AWE Canine - Awe & Wonder Experience for dogs

AWE Canine - Awe & Wonder Experience for dogs We started AWE Canine finally after a few years of all things dogs since we adopted our girl, Tara in December 2019.

❤️ At AWE Canine, we aim to help you better understand your dog and help you all learn new skills in order that the whole family have fun and learn new things together in a positive and fun way. ❤️ Tara came direct from Romania to us She arrived a sensitive little lady, afraid of everything in her path but was growing in confidence beautifully until August 2020 when she had a spinal bleed. Follo

wing this traumatic time, we have had rollercoaster of a ride to ensure she is able to live her best life and learn everything possible in order that we can to help her achieve this. Our goal now is to put all our learning to good use and hope to help as many dogs as we can who show big behaviours, using positive reinforcement, reward based training to help them. Mark will be overseeing the business side of things, and I will be working on all the learning and spending time putting all the learning together with the dogs. My main focus will be solo training walks following a thorough consultation as to your requirements of what you need support with. I very much look forward to working with you and your dog. Janine

Below is a list of my learning and studying so far. Qualifications & Learning:

Lighten Up Mentorship - April 2024 - current
Succeed with Impulse Control - Emma Lee - Jan 2024 - current
Dog Training Diploma - Centre of Excellence - March 2024
Canine Behaviour Training Diploma - Centre of Excellence - Oct 2023
Understanding, Managing and rehabilitating the dog reactive 4 hour webinar - Mutty Professor - Jan 2024
The Social Dog 2 hour webinar - Mutty Professor - Dec 2023
Visitor Protocol 10 hour webinar- Mutty Professor - Nov 2023
Confident Canines Academy - Sonia Catterall - Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Dingbats to Dreamboats Academy - Sarah Hedderley - Jul 2020 - Sep 2021

Books:
A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs - Jean Donaldson
Hunting Together - Simone Mueller
Rocket Recall - Simone Mueller

18/12/2024

These are my best days 🥰

Beautiful slow sniffy walk (for the most part 😉🤣) today around Seven Acres 🐾🐾🐾

🐾❤️‍🩹 had such a great time at the recent Dog First Aid training course and met some lovely people too. Highly recommend...
01/10/2024

🐾❤️‍🩹 had such a great time at the recent Dog First Aid training course and met some lovely people too. Highly recommend the course for everyone who has dogs ❤️‍🩹🐾

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💝 Let’s build trust first before all the ‘stuff’ 💝When I would like someone, especially a member of my family, (be that ...
15/09/2024

💝 Let’s build trust first before all the ‘stuff’ 💝

When I would like someone, especially a member of my family, (be that human or animal), to do something, a task or suchlike, I ‘ask’ …….”could you ……can you……..would you like to……”.

If I need to repeat myself or resort to changing my tone and/or my volume to be ‘authoritative’ and ‘controlling’, then I am no longer asking, I am ‘commanding’ them 😔. They then have no choice. This ruins relationships and doesn’t build confident beings 😔

If I’m needing to ‘command’ and ‘control’ then I’m just not doing it. There are MANY reasons a dog doesn’t do something that we ask, they haven’t fully understood it, they are in pain, they aren’t in the mood, the environment is too tricky….etc

If they don’t want to / can’t do it ‘willingly’ first time, with encouragement and rewards, then I don’t ask a second time. To me, it’s an unfair expectation ☺️ (I will go back to the drawing board and find out what may be going on) 📖 🤔

I’m not fussed for a sit or a down or a wait from my dog, I want them to have fun and trust me that I will advocate for their every need in order that they feel safe and that they have choice. The other stuff will come for sure, but the trust HAS to come first ☺️

I want others to understand how important it is that any species, be that human or animal, should NEVER be controlled, and behaviours suppressed in order that they conform to what we ‘want’. 😔. I don’t want anyone to do anything because I MADE them. My thrill comes in teaching and having a dog enjoy everything I’m doing with them 🐾🥰

One phrase I use regularly in my teaching is “can you…..?” “Can you sit?” “Can you lie down?” It changes HOW we ask, ensuring that it’s a mutual agreement. If the dog ‘can’t’ in that moment, then I change things to help them and go back to where I believe they confidently could and move onwards from there, orrrrr we just move on, I’m not a dictator expecting my dog to do everything I ask, but…….I do get my thinking cap on and work out why they couldn’t do what I asked if I believe it’s something they’ve been confident to do previously 🐾❤️

