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30/05/2024

Saturday 1st June - puppy socialisation

We have slots available for this weekend. This will be our last socialisation session for a little while.

At New Brancepeth Village Hall Association
🐾2pm - for puppies under 16 weeks
🐾3pm - for puppies 3 to 6 months

£8.00 per session
These sessions are pay as you go - so you can book to come along on one or both dates.

Message or whatsapp to book 🐾

22/05/2024

🐶 puppies are the worst 🐶

There I said it 🙊 now before the puppy police want to cart me off for public flogging - hear me out please!

There's a good reason they're so cute - its because puppies are incredibly hard work! If they're not sleeping or eating they biting, everything and everyone.😲

Then there's the training and socialisation, have they met enough people or too many? Have they met enough dogs? Toilet training feels impossible! Should they be able to do x, y & z? Puppy won't listen! Do they play enough / too rough? They chew and steal everything they're not meant to - you need eyes in your backside!!! And did I mention the biting??!! 🧛‍♂️

Now this isn't to say there aren't some easy puppies out there and / or puppy owners that are having a ball (no pun - well maybe 😂)!!! But as a trainer, I can't tell you how many times I've heard puppy owners say; "I wasn't prepared for this", "we're getting no sleep since pup arrived", "I can't cope with the biting", "This is harder than a baby", "I'm beginning to regret this", "Am I doing this right?" 😢

Puppy owners - please don’t beat yourself up, you're doing your best for your puppy! 🥰

It does get better and they do grow out of being a furbaby shark 🦈

⚠️ If you have a young puppy and you are struggling, please reach out (DM or email [email protected]).

We are here to help you survive and possibly even enjoy puppyhood - with a range of puppy services available.🐾

➡️ Also, please feel free to share this post if you know any new puppy guardians who need to hear this!

21/05/2024

🐾True Story🐾

Dax's Doggos came about because of how challenging this super handsome doggo was!

Having owned, trained, fostered and rehabilitated many doggos, all different shapes, sizes and temperaments, I felt I had the experience to offer this guy a home. Boy, was I wrong, and what followed was a humbling journey.

Dax struggled with everything and I mean everything! He lost his marbles at everyone and anyone that dared move near the house. He pulled like a tank on lead - to the point of human injury. He had no recall and didn't know we existed outside of the house. He would bark, lunge, do doggy gymnastics if he saw another dog. He was beyond distracted and focused on every single noise. We couldn't have people round to the house. He would also mouth, jump and scratch us badly and not in play!

The sad thing was I could see he was struggling, and everything I knew to do didn't help. Poor Dax seemed constantly stressed and anxious and we felt defeated and frustrated 😔. But things didn't get better when I reached out for professional help - nope, not a jot! I felt judged for not having control of my dog. I was told only aversive methods were going to keep Dax and us safe. I went against my better judgement and the relationship with Dax deteriorated further before I came to my senses!

So knowing I had to do better for Dax, whose big feelings were behind all this behaviour - I threw myself into research and study. The more I learned and the more progress we were able to make, the more I wanted to know and do. I became super passionate about helping other doggo owners who might feel overwhelmed and, in particular, help rescue doggos succeed in their 2nd chance homes.

If you're having training difficulties with your dog, feel overwhelmed, I'm here to help you and your dog get back on track. No judgement here, just realistic and practical training and support from someone who's been there. Message the page or email [email protected] for a no obligation training consult.

Picture of a now happier Dax, for attention 🤩

21/05/2024

🐾NE DOG Festival - volunteers wanted🐾

In partnership with Tees Valley Dog Training we will be attending The North East Dog Festival to represent UK Sniffer Dogs

✔ There will only be 2 trainers there, so we will be relying on volunteers to help us over the 2 days.

🌟🌟In return for 2-3 hours on the stand you will get FREE entry to the event on Saturday OR Sunday.

📆 31st August OR 1st September
📍Kirkley Hall, Northumberland

Please comment with your preferred day if you are able to help and if you would be bringing a dog. You don’t need any Scentwork experience.

