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The next beginners class is now available to book! It’s a 6 week course based at Eaton community hall starting on 28th A...
19/03/2025

The next beginners class is now available to book!
It’s a 6 week course based at Eaton community hall starting on 28th April 6-7pm.

🐾 Positive, science based methods used throughout
🐾 Maximum of 6 dogs in attendance

To book use the link below:

https://www.petiquettedogtraining.co.uk/beginners-class

Max joined us recently for his first introduction to scent work! He started learning all about indications and starting ...
06/03/2025

Max joined us recently for his first introduction to scent work!
He started learning all about indications and starting to search 🐾

Here’s Kooper!! We met up recently to discuss and make a plan to help him on his walks. He finds his environment VERY ex...
05/03/2025

Here’s Kooper!!
We met up recently to discuss and make a plan to help him on his walks. He finds his environment VERY exciting and loves a good sniff but can also be very overwhelmed when a dog is nearby after a bad experience. We’ve set a plan in motion and onwards and upwards from here for Kooper!

Who could resist these cuties!!! Another wonderful beginners class with these guys and well done for working super hard ...
13/02/2025

Who could resist these cuties!!!
Another wonderful beginners class with these guys and well done for working super hard throughout!
Congratulations to Nancy, Norman, Perci, Ronan and Guinness! 🎉

Last few spaces remaining on our beginners course starting 17th Feb 6pm! 6 week course focusing on foundation obedience ...
05/02/2025

Last few spaces remaining on our beginners course starting 17th Feb 6pm!

6 week course focusing on foundation obedience exercises using reward based methods.
🐾 Loose lead walking
🐾 Recall
🐾 Stay
🐾 Leave it
🐾 Handling
And more!!!

Click the link to book your place:

https://www.petiquettedogtraining.co.uk/beginners-class

🐾 How to choose a dog trainer 🐾The dog training industry is an unregulated 1. This means you do not have to qualify and ...
03/02/2025

🐾 How to choose a dog trainer 🐾

The dog training industry is an unregulated 1. This means you do not have to qualify and literally anyone can call themselves a trainer.

Why is this dangerous?
You could be taking your dog to someone with no formal training, they do not know the science, proper techniques or how to deal with some of the bigger problem areas. Owning dogs all your life and training your own simply doesn’t prepare you for some of the reactivity cases, separation cases, under/over socialised cases and more that you will come across as a trainer, including many health problems that can effect behaviours. Every dog is different and you need to be taught how to handle that effectively and also ethically. But mostly, as a trainer it’s actually extremely rare that we are handling the dog. We are actually human trainers. Our job is to train YOU how to train your dog and this takes people skills too. So even if you’ve done a great job training your own personal dogs it doesn’t prepare you for teaching someone else how to do it in all different scenarios.

Do I believe qualifications are a must?
Not necessarily. I have them and continuously work on myself and keep up to date with science. I could do that without officially qualifying. To me it’s mostly important that the person claiming to be a trainer is doing just that. Attending courses, webinars etc and trying out different things to keep up to date and bettering themselves- after all no1 knows absolutely everything!
If your dog trainer isn’t doing this- run!

Puppy play dates:
Whilst trainers certainly aren’t opposed to dogs having their friends and playtimes (they absolutely need it!) they are often run incorrectly with a free for all type play. This can result in rude and unwanted behaviours, over socialisation and later problems with recall, poor play styles and even reactivity. Most training sessions will encourage dogs to be working with their owners in the presence of other dogs to learn how to keep focused in distracting places but also how amazing and important you are as the owner.

So what are you looking for/asking for?
🐾Qualifications? If none what CPD (continued professional development) do they do?
🐾 What are their ethics? Do they align with yours?
🐾 How are their group sessions run? Is the focus on you and your bond/training?

Here’s mine:
I’m qualified with IMDT (institute of modern dog trainers). I am a member of UK Sniffer dogs and also Kids around Dogs (both have to take courses and qualify for). I also am a member of the school of canine science’s high performers where we do challenges/tasks and development weekly in all different areas. I attend monthly webinars for Kids around dogs to keep up to date with them too. As well as these I will often do singular seminars/webinars that pop up throughout the year and I take my own dogs to other trainers courses on scent work, agility and mantrailing (it takes a village to give everything sometimes!)

Photo is 1 of my own dogs in competition taken by Coalcroft photography!

Got to see the lovely Hero again recently!!! We went out to put some more work into her walks around other dogs. She now...
28/01/2025

Got to see the lovely Hero again recently!!!
We went out to put some more work into her walks around other dogs. She now walks absolutely beautifully on a loose lead thanks to all the graft her owner has put in! So now we’re adding in so focus, and tricks around other dogs at a bit of a distance so we can start to decrease it when appropriate 🐾

Piper has been continuing his scent work recently along with some work on his loose lead walking and recall around other...
27/01/2025

Piper has been continuing his scent work recently along with some work on his loose lead walking and recall around other dogs too!
Springers can be super super strong when they want to be so trying to learn not to pull arms out of sockets and not to run to strangers is needed but all whilst keeping his joy for life!!

Reed recently had a session looking at his loose lead walking and recall. He LOVES other dogs! But this does mean that r...
20/01/2025

Reed recently had a session looking at his loose lead walking and recall. He LOVES other dogs! But this does mean that running over to say hello is a big desire of his, and the last thing we want is him getting in trouble if it’s the wrong dog! So we’ve started him off practicing engagement, learning when to reward and also how to sometimes use environmental rewards where needed. We have some new boundaries in place for now to set him up for success so hopefully when we next meet up we can progress even further ☺️

Bryn has started his scentwork journey off recently! He had a 1 to 1 to get the foundations in place and soon to be join...
19/01/2025

Bryn has started his scentwork journey off recently! He had a 1 to 1 to get the foundations in place and soon to be joining our scent club to continue and progress!
It’s a great job for a busy mind!! Enabling them to connect to their best sense whilst tiring them out all at the same time! It’s one of the most enriching activities a dog can do 🐾

Hi all! Just wanting to say thanks once again to everyone the past couple of days for their patience and support! With t...
08/01/2025

Hi all! Just wanting to say thanks once again to everyone the past couple of days for their patience and support! With the road conditions there’s been lots of delays and rescheduling to do, not quite the start to 2025 I’d planned for! Hopefully we’ll be back to it properly soon enough!