I want to help families have THE BEST life with their dogs having fun and learning ‘stuff’ with the dog being at the centre of where they are going on that journey and going at their pace 🐾 ❤️

If you are struggling with your dog, please get in touch, I want to help 🐾❤️

If you’d like to understand what your dog is communicating, please get in touch, I’d love to educate you 🐾❤️

Enjoy your dogs, they are the best fun 🐾❤️

🐾 Meet Jack 🐾Jack came to me in March as his family had been struggling with some reactivity outdoors to other ‘off lead...
04/09/2024

🐾 Meet Jack 🐾

Jack came to me in March as his family had been struggling with some reactivity outdoors to other ‘off lead friendly’ dogs and some sensitivities indoors too ❤️

They needed someone to walk Jack whilst they work, but it needed to be a solo walk as Jack did not like to be near other dogs. ❤️

I agreed I would do some solo training walks with Jack and to help the family understand what was going on for him 🐾🥰

We planned our next few weeks and how I could support them with Jack with some understanding of what he was struggling with. Due to Jack being misunderstood with his communications, because….. who knew that dogs can clearly communicate????!!!! if only we knew what they were saying???!!!! I certainly didn’t know until the last 5 years that dog’s have beautiful body language and can clearly communicate, so my goal is to help families understand their dogs so everyone lives harmoniously. 🥰

There was another incident of sensitivity around the home sadly within the first couple of weeks still and at one point the family weren’t sure if they could meet Jack’s needs and were considering finding another home for Jack where he would feel much happier. ❤️‍🩹

I always support families where I can, in whatever decision they choose to make, and whilst I did this and even offered to find Jack another home without judgement, I also encouraged them that with some further understanding on their part of what Jack was communicating and also continuing the confidence building for Jack, the areas of sensitivity should reduce but would take time and they agreed to give more time 🥰

Having lived with a super sensitive dog myself I have every compassion for families who experience this ❤️‍🩹

Fast forward to September 2024 🥰

Now we see Jack growing in confidence 🐾❤️. Walking more loosely on the lead 🐾❤️ Having ‘mostly’ positive interactions where dogs come up to him and we continue to ‘bank’ those positive ones and work on reducing negative ones 🐾❤️ No incidents in the home following some guidance to support Jack where he needs it 🐾❤️ And a much happier and more relaxed family and Jack gets to stay in the most wonderful home that I think is absolutely perfect for him to live his best life 🥰

💝 Could not agree more 💝
27/07/2024

💝 Could not agree more 💝

08/07/2024

The reason all this ‘dog stuff’ started 💝

08/07/2024

Monday musings 🤔💝

Smelling the sweet peas 🌺

No part two ☺️

I returned home and our snug smelled soooooo beautiful of our freshly cut sweet peas, Tara lay in the sunshine, on the bed in her favourite spot, and life is good 💝

Also, wanted to update to say that our latest foster puppy Poppy had a meet and greet on Saturday and they loved her, OF COURSE THEY DID, 💝. Another meet and greet has been arranged. Please pray it's a perfect match. 💝

Daisy also gets a meet a greet this week . And today I get to pick up Dream, the Chihuahua that we rescued last week, and take her to the vets for a check up following a week of decompressing in her beautiful foster home getting the love she should have always had 💖

Huge thank you to those who sent money over for fuel, it was truly appreciated. Today's trip will cost approx £20 if anyone would like to donate for the fuel and anyone wanting to contribute to the vet visit, that would also be gratefully received. 🥰

🌺🌼🌻☀️ Today I would urge you to get outside either on a walk with your dog or on your break and look up and listen to all that today brings. Let your ears hear all of nature surrounding you. Watch those birds and smell those flowers 🌺🌸🌼🌻. Remember, it's the smallest of things that can bring you the greatest joy. Today it's the sweet peas for me 🥰. What is it for you? I'd love to know. 🥰

