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Dog trainer & behaviour specialist covering Doncaster - Bawtry - Tickhill - South Yorkshire
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04/09/2024

Fe and Gilda have graduated from their 5 week e collar inclusive recall program 🎉

Both girls are rescue dogs who haven’t had the best start to life and despite a lot of work being put in by their dedicated owners, they could not crack recall around distractions and Gilda especially was causing a fair few dramas when off lead around wildlife, especially ducks!
Their final session we pushed their training and took both girls to a park with lots of ducks and Geese. They were a lot less interested in chasing than they were 5 weeks ago, the drive to chase is always going to be there but is now under control and both girls did brilliant at recalling away from the birds 🙌🏼
Fe and Gilda have been happier and more confident on walks since we started the training too which is common when positive e collar work is undertaken and the dogs finally understand your communication 😉

Recall doesn’t have to take years and your dog doesn’t need to be confined to a long line.

16/05/2024

Mya has just completed an intense 5 weeks training package with us and has absolutely smashed it 💪🏼

When Mya first came she was very disengaged from her owners and totally unresponsive to her name out and about. She also exhibited some arousal towards other dogs and her lead walking and recall needed attention.
Fast forward 5 weeks and Mya is very neutral on and off lead, recall’s on a dime, walks beautifully on a loose lead and is so perfectly engaged with her owners 🙌🏼

It’s been a pleasure to help train this lovely dog and her very dedicated owners.
Mya and her family are going to have the best summer 🫶🏼

15/05/2024

Lena has completed her behavioural package 🫶🏼

Lena is a 7 month old GSD and when I first met her, she was reactive to other dogs and was totally disconnected from her owner when out and about.
Fast forwards a few weeks and Lena walks beautifully on her lead, is neutral to her environment and her engagement has come on heaps 🙌🏼
Her owner can now enjoy stress free walks which is just what they needed with Summer on its way ☀️

28/12/2023

Shanks the beautiful Rhodesian Ridgeback who has come to board with us 😍

25/12/2023

Merry Christmas 🎄 🤶

18/09/2023

If you’re ever in the unfortunate event to witness a real dog attack then please think before you act.

If the attacking dog is a large breed who could potentially over power you👇🏼
- DO NOT touch the attacking dog without at least one other able bodied person.
- NEVER choke the dog off on your own, it’s very likely the dog will let go and come straight back at you!! (A dog who is biting with real intent will not just give up and please don’t be delusional thinking you can choke it out if it’s fighting you, I’ve been in that situation, you CANT!)

In a real situation it’s not black and white, a lead may not even be to hand.
If you have access to leads, ideally back-tie the dog to a solid foundation such as a tree/fence etc so the dog cannot lunge or redirect in your direction. Once that has been accomplished you can then choke the dog off by wrapping a lead around its neck and squeezing, but be very quick to get out of its space once it has released!
Alternatively if you can get 2 contracting leads around the dogs neck, have 2 people pull opposite ways horizontal to the dog (low level) and hold the dog between the two people ideally until the dog has passed out.
If leads are not to hand, the only other way is a very sharp object to cut the dogs jugular. If the jugular is severed, the dog will lose consciousness in seconds and die within a minute or so.

If the dog is small or not causing severe damage you may be able to choke it out on your own, but the large dogs in recent videos, it would most likely not work and you’re probably end up with more serious injuries or fatalities.

14/09/2023

Our litter growing into beautiful examples of working GSD’s 😍

04/09/2023

How are the puppies 6 weeks already 🥺
Loving every second of raising them ❤️

30/06/2023

Hunter has arrived 😍

Hunter is Ava’s littermate and you can certainly tell, they are alike in both temperament and looks.
Hunter is here to work on a fair few issues such as reactivity, arousal and an awful reaction to any tool due to previous terrible conditioning with another trainer.
I’m really looking forward to working with Hunter, it’s not often I get to work with such quality working dogs bar my own 😍🐾

30/06/2023

Big Max is here for the next 2 weeks 🐾
Max is here to board while his owners get married and go on their honeymoon 🎉
Max has trained and stayed with us regularly for the last couple of years, he used to be very dog reactive which had been worsened with incorrect tool usage (trainer incompetence not owner’s fault) but he’s now matured into a lovely boy 🥰
He’s definitely one of my favourite GSD’s 🐾

15/06/2023

Bubbles 🫧 has come to stay 😍

14/06/2023

We’re back home and reunited with the dogs ❤️

Huge thank you to and for taking such fantastic care of them while we was on holiday, it’s such a relief knowing your dogs are being taken care of so well 😍

I’ll get back to all messages as soon as I can and we resume as normal next week 🙏🏻

18/05/2023

Dusty has come to stay again for a few days 🥰
Still a perfect girl after her residential 3 years ago!

