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Fetch Club

Actively helping you and your dog. We offer dog training and dog walking services in Bedford.

09/05/2025

How to leave the house without craziness even though your has en.er.gyyyy!

Lots of people find the first half of the walk trickier than the second. Many people find simply getting out of the front door an exercise in patience testing and frantic pulling.

Pause.

Take 10 minutes off of your allocated walk time and spend 10 minutes at home getting the ‘out-of-the-door’ routine right to begin with.

You could try:
🧸 Playing with your dog for a few minutes to take the edge off
🦮 Put the lead on, then let your dog drag it around for a few minutes, instead of cuing the dog that equipment = excitement
✋ Stays by the front door. No rushing, and lots of rewards for good stays
🧘‍♂️ If your dog is good at place, you could even try a few minutes of place work to get them in the zone
🧑‍🎓 Reset expectations by building in a habit that the first 10 minutes of the walk is for loose lead walking drills always. This will create a pattern of calmer obedience, but takes a bit more legwork!

🚽 Tip: most dogs pull on the lead more before they’ve gone to the toilet. Try to give them a toilet break at the start of the walk to access the loose lead walk faster

And if your dog pulls throughout the walk? Send us a DM and we can help you arrange some 1:1 training so we can give you tailored advice for your dog.

Try changing up your pre-walk routine to get out of the house with a zen-like composure 🙏

05/05/2025

🚨 FUTURE TROUBLEMAKER SEEKS PARTNER IN CRIME! 🚨

Meet Finn, our 8-month-old bull terrier puppy with more spins, bounces, and cheek than you could dream of! 🤪
Currently smashing life at residential training with Fetch Club, Finn will be ready for his forever home in just 2 weeks! 🏡✨

✅ Bull Terrier experience essential
✅ Food-motivated genius (when he’s not being a drama queen 😂)
✅ Needs patient, firm, and loving humans who get bull terriers
✅ Could live with a confident, tolerant dog
✅ Separation anxiety work needed – will scream if ignored (he’s a diva, what can we say?)
✅ Full of heart, full of mischief, full of love ❤️

If you love bull terriers, Finn will absolutely steal your heart (and maybe your slippers).

💥 Ready to bounce into your life in just 2 weeks! 💥

📩 Apply via our website to adopt - https://www.universalbullterrierrescue.co.uk/adopt

11/04/2025

And when the sun is shining, it’s the best job in the world ✨

17/03/2025

The truth about being a dog trainer is that you’re really training humans.
It’s teaching skills, comprehension and improving communication with a dog owner or the dog’s family.
Each person learns differently, each comes with their own set of understanding and experiences which require the trainer to adapt their lessons in order to be as clearly understood as possible.

For me, getting this right is a constant learning process, and something I am obsessed with trying to perfect. My training will only ever be as good as my ability to effectively communicate to my client what is needed.

When I first meet a dog, I am spending as much time observing and reading the human as I am the dog. If I don’t assess the person correctly, I may find it hard to communicate well - and therefore teach.

Most problem behaviours with dogs come from a need to improve communication between dog and owner, and it’s my job to communicate well enough as a person to improve that.

When clients come to me open hearted and open minded, ready and eager to learn, that is the jackpot for me as working with those who are invested in learning makes the teacher’s job an entirely different and rewarding experience. 👩‍🏫

10/01/2025

Not to worry, we did of course have more than one walker for all these dogs! But don’t they all look fantastic here with Jade ❤️ Some of our lovely pack walking bunch. It felt so good to get back into the walks this week 🫶

02/01/2025

~ Admin announcement ~
Happy New Year! 🥳 I hope you’ve all had a wonderful festive break!

I just wanted to announce that our Queen of administration, Caroline, will be enjoying some annual leave until the 14th of January.
This means you’ve all got the pleasure of me - the dunce of administration - in charge of the emails. Wish me luck. Also I’m sorry.
Please bear with me if admin responses are a little slower than normal over the next couple of weeks, I’ve usually got quite a lot to juggle but I promise I will try my very best to ensure you all have as swift a response as I can manage.

With that being said, we are SO excited to get back out there and working with your dogs for 2025! Huzzah!

22/10/2024

A friendly dog is not the same as a trained dog.

