Pud Puds Pet Services (2025)

27/08/2025

So this afternoon I visited the one and only Miley Moo 🐶🥰

My welcome was similar to what I used to get, but far lower energy, barely any vocals... the tail still wagged and that unmistakable staffie smile appeared 🥰

But then Miley Moo had her pain killers (recently had a little accident and ACL injury) and settled on her blanket and took a big nap 😴 💤

All in all it was Miley Moo but it was muted to what I used to get!

That's the downside of being a pet care pro who unashamedly was and still is attached to every dog I cared for. It's the seeing them slow down, less energetic, that once roaring fire of unstoppable energy and mischief is now a shadow of what it once was! A little greyer in the face, that cheeky glint in the eyes is still there but dulled.

The days of taking me to Jollyes at pace and refusing to leave the store, to her favourite trees to do the sausage tree game, endless zoomies 🐕💨 , the find it games, the very head strong looks and vocalisations that we're doing this.... are behind us, sad to say.

But maybe thats the point. Just like us our dogs dont stay young and full of energy forever. They age, they slow down, they go grey.... but in doing so teach us to slow down too! To cherish the time we have with them, to embrace the bursts of energy as and when they happen, to chuckle to ourselves when that cheeky side of their personality comes out again, to fill their days with love, joy and happiness, to take that walk in the rain and get wet....

So today we didn't go out for a mooch and play Miley's favourite games. We sat on the floor and just was with no expectations on Miley Moo to do anything and she chose to take a nap on her blanket after fuss.

Hopefully at the next visit you're more up for a little mooch 🐕💨🚶‍♂️

But you'll always be the Miley Moo in the pictures the roaring fire of unstoppable energy and mischief to me

Benn 🤙

25/08/2025

Just so everyone is aware as promised a donation from the Canal boat workshops was made to East Manchester Community Boat Project recently.

And the owed workshop will be rearranged and there'll be extra slots available for those who would like to book on

Benn 🤙

23/08/2025

🇬🇧🐕‍🦺 UK Sniffer Dogs Scent Detection Classes 🐕🇬🇧

So ended my first week in my new role with the rescue in a behaviour team 🙌 😎 still on my induction stuff with the team.

But looking at what our rota pattern is going to be with day and late shifts through the week and day shifts on weekends.

Going forward all my classes will be on weekends! As I can guarantee finishing work at 5pm on weekends with no late shifts on weekends (although with everything that is subject to change to meet the needs of the rescue)

But as it stands for availability classes will be weekends going forward in the evening.

I know this won't work for some people who preferred weekday classes. But if weekends aren't going to work for you, then you can always look on the UK Sniffer Dogs website at the directory of qualified instructors and see if there's any other instructors close by.

I'll be pinging Karen at The Together Centre an email in the next day or two to book in the next set of classes.

Benn 🤙

10/08/2025

Got there in the end 🫡😎

Benn 🤙

10/08/2025

Nailed it 😎🤙

Benn 🤙

10/08/2025

A few from slot on the boat yesterday.

Yesterday highlighted just how Frank has come on with his confidence, resilience and ability to reset himself.

We had a few people who took it upon themselves to just walk on to the boat uninvited or welcomed aboard, trying to interact with Frank or speak to me and Samantha.

It's far from ideal for that to happen, but it's also real world dog training. Things are going to happen out and about that we have no control over, don't expect to happen or place us in situations where we have to advocate for our dogs for people to leave them alone, ignore our dogs, not to try and interact with our dogs etc for our dogs own specific reasons.

Because dogs are not public property that we just have a right to interact with, touch, cuddle etc no matter the breed, no matter how cute they are, no matter how much experience we have personally with that breed/crossbreed etc if an owner says no then no means no!

Aside from that Frank was phenomenal! His searching has really come on! His stamina and drive to continue searching has progressed so much this year!

Some tricky hides 🫣🤨 but Frank found them! And in true Frank style even tried to 'active retrieve' some hides 🤣😂🤣

Benn 🤙

10/08/2025

A few from slot on the canal boat workshop yesterday.

We may need a bigger boat 🤔 some tight spots on the boat, especially when Buddy decides he wants to turn around and go back on himself along the corridor past the toilet towards the back of the boat 😂🤣 a tight squeeze around there!

Some great and thorough searches from Buddy! Not an inch of that boat went without being searched!

Some great indications 👌🥳

Some new novel hides never previously worked with and Biddy showed great scent identification by indicating on those new novel hides, we don't always use tins and vials 🫡

Benn 🤙

10/08/2025

A few of the boat and some hide placements from yesterday.

