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17/08/2024

Morning sniffs 🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

17/08/2024

Cupboard love 🐶🍲💕

True Love

17/08/2024

Minnie loves a snuggle & makes the cutest noises when she's having a proper cuddle 🥰🤗🐾

17/08/2024

Little Minnie arrived last night 🥰🐾 She's definitely made her presence known already 😂🙉 Everyone's knackered today 🤪🐶💤

16/08/2024

Guests Mabel & Ruby thoroughly enjoyed the beach today 🥰🐾🐾

16/08/2024

I said local celebrity; Mabel's guardian said local clown 🤡🤣 I've no idea why! 🤣🥰🐾

15/08/2024

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉 Linda Wemyss, Tony Houston Carter, Stuart Charlton, Amy Milburn, Sarah Morton

15/08/2024

🐶💤 Afternoon naps after a busy day of learning, socialising & playing games. It's tough being a pup! 😅🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Izzy's gone home now, so it's just Ruby & Mabel staying. We'll be welcoming Minnie dachshund for her holidays tomorrow evening too 🥰🐾

15/08/2024

We swapped out Mylo for Izzy this morning, so it's all girls now 🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 See you again soon Mylo! 🥰🐾

14/08/2024

Ruby and Mabel trying to figure out what goes on with Mylo 🤔🧐😂😂😂🥰🐾🐾🐾

14/08/2024

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Best Comic funny😂🤣
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14/08/2024

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The faithful companion…

14/08/2024

Phoebe and Ella were staring at me because it was 'that time' aka dinner! 😋😅👀👀 Mabel lost the use of her legs, other than to bat Mylo away when he started biting her ears 😂🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾 Ruby preferred the subtle approach, mooching around beside me in the shade, shooting me the side eye 😒🙄😂🥰🐾

14/08/2024

🐶😯Something smells nice...what could it be? 🤔🧐 Check the comments 🤣🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

11/08/2024

New shady spot sorted 🥰🐾😎 Time to get the pool filled! 💦🤽‍♂️🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶😂 Stay cool nodders!

11/08/2024

That's breakfast done! 😋🥰🐾 Ruby waits for my company to eat so she's usually last to finish 🤗🥰🐾

10/08/2024

We waited a while for the object of much interest to disappear into the hedge...🐈‍⬛ I did not want to go the same way 😹😆🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🥳

10/08/2024

What an amazing group of different dogs 🤗🥰🐶 All content after an amazing first half of the day together ❤️🐾

10/08/2024

Ruby's here! 🥰🐾 Fun, fun, fun with a full house today 🥳🤯😂🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

Just a friendly reminder that I will NOT BE MEETING NEW DOGS UNTIL OCTOBER 🤓👍🥰🐾
I only have a limited number of places between now & November for dogs already registered with us 🤓👍🥰🐾

10/08/2024

From an outsider's perspective, I'm sure that I look odd a lot of the time, repeating actions & recreating certain noises around the house. I do this all day long to help reduce reactivity & hyper-excitement in the dogs I care for, so that they have less 'cues' to worry about 🥰🐾

Dogs can have intense emotions attached to objects, actions and habits 😱😀😠. Just as we can.
Sometimes these cues work against us by increasing excitement when we really don't want those emotional extremes.
Do you have a particular cue that you may not realise you are doing?

The advantage of having a trainer come into your home or to watch your videos is that we have a fresh perspective on what is occurring and often cues are involved.
An easy way to see if you do have any cues is to have someone video you and watch it again for signs of a change of behaviour in your dog.
They can be both verbal or physical and cause an immediate change in behaviour.
Hyperarousal and overexcitement in dogs can lead to so many difficulties in all other areas and often cues are involved.
You may have seen this yourself when getting a lead out, or going to a cupboard to get food or even something as simple as walking to the front door can cause an immediate change in behaviour of your dog and create a high level of excitement.

So have a look at the cues you give your dog and see how you can change them.
Change the habit....change the cues.
This helps change the behaviour.

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09/08/2024

Too busy entertaining this gorgeous bunch to be posting on social media, so here's a little floofy fix for your eyeballs & cuteness fix to brighten up your day 🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

07/08/2024

Bomber finding out that being upside down is very popular today! 🥳😂🥰🐾🐾🐾🐾

06/08/2024

Top banana 🍌🥳😂🐾🐾

06/08/2024

Morning ears! 😂🥰🐾🐾🐾

05/08/2024

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The dog psychotherapist…

04/08/2024

Mabel's here! 🥰🐾 Just look at that cute shnoz! 🐶🥰🐾

04/08/2024

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04/08/2024

Sometimes, not being able to see everything is better for your dog's mental health 🥰🐾 That's why you'll rarely see my blinds open to the front 😌🐶🥰🐾

Such a common issue ❗
I know many people really struggle with this and the most important step to stop or limit this is sometimes not taken.
For aesthetic reasons or for financial reasons or both (which I absolutely understand) the crucial step of stopping this behaviour being repeated and rehearsed over and over is not taken.
For aesthetic reasons...
I get it, you have worked hard and have a beautiful home and fence but now your dog is launching themselves at that beautiful fence and at every dog, person or car that passes.
It may now be a "game" that they wait for hours and hours to play.

That "game" is causing huge stress in your dog.

Asking someone to block that view through that fence or to create a temporary fence further back is often met with resistance.
Some people may struggle financially with a cheap option to block that view.
Try w**d mat or thick opaque shade cloth to temporary staple to the fence, its a very reasonable price and comes in long lengths. Or look around the home for an old tarpaulin, there are very cheap or free options.

If you have a dog that sits on the deck and then launches into this "game" from there, change the area.
That "launch pad" WILL be used over and over if left.

This won't just stop.

Another reason people are hesitant to stop this is they see their dog enjoys this "game". They see the pacing while waiting, the anticipation and that is part of the issue. Reactivity can be highly stressful for dogs.
They are stuck in a loop and need help to stop.

Limiting opportunity is always a first step and from there you can put in other ways to help....but for some dogs, limiting the vision (and/or access to the fence line) will stop the behaviour immediately.

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03/08/2024

Ella and Izzy thought there was a glitch in the Matrix 😎😯🐶🐶🤓😂 but it's just Bonnie and Mylo saying hello! 😂🥰🐾🐾