💅🐶 Dog nails! It’s so important to keep your dogs nail short so it doesn’t impact their natural paw position and potentially cause long term injury.
But if your dog is anything like Lady and no matter how many times you’ve tried to counter condition them to tolerate having their nails done, they still find it extremely stressful. It’s better to teach them to scratch their nails on a scratch board!
I made this one myself by using a chopping board, sandpaper and glue!
This is her very first session with the scratch board once I put it altogether. Using a clicker to mark the behaviour I wanted, which was her paw going onto the board. I didn’t have a high criteria because this was her first session, I simply wanted her to pop her paw on the scratch board. Once she did I would click and reward her by throwing a treat away so I could reset her positioning and she could come back and offer that behaviour. After a few repetitions she started to stick her nails out which is exactly what I wanted and then only started to click and reward her when she scratched her nails down.
Then later out of the video I started to wait and see if she would use both paws, but that was a little too hard for her and she got a bit frustrated so I just went back to rewarding her for one paw.
I will be doing this a few times a week so I can get her nails down to a length I prefer and till she’s trained to do this with both nails 💅
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“Whose horse is that?” Happy Friday! 🎉
Running into the weekend like🏃♂️#wagtales #wagtaleswalks #groupwalk #packwalk #dogwalk #dogwalker #dogsofmamchester #manchester #salford #doggos #dogsofinstagram #pug #pugsofinstagram #puglove
Manolo showing off his fancy heelwork 🕺 If you need helping with any obedience training with your pup, we can help! We offer 1-2-1 training sessions, tailored to you and your pup. Drop us an email to book 📩🐶 #wagtales #wagtalestraining #wagtalesdogtraining #dogtraining #dogsofinstagram #pug #pugsofinstagram #spinningfields #manchester #dogsofmanchester #puppy #puppypug #goodboy
11 week old Manolo showing me he’s got great impulse control. Auto sits are fab for introducing early learnings of impulse control. He might of made a mistake at one point but without my given any verbal or body language cue Manolo was able to make the correct decision ☺️ Go Manolo! What a clever boy 😍 #wagtales #wagtalespuppyvisits #puppy #pugpuppy #dogwalker #dogtrainer #dogtraining #earlylearning #11weeksold #pugsofinstagram #impulsecontrol
🐶Here’s videos of Poppy demonstrating good self control going through doors.
🦊Poppy gets so excited for her walks that we practise this trick a lot. This isn’t on a verbal cue as when I reach for the door I want her to automatically go into the sit and show me she can contain herself, which of course she can! 😍
🚪It’s also safe for her as if this was a door to the outside world she wouldn’t go dashing out, plus it brings her focus back to me and keeps her mind thinking 🤔 Its also lovely manners as well ☺️
This is a really simple trick we recommend teaching all pooches! If you need any training tips message us and we can help!
Well done Poppy 👏😍
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Some ideas to help you and your pooch 😊
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Are you stuck at home in self isolation?
Is you and your pooch going stir crazy?
Here are some ideas to help mentally stimulate your pooch during self isolation!
We’d also like to reassure you that Wagtales will remain fully operational and continue to keep looking after your fur babies! It’s business as usual for us.
We will provide assistance to you whenever and wherever we can and are here to help. This includes if you are self isolating and your pooch needs a walk too.
Love Wagtales Team 🐾🐶
Last but not least, my crazy little gremlin Gizmo.
Her #trainingtimethursday is just improving her tricks outdoors and working on that stay (although I want to move it just to a sit like with Lady- guys if you have more than 1 dog. PLEASE stick to same cues and don’t confuse them all like I have 🙈)
Some great bloopers in this 🤣
Me and Gizmo have entered our first Agility comp and I’m suuuuuper excited.
If you have any good tricks with your pooches, we wanna see! I love seeing tricks 😍
Happy training! 😁
-Ella x
It’s time for.... #trainingtimethursdays !! 🐶Haven’t done a proper session for a while now (naughty Ella!) although I have been doing little sessions and agility/hoopers on Saturdays. I keep forgetting to record! So the next 3 posts are the girls doing their thang outdoors.
It good to practise all your cues in all different places to strengthen that behaviour and cue.
(Omg that means I can go pub with the girls and record myself 😇🍹🐶)
These are unedited so lots of mistakes but hey, that’s training for you! 😁
P.S. When I’m walking away I’m asking Tofu to change sides! (Her cues are ‘left’ for left side and ‘this side’ for the right of me, I couldn’t tell my lefts from rights when I first started to train this 🤣)
-Ella x
Tofus progress on “middle” 😍 sometimes she gets over excited and starts offering a bunch of behaviours I’ve taught her in the past, then we get back on track 😎
It’s #trainingtimethursdays !! The slight panic I had when I asked Gizmo to go through and thought she might hit the wall so put my leg down early 🙈 she did it tho! 🐶
Anyone got some neat tricks their dogs can do? 😄
Until the madness starts! 😂🥰🐶💖🐾
Nat x
Play time on the meadow 🐾🐶🐕💖
Nat x