You will be there to help with the queue and keep everyone happy 🐾

20/05/2024

Saturday 25 May & 1st June
At New Brancepeth Village Hall Association
🐾2pm - for puppies under 16 weeks
🐾3pm - for puppies 3 to 6 months

£8.00 per session
These sessions are pay as you go - so you can book to come along on one or both dates.

Message or whatsapp to book 🐾

13/05/2024

🐶puppy classes🐶

I can't wait to meet out next group of puppies and their humans this week 🤩

If you are looking for friendly, professional reward based puppy classes in the Durham area, we still have spaces available on our course starting Wed 15th May.

Message the page or WhatsApp to book 🐾

12/05/2024

☀️🐾Summer Snacks🐾☀️

So the sun finally made an appearance this weekend, and boy, was it a warm one 🥵

So that meant one thing, time to start making long-lasting frozen treats for the Dax dude.

This gives our doggos a great cool treat in the heat. But also something relaxing and calming to do, when it's too hot for full-on exercise (in Dax's case zoomies x100).

09/05/2024

🐾PUPPIES🐾

Have you recently welcomed a puppy into your home? 🐶

We run puppy socialisation sessions and puppy classes to help you and your new fur-friend through the first few important months.

Looking at building confidence and life skills, setting puppies up to succeed 🤩

Our next sessions;
🐾Puppy Socialisation Sat 11th May (2 & 3pm)
🐾Puppy Classes Wed 15th May 6pm

Message our page or WhatsApp to book 🐶

05/05/2024

🐾walks don't have to be long or far🐾

This human still has restricted mobility and I certainly couldn't safely manage on lead walks. So to make sure Dax isn't bored, yesterday Dax tested out some new field obstacles. This might not seem like training, but giving him time to investigate and explore before fully engaging, is in fact training and socialisation!!! 🤯
These new things in an already familiar space, change a lot for a doggo. So our free roaming session may only have been 30 mins but was physically and mentally taxing to the point he snored all afternoon 👌🐶

29/04/2024

🐾Puppies🐾
We had a great time at Saturdays Puppy Socialisation. Can't wait to do it all again 😊

We still have spaces on both socialisation sessions on 11th May and our next puppy classes starting 15th May.

Message or WhatsApp to book any
of our upcoming sessions.

28/04/2024

🥳🐾Poster boys birthday🐾🥳
Friday was Dax's birthday and we decided to get him an extra special treat. It's definitely a novelty, and he won't be getting a doggy cake on the regular. But everyone deserves a treat on their birthday. Big thanks to for making his cake. They have a fab little place and has a great natural selection too👌!!

22/04/2024

🐶NEW SESSIONS focusing on what puppy socialisation means and how to achieve this with your puppy.

Saturday 27th April & 11th May
At New Brancepeth Village Hall Association
🐾2pm - for puppies under 16 weeks
🐾3pm - for puppies 3 to 6 months

£8.00 per session
These sessions are pay as you go - so you can book to come along on one or both dates.

Message or whatsapp to book 🐾

22/04/2024

🐾🐾Another Sunday, another secure field trip for Dax with to K9 Freedom Fields Coxhoe

Dax had great fun showing off his trick training and differentiation and was rewarded with some epic tug time. (I think Zoe might have won once)

This field had a super resourceful horse trailer, stocked with everything you might need on a dog walk. It also provided seating and shelter for good ol' hop along here 😆.

15/04/2024

🐾Secure Fields🐾

We love them!!!! Secure fields come in all shapes and sizes, with and without equipment. But more importantly, they provide a safe space for our dogs.