17/05/2023

Ginny checked in for a 3 week residential😍

Ginny is a rescue dog and hasn’t had an easy start to life, she is such a lovely girl but the world can be a bit overwhelming for her. I’ve been working with Ginny for well over a year as she did have some fear reactivity issues. Now her confidence has flourished it’s time to sharpen up her obedience and get her off lead so she can explore the world more freely.
I we have had to take things slow with Ginny as she is super sensitive and a year ago would not have coped with residential training but after a a handful of overnight and weekend stays and her confidence improving more each stay we finally decided it’s the right time and we’re not wrong, over the 2 days she has been with us she has settled wonderfully 🥰

Look forward to progressing with this lovely girl 🐾

03/05/2023

In dog training, stress is almost a taboo, something to avoid at all costs. But stress is required and can be useful. There is eustress the beneficial form of stress and distress the bad.

Force free beliefs promote that negative reinforcement causes stress.
This is definitely not true!

Professor MUDr. Cyril Höschl DrSc. FRCPsych. divides this according to whether or not the stressful situation can be avoided.
If we can avoid it, stress activates us, we enjoy the stress as it leads to a positive result!

If we cannot avoid the stress long term, the situation is distress and can have negative effects on mental health.

There have been many scientific studies on this which proves this a factual statement not an opinion. (Prof. Seligman with dogs for example).

In dog training, a punishment like a correction does not cause stress if we teach the dog how to avoid it and the dog has the mental capacity to avoid it.

Don’t be fooled by the lies spread by positive activists. Facts are facts.

Happy training 🐾

01/05/2023

Teddy 🐾

Teddy the cockerpoo has checked in for 2 weeks to work on dog reactivity, recall and separation anxiety.
Look out for his updates 😍

27/04/2023

Let’s talk doggy Day Care Centre’s and why they are not a good choice for your dog.

Day care is generally a total free for all play group for dogs. You’ll find the dogs are let into a room or field and expected to play nicely and share toys. Sounds lovely doesn’t it, in an ideal world.

But, what many people do not think of is, what type of dogs are your dogs mixing with?

Do you think its okay to let a small breed dog be chased around a room by high prey driven guarding breeds?🤯

Do you think its okay for people with no behavioural experience to be watching your dogs ‘play’?

Do you think it’s a good idea for your young dog to be learning how to socialise with reactive, aggressive, anxious, rude dogs?

At day care, there is absolutely no temperament matching, there is no thought taken into consideration about genetic predisposition and people wonder why their dogs begin showing behavioural issues such as reactivity or resource guarding when sent to these places.

If your dog, specifically guarding, retrieval, hunting breeds are playing with a toy and another dog steals that toy, guess what…your dog will no probably start resource guarding, and you will NEVER fix it.

If your dog is being chased around by a dog who’s instinct is to hunt/chase etc, you are risking your dog being bitten or potentially killed, even if that dog has never shown aggression, by allowing a self rewarding behaviour such as chasing, you are allowing the dog to self-reinforce, therefore, the behaviour will intensify and probably end up in an accident. The dog chasing will then be deemed aggressive when in fact, its only doing what has been reinforced and what its instincts tell it to do.
I get people need care for their dogs while at work, but good dog walkers are there to help and if your dog struggles being alone in the house, see a trainer, that is a workable problem!

Pic featuring Toast our lovely board and train, ironically his reactivity, over arousal and resource guarding issues all stem from doggy day care 🫣

17/04/2023

Lovely day doing some sport training and taking some cool snaps 📸

17/04/2023

Toast has checked in for his board and train 🐾

Toast is here to work on general obedience, lead walking, recall, settling etc and his frustrated response to new dogs.
Toast goes to doggy day care regularly which has caused his over arousal towards dogs. He is a super friendly, typical golden retriever and just needs to understand what is required of him.
Looking forward to having fun training this guy 😍

09/04/2023

Our last day exploring the west coast of Scotland and the Galloway Forest 🌳
We have had amazing weather and been to some beautiful places 😍
We have covered many miles this week, us and the dogs need a post break, rest 😅
Next time I think will head to the highlands to see even more of the outstanding views this amazing country has to offer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
I will live here one day 🫣

