Stellar Pet Care

31/07/2023

Well, our new boy has been with us for 16 days and he's coming on in leaps and bounds (literally!) 🥰
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19/07/2023

If you're looking for a trainer read this... In fact, read it anyway!

We are seeing a lot of 'successful' dog training videos online at the moment.

Often men and often forcing a dog into being quiet and moving quietly around other dogs or through busy areas.

To the untrained eye this can look impressive, especially if you are desperate for change with a highly aroused dog.

Comments like, "my dog behaves better than ever after being trained by beardy bloke"

"Baldy bloke is the only person who could stop my dog doing this and that"

"Muscly man is the best dog trainer in the world ever"

To the trained eye though, it's not impressive, it's horrible.

Training without considering how the dog feels is dismissive of the dog as a sentient being, of their emotional state and their needs.

Training without empathy is dismissive of a dog's need to feel safe, heard and considered. And we all need that don't we?

It's evidence of a dog being pushed around and not listened to by a stranger.

It's someone fuelling their own ego by bullying a helpless animal.

Being pushed around causes stress, trauma, anxiety and depression, in people it's classed as abuse.

To the trained eye we see a worried and suppressed dog who is being forced into submission by a bully who calls themself a dog trainer.

I can't bear it.

I can't bear this influx of silly, uneducated men calling themselves dog trainers (I'm sure there are women too but all I'm seeing is the men at the moment)

Forcing their will on poor dogs who simply can't escape them.

Dogs who look scared, stressed, cowed and suppressed.

I can see how a dog feels in a split second. That's what education does, it teaches you to see reality. The facts.

I wonder, can these people see what they are doing to dogs they claim to be training?

There are one of two possibilities:

They recognise the looks, the licks, the head dips and carry on anyway because they don't care how the dog feels.

They don't recognise the creeping, the half moon eye, the dropped tail because they don't educate themself because they don't care how the dog feels.

If you don't care about how the dog feels - why do you call yourself a dog trainer?

That's fraud.

27/06/2023

Taken yesterday, but a cracking pic for
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26/06/2023

This doesn't look like much but, for a dog that won't walk on wet grass who hates getting her paws wet, I was amazed. 😲
This is the extent she'll now go to follow me everywhere. Bless her. 🥰❤️

26/06/2023

What a weekend with fab friends!! Thanks & Pam for making us so welcome. 🥰
Zenny loves the beach, so my senior girl had the best time. ❤️🌞

23/06/2023

Bit of a panic when Pippa lost her ears in the heat....
then found them again. Phew. 😂🥰

23/06/2023

Fun & frolics on an early sunny walk.... Alfie, Sasha & Betty 🥰
Great to see the wild field margins.... although it's easier for Sasha to go missing! 🙄

08/06/2023

My girl met me at the door today... 🥰 ❤️

05/06/2023

Beau and Jeff met for the first time today and had a blast 🥰❤️

27/05/2023

A chilled afternoon for Zenny - while the hoomans worked their socks off in the garden. ☀️😎

25/05/2023

Beau - should have saved this for ! 😁
Cracking wood & field walk this week with Mr Handsome. 🥰

25/05/2023

Jeff - literally about to leap for a treato.
🥰 😂

13/05/2023

This! ❤️🙂

“𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙥 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙, 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙜?”

One simple question that everyone hiring a trainer should ask.

The answer should be a straightforward, unequivocal ‘No’.

If it’s not, or if there’s any hesitation, qualification, prevarication or ambiguity, then thank them for their time & keep looking.

Training is an unregulated industry. Anyone can set up as a trainer regardless of education, experience or ethics. Don’t assume the trainer you find online has ethics which align with yours. Don’t assume they will treat your dog kindly. Ask them and listen carefully to their answer. No trainer worth their salt will ever mind being asked.

11/05/2023

Sasha: "No, what makes you think I've been grass chomping...?!"
Glorious walk amongst the r**e seed today. 🥰☀️

05/05/2023

Happy weekend all from Pippa & Mishka. 🥰❤️
Luckily we missed the thunderstorm and torrential rain! Phew. ⚡⛈️

05/05/2023

Beau's face when I pointed out how gorgeous the bluebells are. 😂😂

05/05/2023

Lucca: Did I hear you say 'treato'?
Super cute as always 🥰❤️

05/05/2023

Beau was laser-focused for AGES.... on a duck having a siesta. 🙂❤️

20/04/2023

A few of Wednesday's dogs, appropriate for
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19/04/2023

Just one of the beauts I walked yesterday... Handsome Pepper 🌶️ A gentle boy.
Already reserved (otherwise I might've had to sneak him in my suitcase). 😁

14/04/2023

"I think this is.my best side" - Sasha ❤️

31/03/2023

Our last walk of the soggiest week ever was full of fun and shenanigans with this cheeky trio. 😁
Lucca, Pippa and Mishka ❤️

28/03/2023

Another rain soaked Suffolk day, with 3 soggy faces.
At least one of us was still smiling (it wasn't Alfie!) 😂😂

15/03/2023

Another ad-hoc, local walk today with Beau, aka Mr Handsome. 🥰❤️

13/03/2023

When Pippa & Mishka's people told me the dogs slept on the bed, I didn't realise they meant on me in bed. Cutie ❤️ 😂😂

28/02/2023

Zenny's getting cosy.
My gorgeous senior girlie. 🥰❤️

28/02/2023

Jeff (border terrier) has a VERY short attention span, so Betty was showing him the ropes yesterday on our fab field walk. 🥰

25/02/2023

It's a kerfuffle getting a puppy to pose... 😂😂 Mishka ❤️

21/02/2023

Betty looks super cute after her cut & blow dry 🥰