Paws & Train

Paws & Train Paws & Train offers dog training, puppy program and walk & train services in Sydney’s Eastern Subu
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Welcome Zeus! 🤍Zeus has enrolled for The Great Dog Program to help with: - Greeting calmly  - Loose leash walking  - Rec...
19/04/2023

Welcome Zeus! 🤍

Zeus has enrolled for The Great Dog Program to help with:
- Greeting calmly
- Loose leash walking
- Recall
- Overexcitement

Zeus has a lot of potential and is eager to learn! By giving him guidance, setting him up for success and becoming his advocates we already saw amazing progress on our first session!

Can’t wait to see his progress in the next sessions!

📣 We are so excited to let you know about our NEW Dog Training Programs!!Let us bring harmony to your home with our cust...
19/04/2023

📣 We are so excited to let you know about our NEW Dog Training Programs!!

Let us bring harmony to your home with our customisable programs designed to help you reach your goals! For all breeds, ages and situations!

All the programs include:
✅ One-on-one lessons at your home or around town
✅ Personalised notes in between sessions
✅ Support in between sessions and after the program ends

🐾 The Well Mannered Dog
This program will give you what you need to be able to enjoy your dog’s company more in day to day life at home and out on walks

🐾 The Great Dog
This popular program goes beyond just the essentials and gives you the freedom and reliability to enjoy your dog more often and in more places!

🐾 The Awesome Dog
This program will give you everything you need to achieve the ultimate freedom you’ve wanted with your dog.

🐾 Day training
This program will give you comfort knowing your dog is getting personalised training with an experienced dog trainer while you are at work, and peace of mind that you have support for the human side of things, too.

📩 Contact us now and tell us all about your dog! www.pawsandtrain.com

Thanks so much Melinda for those kind words! Working with you all have been lovely and fun with all the enthusiasm all a...
13/04/2023

Thanks so much Melinda for those kind words! Working with you all have been lovely and fun with all the enthusiasm all around! Duke is such a good boy and it has been heartwarming to see him improve and be calmer at home and on his walks and enjoying the training. Keep up the great work and I look forward to checking in with you again soon! 🐾

Welcome Duke! 🤍🖤Duke is a 12 weeks old Dalmatian and joining our Puppy Program. He has settled well in his new forever h...
09/03/2023

Welcome Duke! 🤍🖤

Duke is a 12 weeks old Dalmatian and joining our Puppy Program. He has settled well in his new forever home and his parents are already very committed helping him adjust nicely to the human world. We are so excited to be working with Duke and help him grow as a confident, independent and happy pup! 🐾

Often you’ll hear me say the phrase “set your dog up for success,” but what exactly do I mean by that?It means setting u...
27/01/2023

Often you’ll hear me say the phrase “set your dog up for success,” but what exactly do I mean by that?

It means setting up realistic expectations and goals for you and your dog and creating an environment that sets your dog up for success. When we are training, it is essential that we give our dogs many opportunities to be right so we can reward them for making the correct choice. These are the moments when learning happens!

It helps in reducing frustration felt by you and your dog. It also helps in building bonds and trust in each other.

Think about it this way, teaching kids to swim before throwing them in the water on their own and expecting them to compete in a race. That would be unfair. So why should we expect anything differently from our dogs?

So how can you set your dog up for success?

✅ Know your dog:
- What they like - Figure out whatever motivates your dog. Is it food? Toys? Play? Praises and affection?

- What they dislike - Don’t force them into situations that will make them uncomfortable such as bringing them to the dog park when they don’t like dogs, or taking them into crowded areas when they’re nervous around people. That will only set them up for failure.

- Their age and abilities - If they are a puppy, then you need to set the expectations lower and expect yourself to help them out a lot more often. Puppies, just like children, need time to learn, grow and mature

✅ Understand your dog’s body language
Dogs communicate to us with their bodies if we know how to listen. They will tell us how they feel (excited, bored, distracted, anxious, or ready to stop training for the day) via their eyes, body posture, tail position, and stance.

✅ Practice in different environments
The key is not expect too much too soon in distracting environments. Practice at home first and gradually increase the level of distractions. Ie from the living room to the backyard, to a quiet street, a busier street, an empty park to a park with a couple of dogs at a distance etc....

