Second Nature K9

Second Nature K9 Dog trainer in Belfast offering a range of services to help owners live in harmony with their dogs.

21/08/2026

He did me proud

Dog's are social animals but that doesnt excuse reactive behaviours. We teach dogs how to co exist mutually amongst others and rely on obedience to navigate through their impulses so we can have control.

Majority of the time I don't allow strangers or unknown dogs to interact with mine but every now and then it's good to incorporate if everyone is mutual. Bosco was at free will here but I loved how he kept his feet on the ground when interacting with the man and how he respected the other dogs rejection to interact whilst listening to me. No need to intervene because I had put in the foundations of work before I allowed this.

06/08/2026

Practicing the art of doing nothing! A skill thats underrated but super important for your dog to have

05/08/2026

Bosco is here to learn the whole other side of socialisation which is often forgotten about and thats the ability to associate dogs as something boring and neutral rather than an adrenaline spike.

He is described as over friendly and loves dogs. All of these behaviours show a lack of understanding of social skills and pushes interactions very hard when its not recieved. He tries to hump my dog from pure arousal and disregulation. My dog is not in heat and he displays this with other dogs so we need to teach neutrality, introduce to better balanced dogs and allow fair corrections/advocacy.

30/07/2026

It's like walking into Fight Club 🤷🏻‍♀️

24/07/2026

Free shaping is a powerful learning method!
With bosco being high energy and well food driven, I wanted to try and free shape the place command. At first there was a lot of no activity- just staring at me waiting to give him direction because luring/hand signals is all he's been taught. So once we worked through the idea that he has to figure out what the behaviour goal that I'm looking for in each rep, will it bring rewards. I pay him with successive approximation at first.

This took a total of 25minutes

Follow along to see how we get on with the next session.

21/07/2026

Not so golden anymore Bruce 🤣

13/07/2026

Dog fight story

Had a few people reach out about this story and ways to break up a dog fight so I thought it be worth to post it as a reel. Apologies for stumbling or looking awkward! I was trying to gather my thoughts after driving off from the incident and I rarely talk to the camera! But hope this puts some perspective for anyone who ever comes into a situation like this!

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