🎉New dates for our UK Sniffer Course Bronze level ( Beginner)🎉
This is a 6 week course with WhatsApp group and your own online course to support the 6 face to face group sessions.
Check out our website ( link in bio) for more details 🐶🐶🐾🐾
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Deer popping up...
Working with prey drive...
You don't need to use force..
You need to recognise their instinctual needs, and work with them.
Pinching a quote here ....
"Force has no place where there is need of skill... "The original quote is from Herodotus, 440 B.C.
🐾Video of one of my own dogs enjoying a retrieve training session with a very exciting distraction!🐾
🧯Advance warning!🧯
My Hart Dog Training and My Hart Dog Courses will be be off-line over the next few days as I merge both the websites. Fingers crossed they don't both go POOF! in a puff of smoke!🤣🤣
Truffle Hunting at Sniffer Club
🐾🐾Truffle Fun at Sniffer Club!🐾🐾
Fabulous morning with Holly, Milton, Nina, Syd and Carla!🥰
We overran by TWO HOURS! Just having the best fun truffle hunting in beautiful weather. OK.. it wasn't real truffles but who cares?
By the end of the morning we were burying the truffle odour - and asking the dogs to find it. A big lesson for me is to mark where I buried the fake truffle!!🤣🤣Luckily we had such good sniffers it wasn't a problem.🥳🥳
Well done everyone you were amazing! Can't wait for part 2!
The Bag Search
Well done Clara and Hollly! Super bag search demonstrating some lovely independent sniffing!
Spring Sniffer Club starts this weekend!
🐾🐾Sniffer club🐾🐾 - Open to teams who have completed either Bronze level or Silver level UK Sniffer Dog courses.
🐶Four week block starts Sunday 28th April bright eyed and bushy tailed at 9.30am!
🐶Attend one class or all four! 🥳
🐶We start with a fun theme!
🐾🐾LINK to book in comments!🐾🐾
Teasel loving her vehicle searching! 😍😍
Catnip Retrieve..
🥳Fabulous one to one training session today with the lovely Sky and her amazing owner! Absolutely nailed the active retrieve on catnip, with a super hand delivery! Well done! 🥳🥳👏👏
Today we were working on hand delivery of a retrieve article - backchaining with a paint roller to develop the hand delivery, before progressing to hiding the catnip infused felt squirrels.
I use paint rollers because they are a nice size, with no flappy or interesting bits attached. Sky however, was completely obsessed by the paint rollers! Throughout the whole session kept one beady eye on the box where I kept them 🤣🤣.This prompted an interesting conversation about the "value" of the retrieve article, in Sky's case, the rollers held HUGE value! So, we decided to finish the training session on a high, and let her retreive a whole box of them which she loved!
Who needs expensive toys when you can buy cheap paint rollers from B&Q for a few pounds each!😁😁
Today Sky really made me think about motivation and play..and to always to think about reinforcement from the dogs perspective...🥰🥰
🐾Walking the gang of 6 this morning - still feels strange to say 6 instead of 7, after we lost Casper a month ago. He was the grand age of 15 years young and such a wonderful, incorrigible character. He didn't really understand dog training that much, I think he thought it was a fad -and eventually I would give up! Fur dummies were for chewing, and anything with feathers on he took to our nextdoors garden to consume in peace and quiet. Strangers and BMWs were for chasing! 🤣🤣
Casper taught me more than any trainer, book or online course. He showed me the importance of having daily conversations, making the effort to really understand our dogs, and respect the honesty of their canine dialogue. The value of autonomy with guiding boundaries ( closed gate - long line! 😁)
Here is the gang on their morning bimble. Otter ( thats her at the start of the video! 😍😍) Bramble, River, Woody, Teasel and Benson now the oldest at 11 years old.🥰🥰
The Easter themed Sniffer Club
🐾Fantastic time at Sniffer Club this morning! We had a little Easter themed competition with 2 teams 🥳 - not to say anyone got competitive! 🤣🤣It was great fun, and special thanks to Bethan for the gorgeous cake! 🍰🍰
Well done to everyone! I really enjoyed watching some super searching and lovely handling! 😍🥳🐾🤩
Easter Scentwork Games
🥚 Getting ready for our Easter-themed Scentwork games at Sniffer Club tommorrow morning!🐰✨ Here's a sneak peek behind the scenes as we prepare for the final week of Sniffer Club, with an Eggcellent Easter twist! 🌸🥚
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Spaniels in class..
When you have spaniels in a class! 🙃😜🤣🥰
Week 3 - UK Sniffer Dogs BRONZE level - and I already have a few extra grey hairs but so looking forward to the next few weeks!😍😍
IMDT qualified trainer and certified UK Sniffer Dog Gold Level Scentwork Instructor