Benn 🤙

09/08/2025

Super Duper Proud of today!

Not only did Frank go and win 'Dog Of The Month' at Anti-Social Dog Club 🥳🫡🤙

But on today's workshop we had a number of unexpected guests walk on to the canal boat, stare through the windows, try to interact with Frank and try and strike up conversations with both me and Samantha after we'd politely advised to ignore Frank and that we were busy dog training.....

But how quickly Frank recovered from those incidents and was able to reset himself and get back to searching the boat. A little while ago Frank would've been done and dusted after the first person just walked on to the boat.

Absolute props to Samantha for putting in countless hours training, enrichment, anti-social dog club, scent detection classes and workshops and god knows what else! Because Frank is growing in confidence and way more resilient than he used to be! You should be incredibly proud of all of your efforts and just how far Frank has come!

Benn 🤙

08/08/2025

Tomorrow we're back on East Manchester Community Boat Project canal boat 🚢 😎

Remember it is a working mooring with other boats, owners and guests of those boats. Some of which may have dogs with them so we're on lead at all times.

Each dog has their own slot on the boat to work solo.

Be a good idea to take your dog for a little walk around before boarding the boat so your dog can toilet.

All dogs will be given time to get used to being on the boat again before we start any searches! They won't be rushed just like at a normal class.

If there's something specific you want to work on with your dog let me know!

There will be breaks.

The scent we'll be working with is red Kong

Any questions ping me a message or pop them in the comment's

Benn 🤙

06/08/2025

Tonight we gave Murphy Man the night off from the 7 day article indication challenge and just had some fun!

Fun with meerkat, hand touches, middle, middle and meerkat together. And we introduced training buttons to Murphy Man and just let him interact with them and see what he'd do 🤔 we didn't get many paws on the buttons mainly mouthing them and head tilting when he activated them to talk 🤣😂

Benn 🤙

05/08/2025

Day Two SOCS FUSION Jens Frank Article Indication 7 day challenge - nonsense article (scent tin lid)

We took some pointers from last nights Facebook live with Jens on specific approaches to aspects of the challenge. In terms of not talking to your dog, no yes/yip/good boy/girl and that type of thing to just reward and continue.

Noticed a big engagement swing from Murphy Man from last night where I was giving verbal praise and markers to tonight where I simply rewarded and continued. Murphy Man quickly started to be less engaged, looking for reassurance and verbal communication from me!

So as I always say at class I will never challenge or question anyone for giving their dog reassurance or whatever they need in any given moment! I added the verbal praise and markers back in! And another engagement swing from Murphy Man he was back in the room and giving it his all!

My take away is that style and approach doesn't work for Murphy Man! Like us our dogs are not robots and they all learn from different styles and approaches.

That's one thing I love about scent work there is NO one size fits all approach. What works for one dog won't necessarily work for another dog. And you have to adapt to the dog in front of you to figure them out, to be able to read them incredibly well (something else I say a lot at classes learn to read your dog! Watch their body language. What is your dog telling you through their body language and some of it can be incredibly subtle!)

I totally got why Jens suggested the approache he did and it will work for many dogs even at pet dog level just not for Murphy Man.

I know that Murphy Man will engage with scent work but it's not really his thing so it's never forced or made to do it. We do it at a pace Murphy Man is comfortable with and what he'll engage with. So I don't need Murphy Man to be super duper scent work dog (as much as I'd love him to be)

Something else I clocked this evening was as we'd progressed to Murphy Man sitting and staring at the scent tin lid and moving to be stood behind him, Murphy Man would spin around and face you. Turns out he's not very comfortable with you being stood behind him. And he knows us, trusts us, very comfortable being with us and around us. So that was something that was unexpected. But again points to how scent work does make you watch your dog, watch their body language, energy levels, how they carry themselves, what are their tells etc

So even though Murphy Man is not a super engaged scent work dog. I'm actually learning tons about him, his likes and dislikes, things that had never come up before. Obviously I'm learning from Jens Frank and there's definitely some skills and drills to add in to scent detection classes 🫡

But I'm loving working through this challenge with Murphy Man and deepening our bond with each other, learning more of his likes and dislikes, learning styles he responds to etc...

And of course he gets to do his famous 'Big Tens' and we wrestled at the end as that is most definitely a Murphy Man thing wrestling 🤣😂

Benn 🤙

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