Emily Coombe-Positive Dog Training

20/06/2024

Big smiles from Finley and Flower who have both completed their 6 week training course 🐶 🎓👏 For both handsome boys we focused on self control training to help them manage their arousal arousal levels in different contexts. They have both made so much progress and their owners have done some amazing training! 💚

28/01/2024

Meet Hope and Faith, two gorgeous Labrador sisters. They had a pretty tough start to life but have now landed on their feet with their new dedicated and loving owners who have already made amazing progress with the girls. When I first met Hope and Faith, they were nervous of new people and they had never been trained before. Now they are super excited to greet new people that enter their home, can walk nicely on a lead, have mastered a sit and are growing in confidence on their walks everyday. They have also had some successful dog interactions, which is something we are continuing to work on in our 121 sessions. A big shout out to Hope and Faith’s owners, the hard work they have put in so far is really paying off. I can’t wait for our next session 🐶🫶🏼

26/01/2024

Holly has that Friday Feeling! Doesn’t she look like she’s posing for her school picture?😂 Holly is doing really well on her training walks in which I am assisting Holly’s owners with her behaviour modification programme focused on reducing her on lead reactivity towards other dogs. Our walks also involve some off lead down time to help make the training enjoyable and keep up positive interactions with other dogs when off lead. Thanks to her owners dedication she has made a lot of progress and reactions have significantly reduced 👏 🐶

07/12/2023

Congratulations to Bueno and his family for completing the 6 week Puppy course 🐶🎓🥳 Beuno has come such a long way thanks to his parents pawsome commitment to his training 💜 Swipe for a behind the scenes of the graduation pic 😂📸

12/10/2023

Congratulations to Deni and her owner for completing the 6 week training course 🎓🐶

Deni is a rescue dog from Macedonia, who arrived in the UK at 9 months of age. She was a little under confident when I first met her, but her amazing owner took everything at Deni’s pace and has built an incredible bond with her. She is now a confident adolescent who has nailed the different elements of training and it has been lovely for me to watch her develop 💜

13/09/2023

Shout out to Luna and her lovely owners for the incredible work they have put in with her training this year! 🐶

Luna is one of my behaviour modification clients, whose owners came to me to help increase her confidence and reduce reactivity towards visitors to the home and unkown dogs.

We put in place protocols to help Luna form positive emotional responses to visitors and made sure all interactions with people were initiated at Luna’s pace. Her owners have done an amazing job at implementing these strategies and can now have people over and Luna can relax around them with minimal management- which is a huge win!

We also introduced helper dog sessions with Mohawk (collie in the videos) to help build Luna’s confidence around dogs. We started with distance work before carefully facilitating positive interactions. Once they were happy together we took them both to less controlled environments in which they would also encounter unkown dogs. Having Mohawk by her side helped Luna to navigate interactions with other dogs without reacting- and you can see towards the end of the walk and video how happy and care free she became😂

I am still working with Luna’s owners to continue to progress her training, but I think you can agree that they have done an amazing job so far! 👏

05/09/2023

Come and say Hello!

This Sunday (10th September), I will be at the Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary Fun Day at Ashton Court (11am-4pm) 🐶 I will be judging some of the competitions and I’m totally open to bribery, cake normally works (kidding!).

I will also be around to chat, so come and say hello😊

‼️When considering bringing your dogs to events like this, bear in mind wether your dog can cope and enjoy the busy environment and have strategies in place to make sure your dog does not get too hot. Below is some amazing advice written by Roz Pooley at The Mutty Professor on how to help your dog cope well at events such as the Fun Day this weekend. Please take your time to read this if you are thinking of coming 💜

If you think your dog would be happier at home, don’t worry you can still get involved! Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary are running a 'HAPPIER AT HOME" class- explained in their post below 🏠

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If you are taking your dog to the show (or any dog show or event), please consider the following to make the day more enjoyable:

🐩 Avoid on lead greetings with other dogs, unless you have had a dialogue with the owner to establish whether the dogs will mingle comfortably.

🧀 Take high value treats so you can cue and reinforce your dog more easily to give other dogs space.

🦮Walk your dog on a harness, especially if you think they may struggle to maintain a loose lead in this environment.

💦 Take water, and consider taking a snack for your dog to top up their blood sugar levels. If you need a snack across the day, then why wouldn't your dog?

🎪 Gradually move towards busy areas, look at your dog's body language to check whether they are relaxed (no tension in their muzzle, easily responsive to you, relatively normal respiration rate for the weather conditions).

🧘‍♀️ Take time to move away from the hustle and bustle to allow your dog time to recharge. Find somewhere they can relax and lie down.

☂️ Its likely going to be hot over the next weekend. Take an umbrella to help provide shade for your dog and/or move to shade provided by trees, as this will be cooler.
If you do open an umbrella to provide shade, be mindful of it not scaring your dog or others nearby.

💥 If your dog reacts by lunging, barking, whining etc then please use this as information as to how they are feeling, rather than feeling embaressed by their behaviour and correcting them.