Spending the day smelling the sweet peas 🌺Monday musings to follow 🤔💝
08/07/2024

Spending the day smelling the sweet peas 🌺

Monday musings to follow 🤔💝

01/07/2024

💝🐾 Monday musings 🤔 - all things dogs - PART TWO 😉🐾💝

01/07/2024

💝🐾 Monday musings - all things dogs 🐾💝

Musings on a Sunday of all things dogs 💝🐾🤔 I was turning 50 at the end of December 2019 and my plan was to have dogs bac...
23/06/2024

Musings on a Sunday of all things dogs 💝🐾🤔

I was turning 50 at the end of December 2019 and my plan was to have dogs back in my home after a busy time of work and business and life and I had nearly 10 years with a houseful of cats, we had 9 at one point 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ 😲, but truly missed having a dog in my home and missed being back out in nature on walks, so I made the decision to have dogs back in my life, and along came Tara and Lola all the way from Romania in December 2019. 💝💝

The plan was for one of the girls to stay and one would go out for adoption, and that I would foster at least 3 dogs each year from thereon in. Lola went off to her new home on the first day of lockdown and so began the crazy times, no fostering going on with the pandemic. However, sadly in August 2020, we woke one day with Tara unable to use her rear legs due a spinal bleed 💔 Our whole world turned upside down and from there was a long recovery for Tara, sensitivity and chronic pain meant this little girl would have an ongoing struggle with anything that caused her upset ❤️‍🩹 And here my learning for all things dogs and their behaviour and communication began 🐾🥰 I have geeked out and studied and made the decision I would formally embark on dog training and behaviour as a new career and I'm truly loving it. 😎🥰

2022 we fostered Lizzy and last year we fostered Maggie. This year we fostered Daisy and Poppy. I have always taken my role of fostering seriously and put my heart and soul into the dog that comes into our home to build confidence and help them learn any basic skills that will help set them up well for future, such as work around impulse control around doorways and vehicles and they always leave having learned lots of new life skills but mostly they know they've been loved during their time with us 🥰 Alongside fostering we’ve also transported many dogs around the country particularly due to the XLBully crisis ❤️‍🩹

Tara struggles to have other dogs in our home, so sadly we can't foster longer than a couple of weeks and made the decision what we would now only do “emergency emergency” fostering to collect any ‘at risk’ dog and keep them for a couple of nights maximum to get them to a safe foster home. I can still transport and do home checks and admin support so still lots of support to offer where needed 🥰

Poppy went on to another foster yesterday and Tara has not let me out of her sight since. So now we can get back to our fun and chilling and learning together for the next season of our lives 💝

I could not do any of the above without my wonderful husband who helps me every step of the way 💘 and also spends time with each animal so they have had love from a male just as much as a female as sooooo many dogs are scared of men sadly 😔

Each dog that comes into foster comes due to no fault of their own 💔. Each one that has come to my home came with hardly any socialisation and any basic life skills that would help to build confidence and to keep them safe 😔

Fostering Poppy gave me lots of time to think of my role within the world of animal rescue and for this season it means we can't bring other animals into our home, but there are many other ways in which I can play my part. I have a long term goal of fostering and rescue, but whilst Tara is with us, this time will be spent building up my knowledge and experience outside of our home ready for the future and see how things go. Plans are great, but I've learned that regardless of any plans we make, we need to adapt where life is turned upside down and inside out as it certainly has this last 6 years for us. ☺️

If you love animals and are saddened by the crisis within our rescue centres, there are many ways you can help: Here are a few suggestions;
❌ Don't let your dog bring any more puppies into the world ‼️❌ Get your females spade ‼️
💖 Adopt dogs from your local rescue shelter instead of going to breeders.
💖 Ask at your local shelter if they need any hands on support, this could be a multitude of things such as admin, cleaning, spending time with the animals, walking any dogs.
💰Financially support the rescue centres to pay for treatments of sick animals, food etc but also to support staff and volunteers to do the incredible work they do.
🥰 Volunteer to foster any animals where you can.
🥰If you know any friends who are fostering, ask them how you can help them.
‼️ TEACH YOUR DOG BASIC SKILLS TO BUILD THEIR CONFIDENCE AND TO HELP KEEP THEM SAFE ‼️. It’s sooooo much easier to teach a behaviour you want than unpick undesirable ones

