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Qualified Positive Dog Trainer | Behaviour Consultant | Canine Fitness Coach
🐕 PPGA & APDT professional member
🎓 Dip.CBST, CASI
🎓 CCFC, Do More With Your Dog
🎓 ProDog Trainer, Absolute Dogs
📍 Central West NSW

✨ Beautiful Horatio ✨He’s becoming such a lovely companion for his mum ❤️ young dogs do need help with learning self-reg...
10/09/2025

✨ Beautiful Horatio ✨

He’s becoming such a lovely companion for his mum ❤️ young dogs do need help with learning self-regulation, especially during high excitement times or even when unsure what to do with themselves in certain situations, especially as dogs are involved in our every day life and faced with different things. This can be visitors to the house, phone ringing, anticipation of activity, etc. It’s really good to have tools to help them practice regulating their emotions and also have availability to things like long lasting chews that they can gravitate to when they need for these times 🦴

This afternoon I had a visit with MindDog Betty, as she gets prepared for her annual Public Access Test 🌸 I also saw the...
09/09/2025

This afternoon I had a visit with MindDog Betty, as she gets prepared for her annual Public Access Test 🌸 I also saw the lovely Willow again as we continue to work through noise sensitivities and confidence 🌼

🐾 Chief 🐾I met this handsome fella today as we help him learn new ways of dealing with triggers at fence lines. He is th...
09/09/2025

🐾 Chief 🐾

I met this handsome fella today as we help him learn new ways of dealing with triggers at fence lines. He is the most beautifully natured, sweet boy, I’m a sucker for catahoula mixes 🥰

✨ Client Spotlight ✨This gorgeous girl just proves how important it can be to have a great support network around you! S...
07/09/2025

✨ Client Spotlight ✨

This gorgeous girl just proves how important it can be to have a great support network around you!

Sadie was showing certain behaviours which led them to a fantastic behaviour vet at Blayney, which for trainers, are so important to work with. Sadie had a history of pain and itchiness which can also have a big impact on behaviours, which is another important reason a vet was involved.

Sadie was showing quite severe startle responses, resource guarding and strong negative emotional responses to body handling.

Sadie’s mum has been doing an incredible job on their journey together. It’s important to recognise as well how hard it can be for the fur parents trying to help their dog.

During my time so far with Sadie and her mum we have introduced and worked on:
🐾 Pattern games - a fantastic way to help build new pathways in the brain, learn disengagement and grow confidence.
🐾 Choice and predictability - all dogs need choice and predictability. This involves choice in grooming/vet/body handling and predictability in her routine.
🐾 Understanding body language - her mum was already doing a fantastic job in reading Sadie and recognisong if she became uncomfortable.
🐾 Games - fantastic for confidence growth for both dog and human! Also great for relationship building.

They have both been doing incredible together and I look forward to seeing continual confidence growth for this lovely team ❤️

🐾 Louis 🐾Today we worked on some engagement tools and pattern games to help Louis when he sees other dogs and people. Is...
03/09/2025

🐾 Louis 🐾

Today we worked on some engagement tools and pattern games to help Louis when he sees other dogs and people. Isn’t he handsome 🥰

Tuesday mornings with Freddy and Sadie 🤗🥰
02/09/2025

Tuesday mornings with Freddy and Sadie 🤗🥰

Bigly doing amazing with his paws ‘up’ as we work on his confidence, particularly around dogs. Bringing out familiarity ...
31/08/2025

Bigly doing amazing with his paws ‘up’ as we work on his confidence, particularly around dogs.

Bringing out familiarity and safety into an environment that can be unpredictable is a great way to work on a dogs confidence and slowly build towards triggers 🐾

☕️ Cafe Dogs ☕️There can be a lot of expectations on dogs these days. Of course we would all love our dogs to be comfort...
30/08/2025

☕️ Cafe Dogs ☕️

There can be a lot of expectations on dogs these days. Of course we would all love our dogs to be comfortable and happy to join us in most areas of our life. I think though sometimes we can have these ‘expectations’ of what we want in a dog and how we want them to fit in with our lifestyle.

This can sometimes mean expectations override the dogs genetics and emotional needs.

Sure you can do all the training and put in the hard work to help a dog feel more comfortable in certain situations, but I think we need to also accept that there are some things our dogs just don’t have to do, for THEM to have a fulfilled life.

There are so many classes now to train the perfect ‘cafe dog’ and yes some dogs can be calm and not fussed with sitting at a cafe/being in these environments but not all dogs can cope with this and I think we shouldn’t expect all dogs to be able to cope with this.

Being chill at cafes or busy environments doesn’t equal a happy and fulfilled life for the dog. Meeting THEIR needs and providing a home where they can be comfortable is what our expectations should be.

We can definitely have desires for our dog’s, but are we able to change those desires if they don’t suit the dog in front of us?

The weather cleared up for us as we made some new friends 🐮 I love the inquisitive nature of cows ❤️ Max prefers to keep...
27/08/2025

The weather cleared up for us as we made some new friends 🐮 I love the inquisitive nature of cows ❤️ Max prefers to keep his distance!

The animals and I will be enjoying a little farm stay this week! I’ll still be on emails and phone, just no bookings for...
25/08/2025

The animals and I will be enjoying a little farm stay this week! I’ll still be on emails and phone, just no bookings for the week 😊

It’s been a busy last few months so will spend some time catching up on everything. Looking forward to what the rest of the year will bring 🐾

✨ Milo ✨I saw this handsome fella today as we start working on his arousal levels, disengagement from dogs and outlets t...
21/08/2025

✨ Milo ✨

I saw this handsome fella today as we start working on his arousal levels, disengagement from dogs and outlets to work “sheep”. Looking forward to our future sessions together ❤️

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