Rehabilitation and Training

31/01/2025

Paws up who saw me and Dad on TV this week? 🐾 ‘Lost Dogs, Found Dogs’ with Clare Balding. Channel 5, Series 2, Episode 4.

I was so pleased Dad behaved himself and allowed me to take centre stage! 😉
Clare was really nice and complimentary to me. Well she did used to have a Tibetan Terrier of her own. I even got to share her comfy sofa with her! 🐾
If you would like to see how I got on, then you can get the programme on catch up! I’m on from 25 minutes in and you can see me in action for over 5 minutes! It’s ‘pawsome’! 👍🐾🦮🐕‍🦺🐕🐶

https://www.channel5.com/show/live-lost-dogs-with-clare-balding/season-2/episode-4

30/01/2025

Look Dad, I’m on tele!! 🤣😂❤️🐾🐕‍🦺🦮🐕

28/01/2025

24/01/2025

I’m very pleased to announce that for the THIRD year running, I have been selected by ‘Three Best Rated’ as one of the Top 3 Dog Trainers in Colchester! 👍🐾🐕🐕‍🦺🦮🐶
It is lovely to see that my hard work and dedication in changing dogs and people’s lives is paying off!
Many thanks to all my wonderful clients over the past 10 years, who with their support and wonderful reviews of my business, have helped me get to where I am today! I am very humbled! 👍🐾🐕

23/01/2025

Today’s clients were at both ends of the scale in dog training.
‘Max’ is a 9 year old Romanian Rescue who has a dislike of men in particular, and will run and bite them to let them know! 😱
His little brother is 18 week old Cockapoo ‘Buddy’ who is just taking things in his stride! He will however ‘push the boundaries’ with ‘Max’ who does put him in his place if needed!
A great day was had helping Mum and Dad Lorraine and Steve and daughter Tiarna learn the training techniques needed to teach both dogs exactly what they need to do to get the ‘praise, reward, attention and affection’ they crave! ‘Buddy’ as you would expect picked everything up really quickly. ‘Max’ is taking a little bit longer but there were certainly signs of improvement! Great support from the family who also picked up the training very quickly and whilst they are all ‘singing off the same hymn sheet’, I’m sure the wanted ‘change’ is just around the corner! 🤞Good luck guys!!👍🐾🐕‍🦺🐕🦮🐶

18/01/2025

Here’s a great video to show how you need to advocate for an older dog that doesn’t always want to interact with a younger dog. If you have built that all important ‘bond, trust and respect’ with your dog then they will automatically seek your support as they know that you are a ‘safe space’. Also see how the younger dog is kept in a lead for this to happen. This shows the older dog that you will ‘listen’ to what they are asking through their body language, but more importantly teaching the younger dog how to behave when another dog says they are not interested. If the younger dog ‘self rewards’ through constant attempts to interact, it could easily turn into a dog fight. 👍🦮🐕🐶🐕‍🦺

13/01/2025

Today’s client was the lovely, lively and very excitable ‘Max’, a 5 month old Doberman Pinscher.
His human Mum and Dad, Donna and Eddie are previous clients from 5 years ago when I helped them with their previous dogs. It was great to be able to work with them both again and refresh them on some of the training techniques required to teach ‘Max’ how to realise only calm behaviour gets rewarded! General aspects of puppy training, including the ‘static stay’, ‘touch Mat’ training, jumping up and lead walking were covered and ‘Max’ responded really well!
A long journey ahead for Donna and Eddie but they are both well aware of how important getting the training right from the off is, as he will be a big fella in a few months time! 👍🐾🐕🐕‍🦺🦮🐶

07/01/2025

Just a little reminder!! 😉👍🐾🦮🐕‍🦺🐕🐶

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15uUXHYbvK/?mibextid=wwXIfr

04/01/2025

***BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!***

I am delighted to announce that I will be on TV again this month as part of the new series of ‘Lost Dog, Found Dog’ with Clare Balding. But this time I will be with my own ‘rescue’ dog ‘Oreo’! ❤️