So for me, I'm continuing with all things dogs and helping their humans understand them better and/or to help them learn new skills to build confidence and live their best lives. 🥰

Enjoy the photos of my BFF Tara, Tara & Lola, Lizzy, Maggie, Daisy & Poppy 💝💝💝💝💝💝

If you need any support with your dog, please get in touch, I'm here to help you. 🐾

21/06/2024

💝 ADOPT DON’T SHOP 💝

❌ SAFETY FIRST ❌

Poppy picking up doorway manners BEAUTIFULLY. We have worked hard to get to to this and Poppy has done AMAZING to get this far in such a short space of time. 🎉💝🏆

21/06/2024

💝 ADOPT DON’T SHOP 💝

Watch this clever girl totally smash her understanding of staying on the bed with distraction of chopping treats!!!! and for a fabulous amount of time 🎉💝

There is no limit to what this girl can learn as her confidence continues to build 💝

If you need any help to learn how to do this with your dog, please get in touch. I’m here to help 🥰

20/06/2024

As Poppy awaits her forever home, the fun learning continues 🥳

When Poppy arrived 2.5 weeks ago, she had zero impulse control, she would be desperate to get out of the crate and management and positive reinforcement was used to help her understand what was needed, and she has worked soooooo hard to get to this in such a short space of time. 🎉💝

Yesterday we practised our learning of impulse control around staying in the crate in the van until it’s time to leave. 💝

(Don’t let my rubbish videoing take the attention away from how AMAZING Poppy is doing with her learning 😉💝). Still some sensitivity, so more practice is needed to get this strong and comfortable for her 💝

All this learning happens with positive reinforcement to help Poppy understand what is needed to help her grow in confidence and KEEP HER SAFE 💝

If you’d like this behaviour from your dog, please get in touch, I’m here to help you 💝

💝 ADOPT DON'T SHOP 💝🥰 Help needed from my friends please 🥰Meet our 2 new young pups 💝💝 that are in foster in our home cu...
03/06/2024

💝 ADOPT DON'T SHOP 💝

🥰 Help needed from my friends please 🥰

Meet our 2 new young pups 💝💝 that are in foster in our home currently and we need an urgent foster place for one of them to give them the best possible chance for the next stage of their lives with helping them learn to feel safe in the world so their learning can begin 💝💝

We need someone who is experienced with large breeds as these dogs are 6 month old Caucasian Shepherd Dogs x staffie. Both need support with socialisation and help them grow in confidence and need an experienced foster or a new foster that has knowledge and would like to get into foster care. You will have our full support. 🥰

We also need financial support for their food, treats, toys, chew toys and harnesses. 🥰

Also, if anyone has any large bathsheets or fleeces for their beds, they would be very welcomed. 🥰

If you are interested in fostering, please contact Celandine Wood Animal Rescue directly completing their fostering applications 💝💝

Well..... that was an exciting and busy start to all things AWE Canine 🐾 4 clients on my books that need some support to...
10/05/2024

Well..... that was an exciting and busy start to all things AWE Canine 🐾 4 clients on my books that need some support to help their dogs and I have loved every minute of it. 😍

A common theme for the enquiries I have had is that management is in place for a variety of undesirable behaviours, however if behaviour modification isn't part of the process, the situation will not improve and most likely escalate to other undesirable behaviour, such as jumping up or pulling on the lead during walks, or dog to dog reactivity. Dogs only learn a more desirable behaviour when we help them to do so. 👩‍🎓

If you are looking for support, whether it is for a puppy, adolescent or an older dog, I am here for you. 💝

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE, of course it is, so the younger your dog is, it is important to get support and guidance to PREVENT undesirable behaviour. However, that does not mean that we cannot undo some learning we'd rather not have if it is already here and your dog is older. You absolutely can teach an old dog new tricks. 💝🐾

Dogs love to learn and they want to do the right thing, it is our job to help them get it right. 💝🐾

Looking forward to helping many more dogs. so please get in touch if you need support or general guidance for all things dogs and learning. 💝🐾

💝 Photo of Tara being a great support whilst I planned a session for one of my clients. 💝

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These are my best days 🐾🐾🐾
These are my best days 🐾🐾🐾