Merry Christmas all!!!!! We went looking for Santa this morning but he’d covered his tracks with the fog!!
25/12/2024

Merry Christmas all!!!!!
We went looking for Santa this morning but he’d covered his tracks with the fog!!

22/12/2024

How cute is Leo!
Here he is working on his loose lead walking 🥹
He’s just recently been taken in by a lovely new family and they want to set him up for the best life possible!!

Here’s the gorgeous Lenny!! He’s working on loose lead walking and recalls, learning just how valuable and fun his owner...
22/12/2024

Here’s the gorgeous Lenny!!
He’s working on loose lead walking and recalls, learning just how valuable and fun his owners can be and that it’s not all about other dogs. He has such a good nature and lots of drive, with the addition of lovely owners he’ll be on his way in no time!

Here’s the beautiful Jessie!! She’s recently been working on her excitement in the car and learning how to contain herse...
13/12/2024

Here’s the beautiful Jessie!!
She’s recently been working on her excitement in the car and learning how to contain herself slightly and hold the big burst of energy for when she’s in the right place. It’s understandable, the car=best walks and adventures! So it’s a difficult task and of course without loosing the joy of the walk itself!

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Serious puppy fever with Poppy!! 😍 We met up to make sure her owner is smashing her walks right from the start, learning to walk nicely on a loose lead and sit patiently whilst other dogs pass by! Such a sweetheart! #dogtrainer #DogTraining #1to1 #puppy #looseleadwalking #confidencebuilding #bondbuilding

How cute is Leo! Here he is working on his loose lead walking 🥹 He’s just recently been taken in by a lovely new family and they want to set him up for the best life possible!! #looseleadwalking #dogtrainer #1to1 #bondbuilding #cheshire #rescue #rescuedog #frenchie #pug #frug

Our scent club have been super busy recently! Here’s Barney, Kevin, Maverick and Paddy all smashing their searches! 🐾 #dogtraining #dogtrainer #scentwork #scent #enrichment #enrichmentfordogs

Mr Ernie got his finals wins needed to move up a grade in Agility! Grade 5 here we come!! 🎉🎉 #agility #crossbreed #spaniel #cockerspaniel #dachshund #spanielcross

Lola’s been out and working on her reactivity to other dogs using dogs passing by and also our super stooge Ernie! She’s learning when to remain calm and but also when to have an explosion and play. Being a frenchie I’m sure you can imagine the sass 😂 She absolutely smashed it, working at a bigger distance with those passing and then using Ernie to get some key positivity in, learning that’s dogs aren’t a threat 🥹 #1to1 #dogtrainer #exciting #bondbuilding #confidencebuilding #dogtraining #reactive #reactivedog #frenchbulldog #frenchie

Out and about scent work with Mav, Paddy and Kevin! #scentwork #dogtrainer #scent #DogTraining #dogs

Scent club working hard! Searching in a new area and handling distractions too! #DogTraining #scentwork #scent #dogsofinstagram #dogtrainer

New UK sniffer dogs series 1 pooches!! Here we have Maggie, Piper, Jackie and Olive learning the foundations to scentwork and beginning their journey! #dogtraining #dogs #scent #scentwork #uksnifferdogs #dogtrainer #cutenessoverload #cheshire

Scent club is now live!! Here’s Maverick, Barney and Paddy all taking their skills out and about, gaining confidence search new areas for the first time and handlers learning all about their body language along the way! #scent #scentwork #dogtraining #dogs #visla #rottweiler #goldenretriever

Bella and Masai practicing their training this morning! Keeping focus around a group of kids, learning to take turns, walk past multiple dogs and cows, finished off with a play!! #dogtraining #dogtrainer #vizsla #vizslasofinstagram #ridgeback #rhodesianridgeback

Teamwork makes the dream work!!!!! Little Hamish has an army of people backing him and it’s all paying off!! He’s been coming for training walks with me, working on his impulse control around other dogs and people. He previously attended group walks with Paws On The Path and took a step back to nail his training both with myself and in his classes with the lovely Cal at Off Leash! Well today I got chance to test where we were at! We spent half the walk solo, getting those recalls in and then began to walk towards Charlotte and her group of pooches. He continued to nail his recalls so he had permission to have some playtime and silliness!! He even then continued to smash his recalls whilst in the group too!! Some amazing work from his owners and the hard work is beginning to show!! Here’s to more in January! #dogtrainer #play #dogtraining #recall #dogsofinstagram #cheshirebusiness #crossbreeds #1to1 #trainingwalk

The first step to loose lead walking and having an enjoyable walk: engagement!! Jasper’s started his 1 to 1 sessions where we’re teaching him that it is a good idea to be around his owner! He’s OBSESSED with trees and watching for squirrels almost constantly! So this is us started to work on some engagement within loose lead walking. Here I don’t care where he’s walking, as long as the lead is loose, we can perfect positions later. For him this is massive!! The temptation to stare at the trees and point (his breed trait) is so strong that he’s having to think really hard! We have since changed his equipment too and he is now happily on a harness 💙 #congleton #cheshire #dogtraining #1to1 #cheshirebusiness #dogtrainer #pointer #pointersofinstagram #looseleadwalking

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