Training and behaviour one to ones, virtual consultations and online courses. Carri Robinson Bsc (Hons) is the founder and Canine Behaviourist at WHD.
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Wild Heart Dogs offers training and behaviour in the Gold Coast region and online training worldwide.
Happy International Assistance Dogs week.
This week we are celebrating our amazing clients, volunteers, supporters and fabulous dogs at
it really is a team approach and we are always looking for more volunteers to join the team.
https://www.assistancedogs.org.au/support-us/puppy-volunteering/
I am super excited for this upcoming webinar with Barb Buchmayer hosted by International Canine Behaviourists
Herding Skills for City Dogs.
This will be live and recorded:
August 18th 7pm UK
August 19th 4am QLD
"Many herding breed dogs are living lives far from rural areas. These dogs need an outlet for their desire to control livestock. They will find a way to express that need, often in ways that people find annoying and/or dangerous.
In this presentation, Barb will explore several games that allow dogs to use their instincts in productive, fun ways. By tapping into their herding instinct and giving them mental and physical exercise that truly meets their needs.
Harnessing their energy constructively while deepening a mutual bond.
Barb will be talking about urban herders. Those dogs with strong herding instincts living in urban, suburban, and rural areas with no access to livestock.”
In this webinar, Barb Buchmayer explores urban herding - herding skills for city dogs
Joy the Beagle 💛 loving life and her rewarding education 🐶📚
“Don’t overlook the basics. Don’t ignore the foundation. How long can a tree remain standing without the roots?” James Clear
Summer has that Friday feeling 🌻 ☀️
Use my code WILDHEART to get 50% off your first box. Be quick — this offer is for a limited time only!
From energy boosts to shiny coats and better breath, there are more benefits to be found in every Lyka bowl licked clean. Lyka is...
✅ Australian made
✅ Real food ingredients
✅ Custom-portioned meals
✅ Formulated by board-certified veterinary nutritionists
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Link in comments. This offer is valid until 30/6/24
As our bespoke small business expands we are growing our team.
Meet our Puppy Development Specialist Denise.
A pet parent to the fabulous Vegas a 10yr old Golden Retriever and has recently said goodbye to the wonderful Clarke a Labrador cross Golden Retriever at nearly 15 years ❤️.
Denise is a huge advocate for health and well-being, using holistics as much as possible.
Denise has worked for the last 15 years in puppy development with Guide Dogs and Assistance Dogs.
We are thrilled to have Denise on the team. Join me in welcoming her to WHD 🐾❤️
Pablo 🤎
Today in the US is National Puppy Day!
Any excuse to share a picture of today’s client Leo ❤️.
What a loveable fella!
His caregivers have already aced:
✅ Sleep routine
✅ Feeding routine and food enrichment
✅ Toileting routine
✅ Creating and building independence
✅ Introduction to body handling and grooming
✅ Car travel
✅ Vet visits
And much, much more.
Today we worked on:
💛 Play
💛 Introduction to new equipment
💛 Safe introduction to another older dog (Logie came out from retirement for this one ❤️)
💛 Body language
💛 Appropriate outlets for chewing
💛 Lead work
💛 Gradual familiarisation to outside of the home
We love working with families who are creating the best possible start for their puppies.
It’s worth the investment!!
The dashing Dasher 🖤
Great opportunity 👇
CHECK OUT MY "FEEDING DOGS" MASTERCLASS!!
I just put together a whopping big masterclass for all those punters interested in changing their pets to real food...but they're either confused with all the contradictory info online or they have questions.
The course covers everything you need to know about feeding dogs yourself. And I do mean EVERYTHING (details below!).
Over 3.5hrs long, it will come with (at least the paid version will!) a few handy chapters from my book, slides, a cert to prove to your employer you at least have learned the basics and entrance into a little community I'm building, sort of like a hangout (calling it The Den) where we can chat, post questions, all sorts. More on all that later as the site is still in development.
As you can see from the testimonials, this highly popular course is ideal for the fresh-feeding beginner, intermediate, for pet store owners and think it might work to shift over a few customers on the fence or you are admin of a group trying to help lots of people.
