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Edinburgh Holistic Dogs

Dog Trainer and behaviourist specialising in Foreign Rescue dogs and Reactive dogs. Seeing the owners become proud of their dogs achievements too.

Edinburgh Holistic Dogs is a dog training service set up in 2017 by Suzanne Gould. The business aims to provide Calm Confidence for Foreign Rescued and Reactive Dogs. Specialising in training for Foreign Rescue Dogs and Reactive Dogs which is inspired by my personal history of adopting Old English Sheepdogs and after realising there is an increasing number of adopted dogs, whose owners are strugg

ling. Working with rescued dogs has earned me the name of The Rescue Dog Ranger™

I show owners how they can transform their lives with their dogs, the training provided isn’t your typical obedience style instead I focuses on confidence building, strengthening communication and how to handle stressful situations. Training is done on a 121 basis, I am known for my relaxed and friendly approach when working with dogs and their owners. I always share own experiences with my dogs both the good and the embarrassing too. I am driven by the need to help fellow dog owners who want the best for their dog and are stuck on how to go about it. The common problem I come across is the lack of support and help new owners get from the place they rescued their dog, this in turn causes unnecessary problems or escalates easy problems to solve into something more intensive. I absolutely love seeing the relationship between owner and dog grow, become stronger and deeper.

12/12/2024

'Its important for us that you are on hand to support us, that is why we signed up with you,'

I got this feedback the other day, and it blew me away. Yes, it is lovely to hear, but also because all I could think was, don't other trainers do the same and support their clients when they need it?

When you work with me, you have access to me between appointments, so whenever you have a question or a question, you can take care of it as soon as possible. I usually answer within a couple of hours.

With me, you don't need to book an appointment or wait for your next training session to talk about anything. I'm here for you, ready to chat whenever you need, making your dog training journey as stress-free as possible.

Support happens when it needs to happen!
And it even continues long after our last session together too!

If you like to find out more about how my behaviour programmes can help you and your dog send me an email, [email protected]

11/12/2024

Only 2 weeks until Christmas, we’re so excited!

Are your decorations up yet?

10/12/2024

Happy Tongue Out Tuesday from Ally

Share your photos below!

09/12/2024

Here are some top tips for ensuring your dog's safety during the Christmas season

🌲Food
Avoid Toxic Foods - Avoid offering your dog human treats such as chocolate, onions, grapes, raisins, and macadamia nuts, as these can be harmful.
Careful with Rich Foods - Limit access to fatty foods like turkey skin, gravy, and bones, which can cause digestive upset.

🎁Decorative Hazards:
Secure the Christmas Tree - Anchor your Christmas tree to prevent it from toppling over.
Keep Decorations Out of Reach - Place ornaments, tinsel, and lights out of your dog's reach.
Conceal Wires - Keep electrical cords hidden to prevent chewing and potential electrocution.

🎄Stress Reduction
Provide a Safe Space - Create a quiet, designated space for your dog to retreat to when the festivities become overwhelming.
Maintain Routine—As much as possible, Stick to your dog's regular feeding, exercise, and sleep schedules.
Ensure One on One time - Even though you're busy, remember to give your dog some one-on-one time with you.

Have a safe and enjoyable festive season for you and your dog.
🎄🌲🎁

04/12/2024

If your dog struggles to cope with visitors
Join me tonight to learn how to survive the festive season.

Event is pinned at top of the page!⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆

03/12/2024

This sums up Erick... he has literally tried to follow people who were carrying pizza and leave me behind!

What would your dog abandon you for??

02/12/2024

Nothing beats a quick nap in the middle of training session!

This is wee Romanian rescue Rico

Hes been learning to be calm when his family get visitors.
❤️🐾😁

29/11/2024

Who has a dog who gets over-excited, scared or reactive when your friends visit?

It's a nightmare, isn't it!? Embarrassing, stressful and frustrating.

I know the feeling, and I bet you're stressed about friends and family visiting over the festive season??

If you want FREE help to make things easier - follow the first comment!

28/11/2024

Max refusing to admit that he is enjoying his winter walk even after I had to haul him out of bed to do it!

27/11/2024

Say hi to Luke 🥰 he is a Serbian rescue!

He barks at dogs he sees on his walks so we are working on calm associations.

He is a very happy boy and has landed on his paws with his human!

😁😁😁

26/11/2024

Is Your Dog a Nervous Welcomer? Or an Angry Greeter? 🐶

Does your dog react to visitors?

If you want to enjoy having your friends and family visit without worrying about your dog, this webinar is for you.