There are many reasons people use secure fields - training, a dog in recovery, worry about recall, reactivity (not just other dogs), exercising a group, typed dogs to be allowed off lead or just to have a pootle knowing you and your dog aren't going to encounter any surprises!!! Or in my current case, the human cannot manage the exercise / walk 🙈

We love to explore as many secure fields as possible - variety is the spice of life!! So yesterday we booked a field to give poster boy Dax a run out, the cavalry arrived to chauffer Dax and I to - a field we hadn't been to before. Dax loved the new sniffs, but as you can see, he might have loved the muddy puddle zoomies more. While I hobbled around 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

12/04/2024

GOOD NEWS; There's still time to book the last few places on our next course off puppy classes.

BAD NEWS; Due to a little accident we are having to postpone the start of classes.

NOW DUE TO START SATURDAY 20th APRIL

Email to book [email protected]

10/04/2024

We still have a couple of places on our next puppy course starting Saturday

Our classes aim to support you and your puppy as you start out on your journey together. Learning puppies life skills such as recall, focus, lead walking and settling.

Email to book [email protected]

🐾TWO NEW PUPPY COURSES🐾We have a Saturday course starting in April and another Wednesday course starting in May.Email he...

24/03/2024

🐾TWO NEW PUPPY COURSES🐾

We have a Saturday course starting in April and another Wednesday course starting in May.

Email [email protected] for more information or to enroll 🐶

23/03/2024

🐾🐾You have good days and bad days when training with your dog. That's OK, it's normal. We working on confidence and recall with this big lad. This was a good day, recalling from a pheasant!!!! 🤩 Take the wins but don't be disheartened when it's not perfect.

11/02/2024

🐾🐾WINNER🐾🐾

Well done to our giveaway winner Natalie Pickersgill 👏

Thanks for all the likes and shares. We super excited to be starting our first group of puppy classes at New Brancepeth Village Hall Association this week.

Keep following for our next classes & workshops 🐶

05/02/2024

🐾Puppy Classes🐾

We still have availability for our next group of classes.

𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐞𝐛, 𝟓.𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦 @ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥

To book your spot, either DM the page with your email address or email us at [email protected]

And don't forget there's still time to take part in the giveaway - check out our pinned/feature post!

22/01/2024

🐾GIVEAWAY🐾

So our first class in our new venue, will be
𝐏𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 - 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐞𝐛, 𝟓.𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦 @ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥

To celebrate kicking off the new year with new classes in a new venue, we thought we'd do a little giveaway for a lucky doggo!

To win the contents of this goody box (2 small toys, 400g JR Pate, Fish4Dogs intro pack, x2 liver Feelwells treat pouches, Drool treat pouch and assortment of natural chews), all you have to do is;
🐾 like our page
🐾 share this post
🐾 tag 2 doggy pals in the comments

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒎𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝟏𝟏𝒕𝒉 𝑭𝒆𝒃.

Keep following for updates on our next classes and workshops, coming soon!

18/01/2024

Please use our email or socials to contact us while the website is down.

17/01/2024

🐾2024🐾
After a very unexpected 2023, I'm excited to be back and with new venues for classes. Feb dates for puppy and scent classes to be posted very soon.

11/11/2023

Remembering the incredible sacrifices made by the brave men, women and animals that served our country and fought for our freedoms.

21/10/2023

We love trying out different secure dog fields. They are a great resource for so many reasons. We found Duckhill Dog Park around the corner from our holiday cottage in Scotland this week and Dax thoroughly enjoyed himself. He had lots of enriching activities available to him, some new to him and he confidently tackled them all. We snook in a bit of training too, but kept it fun!

06/10/2023

🐾 treat time!!!
So today was a lot and human needed a timeout. So after a nice windy and soggy walk to sort out the brain pain, we went to Costa. Mango bubble frappe for the human and a puppuccino for a very excited Dax. Its crazy how excited he gets in a drive through and loves the attention prior to his prize puppuccino!!!! While I'm not advocating to feed doggos endless puppuccinos (defo a rare treat), I'm just demonstrating our doggos determine what they find rewarding 🐾🤩

17/09/2023

𝗕𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲

Long post alert

It's taken me a while to write this post, as it's a highly emotive topic right now.

With the announcement that XL Bully dogs will be added to the banned breed list (Breed Specific Legislation, BSL), under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, there will be many of you XL guardians worried and upset what this means for your beloved dog.