🙋🏼‍♀️ Hands up if you’ve been walking your on-lead dog and been approached by an off lead dog, hearing the phrase “don’t worry he’s friendly”?

Well trained dogs don’t approach on lead dogs without permission. The phrase ‘don’t worry he’s friendly’ is not at all reassuring to dog owners who:

💛 Have a nervous dog
🧡 Have a working dog
❤️ Have a reactive dog
🩵 Are busy training

If you have a dog that is one of these you’ll know, being approached by an off lead dog can be a seriously stressful experience 😔

A friendly dog is not guaranteed to get along with another friendly dog, just like we as humans don’t get along with every other human.

A friendly dog is also allowed to have a bad day. They have the capacity to feel poorly, they have the capacity to be spooked or be taken by surprise. They are allowed to not enjoy it if a dog lunges at them, or growls in their face.
What we don’t want to do is realise that they’re not enjoying the interaction when it’s too late, and they’re already in the space of the on-lead dog.

So what’s the best bet? Always ask permission of the owner of the on-lead dog before allowing your dog to approach. And if your dog approaches other dogs and you can’t stop them, it’s time to do some training before they accidentally end up at worst injured, and at best annoying other dog owners. An off lead dog should be able to listen and respond to commands in public at all times, and that can take a lot of work!

14/10/2024

I love working with pet dogs, and working through behavioural problems, and helping owners find harmony with their beloved dogs.
But sport is hugely important to me. Why do dog trainers need dog sports?

💆 Working through behavioural problems is really emotional. We spend our daytimes helping people who might be upset, stressed, at their wits end or really confused about their dog. We are the shoulder to cry on and the voice of reason, we are the hope, the calm, the coach, the cheerleader. Being around people and dogs who are stressed out can take its toll because we dig deep to help every client.
To relax, it helps to spend time with dogs where it isn’t about a behavioural problem. Maybe we’re working on bringing more energy and motivation to a behaviour. Maybe we’re working on finessing a movement in obedience, or giving the dog genetic satisfaction through protection work. All of which is not the be-all and end-all for the dog, but fun.

🧠 Working on these kind of things also develops us as trainers. What better way to understand aggression than to look it in the eye and harness a dog’s genetic tendency toward aggression and channel it into sport? Understanding and controlling aggression in a sport context has absolutely helped me stay safe and advise safely when a pet dog is showing aggressive behaviours.
What better way to understand timing, motivation and play than to use it as a reward for every single detailed behaviour needed for sport?
What better way to understand movement and body language than to work tirelessly on precision and fluid movement?
And what better way to understand what a cohesive and balanced relationship looks like, than to develop one that is based on working in harmony with your dog to achieve a desired outcome?

🧘‍♀️ For so many dog trainers, sport is where they relax. Sport it where they take a load off, and they spend time just thinking about having a bucket-load of fun with their dog. They spend time honing their skills and becoming better, in a way that doesn’t feel emotionally heavy. Dog sports is where a dog trainer gets to have fun with their own dog, so that they can feel refreshed and ready to help others with theirs.

09/10/2024

Big Simba 🦁
One thing that’s super rewarding about Board and Trains is the follow up!

🙅🏼‍♀️ No Board and Train goes home without homework! When each dog comes to us they go through a heap of training and often a massive lifestyle change. When they go back to their owner, that’s their owner’s time to get to grips with the training that has been done.

📚 On handover we explain to the owner exactly what to do, when, why and how. We set achievable homework and recommend the lifestyle changes we think will help.

📱 We encourage questions and communication during this process, we want to make sure we can provide support throughout, especially as the success of the training relies on the dog’s day-to-day life when they return home.
📅 We follow up. We try to make a home visit a few weeks after the training is complete to check in and see how it’s all going. If there’s anything from the homework the owners like, we encourage them to keep it as part of the dog’s lifestyle going forward. If there’s anything they feel isn’t working or is hard to find time for, we tweak or make recommendations appropriately for the dog.

🦁 Here’s a photo of the gorgeous Simba during his follow up, it was so nice to see how well behaved he’s being for his owners and so rewarding for me to hear how much they’re enjoying spending time with him, and being able to take him to more places with the family.

