Cherished Paws Dog Training

29/07/2024

Aaaw. A bit different to have a photo of me! Here I am demonstrating with a super confident puppy. Didn't bat an eyelid at coming out with me to show the class what we were looking for. 😊

27/07/2024

Intermediate class learning a 'bow' and progressing their 'Find it!'

26/07/2024

Both puppy groups worked super well tonight. Here are some of the first group working on their loose lead walking and confidence building. 🌟

12/07/2024

Puppy graduates tonight. 🥰

All have made such progress and have such lovely focus on their humans. ❤️

12/07/2024

I've been very busy agility wise with my two competing boys. Here's one of my favourite recent runs. 🥰

12/07/2024

1 space left on this starting next week...

Due to demand, I will be running an additional puppy course...

🐾JULY PUPPY CLASSES...2🐾

Fridays 5:30pm
Starting 19th July
📌St Michael's Hall, Ralph's Lane, Frampton
£75 for the 7 week course
Maximum of 5 puppies

Suitable for puppies up to 8 months

🌟Life Skills for Puppies Approach:

➡️Calmness
➡️Confidence
➡️Focus
➡️Handling
➡️Self-control
➡️Loose lead walking
➡️Recall
➡️Take it/drop
❤️Fun relationship building with your pup

Weekly handouts and support via email

✉️ For more information or to book a place, message 'Cherished Paws' on Facebook or email [email protected]

Please share with anyone who might be interested. 😊

12/07/2024

Puppy confidence and relationship building. 🥰

04/07/2024

1 SPACE COME UP ON THIS PUPPY COURSE STARTING TOMORROW- 5th July

20/06/2024

Due to demand, I will be running an additional puppy course...

🐾JULY PUPPY CLASSES...2🐾

Fridays 5:30pm
Starting 19th July
📌St Michael's Hall, Ralph's Lane, Frampton
£75 for the 7 week course
Maximum of 5 puppies

Suitable for puppies up to 8 months

🌟Life Skills for Puppies Approach:

➡️Calmness
➡️Confidence
➡️Focus
➡️Handling
➡️Self-control
➡️Loose lead walking
➡️Recall
➡️Take it/drop
❤️Fun relationship building with your pup

Weekly handouts and support via email

✉️ For more information or to book a place, message 'Cherished Paws' on Facebook or email [email protected]

Please share with anyone who might be interested. 😊

16/06/2024

We had fun progressing our 'Find it!' in Intermediate class. The dogs LOVE using their nose. ❤️

14/06/2024

Another busy Friday.

Agility one to ones this morning, then Puppy and Intermediate classes this evening

Check out Woody and his super leg weaves.

09/06/2024

FULL- next class will be mid July

🐾JULY PUPPY CLASSES🐾

Fridays 4:15pm
Starting 5th July
📌St Michael's Hall, Ralph's Lane, Frampton
£75 for the 7 week course
Maximum of 5 puppies

Suitable for puppies up to 8 months

🌟Life Skills for Puppies Approach:

➡️Calmness
➡️Confidence
➡️Focus
➡️Handling
➡️Self-control
➡️Loose lead walking
➡️Recall
➡️Take it/drop
❤️Fun relationship building with your pup

Weekly handouts and support via email

✉️ For more information or to book a place, message 'Cherished Paws' on Facebook or email [email protected]

Please share with anyone who might be interested. 😊

05/06/2024

Was reminded of this post today! Very interesting.

I personally wormcount my dogs and treat only if necessary.

🐰🐰🐰🐰Has the Easter Bunny visited you yet this weekend?🐰🐰🐰

While on the bunny theme, it's a good time to revisit the oft cited myth that rabbit ears are effective (de)wormers......

TLDR; they aren't 🫣

🐇👂'Ear, 'ear 👂🐇

Can I whisper something to you? 🤫

*hairy ears (or other hairy body parts of animals) are not effective de-wormers for your dog* 🙈

I see this being advertised and advised a lot and it worries me as parasitic worms are capable of causing significant health and welfare issues if not appropriately managed - and feeding hairy ears are not appropriate management methods! 🐰

If furry things were effective dewormers, wild and free-living scavengers and carnivores would not have the parasite burdens we know they can have 🦊🦝🦡🦅

What these chews are however, are tasty (for some dogs) additions to our dogs' daily diet and can provide enrichment and a source of animal-derived fibre that may support gut health. Their effectiveness at 'trapping' worms and microscopic worm eggs in the gut....no robust evidence at all 🪱🔬

(And honestly.... just because you never see worms or eggs, that doesn't mean they aren't there!)🫣

If you want to control parasites;
🪱poo pick regularly and keep housing areas clean - many parasites are transmitted in 💩

🪱ensure good overall health for your dog through diet, exercise, management and care

🪱use a service to know what is ACTUALLY going on

🪱treat based on need and seek veterinary advice on local issues relating to management, parasite species concerns and possible resistance problems - these differ based on geographical location, climate, vector species and a whole host of other variables!

Keep hairy ears as tasty treats (but also source carefully....remember these are by-products of animal production systems and not all are as high welfare as we might like to think 🐰)

And if you want to learn about dietary animal-derived fibre, have a look at

Depauw S, Hesta M, Whitehouse-Tedd K, Vanhaecke L, Verbrugghe A, Janssens GP. Animal fibre: the forgotten nutrient in strict carnivores? First insights in the cheetah. J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl). 2013 Feb;97(1):146-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0396.2011.01252.x. Epub 2011 Nov 10. PMID: 22074361. 🐆

17/05/2024

Confidence with exploring tonight. 🥰

11/05/2024

Very interesting indeed!