It’s a 4 week journey every Tuesday evening on Channel 5 @ 7pm, starting this Tuesday 7th January. In my episode I speak to Clare about what people should consider when taking on a rescue dog, as well as telling her ‘Oreo’s own amazing story! The great news is that I am involved in one of the four shows. The not so good news is I don’t know yet which one of the four I’m in! 🥴🤔
But all the episodes are definitely worth watching and seeing ‘Oreo’ appear not only with me, but also with Clare in the opening credits too!
After all, you can’t get enough of a good looking dog! 😉 Happy viewing! 👍🐾🐕🐶🐕‍🦺

03/01/2025

Yesterday consisted of a long days drive to West Berkshire to help out Debra and Stewart with their 22 month old Newfoundland ‘Ernie’. Being such a big boy, it isn’t too much fun when he gets excited and jumps all over you, sometimes mouthing you at the same time! In addition he loves every dog and will pull excitedly over to see them. He loves his Mum and Dad so much that on occasions he will lunge at people to keep them away, which again due to his size can be difficult to control!
A lovely day was had working with ‘Ernie’ and his lovely family, assuring them that he was not aggressive, just over excited! Training techniques were put in place and ‘Ernie’ quickly showed Debra and Stewart that he was a quick learner. Now for the family to put this into practice on a regular basis and to teach him the ‘Nucleus of Dog Training’, i.e. to teach him that only calm behaviour gets rewarded! Keep up the good work guys!! 🤞👍🐾🐕‍🦺

25/12/2024

A very Merry Christmas to all my lovely clients I have worked with over the years!
Let’s all hope for a fantastic year ahead for all our doggy friends! 🤞🐾🐕🐕‍🦺🦮🐶

22/12/2024

30/11/2024

So today’s client was little 4 year old French Bulldog ‘Monty’ who believed it was his job to protect both Mum and Dad and his domain, and would sometimes ’nip’ people in order to keep them away from his prized possessions!
A lovely day was had with Mum Courtney and Dad Olly showing them how they need to get across to ‘Monty’ that he has now retired, so he doesn’t have to look after them or even himself as they will look after him for the rest of his life. Very quickly after my arrival, he stopped the barking and lunging as I ticked all the right boxes to show him that I wasn’t a threat and once he calmed down, only then would he get the praise, reward, attention and affection that he craved from Mum and Dad!
In addition he would pull on his harness and react aggressively towards other dogs so a nice ‘discipline heel walk’ and dog reactivity session was included. ‘Monty’ responded very well to the training as did Courtney and Olly, so hopefully it won’t take long before the ‘penny drops’ and the good behaviours become a constant habit! 🤞👍🐾🦮🐕🐕‍🦺

25/11/2024

I had a great weekend away at the ABK 2024 (Animal Behaviour Kent) conference. It was great meeting up with colleagues and also meeting the expert speakers including the amazing Michael Shikashio and Sarah Fisher as well as my buddy from the ‘M7’, the amazing Nick Honor! 👍🐾🐶🦮🐕🐕‍🦺

12/11/2024

Everybody say ‘Arrrrrr!’😍
Today’s little client was 12 week old Cockapoo puppy ‘Cindy’. I was contacted by her Mum and Dad Emma and John who are first time puppy parents who wanted to make sure they started her training off correctly.
A lovely session was had with ‘Cindy’ picking up the training techniques very quickly as you would expect a Cockapoo to do! 👍
Keep up the good work guys! 🐾🐶

08/11/2024

The latest issue of ‘Dog Friendly’ Magazine is out now!
Look out for my 4 page article on ‘Attention Training’, how to get your dogs focus on you when you need it! 👍🐕🐾🦮🐕‍🦺🐶

04/11/2024

I had my GSD fix last week with the beautiful 18 month old ‘Autumn’ who’s Mum and Dad Debbie and Jason, wanted some help with her over excitement when people came to the house as well as her pulling on the lead!
A lovely day was spent with ‘Autumn’ fairly quickly picking up on the behaviours needed to get what she wants! Keep up the good work Debbie, Jason and ‘Autumn’! 🤞👍🐕🐾

03/11/2024

One of yesterday’s ‘dog reactivity’ clients was the wonderful ‘Charlie’, a year old American Staffy (seen here in his splendid Yellow Dog UK jacket!). The session was mostly around seeing when he would react aggressively and when he would react excitedly, which thankfully was the majority of the time, and how Mum Charlotte needs to address each situation differently. 👍🐾🐕‍🦺🐕🦮