Walking Paws

19/10/2023

We’ve had an absolute blast training and walking your dogs, however our trainer Chloe has been offered to do 5 days a week at her job until Christmas so unfortunately she will not be able to continue until at least the New Year.

Working with your dogs has been the best experience, and we’ve learned so much over the past year and a half. Thank you everyone who has let us engage with their dogs. We’ll reopen bookings as soon as we’re back!

We hope see you all in the New Year!

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19/10/2023

12/10/2023

We’re so happy when we see our Giz happy 🥰

28/09/2023

We’re back walking our favourite customer, Giz! 🐾

07/09/2023

We’re changing our hours!

From next week, we will only be available on Thursdays. Our trainer Chloe has been offered a job! She will still continue to work with your dogs to the best of her ability on this day, providing walks and training sessions.

Thank you for understanding and have a pawesome day! 🐾

07/09/2023

A lovely, calm walk with Giz this morning. We even saw his friends and had a cute reunion! We’re always so happy to see Giz happy! 🐾

01/09/2023

Some beautiful lead walking from Giz this morning! Look at the ‘J’ shape in the lead and his focus, wow!

Whenever he went in front of us, we gave some slight pressure on the lead and walked in the other direction to get him to realise he needed to be walking with us and not leading the way.

Great job as always, Giz! 🐾

25/08/2023

We’re back again this morning with the Orientation Game! Giz loved this game, and he responded really well to it. This game increases your dog’s proximity, increases recall reliability, and makes you the highest value to them. By dishing out treats left, right, and centre, you’re where they want to be! 🐾

21/08/2023

Giz was so happy to be out with us this morning. We worked on loose lead walking and confidence building through positively enforced game based training. We love you Giz! 🐾

18/08/2023

Scatter Feeding!

This is a great tool for disengagement. By looking at the floor and sniffing out food/treats, Giz is unaware of the people and dogs passing by. This also builds focus on the handler as your dog will look to you as they know you’re a higher value (because you’re dropping food) than the distractions around them.

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16/08/2023

Today we’ve been practicing more of being calm and controlled around other dogs, and also more proximity and recall work! Lots of games today! Great job as always, Giz! 🐾

09/08/2023

DMT (Distrsction, Mark, Treat) with Giz!

Today we focused on Giz becoming more confident in the presence of other dogs. Especially as it is getting warmer now everyone is getting their dogs out earlier, Giz needs to be confident being around groups of dogs! As Giz is a nervous dog, it is important to build his confidence everytime we go out.

We went back to Stage 1 of this game as we needed to refresh Giz’s memory of it. This stage involves saying good everytime your dog is looking away to build value in the word and get them to realise that you are the better option than the distraction. We will continue to work on this in the future! Good job Giz! 🐾

31/07/2023

It's the Summer Holidays!

The sun may not be shining and the weather may not be typical summer weather, but we have something to brighten your day... We have a great offer for you, ending on the 7th August.

We are offering six training sessions for the price of five. These training sessions can cover a multitude of different topics, such as loose lead walking and recall. We use a combination of traditional dog training techniques and fun game-based training to achieve your goals for your dog.

We are open to travelling to areas in Canterbury, Faversham, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Sittingbourne and the Isle of Sheppey.

Do not hesitate, book today! Offer ends 7th August 2023!

Price: £150

26/07/2023

Such a goofy boy! 😝🐾

21/07/2023

We’re back walking our favourite client! Giz was so happy to see us this morning! We went for a lovely walk around the park and through the nature reserve. Good to be back! 🐾🐾

05/07/2023

Giz is always so smiley! 🥰🐾

28/06/2023

Today was the first day in a long while that Giz could explore his surroundings without fear of other dogs spooking him. It’s a big step in his confidence as he can go at his own speed and work on being comfortable in his surroundings again.

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26/06/2023

Giz is a nervous dog. This morning we had an encounter with another dog who was also allegedly also nervous but off lead. We could have had to deal with a major incident today on our walk.

If you see a nervous dog, please don’t let your dog run up to them. Instead, listen to the owners when they say their dog is nervous, put them back on lead and keep them away from the nervous dog. Let’s all be responsible and look out for all dogs, as well as our own.

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21/06/2023

Remember:
When taking your dogs out in this heat, please remember to take lots of water and give them lots of opportunities to chill out in the shade. Dogs can’t regulate themselves the way we can. Do not take your dogs out in temperatures over 25C as this can have detrimental consequences on their health and well-being.

Here’s Giz having some water on our walk this morning. We carry a bottle with a lid which converts to a drinking bowl for easy access to water.

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14/06/2023

This morning, Giz had a very shaded walk.

It is very important to keep your dogs cool this time of the year, especially as the heat is climbing rapidly, as they cannot regulate themselves like we can. Lots of water and shade, and earlier walks are necessary to keep our dogs happy and healthy!

12/06/2023

Hi everyone!

As the temperature is getting increasingly hotter, we are knuckling down on getting out earlier with your dogs to prevent possible health issues. It’s not just the temperature in the air getting hotter, it’s the pavements, the grass, and everything else too whilst out and about!

We strongly advise contacting us if we haven’t contacted you, and moving any appointments with us to earlier times, when the heat is under 25C. Taking your dog outside in anything above this temperature is an extreme risk for them and may result in health issues and trips to the vets which can be avoided by earlier or later walks.

Thank you and keep yourselves and your dogs safe! 🐾

09/06/2023

Look at that loose lead walking! 🐾

07/06/2023

Today we were working on Giz’s lead walking around and across busy roads. After a short burst of energy in the field, we got to work! Giz was inquisitive about the cars going past but we managed to have some lovely walking across the road.

Giz, you’re awesome! 🐾🐾

02/06/2023

We had a rather exhausting walk with our Giz this morning. He made us tired just from watching him running around! 🐾

26/05/2023

What a great start to the bank holiday weekend, a walk with our lovely Giz! 🐾

19/05/2023

More disengagement work with Giz today!

The field was full of dogs, so in order to raise Giz’s confidence, we stayed back and done some more DMT. Everytime he looked over in the direction of the other dogs, we said “good” and rewarded him for turning round. The last time we done this game, there were no dogs about, so we’ve definitely progressed!

Great job as always, Giz! 🐾

17/05/2023

We had a lovely walk this morning with our Giz. We played some confidence building games too! 🐾

10/05/2023

Today we were working on disengagement with Giz on our walk. Giz often struggles with other dogs, especially if they’re smaller than him, have more energy than him, or if they’re male.

We worked in an empty but familiar field, with no distractions. Everytime Giz looked away from us, we said our marker word “good”, and rewarded him when he looked at us. This shows him that we are more important than the distractions around us, and shows him that distractions are nothing to be worried about.

We have been building on Giz’s confidence since day one, and we’re always progressing!

Amazing work today, Giz! Keep it up! 🐾

05/05/2023

We got some stunning photos of Giz today by a beautiful blossom tree. Isn’t he just the cutest? 🐾

03/05/2023

We had a lovely walk this morning with this one! Springtime is really settling in now, and Giz loves it! 🐾🐾