Solar storms and how it may impact your dogs.

Scientific studies have repeatedly demonstrated that dogs are sensitive to geomagnetic changes.

Currently the earth is experiencing a powerful solar storm. It's effects on our dogs should not be underestimated. Especially our sensitive working dogs who are bred to have a heightened sense of direction. Dogs who are anxious or nervous may experience exacerbated symptoms. Dogs are sensitive to even small changes in the earth's magnetic field, this current storm is big and disruptive.

Epileptic dogs and people may be affected. There is a huge body of evidence relating to solar storms and seizures, have a little Google, there's too many relevant bits of literature to post here.

What can you do? Dogs are at increased risk of becoming disorientated in new environments, keep them on lead, in sight, have a heightened awareness of where they are. For dogs who rely on their sense of direction for work such as sheepdogs working hills, search and rescue dogs, tracking dogs, hunting dogs and trail dogs, it might be worth evaluating putting off any work where a dog may get lost. This is not me being a f***y either, I've already heard of a couple of normally savvy dogs becoming lost and disoriented in the north of Scotland, out of character for them.

In humans existing mental health conditions can worsen temporarily, particularly conditions caused by or associated with trauma, where your integral ability to orientate becomes distrupted and makes you feel unsafe, increasing anxiety and hypervigilance. This change in your presentation can also impact your dogs.

Just something to be aware of. As much as it sounds like hippy woo woo nonsense, I can assure you, it's a thing.

"the idea that animals can detect Earth’s magnetic field has traveled the path from ridicule to well-established fact in little more than one generation. Dozens of experiments have now shown that diverse animal species, ranging from bees to salamanders to sea turtles to birds, have internal compasses. Some species use their compasses to navigate entire oceans, others to find better mud just a few inches away."

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/61/3/29/413382/Magnetoreception-in-animalsDetermining-how-animals

(Google stock image)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259472878_Dogs_are_sensitive_to_small_variations_of_the_Earth's_magnetic_field

10/05/2024

Intermediate group were learning 'Paws Up' this evening.

As well as being great for confidence building, it also forms the foundation for many other behaviours. It is also pretty handy for posing for photographs (paws on a log for example) 😁

05/05/2024

Great weekend of agility in the sunshine. ❤️

Here's one of my boys doing what he loves most.

28/04/2024

Congratulations to Faye and Archie who, not only achieved their first clear round at the weekend, they have a beautiful 3rd place rosette to show for it! Well done! 🎉🎉🎉

19/04/2024

Another great bunch of pups and their owners graduated tonight.

Lots and lots of progress since that first week, not only in the exercises but in confidence and engagement, which will form the foundations of any other learning. Well done guys!

19/04/2024

Great morning of one to one agility over at Crowland this morning.

18/04/2024

Intermediate class last week:

✅️Middle
✅️Progressing 'Find it'
✅️Bed games
✅️Real life loose lead walking
✅️Starting leg weaves

14/04/2024

Poodle Power 🔥 in Beginners' Agility class today.

13/04/2024

Beautiful Atari was so nervous the first week that she came to puppy classes.

Now look at her! Strutting around the place so confident and happy. And acing all of the confidence and relationship building exercises. ❤️💪

03/04/2024

FULL

Lists started for May and June. 😊

🐾APRIL PUPPY CLASSES🐾

Fridays 5:30pm
Starting 26th April
📌St Michael's Hall, Ralph's Lane, Frampton
£75 for the 7 week course
Maximum of 5 puppies

Suitable for puppies up to 8 months

🌟Life Skills for Puppies Approach:

➡️Calmness
➡️Confidence
➡️Focus
➡️Handling
➡️Self-control
➡️Loose lead walking
➡️Recall
➡️Take it/drop
❤️Fun relationship building with your pup

Weekly handouts and support via email

✉️ For more information or to book a place, message 'Cherished Paws' on Facebook or email [email protected]

Please share with anyone who might be interested. 😊

27/03/2024

Very proud to be a member of the APDT. 😊

They have a thorough assessment process as opposed to the various 'online certification' providers that are out there.

🐶 How to Become a Full APDT Member

The Association of Pet Dog Trainers UK (APDT), a non-profit community interest company established in 1995, offers a comprehensive assessment process to become a full member - demonstrating expertise in the dog training industry.

The APDT assessment evaluates both knowledge and skills through three components: theory assignment, an oral assessment, and an in-person practical assessment. It covers all core competencies a pet dog trainer needs to deliver safe, humane, and effective pet dog training services.

As a full member of the APDT you are assessed to Animal Training Instructor level with the Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC), and are eligible to go on their practitioner register and website.

Check out this video to learn about the full assessment process:

https://vist.ly/tpkt

Sign up link below 👇

24/03/2024

QUALIFIED KC AGILITY JUDGE!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

22/03/2024

Pups have been working super hard on their self control and positions. And here they are mastering their loose lead walking. 🥰

21/03/2024

Flyboy gaining strength and fitness at Woozelbears Hydrotherapy and Grooming 💪

09/03/2024

We found video of one of our runs. 🥰