Canine Companions

11 dogs running through our little obstacle course yesterday!

Sunday walk with Stella, River and Banjo. Nice day to be out in the sunshine, what did you and your dog get up to on the weekend?

This is a video of our Tuesday, Thursday and Friday crew going over our obstacle coures, we run through the course over 30 time this week. Our obstacle course Involved: - Starting with a sit - Weaving through cones - Walking or jumping over the Orange slide - Jumping on and off the platform - Over the purple peanut ball 🎉 Finishing with a little cuddle and celebration

What a beautiful start to our day, nice sunny morning while we run all our Tuesday crew through our little obstacle course.

Working through our new service and products but Stella was after a cuddle. There’s always time for a cuddle break.

📣EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Canine Companions are very excited to welcome Dylan to our team. We look forward to sharing our new services, products and funny videos with you.

Yesterday we started our morning running all our doggie friends through a little obstacle course. Our obstacle course involved ⬇️. 🔸 Weaving through cones 🔷Jumping up on and off the platform. 🔸Completing a skill on the platform. 🔷In and out of the pool full of rope toys. 🎉 Finishing with little celebration at the end.

🐾 🔶River’s Training 🔶🐾 Here’s a little video of Sam training her dog River, teaching him to hop on and off his mark. This was River’s 2nd session working on this skill. His smashing through his training, great work to our trainer Sam and River.

Banjo having a good scratch after his bath 🛁

Something new is coming to Canine Companions 🫣 Stay tuned to see what it could be.

🌟Socialisation for Puppy🌟 When we talk about socialising puppies a lot of people first thought is to social their puppy with other dogs, but socialisation is much more than just other dogs. Puppy have a ‘critical socialisation period’ this is between 4 and 16 weeks old , in this time we want to give our puppy positive and diverse experiences which should include different sounds, sights, surfaces, people, animals and smell. Socialising puppy in their critical socialisation period will help them respond better when they’re older. Remember to always create a positive experience for your puppy and to always keep them calm when socialising, but number one thing is to have fun.

We were lucky to spend the 1st week of school holiday with Monty, the Strathfieldsaye Primary school dog. We took Monty on many of adventures from shopping at Bunnings, meeting a couple of pigs, bush walks, playing with many doggy friends and of course lots of training. Our goal was to expose Monty to new thing while working on his obedience in all these new environment Monty did a fantastic job in our care.

River excited to let everyone know that Canine Companions has reopen!!

Meet our two big fur friends Paddy and Jimmy Dylan and Sam had the joy to take these 2 out for an enrichment walk today, where they work on both Paddy and Jimmy confidence, socialisation, and training, while having fun along the way. Both did a fabulous job on their outing today! Video below is a little snippet of some confidence training we were doing with Jimmy and Paddy.

Canine Companions would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter! We will be close over Easter period but back to all our normal session on Tuesday the 2nd of April.

Working on Stella’s training and engagement at the front door. Best part of this video is Stella’s tail wagging.

💥 Down waits are a powerful skill to teach your canine!! ⁉️Don’t think so⁉️ 🛝 Here is a scenario for you, as you can see from this video Stella is in her down wait near a kids playground, this allow her handler Sam to attend to her kids on the park with Stella safely away from the park, which also allow Stella to be respectful to other people using the park. To be able to put your dog in a down wait and attend to your kids, another dog or stop an off lead dog approaching, is powerful skill to keeping your dog safe.

River was excited to go back to work with Sam this morning.

River is excited to let everyone know that Caine Companions is back open again and we can’t wait to see all our doggy friends again.

While away I found this little video of a training session I did with River working on his vocal cue.