Small Steps Dog Training

30/01/2025

What’s your favourite dog related book? It can be about training, breeds, enrichment, fictional anything at all, I’d love to hear them. 📚

28/01/2025

Sunday we helped team Makopup at their City of Canning event and let’s just say it was a tad warm 🤣 I took part in the annual photo under the rainbow sprinkler (to cool down). Saw and helped lots of dogs through the awesome obstacale course they had set up. Thank you to Frank and Carolyne for asking me down. 😊

27/01/2025

What lessons have you taken away from your dog/s?

Positively Present

25/01/2025

Sunday’s are for Snoozing 😴

Did you know puppies and senior dogs need between 15-20hrs of sleep a day and adult dogs between 12-14hrs a day.

I’ll admit it 🙋‍♀️ I have ALOT of photos of my dog asleep on my phone. So feel free to share yours below 👇

24/01/2025

Where you will find us tomorrow, Sunday 26th January. Helping out the lovely Makopup team at their stall. Come past and say hi 👋

24/01/2025

Some things you CAN do with your dog on a HOT day:

Exercise at home under the aircon. If you are after some amazing guidance and resources for exercising your dog at home please reach out to the amazing Megan from LoveDog Training Co she helped put together a fitness programme for my own dog and he has made big improvements since day one. This video was filmed when it was a lot cooler!

Do you have any other ways to keep your dogs fit in summer? I’d love to know! Comment below. 👇

23/01/2025

Some things you CAN do with your dog on a HOT day:

Walking early in the morning or late at night to avoid the heat!

22/01/2025

Some things you CAN do with your dogs on a hot day:

Learn a new trick! Trick training has multiple benefits. Learning a new skill can be quite tiring, think about when you started a new job, I bet you came home mentally exhausted that day! The same for our dogs! Not sure where to get started? Have a look at this tutorial from the amazing Emily Larlham from Kikopup. 🐶

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BhfOk05nM_4

Feel free to share a video or photo of your dog doing a trick below. 👇

20 of Kikopup’s all time favorite dog trick tutorials she has created over the last decade to help you train your dog like a professional!The dog trick tutor...

21/01/2025

Some things you CAN do with your dogs on a hot day:

Go for your walk yourself and bring home some smells for your dog to sniff at home. Think leaves, sand, feathers etc. 10 minutes of sniffing is equivalent to one hour of walking.

What other smells can you think of to bring home for your dog? List them below. 👇

20/01/2025

No dog has ever died from missing one walk. But dogs have died from one walk in the heat.
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Don’t take the risk.

19/01/2025

What’s that? A well executed donut bandage and a limb wrapped in crepe and vet wrap? For my stuffed dog that’s “ripped its toe nail off?” That would be correct! I completed the IMDT 1st Aid Course today. As always learnt a lot and so nice to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones.
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10/01/2025

Have you noticed something usual your dog responds to? I noticed a while ago if I shook Mickey’s medication box he comes running from where ever he is for his morning tablet and smidge of peanut butter 🥜 So I want to know, does your dog recall or respond to something unusual?

09/01/2025

Food, food, glorious food 😋

If you are after a super cheap tasty topper for your dog’s food, save the crumby left overs from the bottom of your Providore and Ziwi Peak bags and scatter them on top of a licky mat.

With the cost of living trying to save and use every crumb we can! 😅

08/01/2025

This day 6 years ago I lost my beloved Snoopy 💔 Snoopy taught me a lot about dogs and started me on my journey on becoming a better owner / dog trainer, to make his world a more safe and happy place. In memory of Snoopy post a picture of your “teacher dog” below. ❤️

06/01/2025

What we do on hot days 🥵 some mat training! We practised (people) walking away in different directions, running away, clapping, walking around the dogs and rewarding at different time intervals. All the dogs had to do was stay on their allocated mats under the aircon. Whilst I am off for a cool shower after all that jogging. What did you do to keep cool with your dog today? 😎

(Blooper in the comments)

29/12/2024

I have had a few clients recently with dogs that are concerned about getting into cars. Have a look at this video, it’s an excellent example of how to building your dog’s confidence with cars.

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from my hound to yours, we hope your day is filled with treats.

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