24/09/2024

How I raised my sport dog to also be a demo dog:

🐕 As a puppy I limited her interactions with dogs I don’t know, and only socialised her with a handful of well mannered adult dogs. This taught her incredible dog neutrality. She does enjoy playing, but she doesn’t feel the need to break a down stay to go say hi.

🏰 Habituation. So… just a fancy way of saying I took her to the places I wanted her to be good in. She did not one but two rounds of puppy classes, purely so she could practise being in the hall around other dogs and focusing. Where she demos at the field, she spends an incredible amount of time there in ‘work mode’. She practises being in environments and interacting almost entirely with just me.

👩‍🎓 Focus. I gave her so much reason to focus on me. She’s super social and likes to cuddle people but I’m the only one who feeds her and plays with her. This makes it way easier for her to focus solely on me - because I’m the one who has her paycheck and I pay her really well!

🛏️ Place and down stays in general. I have 2 down commands for Whiskey: her sport down which is very pretty and formal but usually short, and her relaxed down which tends to have a huge amount of duration and can be sloppy if she likes. This enables me to teach for 2 hours straight, and she can hang out on her place bed without requiring help. This enables me to trust that if I turn my back, if I handle another dog, if I leave the room or if I am far away, she will maintain her place command.

It gives me so much joy to practise what I preach. She perfectly straddles a sport dog lifestyle with being a pet dog trainers demo dog. Genetically she is a sweetheart, but Belgian Malinois are not known for being easy dogs. Raising Whiskey in a really particular way has helped me avoid creating a multitude of problems typically seen in a Malinois, and has given me the joy of having very little to ‘fix’ with her because she was always guided in a way where she could only get it right.

16/09/2024

To love a dog looks different to everyone.
It is unique and as individual a relationship as it might be if they were people.
How I love Red is different to how Steve loves Red. We express it in different ways. I love training Red, pushing him and challenging him, and I love cuddling him and the smell of his forehead.
Steve loves playing with Red, either roughhousing at home or playing with toys with him. He likes cuddles too, but he mostly enjoys the silly side of Red.

There is no superior way to love a dog. I have high expectations of my dogs as sport dogs and they have a lot of rules and boundaries, but that doesn’t mean I love them any more or less than someone who simply loves taking long walks in the woods and having their dog sleep in the bed, or maybe someone who doesn’t care for rules or boundaries.

Love and lack of boundaries are not the same thing; all too often I hear people say that they love their dog too much and so it’s poorly behaved.

I couldn’t love my dog anymore than I do. I would do anything for this dog, to keep him with me and to keep him happy. I would do something crazy like I don’t know, start a business and base my entire life around what works for having a Belgian Malinois around.

No, it’s not love - too much or lack thereof - that causes behaviour issues. I’ve yet to meet a client who’s having a hard time where I need to tell them to ‘love their dog more’. I’d also never tell anyone to love their dog less. Love isn’t where we need to look when it comes to fixing stuff, because if you really love your dog, you will do whatever it takes to ensure their happiness.

The answer to their happiness? Training.

04/09/2024

Introducing Jade!

Jade joins the team as a part-time dog walker for us, and is absolutely crushing it! Owner of 2 German Shepherds Rosie and Margot, we met Jade a few years ago when she joined our puppy classes. After some more recent training together, we realised Jade would be a great asset to our team as not only does she love dogs, but she clearly has a passion for training as well.

Because our walks always incorporate some kind of training (stays, loose lead walking, recall, neutrality), it’s important to us that our walkers are just as excited about keeping up with our clients training as we are.

Welcome Jade, we’re loving having you as part of the team and I know the dogs are too!

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A note from Jen, Head Walker and Dog Trainer

Here at Fetch Club we feel that dogs thrive on being challenged according to their needs. This is based on experience and repeated reports from clients that their dog seems happier, calmer and more enjoyable to be around after their walks with us. This is because a Fetch Club walk is not simply a case of letting dogs off the lead for an hour of mischief before being taken home. Every walk is tailored according to the dogs involved and every dog will be individually challenged in a way that helps them to grow. That could be growth in confidence, physical fitness or behaviourally. What’s important to us is that we provide a service that prioritises the overall wellbeing of your dog and how we can positively affect that in our time with them.