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and happy New Year, enjoying precious moments with your 2 and 4 legged families ...
25/12/2022

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and happy New Year, enjoying precious moments with your 2 and 4 legged families 🐾

Thanks Milly for the kind words! Joey is such a well loved dog with a loving home! You and your family's commitment to h...
22/12/2022

Thanks Milly for the kind words! Joey is such a well loved dog with a loving home! You and your family's commitment to his training certainly impressed me! Well done in keeping the training consistent and executing the techniques well. Really glad to see that Joey is now more comfortable on walks and you have the tools to make him feel more comfortable 🐾

Dog Management vs Dog TrainingWhen working with dogs and addressing dog behaviour problems people often confuse managing...
07/11/2022

Dog Management vs Dog Training

When working with dogs and addressing dog behaviour problems people often confuse managing dog behaviour and dog training. While both are important and are often used together, they are actually two different things.

Management essentially refers to anything (environment, item, habit) that prevents a dog from practising dog behaviour problems.

- A dog pulls hard on leash during walks ➡️ use of a front-clip harness, which prevents the dog from pulling by changing the angle of attachment.

- Two dogs fight when they are eating dinner ➡️ feed them in separate rooms.

- A dog is incessantly barking out of the window ➡️ close the blinds so the dog cannot see the things that make them bark

Positive training is used to change the consequences to encourage alternative behaviours we like better in the problem situation.

- A dog pulls hard on leash during walks ➡️ train the dog to walk with a loose leash, in order to earn forward movement and treats.

- Two dogs fight when they are eating dinner ➡️ train the dogs to eat comfortably across the room from each other.

- A dog is incessantly barking out of the window ➡️ desensitise and counter condition the dog to triggers outside the window so that the dog is no longer triggered when seeing things outside the window

⭐️ Working together ⭐️
Through a combination of dog behaviour management and positive training, we can change a problem situation into an environment that promotes dog behaviours we like better and allow training new desirable behaviours.

Hi Tanushree, a huge thank you for taking the time to post this and thank you for your trust considering you saw other t...
21/10/2022

Hi Tanushree, a huge thank you for taking the time to post this and thank you for your trust considering you saw other trainers in the past. I am so glad I was able to show you a more positive way of training that helps you have a better understanding of Chester and build a strong relationship! You are doing amazing and so does Chester! Good luck on your new venture, do not hesitate if you have any questions. I’m always available 🐾

It’s the long weekend which means more quality time with your furry friend! 🐾 Take advantage of this extra day off with ...
01/10/2022

It’s the long weekend which means more quality time with your furry friend! 🐾 Take advantage of this extra day off with your pup by indulging in one of these activities!

Welcome Peewee! 🤍Peewee is joining our 4 week puppy program as he is going to be a big boy and his parents want to make ...
27/09/2022

Welcome Peewee! 🤍

Peewee is joining our 4 week puppy program as he is going to be a big boy and his parents want to make sure they have the right foundations to give him the best start in life. He has joined a busy family so we will be working with the kids as well helping them to be more confident on how to interact with him.

Peewee has already adapted well to his family and seems very enthusiastic to learn! We are excited to see him grow as a confident, happy and independent pup! 🌟

Thanks Jaidene for this amazing feedback! ✨Louie is just too cute and fits in so well with your family! It's been a plea...
21/09/2022

Thanks Jaidene for this amazing feedback! ✨
Louie is just too cute and fits in so well with your family! It's been a pleasure to give you guys guidance for Louie's puppy training. I am very impressed by your commitment to implementing, learning and growing to help him be the best pup he can be! Awesome work, you have set him up for the best start to life possible and I am excited about your journey together! Keep me posted! 🐾

Cotton & Puffy! 🤍What a duo!!! 😻 I met those 2 cuties today to help with good manners dog training such as drop it, leav...
19/09/2022

Cotton & Puffy! 🤍

What a duo!!! 😻 I met those 2 cuties today to help with good manners dog training such as drop it, leave it and recall. We discussed how to keep them mentally stimulated during the day and how to manage a multi-dog household with ease.

Excited to see them again in a few days to practice more skills outside with more distractions.

