The Dog Lady

11/11/2025

Caught up with Max for a training session at home today. We walked the block that Max and his family walk regularly. We practiced change of direction and pace. ( His caregiver likes to run). Also incorporated some fun focus activities including a nose target and reinforcing attention when offered. Lots of opportunity to sniff and ‘be a dog’ as well. Max is a great dog who is adored by everyone he meets! 🐾👏

11/11/2025

GSD puppy Xena visited us today for some private training. Our focus is on helping her feel comfortable in new environments and around new people. Also management with the children in the home and handling for Vet visits. She’s such a clever girl! She nailed it 👏

10/11/2025

Besties Tommy and Peppa returned to The Haven today for their third ‘adolescent’ class. These puppies are both quite delightful and love catching up with each other for our training sessions 🐾

10/11/2025

Has anybody ever wanted to try agility? This is a great opportunity!

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10/11/2025

🐾 Meet Precious Little Xanthe! 💛
This weekend was her very first training session, and wow — she smashed it! 👏

Xanthe loves to grab the kids’ toys and get them to chase her (lots of puppies love to do this 😄), so we started working on a fun ‘swap’ cue instead. We also played a recall game so she comes running when called, and introduced a cozy ‘stay on your mat’ skill so she can chill with the family.

First session and she absolutely nailed it — clever and adorable! 💕🐶

10/11/2025

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09/11/2025

Welcome new puppies! Precious little Goldie puppy Lotti and Border Collie puppy Luna joined our classes today. Luna happens to be deaf so we are having lots of fun training with hand signals. They are both very cute and clever! Looking forward to our next class together 🐾

08/11/2025

Lyka stuffed oesophagus chews for dinner tonight. The bomb! 🐾

07/11/2025

🐾 First session for beautiful Boxer Shelby yesterday! 💕
Shelby’s family has just moved to the Central West, and we’re helping her build confidence around other dogs.

We started with some engage/disengage games, capturing great behaviours, and building focus — all at a comfortable distance so she can feel safe and ready to learn. 🌟

Can’t wait to see this clever girl’s progress! 🐶💪

07/11/2025

🐾 Caught up with the lovely Peanut and her sister Lilo for an in-home visit yesterday! 💕
We worked on visitor management, safety, and containment around the farm — keeping everyone happy and secure. 🐶🌾

Peanut will also be starting some fun Mantrailing soon to help boost her confidence with new people and environments. So excited to see her progress! 🙌✨

05/11/2025

Starting our cooperative care training for Vet visits with MB . Stabilising and chin hold. Placing her head in my hands gives me permission to start a session. She can stop the session at any time by taking her head out of my hands. Im actually a big slow at reinforcing here. She is such a good girl. care