Trusty Tails - Behaviour Training

31/08/2025

We had a beautiful day today for our Hoopers try-out day! All owners did awesome and the dogs had so much fun!! Thank you everyone for coming out today and hopefully we will see you soon at one of our Hoopers courses 🐾🐾

Thank you everyone for helping us run this event so smoothly. Thank you to the invaluable support of Be Nikki despite the long crazy day! And for the photos

More to come! We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did!

30/08/2025

At Trusty Tails we are lucky enough to have our own photographer so our Teams also have the opportunity to practice with the additional distraction of a person capturing some memorable moments!

If you come to any Mock trial and think that it would be too scary or distracting please let us know beforehand and we’ll make sure to hold off on the photos to best support you and your dog.

30/08/2025

We had 5 beautiful puppies graduate from puppy class today! They learned how to have good interactions with other dogs, loose leash walking, puppy hoopers and much more 🐾

Canines Unleashed Dog daycare & Groomers

29/08/2025

To conclude our Novice and Advanced Containers course we decided to challenge our teams in a mock trial.
We started with a Novice Container trial where we had 10 boxes in two rows. One hide of Clove.
Followed by an Advanced Containers search.
15 boxes of different shapes and heights, one hide of clove and one hide of cypress and one non food distraction (horse hair).
No teams indicated on the distraction.
And despite some very evident changes of behaviour and head turns at the cypress hide almost all dogs indicated on the clove first.
All the Teams showed an amazingly high level of work. Lovely to see some young teams step up to the challenge.
Congratulations to all the place getters and qualifiers. And for those of you that were so close, please remember that these are opportunities to practice and learn.

Well done everyone! Can’t wait for the next one!!

Photos of the searches will be uploaded tomorrow!📸

27/08/2025

GIVEAWAY TIME!!

For International Dog Day, we’re feeling generous at R&T and want to treat one lucky winner with a chance to spoil their dog and win a ticket to try out the growing sport of Hoopers! 🎟️

To Enter:
1️⃣ LIKE this post
2️⃣ COMMENT below with the word “HOOPERHOLIC”
3️⃣ TAG a friend in your comment! (More comments = more entries! 🚀

The winner will be selected completely at random via an online generator, and announced right here on Saturday. 🏆

This competition is open to all – not just our daycare clients. So get tagging and good luck! 🤞

*Terms & Conditions:
- Entries must be made as a comment.
- Each unique comment with a tag counts as one entry.
- You must like this post to be eligible to win.
- The winner will be announced on Saturday. The prize is an opportunity to try out Hoopers with an experienced instructor and competitor this Sunday at 3pm at the Woodville Reserve Pavilion in North Perth.
- This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with, Facebook or Instagram.

26/08/2025

Would you like to have a sneak peak of how much fun, affordable and easy to enjoy Hoopers is?

Watch our "living room tutorial"

Hoopers hoops are an easy DIY project or you can decide to support a local business and get some from the amazing Tash at Snuffle & Hoops. Tash makes some other amazing enrichment toys too!

I can't wait to meet you all on Sunday

Only a few more spots left!
https://trustytails.com.au/hoopers-try-out

25/08/2025

A fabulous sunny day is expected for our Hoopers Try Out Day on Sunday. Limited spots are available; hurry to secure yours.

https://trustytails.com.au/hoopers-try-out

22/08/2025

Apologies for lagging behind on email replies and reports this week.
We’ve had a bit of sickness going around the Tram but you’ll hear from us soon!

In the meantime head to our website and book your spot in our HOOPERS TRY OUT DAY!

https://trustytails.com.au/hoopers-try-out

21/08/2025

If you don’t physically exhaust them… they just won’t stop.
Whoa there.
Let’s look at the bigger picture.... not just a quick “fix” for today.

I get it, I really do.
Running them longer..... throwing the frisbee for another 10 minutes, chucking that ball again and again, because if you don’t, they’ll pace, whine and struggle to settle.

Here’s the tough question.
Is it helping your dog… or just creating a cycle where they crave more and more?

Their stamina climbs higher.
Their demands increase.
Their adrenaline is off the charts.

Then "suddenly" the amount of exercise you need to give them is unsustainable .
There just aren’t enough hours in the day to “satisfy” them.

What's the solution?
Do less… but carefully.
Reduce that high energy exercise, while adding enrichment in its place.

Low arousal activities that tire them in a different way:

Scatter feeding
Scent walks
Enrichment games
Puzzle toys

Still not convinced?
Try it.... really try it , for a few weeks.

You’ll never look at “tiring them out” the same way again.