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09/11/2025

This is Hector. Hector loves nose work. Hector has swagger. Be like Hector. 🕺🪩

Join Goin’ Muttz and YoPawsAD for an evening of real talk, expert insights, and practical proven guidance - hosted by an...
03/11/2025

Join Goin’ Muttz and YoPawsAD for an evening of real talk, expert insights, and practical proven guidance - hosted by an accredited trainer and assesor (me 👋), an experienced assistance dog handler, and a vet nurse who live and breathe the human–dog bond. 💛

Let us help you navigate the assistance dog world with clarity, compassion, and confidence.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
🐾 What an Assistance Dog is - and how it differs from therapy or support dogs
🧩 Knowing when you’re ready: is now the right time for a dog or to put your dog into training?
🎯 The process of getting or training an assistance dog
🐕 How to choose the right breed & temperament for your needs
💰 Realistic costs, timelines, and what training actually looks like
🎓 Learn from an accredited assistance dog trainer - hear real experiences, discover what works (and what doesn’t), and understand how to build trust and teamwork
🌈 The challenges and rewards of the journey

+ Live Q&A - bring your questions!

🎟️ First 20 tickets get 25% off - use code GoinMuttz25 at checkout!

BOOK your spot here 👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1886295844649?aff=oddtdtcreator

🌟 BIG NEWS ALERT - Meet Alana! 🌟I’m beyond excited to welcome the incredible Alana to the Goin’ Muttz crew! 🐾💛✅ Qualifie...
06/10/2025

🌟 BIG NEWS ALERT - Meet Alana! 🌟

I’m beyond excited to welcome the incredible Alana to the Goin’ Muttz crew! 🐾💛

✅ Qualified & experienced trainer
🐶 Behaviour nerd
👃 Nose work superfan
💪 Fierce dog advocate
💫 All-around beautiful soul to work with

Alana brings over 4000 hours of hands-on experience working with dogs of all shapes, sizes, and stories. She also has a heart as big as her dog, Jana - a Great Dane x Bull Arab - so yeah, pretty huge.

What makes Alana special? It’s not just her skills (which she has in spades). It’s her deep love for dogs and her innate ability to help them feel safe, seen, and celebrated for exactly who they are.

You can teach knowledge. You can train skill.
But what I saw in her - that empathy, connection, warmth, deep sense of fun - that can’t be taught.
That’s what drew me to her. And that’s what I know your dogs will feel, too.

📍Alana is now training across SOUTHERN SYDNEY!
✔️ Private consultations
✔️ 1:1 nose work sessions
✔️ Nose work group classes

🤓 Fun fact: Alana started out as one of Tamika’s most passionate (and loudest 😂) students in a nose work class... and now she’s part of the fam. Full circle moment.

Now taking bookings 🗓️
We can’t wait for you (and your dog) to meet her!

Glimmers are out there. Having a reactive dog is tough. It can be emotionally draining, isolating, and often overwhelmin...
05/10/2025

Glimmers are out there. Having a reactive dog is tough. It can be emotionally draining, isolating, and often overwhelming. But intentionally adding “glimmers” 🌈 to your dog’s day can make a big difference - not just for them, but for you, too.

Glimmers are those small moments of connection, safety, or calm that help balance out the more difficult ones. They remind both you and your dog that not everything is a threat - that there is joy, safety, and trust to be found in your shared world.

Here are some ways to intentionally add glimmers to a reactive dog’s day:

👃 Sniff stroll: Feed out their leash and let them lead, if they stop, you stop and continue to look at them. Let them explore without the pressure of being moved on prematurely. It’s not about distance - it’s about decompression.
There’s no pressure to “walk properly” or cover ground. Just the joy of following scent trails, gathering info, and being a dog. It’s decompressing and confidence-building.

🥓Food puzzles or scent games: Give them a choice-driven way to stay engaged, calm, and confident. Let their brain work at their pace. It makes a difference. 💛

🛏️ “Yes space” time: A comfy place where nothing is expected of them - no commands, no interactions they didn’t choose.

🤗 Consent-based affection: Invite them into contact, don’t force it. A gentle chest scratch when they lean in? That’s a glimmer.

▶️ Play with rules they understand: Tug, flirt pole, or chase with clear starts and stops can be empowering.

✏️ No-pressure training: Teaching a weird, silly or funky behaviour - just because. This training is not about the behaviour learnt, it’s about the process. It’s just for fun and not for control. It is done in a calm environment using purely positive reinforcement.

❤️ For You, Too:
Remember, you deserve glimmers too.

