Pure Dog Adventure Training

03/07/2024

BRAND NEW MINI SERIES

I have been dying to share this series to you all but needed to wait until we had space!

This is a great way to complete a shortened block, which is similar to our Sports classes.

Over a series of THREE sessions, you can come along and have some fun with your dog, learning;

🐾Body Confidence
🐾Building Your Relationship
🐾Constantly and Consistently Improving Basic Skills
🐾Introduction To Novel Stimuli
🐾Introduction To Patterns On Or Off Lead

Very limited number of spaces.

Looking to start on 30th July at 7pm.

02/07/2024

Piper had her Joy Joy cheerleading her swimming this morning. Ok Joy had a snooze while Piper swam 😆 Saga was in the van otherwise she would have been cheering her on very loudly 😆

01/07/2024

NEW BLOCK STARTING MONDAY 22nd JULY AT 6PM

Suitable for puppies or any age that is looking to go through the basics correctly and incorporate fun exercises to keep your dog engaged.

Want to find out more information or would like to book a place? Follow the link below to fill out a form: https://www.cognitoforms.com/PureDogAdventureTraining1/FindOutMore

Alternatively, send a message directly to our page, or [email protected].

27/06/2024

Our next scent detection trial will be on Sunday 14th July.

We are really fortunate to be able to go back to the yard at Etherley bank with it’s vehicles, workshops, building materials and great outside spaces.

Open to the dogs that attend our scent classes and workshops.

Book on the website www.puredogadventuretraining.com

27/06/2024

✨CLASS AVAILABILITY FOR JULY ✨

REGULAR SPORTS CLASSES

🐾Wednesday Evenings at 6pm
🐾Thursday Evenings at 6pm

FOUNDATION SPORTS CLASSES

🐾Starting Monday 22nd July at 6pm (runs for 6 weeks)

MINI SERIES - Engage & Excel

🐾Starting Tuesday 9th July at 7pm

MINI SERIES - Gundog

🐾Starting Saturday 27th July at 11am

21/06/2024

Today, one of our Friday Sports groups took a turn from some of the sporty stuff they have been focusing on recently, to take a look at some calmer loose lead and off lead walking in new environments.

Attempting to dodge the rise in temperature, we headed out for the last 15 minutes to the field where we enjoyed a nice cool breeze and the dogs worked perfectly walking with a nice loose lead. Carly had both Stanley and Wendy working beautifully in their distracting surroundings.

It is nice to step away from the high energy exercises to focus on some of the basics to really perfect them so that we can enjoy activities in different situations, without the worry of our dogs not listening or engaging.

Well done Carly, Chris and Lois 🐾👌

18/06/2024

This might come across as a bit ranty but it crops up over and over so I thought I would share some feelings.

Several years ago when I was lucky enough to go to Sweden to spectate a horse training seminar, I was able to hang out with some very cool dog and horse trainers.

While we were having dinner together I was chatting about my time spent working in the prison. For those of you who don’t know I used to run a program in prisons where I would take my horses in for the inmates to meet and train.

It was a positive experience for all and was all about transferrable skills and generally learning to make better choices. Anyway I have already slipped into a different story.

So chatting to the trainer, saying I had done this course for a year. She just states that my husband must earn lots of money. I was actually stunned into silence, which most of you know is pretty rare. This kind of course actually pays well, which weirdly surprised her as well.

Then another time, more recently, I was talking to a male dog trainer about one to one training sessions and how he does several each week. I kind of brushed it off as I don’t tend to have much time to do them.

He suggested that maybe I should do a couple of classes and a few one to ones each week to earn ‘a bit of pocket money’. I actually shut him up when I told him how many classes and workshops I run.

So why am I rambling on about all this? Well someone asked Erin if this was a hobby she was doing alongside a real job.

This is a real job. Even if we make it look easy.

Lots of people do it, with varying degrees of success. We are actually very successful. We run 22 classes and workshops each week with 5/6 in each group.

And we don’t just turn up to a class, we sit down and plan each one. We discuss suitable strategies and exercises to support and stretch each individual dog, and develop their handlers.

We do all the associated admin including answering emails, questions, social media, marketing, website updates etc.

My days are sometimes crazy long but it is something that I just love doing. I genuinely never thought we would grow to this scale.

So yeah, it might not be a conventional choice, it certainly wasn't on my career advisor's list when I was leaving school, but it is our choice. Plus I don't think many employers would have us ;)

My own dogs get a really sweet deal, they come everywhere with me and enjoy loads of fun activities, and then when I’m not doing a class, you can often find us in the middle of a forest playing ballie games.

17/06/2024

On Saturday, little Saga put her fabulous sniffing to the test when Harvey spaniel's dad, Ian Scott lost his mucho expensive sunglasses.