Earl! 🤎This was a special consultation. We’ve met Earl 1.5 years ago and help with his loose leash walking and recall. E...
15/08/2022

Earl! 🤎

This was a special consultation. We’ve met Earl 1.5 years ago and help with his loose leash walking and recall. Earl is now in a new family due to personal circumstances but he has found a loving family that only wants the best for him and are really educating themselves to make sure they are doing the right thing for him. We discussed how to help him adjusting to his new home and to settle down. He gets easily triggered by outside noises so we discussed and put in practice exercices to desensitise him to those noises. We also work on his leash reactivity towards dogs and he did really well, easily disengaging.

Looking forward to seeing him again in a few weeks to see his progress.

Walter! 🤎We met the beautiful Walter for an initial consultation to help with attention seeking whining. We discussed ho...
14/08/2022

Walter! 🤎

We met the beautiful Walter for an initial consultation to help with attention seeking whining. We discussed how to keep him mentally stimulated and help him settling down at home.
We practised loose leash walking, recall and how to manage his over excitement around other dogs. We discussed how to set him up for success by working under threshold and redirecting his attention.

So grateful to call this my job and do what I love the most everyday! 🥰🐾🙏🏽Today was the last training session with Louie...
11/08/2022

So grateful to call this my job and do what I love the most everyday! 🥰🐾🙏🏽

Today was the last training session with Louie and his family and it has been an amazing journey together! 💫

We started with a pre puppy arrival consultation to set up the home for the arrival of Louie, followed by a 4 week puppy program working on helping him being comfortable in his new home and family, learning how to set up boundaries, creating his own little space where he loves to hang out, building up some alone time positively, learning good manners, working on socialisation and making him comfortable and used to new people, animals, sounds, objects, environnements etc… managing over excitement and learning about his needs and how puppies communicate. Then we added another puppy program of 4 weeks to work outside when he was ready to take on the outside world working on leash walking, recall, settling down and more importantly how to keep him engaged to his family with so many distractions around, read his body language and how to always put him in situations of success.

Today Louie is 5 months old and he is such a happy, healthy, confident, independent, calm, engaged and playful puppy. We are so proud of the pup he has became, big shout out to his family who have followed all the advice and were so dedicated to the training since the beginning.

It has been so amazing to see everyone grow and learn those past few months and we are confident that they have the tools and understandings to keep building this great relation with their dog 💙

Thank you Georgia for those kind words and following my advice and helping Poppy. She is a great dog and your attitude w...
01/08/2022

Thank you Georgia for those kind words and following my advice and helping Poppy. She is a great dog and your attitude was very positive and made the session fun for everyone!
Please keep in touch with the progress and also any questions you may still have.

Howie! 🤍We met Howie for an initial consultation to help with his reactivity towards guests at home and dogs when on wal...
30/07/2022

Howie! 🤍

We met Howie for an initial consultation to help with his reactivity towards guests at home and dogs when on walks.

His fear reactivity is due to a lack of socialisation when he was a puppy and has become a learned behaviour. We discussed how to add more mental stimulation to his daily routine and desensitise and counter condition him to like the triggers gradually and teaching him an alternate response behaviour. The family is all on board with the training plan and we’ve seen great results in our session already!

Welcome Pinot! 🤍Pinot is joining our 4 week puppy program tailored to him and his family’s needs and lifestyle. He has a...
29/07/2022

Welcome Pinot! 🤍

Pinot is joining our 4 week puppy program tailored to him and his family’s needs and lifestyle. He has already settled really to his forever home. We will be working on:
✅ Socialisation
✅ Crate training
✅ Independent behaviours
✅ Good manners
✅ Loose leash walking
✅ Recall

Can’t wait to see Pinot grow as a happy and confident pup!

We are out soon! 🌞✈️✌🏼Paws & Train will be closed from August 14th to September 17th for some needed holiday time and an...
25/07/2022

We are out soon! 🌞✈️✌🏼

Paws & Train will be closed from August 14th to September 17th for some needed holiday time and an overdue family reunion that we haven't seen for more than 3 years.

