Let's Go Fido

01/01/2025

Happy New Year to all ,2 and 4 legged .
May 2025 be another year where your pups live their best lives doing “stuff” with you
Chester and I getting over our late night!!!!
Swimming cures most ills

25/12/2024

Just meet the most brilliant puppy owner
I asked if we could come say hello and they said
“ My puppy is super over stimulated. I need to train him can you come see us later ‘

Why is this brilliant
Because this owner knew
That if he let us come over just his pup would have
Practiced jumping up at me
Jumping up into Chester face
Hyper arousal spinning
All behaviours he would be saying No too later if he did not train what he wanted now
X###xx

24/12/2024

22/12/2024

As we get closer and closer to the arrival of our favourite Santa Claus, take a second to remind yourself of the potential holiday hazards for your pets.

🍫 CHOCOLATE - this can cause a range of issues from vomiting and diarrhoea, to tachycardia (high heart rate), seizures and death in extreme cases. The smaller the dog, the darker the chocolate and the greater the quantity- the higher the risk of toxicity.

🍇GRAPES AND SULTANAS - often found in a chocolate coating, or in fruitcakes, any member of the grape family can cause acute kidney failure in dogs.

🥜MACADEMIA NUTS - also sometimes found in chocolate coating and can cause neurological symptoms

🥓CHRISTMAS HAM - or other fatty meats can cause gut upsets or pancreatitis. The bones can also cause intestinal obstructions or constipation

🌸 LILLIES - that might be found in your festive decor are highly toxic to cats and can cause acute kidney failure

If you’re concerned your pet has eaten anything they shouldn’t have please call us on (02) 9810 7544 for advice or your nearest emergency clinic if we are closed.

☎️ SASH North Ryde - (02) 9199 7250
☎️ SASH Alexandria - (02) 8381 1938
☎️ Sydney Uni Hospital - (02) 9351 3437

21/12/2024

Kids and dogs can be the best mix
However so many kids have no idea how to behave around dogs or to read a dogs body signals
This great guide will help and empower your children and their friends
Keep kids safe
Keep dogs trusting to use a warning signal over A nip or bite

A Kids’ Comprehensive Guide to Speaking Dog!

A fun, Interactive, educational resource to help the whole family understand canine communication
A fun, interactive, educational resource to help the whole family understand canine communication. Keep future generations safe by learning to “speak dog!” The perfect tool for parents, educators, dog trainers and behavior specialists to use in support of family pet dog training. Available in PDF and ePub versions
** Features the renowned Be a Tree® international dog bite safety program
** Real-life situations explained with photos and fun cartoons
** Complete toolbox to help children stay safe around just about any dog
** Written and contributed to by qualified canine training and behavior specialists

Also available in bulk at wholesale pricing as a tool for your training clients

https://dognosticseducation.com/courses/a-kids-comprehensive-guide-to-speaking-dog/

19/12/2024

It does not get any better than this as a puppy trainer . Helping families settle their pups into their forever homes x merry Christmas to you all

17/12/2024

Advice for friends and family welcoming home a new pup or dog

TRAINING TIP TUESDAY

Puppy Play Pens

Play pen areas when used correctly are a great way to help keep our young pups safe and help manage their behaviour

Benefits
- A safe and quiet place to get their much needed sleep and be
separated from the household as needed (especially at
Christmas)
- A place where supervised ‘chewing’ can occur – e.g. you
choose what gets chewed!
- An area to provide mental enrichment (Kongs, Lickimats, Treat
toys, slow feeders etc)
- Be separate from older dogs as needed to give them a break
- To help slowly transition them into the household, especially
when there is existing pets

What should a great puppy play set up look like?
- Adequate space for sleep, toileting and activities
- Pen walls should be high enough to ensure puppy does not
jump out and harm themselves, but low enough for you to
interact with.
- Often a crate opening out into a play pen works well
- Toileting area – young pups cannot hold on all night. They will
need to go, so lets provide a suitable area such as the fake
grass or litter tray set up within the pen
- Be placed in a quiet area where they can rest and feel safe
when the world gets a bit scary

Want to know more?
Many of our fantastic PPGA trainers have online and group puppy classes, plus may be able to help with in home consultations to help you set up your puppy for success.

Check out our members directory to find a trainer near you

https://www.ppgaustralia.net.au/Member-Search

06/12/2024

05/12/2024

Everyone loves the beach . Today it was people’s leftovers and cooked bones that sabotaged our fun
The concept of being off-lead means your dog has to be good to come away from distractions

But leaving food when you haven’t had breakfast is harder
Come on people put it in the bin and if the bin is full take it home x

03/12/2024

More fabulous pups …. This class had so many personalities and they did not match their breed stereotypes ###.
Love and train the dog in front of you.
4 Paws Vet Clinic

02/12/2024

Check out Noomi working the obstacles way out in-front of her handler ###xx
Brilliant
Yes hesitation after the tunnel
But it is the journey and the trust that brings the joy ! YEAH

27/11/2024

Meet the latest graduates from our Balmain Vets Puppy classes . Super keen to get off to the right start . All smitten with their puppy and the choices they had made about when to get their pup and why and from whom

So thank you x

All the puppies grew in social etiquette . From Learning to self handicap to include pups of all sizes amongst friends
To being confident to have a go.
To dip into the play and come away when you need the break
But what was so great was the guardians being able to recognise these behaviours and so support their puppy “Making good decision “
You were truly a delightful group to train with
Thank you ###x
Balmain Veterinary Hospital
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27/11/2024

25/11/2024

Skin issues ….. so many dogs flare up over holidays and in the heat . Here is a great offer

23/11/2024

If you are an animal lover and have not heard about the Pet Professional Guild of Australia. You are missing out. They have an online magazine called Barks which has great articles . They have a welcoming community

Encouraging new, potential, or emerging trainers to undertake a PPGA recognised certificate course to further benefit our industry with qualified professionals by subsidising some of the cost of the program.