13/03/2023

Dora 🤗

Dora has checked in for her board and train.
Dora is here to work through some dog reactivity, perfect her lead walking and general obedience including reliable recall.
Well done to everyone who answered my story correctly, she is a beautiful example of a Spinone Italiano 😍

08/03/2023

Happy International Women’s Day 💃

27/02/2023

Alfie 🐾

Alfie has checked in for training to work through some dog reactivity, lack of engagement and non existing recall.
He is a rescue from Bulgaria so his breed is unknown but he’s an awesome little dog to work with 😍

I can’t wait to see how he gets on over the next couple of weeks 🤞🏽

24/02/2023

Testing out my new camera today 😍
May be biased but my god they’re stunning doggos 🥰

20/02/2023

Happy 3rd Birthday Ava 🥰🥳

Time flies when your having fun and you are the always that 🤪

You have taught me so much and I’m forever grateful to you 🥰

My angel in disguise 😇 🐶

14/02/2023

Fig’s transformation completed ☑️

Fig left us yesterday after a short 3 weeks and I was super sad to see her go but excited to see her thrive in the future with her owners 🥰
3 weeks ago Fig would become over aroused around other dogs and some people, resulting in her running up to other dogs which had gotten her into trouble 😖
Fast forward 3 weeks, Fig can now co exist around all dogs, people etc in any environment, her recall is absolutely perfect along with snappy positions, on and off lead heelwork.
We have also completely crate trained her incase she ever needs to use a crate, she can use one stress free 👌🏻

During Fig’s handover we took her to a really busy public park where she successfully walked past many unruly dogs, some who even pestered her and she still remained neutral and attentive to her owner while practicing all the obedience cue’s she learnt over the 3 weeks 👌🏻

Another super residential 😊

30/01/2023

Week 1 with Fig completed 🐾

23/01/2023

Today we welcomed Fig 😍

Fig is here to work on recall and arousal towards other dog/people etc.
She is a really lovely bubbly labradoodle but her over friendly nature has gotten her in trouble so she’s here to work on sharpening up her obedience so she can enjoy freedom safely.
Keep your eye out for Fig updates 🐾

08/01/2023

Residential’s are back 🙌

Today we welcomed Rosie as our first official board and train of 2023. After back to back residentials last year I took a break throughout December to concentrate on my own dogs but ive now started again with more back to back residentials throughout the next few months.
Rosie is here to work on human and dog reactivity, she finds the outside world a little overwhelming resulting in her reacting out of fear.
Over the next few weeks I’m going to lay in some good foundational training with Rosie, solidify her recall allowing her a lifetime of freedom and begin counter conditioning her response to fearful stimuli🐾

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Puppy Recall ⭐️ Remy’s recall is on fire and this is only 4 days of training. There is never an excuse not to train your puppy when it’s this easy! Want to know how to get these results? Drop us a message ⬇️

What weekends were made for 🫶🏼

‼️ PET OBEDIENCE AND BEHAVIOURAL TRAINING IS BACK‼️ We took a bit of time off but this page is back up and running, here is some content of what we’ve been up to the last couple months. Drop a message on our insta or through the website if you want to work with us, plenty of 5* reviews for you to check out too if your undecided or have had negative experiences in the past🫶🏼

2023 Completed This year for me has had some amazing moments, raising my first litter was definitely one of the best, the planning, time, expenses, sleep loss and stress that went into it was absolutely exhausting but so worth it and I will remember it forever. Ive had some amazing clients this year too, many who have become friends whom I’m so thankful for. Im also thankful to my friends and family who have supported me throughout all the ups and downs this year has thrown, you know who you are! It’s important to concentrate on the good times to be able to grow and manifest more of what you want but it’s also important not to forget the struggles and realise why they happened and learn how to avoid them again. I’ve built relationships with some amazing people this year while also dealing with some very toxic ones. Removing those individuals has probably been more important for my growth than building new relationships. This industry is hard and there are many who make it even harder, don’t be that person, we need to support one another! Going forward I urge anyone to keep those supportive people close to you but don’t be scared of doing what’s best for you. I hope 2024 can be better for everyone 🫶🏼 I will for sure make mine better for me 💪🏼 Happy new year guys 💜

Have you seen a happier dog work? 😍 Trying to catch the last few rays of sunlight on these dark wintery evenings 🌙