There are still spots available for initial consultations, private training and day training packages before our holiday closure. Contact us to book in!
www.pawsandtrain.com

Welcome Coco! 🤎Coco is joining our 4 week puppy program tailored to Coco’s family lifestyle and needs. We will focus on ...
21/07/2022

Welcome Coco! 🤎

Coco is joining our 4 week puppy program tailored to Coco’s family lifestyle and needs. We will focus on independent behaviours and help Coco being ok to stay home alone, jumping up, socialisation, general manners and leash walking.

Looking forward to be part of Coco’s journey and see her grow as a happy, healthy and confident pup!

Dogs 🐶 and children 👧🏽 can be great friends and having a dog can help children develop kindness and understanding and re...
20/07/2022

Dogs 🐶 and children 👧🏽 can be great friends and having a dog can help children develop kindness and understanding and respect for living creatures. However it's important that parents teach children how to stay safe around dogs and read the dog’s signals to protect both child and dog.

Teach children how to appropriately interact with a dog ✅

DO’S
- Pet the dog under the chin, or on the neck and upper back in the direction of the fur
- Talk calmly to the dog
- Be kind to the dog
- Use toys instead of playing with their hands

DONT’S
- Follow or chase a dog it if it walks or run away from you
- Put your face near a dog’s face
- Approach the dog when it is eating or sleeping
- Take a dogs toy or bone away or reach into their food dish
- Pull on dog’s ears or tail or grab their feet
- Climb on the dog or sit on the dog
- Hug the dog
- Yell or scream around your dog
- Run towards the dog
- Corner the dog

Learn to read your dog's body language 🐕

Dogs often give plenty of warning signs before they growl or snap, but if you don’t know what to look for it may be too late. See below some signs that the dog is anxious and asking for more space

- Lowering the head and and ears
- Lip licking
- Yawning
- Hard stare
- Lowering and curving the body
- Lip lift/quiver
- Tail between legs
- Shaking
- Whale eyes
- Looking away
- Body freeze
- Snapping
- Barking / growling

Create a safe space for the dog 💤

Always supervise every interaction between kids and dogs. If you can't supervise, separate them.

Create a safe place for your dog, a place of calm and safety in times of stress where your dog can retreat and stay away from noises and activity in the house. This can be a room, a crate, a space divided with a baby gate and teach the kids to stay away from the dog when he is in that space.

Dogs provide unconditional love and loads of fun when they are treated with respect and love. Following these simple guidelines will assure that you have a happy and safe household for all pets and kids.

Welcome Watson! 🤎We met Watson for an initial consultation to help with his overexcitement and hyperactivity. We discuss...
19/07/2022

Welcome Watson! 🤎

We met Watson for an initial consultation to help with his overexcitement and hyperactivity. We discussed how to add mental stimulation and proactive outlet to his daily schedule, practise self control and manners training and encourage calm behaviours and highly reward them.
He gets easily overstimulated by the outside world so we talked on how to keep things calm so he stays in the right frame of mind and how to get him to focus around triggers.

Looking forward to be working with him and see his progress in the next month.

Boomer! 🤍Boomer has just been rescued and welcomed to a beautiful family. We discussed how to help him adjust to his new...
18/07/2022

Boomer! 🤍

Boomer has just been rescued and welcomed to a beautiful family. We discussed how to help him adjust to his new home. The new environment, smells, sounds and new people are a lot to take in for Boomer. We talked about taking things slowly, not flood him with too much information and how to read his body language making sure he is always comfortable with the situation.

Boomer gets easily overstimulated so we practiced some impulse control games and worked on the foundation of loose leash walking.

We already saw amazing progress during the session and we are excited to keep working with him and help him be the best dog he can be! 🌟

Ezra! 🤍Saturday consult with the cute Ezra. We worked on his reactivity towards dogs in his building and out on walks by...
16/07/2022

Ezra! 🤍

Saturday consult with the cute Ezra. We worked on his reactivity towards dogs in his building and out on walks by changing his feelings to a calm, neutral and even happy state of mind. We discussed how to work under threshold, making sure we don’t add any tension on the leash and associating the triggers with good things. Ezra also barks at outside noises so we discussed management, desensitisation and mental stimulation to stimulate his mind.