The only clue was that he had them on his head while he walked Harvey at the top end of our huge wheat field.

No problem for Saga, aka Spider Dog. She sniffed his jumper and whizzed off to locate them.

Clever little sausage is expecting some tasty treats as a reward

16/06/2024

Snoozy Spaniel Piper ❤️

I always wonder how parents can find the time to take their kids to all their clubs and do things for themselves- then I realised I do the exact same thing for my dogs!

This week we did-

Monday: Piper & Saga went for their hydrotherapy swim & fitness swim at North Paws Rehabilitation Referrals. The both love it here so much and Piper’s elbow is well on the way to full recovery.

Tuesday: secure field with Evie, Lily, Joy, Piper & Saga. Then mantrailing for them on the evening.

Wednesday: easy day

Thursday: Piper was swimming again at hydrotherapy. Then both girls did some super sniffing at scent class.

Friday: more mantrailing

Saturday: pretty wet day so we did more scent training at our scent class

Sunday: we are having a chill day with a mooch at the farm later.

What about you guys? What fun stuff do you do with your dogs?

12/06/2024

A nice little update on Gorse for those who may wish to know.

As you may be aware, Gorse was recently let loose by a very selfish individual, resulting in her eating 8 hours worth of grass. Gorse, at the time, probably thought it was a gift of god, however shortly after remembered that the reason she doesn’t eat grass is because it makes her feet very sore and her belly very poorly.

3 weeks of strict(er) diet, tablets and painkillers later, we are at this stage! She is getting quicker on her feet and is much better with her weight bearing across all four feet, rather than stumbling across them.

She is not fully where she needs to be yet, but I can bet that in another 3 weeks, she will be trotting around like nothing even happened!

She wants to thank you all for the lovely support over the last few weeks and says she will continue to snooze off the toxins. (It does mean she is getting quicker at escaping 🤣).

12/06/2024

Due to being blown away with applications for our Mini Gundog Series, we are now opening bookings for the next mini series.

🐾 BRAND NEW 🐾

Join us for a whole new mini course, moulded around improving your partnership and communication in exciting places.

🐕‍🦺 ENGAGE & EXCEL 🐕‍🦺

What you will learn;

- Effective techniques to capture and maintain your dogs attention
- Fun games and activities to boost engagement
- Strategies to improve focus and reduce distractions
- Personalised tips and tricks

🤷‍♀️ WHY JOIN?

- Strengthen your bond with your dog
-Make training sessions and walks enjoyable for both you and your dog
- See noticeable differences in your dogs attention span

Spaces are limited so don’t miss out!

10/06/2024

🐾 BRAND NEW 🐾

Join us for our new mini courses.

🦆 MINI GUN DOG SERIES 🦆

Learn all of the basics to shape your dog into the best little gun-dog. From sit-stays, directional cues and retrieves. Come and have fun learning with your dog and see if you can win a scurry mini-challenge!

Distance control enhances the bond that you and your dog share when working together in the wild.
Our games embed a crucial step in your recall and encouraging independent working.

Having steadiness in your dog enhances a calm and collected manner when working in outdoor situation. Slowing everything down and making sure that your dog can really think through challenges so that they can perform tasks confidently.

Through the use of games and fun exercises, you could build your dog to develop focus on you in exciting areas.

In the final week, we will tie everything together so that we can take on a fun, mini challenge. If you want to continue with this style of training, you will have the opportunity to sign up with us and join a fun community.

- 3 week courses
- Small Group Sizes and Short Sessions
- Indoor and Outdoor Practice
- Perfect For All Ages
- All Breeds and Temperaments Welcome

09/06/2024

05/06/2024

5th June marks Lexie’s 14th Birthday!

This time last year, Lexie put her big girl pants on and got in the horse box so she could move to our new yard where she has access to all the grass she could ever want, many acres for her to canter around and horsie neighbours she can chat with to her hearts content.

Lexie, you may be the goofiest but your heart is the largest.

Happy Birthday Lexie, here is to many many more 🎊

03/06/2024

Today is Joy-Joy’s 8th Birthday!
(as per her microchip)

Joy joined the spaniel madness back in November 2022 and adjusted to the mad house quite well!

She spent the weekend exploring the woods, lounging in the beer garden and even got a chunk of roast beef to celebrate.

Here is to the 18 wonderful months we have had you, and the 8 beautiful years you have graced this earth 🐾🤍🌸

29/05/2024

We have ONE space left for our upcoming Foundation Sports.

This is starting on Monday 10th June at 6pm.

For more information, pop us a message or send an email to [email protected].

This is the LAST space until the end of July so get in now to avoid disappointment.

26/05/2024

Today we had two scent detection workshops.

We have monthly workshops on the last Sunday of each month and the first Friday evening of each month

The dogs loved searching the container storage unit today and all handlers were superb!

