Dogs According To Emma

01/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone dogs and I spent this morning as we plan to spend most of the others for the year, snuggled up with a book!

You've not heard from me for a while on this page but I want to get back to it for this year. I'm not going mad and saying to expect 18 posts a week or anything. At this stage, my plan is to post on FB/Insta/TikTok once a week about something to do with my own dogs and their training. Once I get into the swing of these posts I'm hoping to get the website back up and running to crack on with the case studies as well.

For now, I wish you all the best with your resolutions, words, goals, or anti-all of these if that's how you vibe with this time of year. Remember that after all is said and done, today is just another day.

Here's to 2025!

30/05/2022

Rory first joined me in my Reactive Rovers classes. He did really well in classes and I don't think he ever fully reacted, a bit of squeaking but this was something he did in new environments regardless of the presence of dogs. Rory is a 2.5 year old neutered terrier mix living in a home with another dog. Neutering made him more nervous to stimuli in the environment but otherwise there are no health concerns.

Read more: https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/case-study-rory/

24/05/2022

'We don't train statistics, we train individual dogs' - Suzanne Clothier

23/05/2022

Reactive Rovers classes at Paw by Paw Training are hugely popular and something I get asked about most often from other professionals. I thought I'd write a blog on the whys, the whats and the pros/cons of the classes to give others some food for thought and decide if they're right for you or if it's something you're better off avoiding.

Read more: https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/reactive-rovers-classes/

19/05/2022

Those of you who are on my personal page are already aware (if you aren't I don't know how you've avoided my excitement!!) that this little lady will be joining me on the 4th June.

I'll be doing a few posts about my plans, hopes and dreams for Sonic and how I'm introducing her to the boys, socialising her, digesting having a puppy when I'm very much used to the more reactive end of the spectrum and just squealing about how incredible she is 😍

I'm a little bit sorry (not really) about impending puppy spam, if you hate puppies maybe unfollow me for a while 😂

16/05/2022

- Course Recommendation -

The second online course by The School of Canine Science (SOCS) was equally as groundbreaking as the first. 30 Days is all about teaching trainers the skills they need to be a good trainer. The dog training industry can become very theoretical (I appreciate the irony of sitting here running a blog whilst saying we can be too theoretical), especially when you're new to learning about the theory behind training. It's really easy to get lost in book learning and forget that all of the things you read about you actually need to be good at doing and applying.

Read the rest: https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/course-recommendation-30-days-of-canine-science/

09/05/2022

I have a confession. I have a love-(not-quite-hate-but-dislike-reads-too-weird)hate relationship with scentwork. Because we all like to use different names for different/sometimes the same things, I'm defining scentwork as teaching a dog to search for, identify and indicate upon a target odour that is not food.

Read more: https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/scentwork/

02/05/2022

Haku is a dog who originally came to me as a behaviour case and we've done lots of other things since I first met him. He's an ongoing case so this is not a conclusive case study, more of a description of what we've done so far.

Read more: https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/case-study-haku/

04/04/2022

This week a post about something that proper gets my goat
https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/working-with-behaviours-you-havent-lived-with/

28/03/2022

21/03/2022

Today’s case study is not one of my behaviour clients, but it does beautifully demonstrate how pressure from an owner can change a dog’s behaviour which I think is always something we should be aware of, especially with behaviour cases.

Read more: https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/case-study-max/

16/03/2022

Exciting announcement!!

I bring to you - the case study evenings. A monthly event where I present over an hour a behavioural case study for attendees to work through and share their thoughts on (either publicly or privately) as the case is presented chronologically. A second hour will be available for attendees to share their own case studies for me to share my thoughts on.

Available to anyone who has an interest in learning more about dogs, specifically targeting those who are looking to go into behaviour or who are working with behaviour cases currently and would like to extend their knowledge.

First confirmed set of dates are:
Friday 1st April (no joke!) - 6-8pm
Friday 6th May - 6-8pm
Friday 10th June - 6-8pm

Recordings of the first hour will be available for those who would like to watch but cannot attend live.

£149 per session - to book email [email protected]

14/03/2022

When I first set this blog up I wanted to provide book reviews and course recommendations. I did originally want to write course reviews but reviews aren’t always positive and ya know what, if you’ve got the ovaries to put a course up and have it in the public domain, you don’t deserve to be s**t on. So, I shall only discuss courses that I would recommend people attend because it might be that presenters were having a bad day or I was hungry when I attended courses that I’m less keen on.

So, without further ado, the review for the first course – Puppy Lab by The School of Canine Science.

https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/course-recommendation-puppy-lab/

07/03/2022

I like to be honest and share my true experiences with most things in the dog world. I might let my emotions die down before sharing but there’s very little I haven’t ended up sharing publicly.

If you’re on the Dogs According To Emma (DATE) page (https://www.facebook.com/dogsaccordingtoemma if you aren’t already there!), you may have seen I posted a video recently sharing that I was out on an anxiety walk. The reason for the anxiety was a meeting about my PhD with a possible supervisor.

Read more: https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/real-talk/

28/02/2022

Part 3 of my thought journey on uncomfortable training philosophy changes.

In order to combat the feelings I discussed in the previous post, I have changed how I run my training sessions with Pumba. Where possible, I’ve tried to gather data, nothing trumps emotions better than hard numbers.

Check it out here
https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/the-art-of-training-part-3/

24/02/2022

21/02/2022

Running a business comes with highs and lows. Often the lows aren't discussed so enjoy a quick chat about a recent low I had:
https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/the-joys-of-running-a-business/

15/02/2022

If you’re up to date with part 1, keep reading. If not, I recommend reading part 1 of this series prior to continuing with this post.

https://dogsaccordingtoemma.co.uk/the-art-of-training-part-2/