This webinar offers practical tips for managing your rescue dog's behaviour and helping them be stress-free around visitors.

🐾Understand why your dog doesn't like Visitors.
There are several reasons why your dog might struggle with visitors. Is it fear, anxiety, stress, pain, lack of sleep or a combination? Learn how different elements can affect your dog.

🐾Avoid the common mistakes made with visitors.
With so much conflicting advice about how to keep your dog calm and accept visitors, it is easy to make the problem worse. So learn what not to do and keep everyone safe.

🐾Avoid undue stress ruining family visits
Learn the practical tips Suzanne shares with her 121 clients to help minimise and prevent visitor reactivity.

Don't let your dog's behaviour ruin your Christmas - sign up now!

7pm 4th Dec. https://edinburgh-holistic-dogs.newzenler.com/live-webinar/how-to-help-your-rescue-dog-cope-with-visitors/register

Register now and let's work together to create a happier, more relaxed home for your dog.

22/11/2024

Behaviour Problems and Pain are interconnected
Did you know…

🐾 Research suggests that up to 8o% of our dogs may be struggling with undiagnosed pain that is contributing to their behaviour

🐾 When dogs have long-term pain, they don't show it by whining or crying, so owners are unaware.

🐾 Long-term pain can expressed by our dogs with behaviour changes.

🐾 By the time we noticed a limp, our dogs are already at 7 out of 10 on the pain scale.

Pain is a part of the behaviour puzzle part that owners, behaviourists, trainers and even Vets can miss.

However, the easiest way to check for potential pain or discomfort is to examine the dog's posture, gaits, and how they go about daily activities alongside behaviour concerns.

This is precisely what I do with behaviour cases, I am a qualified Dynamic Dog Practitioner trained to recognise normal and abnormal movement, gaits and posture.

And even if you don’t feel your dog is struggling, that may not always be the case.

If your dog has a behaviour concern and pain is not checked correctly, then the training has the potential to fail.

👉 Do reach out if you’d like my help or have a chat about your dog. email [email protected]

21/11/2024

I loved being a fashion designer, I specialised in knitwear and it was great. I literally got to colour in for a living, as well as design whole clothing collections from scratch for Scottish Brands.

When the last brand I worked for went into administration, I was made redundant. Then I was faced with leaving Edinburgh to find a new role. However, I wanted to stay in Edinburgh, it is just so dog-friendly, so I decided to stay and switch careers. Edinburgh Holistic Dogs was born.

Although my current and former career couldn't be more different, life as a designer taught me to work independently, manage my workload, meet deadlines and, more importantly, listen to the buyers' requirements in the brands. All these skills have definitely been a key part of my business's success.

Since leaving my old career behind, I've never been happier. It means I get to do the work I love and make a big difference to the lives of dogs and their humans.

What significant change have you faced in your life?

19/11/2024

😬 When reaching out for help with your dog, it can sometimes feel like a leap of faith, can’t it… 😬

How do you know if you can trust them?

Can they really help with my dogs behaviour?

Will this be worth my time and money?

I get it, there’s a lot to think about.

So to help put your mind at ease about working with me, I thought I'd share a few lovely testimonials from our happy customers. 💖

💬 “Right from our initial engagement we knew we were in good hands. Suzanne listen carefully to our issues and asked a lot of questions during our initial consultation which made us feel like she was taking a wholistic view of the situation.” - Paul Ryder

💬 “The whole experience has strengthened my bond with Mabel – feel like I understand her more, and we are a team now rather than a stressed-out owner with an unruly dog! Thank you Suzanne” - Lucy Reid

💬 “Before meeting Suzanne, our training had hit a wall. We didn't know how to move forward on our reactive rescue's journey. Suzanne has been incredibly supportive of both Buachaille, and my, mental health. Taking everything at our pace but pushing us to achieve more” - Lucy Neville

💬 “Suzanne immediately gave us hope that nothing that was happening was unique or incurable, and with a detailed plan and face-to-face sessions, we set about retraining our dog and ourselves. We have just completed our sessions and to say it has been life-changing is not an understatement. ” - Niamh O'Leary

I hope this helps you understand what signing up for behaviour help with me is like. 🐶🙌

And when you’re ready to talk about your dogs behaviour and see if I can help, reach out to me by emailing [email protected]

18/11/2024

Your Dog Vs Your Visitor!

Does the thought of having friends and family visit you over the festive peirod cause you stress, anxitey and more.

There is nothing more stressful than having to manage a dog, who dislikes visitors while entertaining the people who've come to see you.