Enjoy!
https://www.drconorbrady.com/feeding-dogs-masterclass-1
COURSE CONTENT
Over four sections (and 3.5hrs, come on, it wouldn't be me if it wasn't very, very long...!) I cover:
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO FEEDING DOGS
🥩 Carnivore or Omnivore?
🥩 Studies showing benefit of real food
🥩 Changes you can expect in the first few weeks
SECTION 2: HOW TO FEED REAL FOOD TO YOUR DOG
Want the baby and not the birth? Skip straight to this section where we cover...
🥩 Where do I start?!
🥩 Choosing a good pre-made
🥩 How to prepare DIY
🥩 Power additions
🥩 Feeding raw bone
🥩 The veg debate
🥩 How to feed cooked
SECTION 3: FAQ
🥩 How to introduce his new diet
🥩 How often to feed
🥩 How do I achieve balance?
🥩 Meat sourcing ideas
🥩 Picky dogs
🥩 Raw v dry safety
🥩 Mixing raw and dry
🥩 Is pork OK?
SECTION 4: OTHER BITS
🥩 Best treats
🥩 Supplements: the good, the bad, the ugly
🥩 Raw pups
🥩 Raw mums
🥩 Raw seniors
🥩 Raw cats
🥩 Saving cash
🥩 Raw on the move!
🥩 If not raw, best dry?
🥩 Best water & water therapy
🥩 Dealing with veterinary reaction
Kiwi
Topeka Chispa Rojo
20.1.2007 - 1.11.2023 😢
The happiest day of my life was her arrival and the hardest day of my life was when she decided to go.
How blessed am I to have loved someone so much that made saying goodbye so hard. I know how lucky I am, but how sad the days are without her.
This amazing animal travelled the globe with me, from England to Australia, ACT, NSW and finally QLD.
Helped me welcome our 3 amazing children in to the world and was always my work colleague in many jobs over the past 17 years. Kiwi is my inspiration and I do what I love everyday because of her.
I know she touched many people and it’s not only I that will miss her.
In this life we don’t get to choose when we arrive or when we leave. But we do get to choose how and who we spend our time with. Again I am blessed to be surrounded by amazing people and animals everyday. I am truly grateful for that.
Her departure reminds me that life is short and if nothing else we have today 💞
You will know here at Wild Heart Dogs nutrition is at the core of everything we do.
Therefore we are excited to be partnering with to make sure no pup misses out on life changing nutrition — and so can you!
Use our code WILDHEART to get 50% off your first box and have 50 meals donated to local rescue shelters on your behalf. Be quick — this offer is for a limited time only!
From energy boosts to shiny coats and better breath, there are more benefits to be found in every Lyka bowl licked clean. Lyka is..
✅ Australian made
✅ Wholefood ingredients
✅ Custom meal sizes
✅ Delivered to your door
✅ Custom meal sizes
This offer is valid until 16/11/23.
We spoke to the team at Happy Hounds Dog Walking and Pet Sitting last weekend about meeting the dogs needs 🐶
We love the opportunity to share knowledge for the benefit of dogs 🐾💛🐾
Nahla was our morning client. Our biggest puppy of the day! By a mile!
We truly have the best clients. Always striving to give these amazing canines the absolute best. It’s easy to to go off track when there is so much conflicting advice out there. It can certainly be confusing for caregivers!
I feel immensely lucky and privileged to work with so many fantastic people and their pets. Today was a prime example of working with a beautiful family and building a plan to make some positive changes for the future.
Currently at the Australian Pet Dog Trainers annual conference.
So far many amazing presentations including Connor Brady from on nutrition and the role it plays on health and behaviour.
A deep dive in to the gut microbiome by Dr Matthew Muir from the
Our good friend Jade from breaking down the science exploring the benefits of scent work for companion dogs.
A workshop and many inspiring talks with Sarah Fisher from Animal Centred Education sharing some rich content on Freework.
And……that’s just day 1!
Happy International Dog Day 🐾
Celebrating all the canines today 💛
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Guess the breed? 🐾
Tonight’s puppy student Miss Lulu 🖤 .
You don’t see many of this breed in Australia. Take a guess 🤔?
Fergus 🖤🐕🦺🐾
Another accreditation complete w Assistance Dogs Australia 🩵
Passion + Expertise + Usefulness = Dharma 🫶
Be present and always have fun 🤩
The dogs and I in another council campaign 🫶
Have your say!
