Clare Valley Home Services & Dog Training

06/10/2025

🐕Congratulations to Frank, Pepper and their handlers on completing the next step in their dog training. Both pups came to puppy classes but wanted to a bit more training to fine tune there cues they learnt at puppy classes. The next step 5 week course is the next level in training, also to teach your puppy to focus on you and how to be calm.
🐶Ben came back for more training as he found Frank just thought all dogs he walked past was to play with. Ben said now he has the skills to use when out for walks to keep Frank focused on him instead of other dogs and is happy with his improvement.
Katherine brought Pepper to classes as a tiny timid pup who now is a more confident 6 mth old thanks to her family and their training.

04/10/2025

04/10/2025

This is such a great illustration of why Adolescent canine behaviour can be so disproportionate to the situation.
I use a similar illustration that the prefrontal cortex is the braking system and the limbic system is the accelerator. Since communication between the two regions is so poor due to the neurological changes needed for behavioural maturity, the dog has no braking system. They are going full throttle with little to no inhibitory control and this creates inevitable challenges, such as poor impulse control, reactivity and poor engagement -Paw Chores

04/10/2025

Private rehoming .. needs to be the only dog

Shes a very sweet girl just not with other dogs

Lola
8 years old
Not desexed
No idea of last vaccinations
Doesn’t get along with other dogs
But very friendly with people/kids
Will dig out of an unsuitable yard
Was trained on sheep a little bit but hasn’t done any work for ages

02/10/2025

🎓Congratulations to Thursday nights puppy class on there graduation at Clare Valley vets.
🐶 The Adam’s family and their pup Bonnie. Bonnies confidence has grown and tonight was more than happy to move away from her mum for training.
🐶Kristy and her pup Frankie. Frankie is a pup who’s happy to train but when she’s has had enough she not moving for any one or anything.
🐶 My pup Callie didn’t graduate but came to classes just to join in. Callie is a little scared of other dogs if they come too close to her but from a distance she’s fine with them and more than happy spending her time sleeping during class.

‼️New Thursday puppy class starting 16/10 at 6pm.
☎️To book or for more information pm or phone 0407434161.

27/09/2025

When you have finished chewing on a box and are to tired to go to a comfy bed, why not sleep on the box.

26/09/2025

Sometimes works but not anymore?
That’s often because an association has formed. We humans slip into habits, and dogs can learn them fast.

Calling your dog when you know they won’t come?
They’ve heard you, but they’re not listening.
That repetition weakens the cue, or worse, poisons it.

Perhaps they don’t know it well enough, it hasn’t been proofed in other environments, or a negative association has been made. That negative association? That's a common poisoned cue cause.

Take recall for example.
How do you use the word "come".
At the field when play is over, clip on the lead and head home?
For nail trims or bath time? Same word?

Over time, the word stops meaning “good things happen” and starts meaning “fun is over”, or worse, “something unpleasant happens.”

It can be the tone, the association, or just overuse.
And have you noticed, the more frustrated you get, the less they listen?

Poisoning a cue is easy to fall into and it takes focused, positive practice to undo.

25/09/2025

Sold
For sale puppy pack $150 ono.
Puppy pusher- great for socialising a puppy who isn’t fully vaccinated, puppy crate,
puppy riff raff- helps with teaching puppy to sleep by themselves , has a heart beat, white noise and a heat bag, puppy harness and training p*e pads. Pick up Clare. Cash only