Marley! 🤍We met Marley for an initial consultation as her behaviour has suddenly changed and she became reactive to cert...
13/07/2022

Marley! 🤍

We met Marley for an initial consultation as her behaviour has suddenly changed and she became reactive to certain dogs while on leash. We discussed before the session the potential of a change in her physical health and after a visit to the vet they found some medical issues. While we are making sure she gets better, today we discussed and practiced ways to decrease her stress around the triggers teaching her the peaceful coping skill of self-interruption.
We talked about the importance of working under threshold and how to be an advocate for her.
We also discussed and worked on the jumping, how to ignore the unwanted behaviours and reward the good ones.

Max! 🤎Max gets easily overexcited and can go from 0 to 100 in less than a second. He does whine a lot and we discussed t...
08/07/2022

Max! 🤎

Max gets easily overexcited and can go from 0 to 100 in less than a second. He does whine a lot and we discussed the reasons behind this behaviour:
- excitement and frustration: Max wants to say hi to everyone while on walks so we practiced different exercices asking him to engage in another behaviour as part of the greeting ritual to shift his brain from excitement mode into thinking mode
- anxiety: Max finds it hard to cope with situations that are overwhelming for him so we discussed to make sure he will have a good time when taking him out to different and new environments.

By keeping him in a quiet environment with low distractions it was easier for Max to stay in the right frame of mind, to engage with his mum and manage to walk past people without wanting to say hi.

Looking forward to seeing him again in a few weeks!

Daisy! 🤎A wet consultation for little Daisy who learned how to settle down and calm behaviours inside, loose leash walki...
06/07/2022

Daisy! 🤎

A wet consultation for little Daisy who learned how to settle down and calm behaviours inside, loose leash walking and stop jumping up.

We discussed other ways to get Daisy’s energy out. By only making her physically tired she was struggling to settle down at home so we put together a routine including a mix of physical exercice, mental stimulation, training and proper sleep. We created her little space where she can rest away from the kids playing. We also discussed her breed and how to meet her needs. We practiced loose leash walking and ways for her to be more engaged with her mum instead of wanting to say hi to everyone and dogs.

There is a common misconception that if we give a dog lots of exercise, the dog will be very happy and is the solution t...
04/07/2022

There is a common misconception that if we give a dog lots of exercise, the dog will be very happy and is the solution to all behaviour issues.

Tiring out physically a "hyper" dog will calm him for a few hours but it's not going to teach the dog how to have better impulse control. The dog will never learn when and how to be calm and content no matter how much exercise he had.

While exercise is essential and highly beneficial to health and well-being, there is more to good behavior than just exercise.

Mix the activities up 🐕‍🦺
- go for walks in new places
- let your dog run and be a dog through decompression walks
- engage their brain through training new skills, solving a problem like getting food out of a toy or chewing on long lasting chews or toys

Bond with your dog 💕
- play games with your dog such as fetch or tug of war
- create some cuddle time
- give consistent and positive communication

Give your dog space from time to time 💤
- dogs need to sleep between 12 to 16 per day day. One way to ensure they get the peace of mind they need is to build them their own space and give them things to do on their own

When dogs receive a healthy balance of physical, mental stimulation and social interaction, they will be happy, occupied and balanced.

What your dog needs will be different from other dogs: breed, age, size, and individual temperament all contribute to this, as does your dog's mood on any given day.

Poppy! 🤎We met Poppy for an initial consultation to help with general over excitement, jumping, greeting guests calmly, ...
02/07/2022

Poppy! 🤎

We met Poppy for an initial consultation to help with general over excitement, jumping, greeting guests calmly, chewing on furniture and loose leash walking.

We discussed how to keep her arousal level down and ways to get her mentally stimulated. Dogs that don't receive adequate stimulation for their bodies and their brains might be restless, destructive and hard to train so it’s important to mix between exercice and mental stimulation.
We discussed about how dogs learn and how we can inadvertently reinforce unwanted behaviours. The best way to get more desirable behaviours is to reward our dogs for the behaviours we want. Ignoring is only half of the training, it’s important to ask our dogs what we want from them so we can reward them and they will more likely offer this behaviour in the future.

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Sydney, NSW

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Monday 8am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 6:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 6:30pm
Thursday 8am - 6:30pm
Friday 8am - 6:30pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm
Sunday 9am - 4pm

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