The festive season is my favourite time of the year to expose my young dogs and do some top up work with my adults. ✅ Loud noises ✅ Flashing lights ✅ Crowds ✅ Children ✅ Other dogs

If the dog does not perform well, living a good life, being well-fed, and with social interactions, the training system is flawed - Ivan Balabanov 📸 @poppyparker_photography

The spark is back ⚡️ Sometimes dogs come into your life unexpectedly. I never intended on keeping a puppy from Freyja’s litter and Una didn’t even show me anything overly special compared to some of the other puppies in the litter, but my heart couldn’t let her go and I’m so grateful for that. She’s everything I’ve been looking for and everything I needed 🧡 For this that don’t know, Una was born lifeless, she had a difficult birth and inhaled a lot of blood which filled her lungs. I was advised not to intervene but I could absolutely not do that, it took me 10 long minutes to get her breathing and I can’t imagine what my life would be like now if I hadn’t have done that. Trust your instincts - always 🧡

5th shaping session 😍 In just a few sessions you can see the enthusiasm and drive to work increase massively as the puppy learns how to think for herself. This is my favourite part of dog training and all I’ve done is sit on a chair and say yes 😆but to watch the puppy develop her thinking skills so quickly for me is super rewarding. #freeshaping #shaping #freeshape #nepopo #nepopo®️#psa #sportdog #germanshepherd #gsdpuppy #igp

Instagram wouldn’t let me post the entire video but it’s much the same. 3rd time free shaping! No marker word loading before hand either. The task is standing on the box which is situated purposely away from me (the keeper of resources) to teach the puppy to learn to figure things out on her own. This is the power of operant learning. I don’t always jackpot at the end either, the timing was just right today, I like to keep that spontaneous, sometimes I leave the session on a tiny bit of food as a reward to encourage a hunger to work but today the puppy gave me more than she ever has so I left it there as a great win. Imagine if this pup was handfeed every meal too, she’d just finished playing with her littermates who are creating an awesome distraction in the back 🤣 It’s also raining very heavily which she has never experienced. Not bad for 7 weeks 👀 #nature #nurture #nepopo

FREYJA IS CONFIRMED PREGNANT 🎉🎉 Freyja was scanned today and is having at least 9 puppies! I’m so excited to see how Freyja produces with Daleer Enzo aka BAM BAM 💪🏼 and I can’t wait to see how the linebreed on Kody vom Wolfsfriede takes 😍 There should be some very special puppies 🙌🏼 If youde like to reserve a pup please pm me, only the best homes apply, pet homes are considered but they must be active and willing to put in the work. 🐾

The value of a stable pack 🐾 Just under 1 week ago I took the first half of this video which is Athena’s first meet with my dogs. Athena has nerve and frustration based reactivity which stems initially through genetics paired with no socialisation with other adult stable dogs. Her owner from day 1 couldn’t socialise her properly as she has always wanted to bark and bite other dogs and it’s incredibly hard to find dogs suitable to socialise a puppy with. I’ve done lots of neutrality and engagement work with Athena but a massive part of her training was allowing her to be free with my dogs so she could learn how to socialise and understand how to communicate. They have taught her so much and it just goes to show that a stable pack can teach a puppy so much and it’s amazing how they can also communicate with her in a healthy balanced way, which is clear from the second video, creates a lovely confident puppy. Another note to take from this is, this is living proof that balanced training works, a dog’s natural instinct is to communicate in a balanced way and it certainly does not create ‘learnt helpless’ or ‘fear’.

Odin 🐾 Odin was rescued from Dogs trust a few years back and over time, has developed fear and frustration based reactivity towards dogs. Today Odin has received the communication he required to begin to learn how to deal with dogs present in a more neutral, less stressful manor. A long road ahead for total behaviour modification but a great session laying the foundations and starting the process 🐾 If you need help with your reactive dog, don’t hesitate to message us, your dog is not a lost cause!

Zhivah’s journey 🐾 Zhivah initially came to me quite some time ago to address severe dog reactivity. Zhivah was experiencing fear and frustration when faced with new dogs. Zhivah quickly made a great turn around and has been pretty neutral for a quite some time. Zhivah joined me on a 2 week residential to sharpen up her obedience inclusive of e collar conditioning to allow her lifelong freedom. The after videos are of our training session today, working on recall, focus, downstays and off lead heel under distractions 🙌 With the correct communication, anything is possible!

