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Goin' Muttz aims to empower & educate dogs & their owners on how to effectively communicate.

30/08/2025

🤕 Where we started ➡️ ➡️ and where we got to 💪

Meet Ralph - a 38kg two-nager with big voiced opinions about dogs and... birds. 🦅

No punishment.
No intimidation.
Just good old-fashioned positive reinforcement. 😱

Things to take note of:
🔸 Ralph’s mum is in the room with him, always, both visually and emotionally.
🔸 She’s positioned so Ralph never has to take his eyes off the birds (would you take your eyes off a spider? 🕷️)
🔸 Ralph is working on a long line. His choices remain his.
🔸 Ralph is the puppeteer; his mum, the puppet - her actions, all that you see here, are very intentional (when to put her hand in the pouch, when to stay still vs step away, where to aim the treat when she throws it, her breathing, how she is holding her body, when to verbally communicate), and follow his choices.
🔸 She works to his speed, whilst maintaining her own speed within the pattern.
🔸In the face of environmental unpredictability, she helps Ralph by creating some parameters by using predictability with a pattern game. This predictability builds stability and as a result confidence.
🔸 We’re not here to suppress Ralph’s needs - his need to chase is real and valid. But chasing birds (especially magpies - they will haunt you for eternity 👻) isn’t appropriate.
So, off the cue of the birds and within the boundaries of a pattern game, she gives Ralph another opportunity to express that need in a positive, appropriate way.
🔸 Ralph’s mum is a rockstar. 🤘

Behaviour change doesn’t require force. Just clarity, compassion, and good communication 💛💡

26/08/2025

Not a throwback, just a late premiere of these Sniffstars 🤩

Intro to Nose Work Graduates of my Canberra April starting class 🎓🐶

Congratulations to Judd, Ava, Scout and Henri 🥳🎊🎉👏

Nose work, this round, turned into an entertaining canine sitcom brought to you by a cocker spaniel who sang the song of his people, a shepherd that thinks she is half racoon, a 12 year oldie that is having a hard time accepting she is no longer 2 and a terrier who’s tail has malfunctioned and wags the wrong way 😂

21/08/2025

Some heroes wear capes, mine wears an assistance dog vest 🦹.

On the 30th of June, one of the most special and important souls in my life passed away, only 2 weeks prior another beautiful family member passed. Since, I have needed some time to find my feet again in this world without their extraordinary existence and learn to live without their sunshine in my life.

Through all of the heartbreak, grief, and bitter sweetness, Luna has been this unwavering devotion of strength, love, and support. For the moments that felt incomprehensible, she stood quietly beside me — steady, loyal, present.

She didn’t need words. Just her soft gaze, her steady breath, and the gentle nudge that reminded me I wasn’t alone. In the silence of loss, her presence has spoken volumes — a constant reminder that love doesn’t always need to be loud to be powerful.

Grief changes you. It cracks you open in places you didn’t know existed. But having Luna has made it just a little more bearable — a little more possible.

Some souls are too bright for this world — and while their absence leaves a vast, aching space, I hold onto the light they gave me. And I hold Luna a little tighter, grateful for this four-legged hero who keeps showing up for me, even on the days I don’t know how to show up for myself. 💛

25/05/2025

Intro to Nose Work Graduates of my Canberra March starting class 🎓🐶

Congratulations to Snow, Cilla, Maple and Meatball 🥳🎊🎉👏

This class is one of those classes that has forever etched their way into my heart. They reminded me to never forget to remain a student while you teach others. From many walks of life, each dog carried the heavy weight of different forms of past life experiences, ones that have left them with low confidence and big confronting feelings about this world. I had one goal for this class; to empower the people who love them so dearly to help them unpack these feelings. I was gifted so much more. I can’t explain the difference in their confidence between class one and six. How their bodies shifted from tense to loose, how the hesitation turned to sniffing, how their minds stilled and enjoyment filled places of their brains that had only experienced anxiety or apprehension before now, how their sweet souls relaxed and learnt to trust and even more, have fun - simple fun that we take for granted. This class has been many defining and wonderful moments for me as a dog trainer 🩵

18/05/2025

Dogs flourish when we stop controlling and start collaborating. Let’s shift our perspective, let’s move away from the stigma that dog training is a battle for dominance. When we do, we don’t just shape “well-behaved, obedient” dogs - we nurture resilient, empowered, confident, joyful companions. And that’s a truly meaningful goal worth aspiring to. 💫💛

27/04/2025

Summer sticking her nose in all of the right places in a vehicle search 😂🚘

26/04/2025

Intro to Odour Graduates of my Sydney February starting class 🐶🎓

A huge congratulations to Skip, Dolly, Carla, Buddy, Ollie and Jana 🥳🎉👏

With ginormous smiles on everyone’s faces, each and every class you gave it your all and continued to blow me away with how talented and pawsome you all are. Proud is an understatement of what incredible nose work teams you have become 😍

23/04/2025

Intro to Nose Work Graduates of my Sydney February starting class 🎓🐶

Congratulations to Wilson, Lois, Summer, Teddy, Georgee and Louie 🥳🎊🎉👏

I have spent the past three months watching the dogs that already had a full or near full cup of confidence… shine 🌟. You taught me that there is such a thing as too much excitable enthusiasm in nose work 🤣.

And to my doggies where we needed to fill that cup with confidence. That you did. You now have a very full cup and I have a very full heart 💖.

20/04/2025

Happy Egg-ster Yolks 🐣
Wishing every-bunny the hoppiest shell-ebrations today!

10/04/2025

When you are 12 years young, figured out what this life thing is all about and have zero confidence issues. You turn into a box-aglier 📦🐶

07/04/2025

A dog’s reactive behaviour is fuelled by anxiety. It has nothing to do with ‘bad behaviour’ or ‘being naughty’ or ‘showing dominance’. It has everything to do with a brain that is trying to find its way back to safety. Help them find it, help them by being a part of that picture. 🤝

04/04/2025

Intro to Nose Work Graduates of my Canberra February starting class 🎓🐶

Congratulations to Athena, Clyde, Cipolla and Beau 🥳🎊🎉👏

The moment I went to the fridge to get out water and they assumed I was getting wine, I knew we were in for a wildly fantastic good time. With an ab workout from laughing more intense than sit up day at the gym, we sure had that class in and class out.

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Gymea, NSW

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0435139880

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http://www.goinmuttz.com.au/

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