The Good Dog - Newcastle

22/06/2024

Merewether vet puppy school graduation 🎓

16/06/2024

Good manners graduation.
Next one’s enrolling now. Send a DM to grab a spot.

13/06/2024

How nice does Maverick look with the leaves 🍁 as he practices some calm and engagement with his mum around other dogs that he really wants to talk to.

11/06/2024

05/06/2024

Lots of cute ears in this class graduating tonight

04/06/2024

We are on the lookout for a very special home for Bud 💜
He has shown great ability towards becoming an assistance dog for a lucky person.
Please read his info and send me a DM or email [email protected]

03/06/2024

Good manners graduation tonight 🐶

30/05/2024

💔 The dog I euthanised for behavioural reasons

My second Great Dane, a handsome black boy, he was 18 months old when I adopted him from a family home after he was involved in an incident at a dog park and had to be moved out of council range.

I wasn’t told the truth about this dog, if I had, I would never had adopted him.

🔥 He was both human and dog aggressive.

He would attack without much warning because he had been punched in the head for giving warnings in his previous home.

I worked with one positive trainer and one balanced trainer for a considerable amount of time and a vet behaviourist. He was also medicated in the end. None of these actions saved him, he was euthanised for behavioural reasons after he attacked me for the last time after redirecting aggression when seeing a dog in the far distance.

With each dog, I believe we learn valuable lessons. I learned with this boy that his problems were outside of my scope as a pet parent, even one who tried my hardest to work with professionals to help him. He taught me that I will never knowingly put myself in the position to take an aggressive dog again. In fact I ended up with a foster dog over a year ago who was aggressive that I didn’t know when I agreed to take him - I sent him back, I’m not a professional trainer and I certainly do not have the skills to rehab an aggressive dog.

I remember at the time, I was given a hard time when I euthanised this black boy, people telling me I didn’t try hard enough, or I didn’t try this trainer or that trainer or this technique or that technique or that I should have simply rehomed him.

I see comments made on rehome pages in relation to dogs like my old boy - that people shouldn’t euthanise, that they should rehome….who earth would willingly adopt such a dog? Why would they want to? Do they have the skills to deal with them or are they simply a bleeding heart? These dogs are dangerous in society especially large and giant breed dogs. If you knowingly rehome an aggressive dog then you could be legally liable if something happens.

I don’t believe most cases of behavioural euthanasia are made lightly so before you are quick to judge, ask yourself what you would have done? Because contrary to popular belief, love and time does not heal unstable dogs.

I highly recommend no family knowingly adopt an aggressive dog no matter how big, small, cute or whatever the back story is unless you have considerable skill, money, a professional team to support you and the knowing you may end up euthanising but not because it’s easier for you going forward but because keeping a dog alive in such an unstable frame of mind is not fair to them.

So many families are held in emotional and financial hostage situations by their mentally unstable dogs because society can’t bare to accept behavioural euthanasia as an acceptable outcome.

25/05/2024

Big and small graduating this afternoon at

23/05/2024

Chester’s face when he realises I don’t actually have a treat in my hand 🤦🏼‍♀️😂
He’s learning some ways to be more calm with visitors and increasing some enrichment to help give him more to do which will help him be more settled in general.

19/05/2024

Scent detection classes.
Lots of you have asked and it’s finally coming.
If you want to get on the list send a DM and we’ll be in touch.

18/05/2024

Pretty happy to be inside for this one today.
Merewether vet puppy grad 🐶

17/05/2024

Simba has been continuing work on his reactivity and building confidence out and about.
He has a strong bond with his dad who is doing such a great job. They are both smashing it and Simba is feeling much better about the world.

14/05/2024

Good manners now has a new permanent venue.
Dates are set and enrolling now. If you want to join send us a message or check our events tab for upcoming dates.

13/05/2024

Gus is working on his lead walking, recall as well as some other house manners.
He also has some work to do greeting visitors as he gets overexcited and jumps.

07/05/2024

Donny has some reactivity due to some over socialisation. He just wants to talk to all the dogs but he’s stuck on the lead.
We needed to put some skills in place to redirect him and create a relationship with him mum so she can become more exciting and important to Donny.

24/04/2024

Puppy grad tonight

23/04/2024

20/04/2024

Merewether puppy school graduation today 🐶

15/04/2024

We love story dogs and are proudly the assessor in our area.
If you think you’ve got the dog for this job please contact Leonie via the info on the flyer.

13/04/2024

Groodles, groodles, groodles.
These 3 besties graduated puppy school this afternoon at

06/04/2024

Thankful the rain cleared for us to graduate

05/04/2024

Did you know that the majority of kibbles (dry dog food) only have around 25% animal matter and the budget ones even less?

So, what are you paying for?

Time to ditch the brown pellets?
https://www.freshfoodtribe.com/how-to-start

27/03/2024

Good manners graduation tonight.
These dogs really made some great progress 🥳

23/03/2024

Merewether vet puppy grad this afternoon 🥰

21/03/2024

REHOMED
This is Ghillie. He’s a 6MO Boston Terrier and he’s in need of a new home. We’ve started some training with him and will continue with his new family. He’s a lovely dog who needs direction, boundaries and the ability to use his terrier energy through exercise and enrichment. If you think you can provide a great home for Ghillie please send us a message ✉️

18/03/2024

Our first good manners group of 2024.

18/03/2024

18/03/2024

𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗡?

Do you know what you're actually feeding your dog?

👉 𝗗𝗲𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻
What poultry? Chicken, Quail? Who knows. Is it just carcass minced up?

👉 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝘇𝗲
Corn

👉 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿
Corn ground up - this is a classic case of ingredient splitting where they take 2 ingredients and split them up (Maize + Maize Flour) so it looks like less Maize. If you add the Maize and the Maize flour up, there's a chance it would be the #1 ingredient.

👉 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗻
A by-product of maize processing and can be used to top-up the protein.

👉 𝗩𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲
Common sources of vegetable protein include soya, maize and wheat.

👉 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁
You know what wheat is.

💰💰💰 $𝟭𝟴𝟰.𝟬𝟬 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀 💰💰💰

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝟭𝟲-𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗼 𝗯𝗮𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 $𝟭𝟴𝟰.𝟬𝟬? 🧐
Na, and you know that! In fact for a $20 kilo bag of corn/wheat you'd be spending $20, imagine how much per kilo a company that buys tonnes of it pays.

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗗?
If you're a small dog guardian who wants to feed a more species-appropriate diet, check out the many commercial options that aren't kibble that are balanced and ready to feed:
https://www.freshfoodtribe.com/prepackaged-raw