It is a really common problem ESPECIALLY for rescued dogs, they simply don't do strangers in their safe space.

At best your dog might just hide and worst your dog is barking lunatic who won't settle or leave your guests be.

I see a of people try and fail to help their dog cope with visitors, which why I have put together a FREE Webinar
Christmas Calm: How to help your Romanian Rescue dog cope with visitors.

🐾Understand why Romanian Rescue doesn't like Visitors.
There are several reasons why your dog might struggle with visitors. Is it fear, anxiety, stress, pain, lack of sleep or a combination? Learn how different elements can affect your dog.

🐾Avoid the common mistakes made with visitors.
With so much conflicting advice about keeping your dog calm and accepting visitors, it is easy to make the problem worse. So learn what not to do and keep everyone safe.

🐾Avoid undue stress ruining family visits
Learn the practical tips Suzanne shares with her 121 clients to help minimise and prevent visitor reactivity.

So if you'd like to a calmer festive period sign up for my Free Webinar
https://edinburgh-holistic-dogs.newzenler.com/live-webinar/how-to-help-your-rescue-dog-cope-with-visitors/register

16/11/2024

Bath time at yesterday!

Erick helped himself to a couple of bones from the shop 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ so we also stocked up on treats

15/11/2024

For the 3rd year in a row, I have been awarded -

'Specialist Dog Training Service Of The Year'

By Scotland Prestige Awards 2024/25

Erick joined me to pick up my award! Super proud and excited!
Thank you everyone!

Prestige Awards

14/11/2024

Dog walking adventures 🐾🥰🐾🥰🐾🥰

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Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

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http://www.edinburghholisticdogs.co.uk/

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😍 This is Romanian Rescue Kairo doing what his humans thought would NEVER happen😍 And here's what they had to say about working with me... "We reached out to Suzanne after becoming quite 'stuck' with our fearful Romanian rescue dog Kairo who we were unable to harness or lead train due to his fear and had resigned ourselves to the possibility of not ever getting Kairo out on walks. With Suzanne's expert guidance we now have him out on walks which is just fantastic. She has helped us immeasurably with our boy and the difference it has made in him and us is wonderful. She gave me the confidence to give him confidence and I cannot thank her enough for all she has done for us and our boy. Her knowledge of foreign rescues is beyond impressive. I cannot recommend her highly enough, and I look forward to working with her as we move forward with Kairo. Thank you so much, Suzanne!!!" I am always so grateful and honoured when I receive lovely testimonials like this. I really do appreciate every single one of them. 🙏 If you would like help and support with your Rescue dog, email at [email protected]

🔺Can your dog listen to you around distractions? 🔺Can you recall your dog no matter what? 🔺Do you want to be able to let your dog off the lead, knowing they will come back when you call? These dogs have learned my recall games and are pros! 🐾Join me at my RECALL BOOT CAMP where I'll be unveiling my proven recall secrets and engaging games. This is your opportunity to empower your dog with impeccable recall skills! 🐾 2nd June 10am. 2Hour session. Unleashed East Midlothian. £80. Limited space - book via comments. #recall #dogtraining #happydog #edinburghdog #dog #training #summer

🔴 RECALL BOOTCAMP!!! 🔴 Get your dog ready for summer with my Recall Bootcamp. As the weather starts getting better, holidays are around the corner, and adventures are waiting for you and your dog, come and join me to ensure your dog has a fool-proof recall. In this fun and interactive boot camp, I will share my 3 top recall games, one of which is your dog's ultimate recall. Rest assured, the games I'll be sharing are the same ones I use on my group adventure walks and with my 121 clients, guaranteeing their effectiveness. Not only will your dog learn to recall, but they will also learn to listen and focus on you, which means a lot less stress! On 2nd June at 10am at Unleashed East Lothian. You'll get a PDF handout after the session. £80per dog, Limited spaces, so sign up NOW. See comments for details 🐾🐾🐾

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"Why give your dog average when they can have unique adventures"...

Hey There I am Suzanne, Owner of Edinburgh Holistic Dogs specialising in Training and walking Rescued/Adopted Dogs and Dogs who are Nervours or Reactive. I’ve earned the title of The Rescue Dog Ranger™, having written the book about everything you need to help your rescue dog.

My business is inspired by my life with my own Old English Sheepdogs there have been a few but I currently share my life with Erick and Ally (thats Erick in the photo with me).

I offer unique Adventure Filled Dog Walks and Practically Perfect Dog Training. Let me show you how you can teach and train your 4 legged family member.

Are you a new, inexperienced or nervous rescue dog owner?