These are my best days 🥰 Beautiful slow sniffy walk (for the most part 😉🤣) today around Seven Acres 🐾🐾🐾

The reason all this ‘dog stuff’ started 💝
The reason all this ‘dog stuff’ started 💝

The reason all this ‘dog stuff’ started 💝

Monday musings 8th July 2024 Smelling the sweet peas 🌺
Monday musings 8th July 2024 Smelling the sweet peas 🌺

Monday musings 🤔💝 Smelling the sweet peas 🌺 No part two ☺️ I returned home and our snug smelled soooooo beautiful of our freshly cut sweet peas, Tara lay in the sunshine, on the bed in her favourite spot, and life is good 💝 Also, wanted to update to say that our latest foster puppy Poppy had a meet and greet on Saturday and they loved her, OF COURSE THEY DID, 💝. Another meet and greet has been arranged. Please pray it's a perfect match. 💝 Daisy also gets a meet a greet this week . And today I get to pick up Dream, the Chihuahua that we rescued last week, and take her to the vets for a check up following a week of decompressing in her beautiful foster home getting the love she should have always had 💖 Huge thank you to those who sent money over for fuel, it was truly appreciated. Today's trip will cost approx £20 if anyone would like to donate for the fuel and anyone wanting to contribute to the vet visit, that would also be gratefully received. 🥰 🌺🌼🌻☀️ Today I would urge you to get outside either on a walk with your dog or on your break and look up and listen to all that today brings. Let your ears hear all of nature surrounding you. Watch those birds and smell those flowers 🌺🌸🌼🌻. Remember, it's the smallest of things that can bring you the greatest joy. Today it's the sweet peas for me 🥰. What is it for you? I'd love to know. 🥰

💝🐾 Monday musings 🤔 all things dogs - PART TWO 🐾💝
💝🐾 Monday musings 🤔 all things dogs - PART TWO 🐾💝

💝🐾 Monday musings 🤔 - all things dogs - PART TWO 😉🐾💝

💝🐾 Monday musings - all things dogs 🐾💝
💝🐾 Monday musings - all things dogs 🐾💝

💝🐾 Monday musings - all things dogs 🐾💝

💝 Doorway manners 💝
💝 Doorway manners 💝

💝 ADOPT DON’T SHOP 💝 ❌ SAFETY FIRST ❌ Poppy picking up doorway manners BEAUTIFULLY. We have worked hard to get to to this and Poppy has done AMAZING to get this far in such a short space of time. 🎉💝🏆

Matwork with distraction
Matwork with distraction

💝 ADOPT DON’T SHOP 💝 Watch this clever girl totally smash her understanding of staying on the bed with distraction of chopping treats!!!! and for a fabulous amount of time 🎉💝 There is no limit to what this girl can learn as her confidence continues to build 💝 If you need any help to learn how to do this with your dog, please get in touch. I’m here to help 🥰

💝 ADOPT DON’T SHOP 💝
💝 ADOPT DON’T SHOP 💝

As Poppy awaits her forever home, the fun learning continues 🥳 When Poppy arrived 2.5 weeks ago, she had zero impulse control, she would be desperate to get out of the crate and management and positive reinforcement was used to help her understand what was needed, and she has worked soooooo hard to get to this in such a short space of time. 🎉💝 Yesterday we practised our learning of impulse control around staying in the crate in the van until it’s time to leave. 💝 (Don’t let my rubbish videoing take the attention away from how AMAZING Poppy is doing with her learning 😉💝). Still some sensitivity, so more practice is needed to get this strong and comfortable for her 💝 All this learning happens with positive reinforcement to help Poppy understand what is needed to help her grow in confidence and KEEP HER SAFE 💝 If you’d like this behaviour from your dog, please get in touch, I’m here to help you 💝

Restarting our ‘chilling in the garden training’ now we are getting the sunshine back. Tara absolutely smashed it this morning. 10/10 for effort 💝 In all seriousness, we have had to work VERY hard to help Tara feel safe to stay settled for all this time with counter conditioning and desensitisation, and so pleased that we are still early in the season and appears Tara has maintained the learning from previous years. 🥰 I’m sooooo proud of my beautiful brave girl 💝

A little bit of fun and engagement in the woods. These are our best days 🥰

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