Poppy ❤️
Make a start and see where it takes you ✨
Happy Mothers Day 💖 to all our amazing Mums and Dog Mums out there.
We appreciate what you do everyday, this is a day to celebrate you. We hope however you are celebrating its fun filled and bursting with love 💗💗💗
"When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change." - Wayne Dyer 🧡
Celebrating Jade and Bronny’s progress in such a short space of time! 🐾🎉
Bronny has come on leaps and bounds with patience, positive reinforcement, and hard work. Jade has done an incredible job teaching and learning with Bronny, and their relationship is stronger for it. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with them and be a small part of their journey.
May their progress inspire other pet owners to listen to their dogs and continue to teach and learn with them. 🐶❤️
Mona for your Monday Morning 🧡
Here at WHD (Wild Heart Dogs 🐾), you can be sure that we take both the dogs and their owners learning styles in to account.
Not only are we qualified in teaching dogs, we withhold adult teaching qualifications too 🤩.
Taking time to understand each team we work with, enables us to taylor our approach to suit the individuals.
Ensuring the teams we work with are engaged and able to learn effectively. We choose methods and techniques that strengthen the bond and relationship between them. 💛
And….. we are live 💛
Rosie WUF Design has done an absolutely amazing job on the website. ❤️
Also grateful for everyone who contributed 🙌🏻
BuggleBee Photography for the images and models 💛
Ashleigh Sharp for modelling with her hounds 💛
Laura from the Copy pot for the copywriting ❤️
*** First new website of 2023!!! ***
I was hoping to launch this in January as I would love to launch a site a month this year, but we just missed it! Ah well, goals are made to be broken LOL
I’m really happy to introduce you to Carri’s new website. It’s been a while in the making, but after a couple of stops and starts it is now here and it’s a cracker.
Carris was one of those that as soon as I spoke to her I knew immediately what I was going to build for her, and I did, and it came out beautifully.
We’ve still got the blog to add, but decided to get launched and then add it after so Google gets a chance to start reading the new site.
Carri is a highly experienced dog trainer over on the Gold Coast and I’ve created a digital home for her business to convey that.
Carri thank you so much for pushing through with this project and all your hard work, it’s been really lovely working with you. Here’s to phase 2 including the blog and potentially your new Shopify store!
https://wildheartdogs.com.au/
Puppy or Teddy Bear? 🧸 .potter_ 🧡
What a cutie 💛
Sweet 16 🎈
Happy Birthday Kiwi 🎉
An amazing 16 years, born in York 🇬🇧 and living your best life here on the Gold Coast 🏖 🇦🇺.
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Happy Birthday Logan 🥳
We have another teenager 🤩. Turning 13 today 💛
We have had a great day celebrating the New Year and most importantly you.
The living legend Logie 🧡
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🐾 Logie’s Rehab Day: Supporting His 14.5-Year-Old Spirit! 🐾 Today, Logie had the benefits of his rehab session with miracle worker Monique at the Pet Rehab: ✨ Electro-Acupuncture: Easing pain and boosting circulation. ✨ Massage Therapy: Relaxing muscles and enhancing mobility. ✨ Laser Therapy: Promoting tissue repair and reducing inflammation. ✨ Hydrotherapy: Strengthening muscles and improving joint function through gentle water exercises. Logie loves his days out at the clinic and we love to help him feel his best! How do you keep your senior pets active and comfortable? Share your tips and stories with us! #LogiesRehab #SeniorDogWellness #PetCare #ElectroAcupuncture #MassageTherapy #Hydrotherapy #goldcoastdogs
How could we not share the beautiful Miss Sunday Best ❤️. Seems fitting to share today. Her amazing caregiver nailing her puppy program. 💖
Happy International Day of Happiness ✨ Sunnie was rescued at the end of 2023 and now living his best life with his amazing caregivers here on the GC. Now that’s got to make you smile! #internationaldayofhappiness #rescuedog #bordercollie
The remarkable and stunning, Kaji and Mikka. ❤️ It’s true that certain breeds tend to have signature traits: Shiba Inu’s were originally bred to hunt, Border collies love to herd and greyhounds love to chase. There’s a reason for that: Traits like these are highly heritable. Breed tendencies are accounted for with every program and every dog we work with. Behaviour is the study of one and we always work with the one dog in front of us 🐾.
