for their safety, like a seatbelt right?).
But it’s not the leash itself that’s causing the problem, but the way we are using it.

A dogs strongest form of communication is tactile (physical contact). The leash is a literal “line of communication” that they “feel” via “pressure and the release of pressure”.
The timing of “the release” is very significant to our dogs and used thoughtfully provides reassurance and understanding or if used haphazardly can create tension, confusion and frustration.

When we don’t understand how important this is to our dogs we can be inadvertently creating the very problem we are struggling with- pulling, lunging, barking when on leash.

We teach all of our little dog students leash communication. It’s an important step in being able to offer them guidance during social interactions.
If you are struggling with leash pulling or reactivity please reach out and I can connect you with one of my wonderful colleagues who can provide you lessons in leash communication, so you can communicate clearly with your dog too.
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2/23 Raws Crescent
Canberra, ACT
2620

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Tuesday	7:30am - 6pm
Thursday	7:30am - 6pm

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https://www.bambamandco.com.au/

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We look to balance all things. We aim to support your dog to learn to listen to their dog friends in play but also to listen to the human grown ups, even when they are having fun playing with their friends. We enjoy real robust play, but ensure our pups know that social time can also be quiet and mellow. We enjoy being brave and trying challenging things but we also like to cuddle with our friends and be sure that everyone feels loved and safe. The most important part in ensuring all the dogs listen to us, even when they are playing with their friends is putting in the effort to give our dogs reason to find us highly valuable. Get to know each dog, and aim to meet their we unique needs. Being seen is a big part of feeling loved and safe. ❤️

🐊Skadi & ☁️Howie Some friendships take longer than others to develop. Skadi has taken 3 months to warm to Howie’s advances. And Howie has been very polite in his approach and has gracefully accepted her declining every time. In our minds, we felt they would be a fantastic match. But these dogs keep us humble! Well it was worth the wait! They are adorable together! 😍

It’s not all play. Just like humans, connections and relationships come in many shades. Not everyone is compatible to have interactive play, but that provides us with an equally valuable opportunity to learn tolerance, acceptance, and respect. They learn that not all dogs want or need to play with us. And when a gregarious dogs social cup is full with meaningful friendships, they less driven to seek interaction with every random stranger dog they see. Unreciprocated insistence on interaction is rude, and often leads to the development of antisocial behaviours between dogs. Or at its worst leads to dog fights which can be devastating to a dogs emotional and mental health, in some cases creating trauma that last their lifetime. At Bambam & Co. we show dogs how to gracefully accept another dogs limits and learn how to move among a variety of differently social dogs. Social is a spectrum. #littledogsrule #dogtraining #dogtrainer #puppy #puppydevelopment #dogsocial #helperdog #workingdog #puppyraising #dogplayschool #dogsofcanberra #canberradogs #dogsplay #puppyplaydate #bambamandcocanberra #doggydaycarecanberra