Intro to Odour Graduates – Canberra August Starting Class. 🎓A huge round of a-paws for our superstar sniffers: Cilla, He...
04/10/2025

Intro to Odour Graduates – Canberra August Starting Class. 🎓

A huge round of a-paws for our superstar sniffers: Cilla, Henri, Ava, Scout and Clyde! 🥳🎉👏

This talented bunch brought their quirks, charm and super-sniffers to class and we loved every second of it. Let’s meet this entertaining lot:

💋Cilla
Brains and beauty? This girl’s got both. When the search is on, it’s head down, nose on and all business - oh she can work it, glamorously.

⏮️ Henri
The terrier with a backwards tail. When excited, his tail waves in a direction that defies all logic. Physics? Unclear. Vibes? Immaculate.

🦝 Ava
Part dog, part raccoon, and all about the cheese snacks - but only after she finds the odour, of course. A professional forager with a mouthful of cheesy kisses ready for anyone at head height. You’ve been warned.

🏎️ Scout
The 13-year-old who’s convinced she’s still 2. Emotionally stuck in her zoomies era, she lives in joyful denial. Every nap is followed by an undeniably heroic burst of energy.

👐 Clyde
The gentle giant with a shy soul. Soft eyes, softer heart, and a sniffer that’s quietly brilliant. He may take a moment to warm up, but once he does - he’s all in, all smiles, and all about the butt scratches.

01/10/2025

Stitch and Ally, you absolute superstars! 🌟
Meet the dream team who have just smashed their very first round of assessments on the road to becoming an accredited assistance dog team. 🐾✨

I’m beaming with pride and feel so privileged to play the part as their trainer, assessor and biggest supporter in their journey. 💛

Next stop in this adventure? Even bigger things! Bring it on, Stitchy 😎💪

Intro to Nose Work Graduates of my Canberra August starting class 🐕🎓Congratulations to Nimbus, Ace, Ralph and Moose 🥳🙌🎉🎊...
28/09/2025

Intro to Nose Work Graduates of my Canberra August starting class 🐕🎓

Congratulations to Nimbus, Ace, Ralph and Moose 🥳🙌🎉🎊

Who runs these hides? These guys… at about 100kph 💨😱

When you’re literally hanging for your search turn… Stitch style 🤣Canberra Intro to Nose Work class kicks off next Frida...
26/09/2025

When you’re literally hanging for your search turn… Stitch style 🤣
Canberra Intro to Nose Work class kicks off next Friday afternoon! 👍

Still to this day, I get butterflies watching teams at the start line. In that moment, they stand as one, poised on the ...
24/09/2025

Still to this day, I get butterflies watching teams at the start line. In that moment, they stand as one, poised on the precipice of all possibilities. It’s exhilarating and utterly addictive. Just ask any nose work team. 🦋🤝🔥🐕‍🦺

With the 2025 Nose Work Down Under Camp now over, I’m reflecting on four days of intense learning. I was lucky enough to...
21/09/2025

With the 2025 Nose Work Down Under Camp now over, I’m reflecting on four days of intense learning. I was lucky enough to have a working spot with Luna. This year’s camp theme was partnership, which felt incredibly fitting. In the two years between camps, we faced and beat her cancer head-on and then months of rehabilitation after a dog attack involving five dogs. Through it all, we have been nothing but a fierce partnership. 🤝

Life is unexpected and at times pretty tough. So going into camp, I had just one goal for us: to have the time of our lives searching - loose bodies, big smiles and even bigger celebrations. How successful we were didn’t matter. And have the time of our lives, we absolutely did! 🎉

From an instructor’s point of view, camp is an incredible experience - being surrounded by like-minded people who share the same passion and dedication fills my cup. Some of the best nose work minds come together here, and I get to learn from a true brain trust of knowledge. What I learn here doesn’t stay here, it comes home with me, straight into the hands (and paws) of my students. Yes I teach, but I too, am always learning so I can show up better for every single team I work with. 🥇

Feeling incredibly grateful - for my students who make this all possible, for the teachers, the sniffy community, the experiences, the new learnings and most of all, for Luna who continues to enlighten and empower me every single day. 🐶

When the world is woefully lacking in safe spaces, become one. ♾️This is and has always been my goal for Clyde every tim...
16/09/2025

When the world is woefully lacking in safe spaces, become one. ♾️

This is and has always been my goal for Clyde every time he and his human step across the search start line.

The world can be an overwhelming place for Clyde with his confidence often teetering. But within the imaginary four walls of nose work, and using searching as a vessel, something deeper unfolds.

Yes, he is “finding” odour but most importantly he’s discovering who he is when he feels safe, seen and supported.

Together, they move as one. 🤝💛

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 💛💡

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