The aim of life is appreciation ✨ G.K Chesterton
Eddie’s post session smile this morning 🐾 🧡 A reminder that training should be fun in the present and an investment in the future. ✨
Happy Birthday to the best work colleagues Gordon and Grayson who turn 2 today ❤️. Both graduating this month as Accredited Assistance Dogs #lifechangers
Come with me and share a glimpse of a morning of an Assistance Dog in training. 🐕🦺 These amazing Educators take their puppies through 12 months of training. Then at around 14 months these pups will go on to advanced training, learning the additional skills and tasks needed to change someone’s life. At around 18 months to 2 years, the dogs will do on and be placed as working Assistance Dogs with full public access. Assistance Dogs Australia train and place unique dogs with Australians in unique situations. Their free-to-client assistance dogs provide independence, self-esteem, improved health and relationships to individuals and families — resulting in stronger and more successful communities. We are always looking for volunteers and if this is something that peaks your interest, send me a message. Or you can apply online, I have popped the website in the comments. ❤️
Adopt the pace of nature 🍃, her secret is patience ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I remind myself this often, waiting for the sun ☀️. We love going to watch the sunrise 🌅. A few guaranteed benefits of getting out in nature: 1. Nature lowers stress 🙏. 2. Reduces anxiety and depression 🙌🏻. 3. Improves short term memory 🧠 4. Boosts creativity 💖. 5. Recharges your batteries 🔋 #miraclemorning
Monday Motivation 💫 from a 15 1/2 year old Kiwi and a 12 1/2 year old Logie. 🐾. Always ensuring these things are at an optimum: ❤️ Environment. ❤️ Nutrition. ❤️ Activities. ❤️ Health. ❤️ Grooming.
Forever is composed of nows 💫
Wet Weather Fun ☔️ Like a kid in a candy 🍭 store. Jacob spent a full minute exploring all the toys 🧸 I laid out for him. Before he chose his favourite for our session. Some more ideas for this wet weekend 💡 🦴 Food enrichment toys. Stuff your Kong with your dog’s favourite food. 🪴 Use flower pots or egg cups and hide food underneath. ⚽️ Explore your favourite game. Although ensure a non slip surface when playing indoors. 🔍 Hide and seek, either hide food, toys or yourself around the home. Then send your dog off in search. 🖐🏼 Massage, we love giving our dogs a gentle massage. Practice gentle touch and explore the areas your dog enjoys to be petted. Always watching their body language to ensure enjoyment. 🐩 Grooming, take a mindful minute and get out the brushes. What’s keeping you and your dog entertained in this rain? 🌧
What Sunday’s are made for 🐈 💤
Congratulations to Lula and Mocha for achieving their Wild Heart Dogs success program badge 🎉 Their course is now complete but their journey is only just beginning. 🐾 Amazing team, please join me in congratulating them on their success. 🧡
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Wild Heart Dogs offers dog training on the Gold Coast and online. Carri Robinson is the founder and has helped thousands of dogs throughout her career. Carri has extensive experience in the canine field, working with dogs for the last 20 years in a variety of roles, including behaviour consulting, management of a dog training facility and working as a Senior Trainer at Assistance Dogs Australia. Carri has a Bachelor Degree with Honors in Canine Behaviour and Training and dedicates time, effort and passion into learning about, understanding and training dogs. Every training session at is planned to suit the students using a wide variety of positive methods, concepts and ideas. Qualifications • BSC (Hons) Canine Behaviour and Training Bachelors • Intelligent Dog Trainer Course • Fdsc Canine Behaviour and Training • BTEC National Diploma in Animal Management Seminars and Workshops Attended Recently • SPARCS (Society for the Promotion of Applied Research in Canine Science) Conference • Australian Pet Dog Trainers Conference • Dr Ian Dunbar – Dunbar in Oz • Terry Ryan’s Chicken Camp • Canine Online Learning and Resources Webinar, Guided Shaping
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APDT Australian Pet Dog Trainers Association, ICB International Canine Behaviourists, QLD Guide and Hearing Dog Handler Card. Services Offered Behaviour Consultations Classes Private Training Sessions Online training - Via Zoom