Really impressed with everyone today.

Our workshops focus on the needs of individual dogs. We have a small group who work together to search and ‘clear’ a whole building- in today’s case, the whole container storage unit!

The first group’s dogs searched for licorice root- finely grated, with a single teeny tiny piece hidden in random places.

Then the second group searched for single strands of tea.

Very impressive.

If you think your dog might like to be a ‘sniffer’ dog, get in touch 😊

Sally Dale Bev McCullough Richie Littlefair Claire Vassallo Anita Clark

24/05/2024

TRAILER UPDATE

A massive thank you to everyone who shared mine and Erin’s post regarding our stolen trailer.

Thankfully, it was only out of our hands for 24 hours but we are one of the very lucky few!

It has been found in Darlington.

A huge thank you to the people who managed to clock it and report it to the police before making sure we knew its whereabouts! And a big thank you to Durham Police who have responded as quick as they did!

GORSE UPDATE

She spent the last couple of days snoozing her grass belly off and is unfortunately back to square one with her feet. It could have been so much worse so we are extremely happy to just have her back in our stables.

22/05/2024

True story

22/05/2024

We have a space available for our scent detection classes on a Saturday morning at 11am.

These run for 90 mins, with only 5 dogs per group. All training is tailored to your own dog.

The group is lovely, with a great bunch of dogs; each works individually so that they can concentrate and enjoy their 'go'.

We teach you how to teach your dog to be a sniffer dog!

We have a fabulous training centre with indoor and outdoor areas and often travel to other locations for workshops.

You would be eligible to join our monthly scent detection trial/competition. These are held at a variety of venues and offer a chance to search lots of different places.

Let me know if you'd like to book a place or would like more information.

14/05/2024

Ever feel that you have had more of a workout than your dog on your walk?

Whether they are pulling you in general or dragging you to distractions, it can get tiring!

There are some simple exercises that you can implement into your daily walking routine to help minimise the amount of pulling your dog does.

Our main tips are;

*Make sure that you have lots and lots of tasty treats.
*Try getting your dogs attention in a garden setting before you try on a walk as, if they can't concentrate in the garden, they are not likely to concentrate on a walk.
*Engage with them consistently during your walk, making sure to reward for positive interactions with you and for being in a nice position at your side.
*Play focus and recall games when in distracting situations and add distance from distractions where needed.

If you are interested in covering loose lead walking/recall and other life skills, be sure to check out our Foundation Sports classes as we cover a huge range of games to help you to help your dog.

13/05/2024

We have a monthly scent detection trial; held in a different location each time

This month we were at an amazing self storage place searching containers. The dogs loved it!

Here is Alan. He is our level 1 winner!

This is what his mama, Suzanne said about the trials:

‘We LOVE the trials.

I know Alan really enjoys being given a task and getting the tastiest rewards ever, but going somewhere different just adds to the fun.

There’s definitely no denying he’s excited about going into a trial.. anyone who has seen him outside will know this!

As for me, I do like a challenge and a bit of competition.

Scent detection is by far our favourite thing we’ve ever done together (at classes and at home), so the trials give us a chance to see how we’re getting on.

Finally winning one is THE BEST! I’m super proud of us both.

It’s spurred us on to practice more and move up those levels!’

We have a space for our monthly Scent Sundays- let me know if you would love to train with us

13/05/2024

We have been having lots of fun in the glorious sunshine recently and our classes are now able to use our bigger spaces.

With the current Foundation Sports classes nearing the end of their block, we are opening up bookings for the next ones.

These are already filling quite quickly so if you are interested, send us an email.

There is a chance to continue classes once the 6 week block has finished in our Regular Sports classes.

Why do a Foundation Sports class?

🐾Build a better bond with your dog
🐾Teach your pup / older dog the basic skills
🐾A nice environment for calm socialisation
🐾A great route into our Regular Sports class
🐾Create a cool hobby

01/12/2023

We have been busy creating some very special Christmas challenges! If you would like to join us, search for our group- Pure Dog Adventure Training Club

28/11/2023

Lovely people!

I have a very rare space for scent detection training

Monday evening at 6pm. Class runs for 90mins and you will join a group of people who are just lovely, you will be well supported

Dogs work individually and will need to settle in a vehicle in between their ‘gos’

You can sign up for 6 weeks initially and then switch to a monthly subscription instead.

These sessions are held at our Walworth venue, with stables, barns, aisle ways, courtyards and paddocks to search.

We don’t just search boxes and luggage, we search whole buildings!

You can also come to our monthly scent detection trials too

27/11/2023

We have the newest Foundation Sports classes starting on the first week of December.

We are constantly looking for ways to support our existing club members and this often means we do not have space for many new people joining.

There will be very limited Foundation Sports classes in the new year…