🤒 Unless your dog is 100% healthy and has previously comfortably managed long walks and long days out, try and limit how long your dog is at such events to 1-2 hours maximum.

Holly Hedge Fun Day - Dog photo competition! 📸

Want to come to Holly Hedge Fun Day but your dog would be happier at home?

Perhaps your dog is nervous, reactive, poorly, or just not keen on crowds? Now there’s no need for them to miss the dog show! They can enter our virtual ‘happier at home’ dog show class!

It’s easy to enter. Each entry costs £2 which you can donate via PayPal to [email protected] with the reference 'photo competition'. Then just email your favourite photo of your dog, along with a screenshot or copy of your donation receipt to: [email protected].
Please include your dog’s name and a little bit of information about them for the judges.

Alternatively, you can bring along a printed photo of your dog to Fun Day on 10 September at Ashton Court and pay on the day.

One of our super judges will pick a winner from all entries and just like our winning attendees, they will receive a prize and rosette to wear with pride. 🏆

02/09/2023

🐶 Promo video 📹

As many of you know, along with running my own business I am also part of the The Mutty Professor Training and Behaviour team! And we recently all scrubbed up to film a new promo video for our training classes, 121’s and Behaviour Consultations.

I had the pleasure of training Amigo (Roz Pooley’s new rescue dog) over the last couple of months in preparation for this video and he smashed it. To be honest, I think we can all agree that all the dogs knew how to work those camera angles 😅🐶

I love being part of the Mutty team so just had to share! Check out the video below 👇 ❤️

07/04/2023

Meet Lola, a beautiful blue Staffy 😍 in our session today we focused on building her confidence around other dogs (which had been knocked after a couple of negative interactions) and she smashed it 👏 We worked on helping Lola understand she always had an escape route with her owner should she need one, and that gave her the confidence to greet dogs of all shapes ans sizes today which was so lovely to see😍 I am excited to see her progression over the next couple of sessions 😊 Have a lovely Easter everyone 🐣

05/01/2023

New Year, new puppy graduate 🐶 🎓 Balin braved the drizzle for his last session today in which we focused on recall and dog interactions in Ashton Court. He smashed it👏 🎊

30/12/2022

💚THANK YOU💚

In 2022 I conducted 241 one-to-one training sessions and follow ups and 89 behaviour assessments 😮

I can not thank all my wonderful clients and their dogs enough for their support 🐶 And cannot congratulate them enough for all the hard work they have put in with training and supporting their dogs, wether that be through the puppy shark teeth phase, teenage tantrums or behavioural modification programmes.
Training is not always easy, you and your dogs are amazing🤩

I wish everyone a Happy New Year, and can’t wait to meet some more wonderful dogs in 2023 🎊

P.s. go check out my swanky new website

Congratulations to Milo for completing his 6 week puppy course 🎓 🐶🙌 Today we made a little obstacle course to test some of the things he has learnt over the six weeks🐾 Him and his owners have done such a great job!

25/11/2022

🎉I am pleased to announce I am now a registered Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CAB) with the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC) 🎉 Sorry for my absence on social media the past few months, I was busy being assessed by some incredible APBC CAB’s who I cannot thank enough for making the assessment process as smooth and enjoyable as possible 🐶 Thank you to all my wonderful clients and their fabulous pooches for your support over the years, and a big thank you to Roz Pooley for being an amazing mentor 💜

28/10/2022

Congratulations to Cardi and his owner for completing the 6 week puppy course!🐶🎉 Cardi’s biggest challenge was staying calm around the neighbours cat 🐱 but strengthening up his recall and introducing clam explorative behaviours in the garden has reduced temptation 👏 Well done Cardi 💜

27/06/2022

🚨 Calling all web designers 🚨I am looking for someone to help me redesign my business website 🐶. I am interested in commissioning students studying graphic/ web design that may want to start their professional portfolio 🖥 I love my business and would like to work closely with the designer, but understand that my own IT skills have a limit 😂 Please feel free to comment and share this post with anyone you think would be interested ❤️

25/05/2022

Yesterday I had to say goodbye to my best friend and greatest teacher ❤️ Not only did Poppy bring me unlimited happiness but as a lot of you know, Poppy shaped my career into what it is today. Poppy, I’ll remember you with every dog I help and train forever ###############x

20/04/2022

Congratulations to Milly and her owner for completing the 6 week puppy training course 🐶 🎓 We ended with a sunny recall session in which Milly managed to sprint back for dogs for treats and toy rewards 👏 Her owners training has really paid off over the course and Milly can now enjoy off lead walks safely and show off a number of behaviours including a settle and loose lead walking ❤️

28/02/2022

🥳Congratulations to Holly and her owners for completing the 6 week puppy course!👏 We may have had to have a few nap breaks during training 😴 but she still managed to learn all the essentials including loose lead walking, drop, recall and much more!

10/02/2022

A few shots from some recall training walks today 📸 Featuring the handsome Archie and Pip- licking some cheese off her nose 🐶