Dogs According To Emma

12/05/2025

Vyne, a day of no start lines 🫠 these really needed some training so to be honest I'm happy we had a day of having to sort them. I have to say outside of the start lines getting us eliminated I am elated with how she ran (before the poopcident that is)!

15/04/2025

I might have (read totally) overwhelmed myself this year with wanting to get this page up and running again when it came to posting my training. I'm letting myself off that as I realised the other day that my diary is basically full until March next year 😅 I did however find the motivation to post some stuff from shows so I thought I'd start with our first show KC show this year.

Goals were:
- nice start line
- no running under jumps
- weaves in the ring (which had only been consistent in training a week before this show 🙈)

We ticked each one off! Was very pleased with the fluff ball. I got lost on the way to the show and was so frazzled when we arrived so to achieve all the goals when my brain wasn't in gear is awesome!

Despite the elimination, very pleased for her second ever KC show!

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