How we're keeping our 2 high energy breeds occupied whilst it's too hot for walks... 🐾
Scent work! A great way to mentally stimulate and enrich your dogs life, appropriate for all breeds of all shapes and sizes, and incredibly adaptable too! You can make it as easy or as hard as needed to suit your dogs abilities, from scattering some treats in the long grass to hiding high value snacks in more difficult places, like up trees or crevasses in walls! 🧱 🌲🐽
Dealing with hyperarousal when out on walks:
✅️ Prep games to keep arousal levels low before hand
✅️ Calming scent work whilst out on the walk
✅️ Keeping engagement and engaging the brain!
✅️ Having fun!
Great work with this lil guy! 🐾
13 minutes of sniffing trimmed down to just 13 seconds! Lots of scent games and searching for the boys on their drop-in visit during the 25° heat 🥵🌡🔥
Whilst we're not going on walks we're still able to provide plenty of enrichment as well as toilet breaks & water refills during our drop-in sessions! 🐾
Your pets welfare is always our top priority, so we've invested a little into ensuring they stay cool this summer! 😎 🌞
In addition to our crate system, cooling beds, individual crate fans & fresh water bowls, we've added a full air cooling system designed to pull the hot air from inside the van, keeping it cool in even on the hottest of days! 🌬❄️
We even went a step further and had it wired to a leisure battery so it stays running even when the van is off, keeping it cool no matter what! 🚐🐶
I'll stop banging on about it when it stops working! 💪
We've been doing a lot of recall work with our clients recently, in order to earn that off lead freedom, a rock solid recall is required! 🐕
We've been using the @acme_whistles 211 1/2 with our pups, building up the value in returning to us when they hear the 3 pips. 🍗
The benefit of using the whistle over a verbal "come" or "here" command is that it is consistent, it travels further, and its a great accessory to compliment your outfit! 😂😎
Words cannot capture how proud I am of her!
Maia is our 1 year old Springer Spaniel, a typical Spaniel in that she has a high drive, endless energy and is constantly on the go, which is great when managed correctly with the right amount of training, settling and sleep! However she is classed as a hyperactive dog and needs to be managed as such. 💤🏋♂️😎
She has come so far seen as though we were only able to begin her training journey at 6 months old, due to me being hospitalised and having a pacemaker fitted, I was certainly in no state to be training her! 😂
Now she is getting the hang of the basics, heel, loose lead walking, whistle recall, all with distractions in a public place! 🐾🐕🦺
Just some dogs being dogs 😂🐕
Working on our engagement and eye contact on todays training walk, we even managed a check in away from a distraction which is amazing progress! 🐕🐶
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Another wet one, at least the dogs are having fun! 😂
The wet weather is rolling in but it hasn't stopped these two having fun! 🌧🐕
