Paws-a-Bella

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween 🎃 Remember this day can be such a novel experience for your dogs and they may need extra support from you

14/10/2025

Find your own style 👩‍🎨

06/10/2025

Paws-a-Bella held their first stall at the Art and Craft fair at Arty Crafty Sheep Shed, such a beautiful and inspiring location 🤩

04/10/2025

Me and the girls have been making paw name keepsakes 🥰 These are such cute personalised artwork to remember your furry friends ❤️

16/09/2025

🐶✨ We’re turning big conference talks into real-life grooming tips!

Back in July, I attended the incredible Animal Behaviour Kent Conference — packed with amazing talks from behaviourists, vets and trainers. There were representatives from all across the pet industry, but can you believe there were only four groomers in the room?!
So much of what we learned applies directly to grooming… both at home and in the salon.

We’re on a mission to get more pet owners and groomers understanding why behaviour and grooming go hand in hand. So this Sunday (21st Sept), we’re running an online webinar where we’ll break down some of the key presentations and show how they can be put into practice for the grooming environment.

✨ I’ll be sharing how I use Sarah Fisher’s Free Work in my salon — a brilliant way of helping dogs settle, build confidence and create a positive experience from the very first visit.
✨ You’ll also hear from Sue Williamson, Victoria Shepherd, Cheryl McCauley and our guest Andy Hale, covering everything from recognising pain and discomfort to handling resource guarding and reducing stress.

📅 Sunday 21st Sept | 11am–5pm
🎟️ £25 (recorded if you can’t join live)
👉 Book here: https://www.takingthegrrr.co.uk/courses/wewereinthegroom

Whether you’re a dog owner wanting to make home grooming calmer, or a professional groomer wanting to expand your toolkit, this is going to be packed with insights you can actually use. 🐕💛

13/07/2025

Love this post! Having had many years being a professional dog trainer for organisations, I always tell new trainers reward based training is so much more than just giving the dog reinforcement, it’s the art of communicating between you and your dog 🐶❤️

What Impresses Me Most as a Trainer 🐶✨

It’s not the flashiest retrieves, the fastest agility runs, or the most obedient heelwork that impress me.

It’s the trainers who are working to high standards with their dogs using positive reinforcement 🦴, neuroscience 🧠, emotional literacy 💛, and buckets of empathy and compassion 🤲💜
The ones who recognise behaviour as communication, and training as a conversation 🗣️🐾
The ones who don’t reach for punishment when things get hard ❌💥

Because when you’re a reinforcement-based trainer and something doesn’t work, you don’t throw it all out and say “rewards don’t work.”
You get curious 🧐
You problem-solve 🔍
You learn 📚
You grow 🌱

And you realise: you’re not alone.
There’s a whole community of compassionate, skilled trainers out there, figuring it out too 💬🤝
Someone will have an answer, you just have to go and find them 🧭

I’m a crossover trainer. The more I’ve learned, the less I’ve needed to use punishment 🚫
And I’ve never felt more skilled, more connected to my dogs, or more inspired by the people I train alongside 🐕💡

✨ This is the good stuff.
✨ This is where real dog training lives.
Let’s amplify the voices of ethical, skilled, heart-led trainers everywhere 💬💛