Clicker Training 🐾 I’ve recently been sent a few posts which are meant to be educational where the trainer is using the clicker incorrectly. 🚫 I decided to do a quick educational post of my own to show anyone who has been confused by this how a clicker should actually be used. A clicker is a marker, just like you may use yes or good boy/girl, it’s used to mark WANTED behaviours. It’s designed as an emotionless reward marker as our voices will sound different every time we speak to our dogs and as we know, consistency is 🔑. The clicker isn’t designed to grab your dogs attention, the dogs name should do that, unless you want your dogs name or recall cue to be the sound of a clicker 🤷🏼‍♀️ Video featuring Ava who I did clicker train but she hasn’t actually heard one in over a year. I personally prefer verbal markers as I always forget clickers 🤦🏼‍♀️ Ps, this video was very hard to film as Ava is unwilling to disengage with me as she thinks we’re working after hearing a clicker 😂 Hope this clears things up for a few of you! 🐾

Little heeling with Ava in between clients today. I love this dog, she hasn’t done any formal obedience in at least a month and I’ve slacked massively on her obedience this year. Just goes to show what solid foundations give you!

Lulu smashing recall 😍 You can’t see on the video but there was a big Jubilee event right behind us, kids were racing, dogs everywhere and Lulu gets to enjoy off lead freedom 🐾 Very proud of her today, handled all of these very stressful situations like a pro 😎 #traindontrestrain #balancedtraining #positivetraining #dogtrainer

Train your dogs for the environment Today an off lead Labrador charged across the field straight up to my dogs and harassed them to play. Now I could go on about how you should never let your dog loose without reliable recall, which is absolutely right, but… we don’t live in a perfect world! Not every dog owner is going to be that responsible no matter how much we preach it and nobody is perfect! So instead of sitting back and worrying about off lead dogs, train your dog for the environment you live in! The environment includes dealing with off lead dogs, it’s never going to go away, so set your dog up as best you can for when it happens! Teaching dog neutrality on and off lead is paramount. Ensuring your dog knows how to interact with dogs is also very important. If your dog is never socialised, your dog will likely never be comfortable in these situations. Personally, I expect my dogs to be totally neutral, but they have a close circle of stable dog friends they are allowed to play with to ensure they understand how to interact too! Dog fights mainly happen with over social and under socialised dogs, get that happy medium! So today was an excellent training opportunity! I got to practice close up dog neutrality, reliable obedience, engagement, focus and my dogs were happy in the situation!

Kayleigh 🐾 This is a clip of our initial session with Kayleigh. Kayleigh is a 9 year old border collie who is displaying some fear and frustration based reactivity. Kayleigh is booked onto our reactivity course and has a behavioural plan going forward to overcome her reactivity. Look forward to seeing her again in July 💥 Drop us a message now to book your place 🐾

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I have had an interest in dogs and training since I could walk, I have never gone a day without owning a dog, I grew up with a Belgian Shepherd, Border Collie and a Labrador who gave me the passion for canines I still have today. At 12 years old when our beautiful dogs passed we gained a little black German Shepherd puppy called Elka who has now passed (29/07/2020) unfortunately she suffered a terrible disease called degenerative myelopathy. Along with Elka, we had Meika a stunning white German Shepherd and Poppy a petite black and tan Shepherd. With these 3 dogs being my parents, once I moved out into my own place I was going to be lost without the dogs I had grown up with, therefore 2 years ago I rescued my little Mia, a German Shepherd who came to me with plenty of problems which really got me interested in canine behaviour and helped Mia get over her extreme fears and anxieties.

Fast forward a year February 2019 I rehomed my beautiful boys within 10 months of each other. Both of these dogs came to me with behavioural problems but I had these ironed out in a couple of weeks and became enthralled in more advanced obedience which brings me more to the present time. I am currently working super hard with both of these dogs in a variety of behaviours and they are coming along fantastically.

March 2020 I purchased my first real prospect, another GSD with fantastic genetics to take me where I want to go in competitions.

Where my training comes in--Nearly 2 years ago I began my studies into canine behaviour, I am currently studying a level 4 advanced diploma in canine behaviour. Along with this qualification I will also be gaining others very soon and will keep you all updated with my progress! Along with my studies I spend every spare moment I have doing independent studies which includes learning from a variety of other canine professionals from reading their books to watching their videos not forgetting my regular sessions with trainers around the country to improve my own handling of dogs.

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