But before you read on, know I want to help and
𝙄'𝙢 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙓𝙇 𝘽𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 to help prepare for what's to come. Given the current judgement and more that's likely to come, training should be approached with kindness and fun - to make sure you strengthen and maintain the trust and bond with your dog. So be it muzzle training, help with lead walking, recall or anything that is worrying you, please reach out.

This isn't what anyone wants to hear/read, but I think it's best to get ahead and be prepared for what it is coming. Particularly for any of you that so far have not been affected by or had reason to be aware of BSL.

What you should be aware of and thinking about is, while the Government set about how they are going to 'identify' the breed, it's highly likely this will follow the same format which was applied to the Pitbull's, as an unrecognised / mixed breed. This involves dogs being assessed as 'type' by their physical characteristics and measurements. Unfortunately, such a process means that regardless of breed or DNA, there are many other mixed breeds and crossbreeds that may well be at risk of being caught up in policing and investigating dogs under this ban. The measurements that are currently used by DLOs (dog legislation officers) can be found here along with other information on BSL https://www.facebook.com/459157344474551/posts/1037234840000129/?d=n

This also likely means the means the current exemption process available for dogs that have been deemed “as type”, will be necessary for XL Bully guardians. This costs time and money and involves temperament testing. Dogs who are found to be a banned breed but have undergone and passed the exemption process must be kept on lead and muzzled in all public spaces - even though they have been assessed as behaviourally sound.

It also means, rehoming and transfer of ownership of exempted dogs is almost impossible and limited to those who can prove a prior or existing relationship with the individual dog.

This is a lot, and for most dog people this is scary and sad to think how much life for these affected dogs is going to change. But it's important to act now and be pro-active in showing your dog to be safe, well cared for and under control.

There are lots of professionals and groups out there offering information and support also. Please look out for them, knowledge and understanding is going to be so important.

Image stolen from Bullies Rescue UK

03/09/2023

🐾🐾
So we spent a good part of our Sunday at The North East Dog Festival - and it didn't rain!!!☀️

We mooched stalls (spent a small fortune), chatted with some rescues, clubs and other trainers and really enjoyed watching the flyball, gundog demo, hoopers, uk sniffer dogs and most of all the watersports.

It was great to see so many happy doggos and humans, as well as those having fun on the 'have a go' stands.

However, Dax wasn't with us. Just because it's a dog event, doesn't mean Dax would enjoy it. He probably would have, for 10 minutes before over excitement, would have caused utter meltdown for him 😞

And that's totally OK!!!! He was enjoying a lazy Sunday, snoring on the sofa, knowing he'd reap the benefits of his personal shopper later 😆🤷‍♀️

It's important to remember our dogs tell us what they like / enjoy 👍

26/08/2023

🐶🐾🐶🐾
So I finally got to do this!!!!
Scent Detection Instructor Course for pet dogs 🥳

We had a great time and I was privileged to have Lily as my doggo partner (thanks ). Especially as it's been a while (covid) doing in person courses with my peers.

But for me, what's exciting is, scent work is a go-to for working with doggos. It's a natural thing for all dogs and as well as many practical and helpful applications, it can be FUN. I can't wait to incorporate UK Sniffer Dog classes and workshops into Dax's Doggos programme.

Watch this space!!!!

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🥾🐾 Lovely sunny evening walks. It's great to take advantage of the lighter nights, walking at quieter times when you have sensitive doggo. Lots of sniffs, swimming and play. Scenery not too bad either 😊 #dogsofinstagram #dogwalking #reactivedog #northpennines #alldogsareindividuals

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A good recall helps with many situations. For me, yesterday, it was to stop/slow down my hubby (I still have a bad ankle and cannot keep up with them)!!! Hubby may not be a good listener, but Dax sure is 🐾🐶👌 #recall #positivereinforcement #dogtraining #mybestpals #husbandneedsmorework #doglife #sprainedanklesucks