Clifford Dog Training home of Puppy School Gloucester

24/12/2024

🎅🎄☃️ Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our followers, likers, lurkers and clients past and present 🎅🎄☃️

Thank you for your continued support throughout the year it is very much appreciated. We love you all xx

See you in 2025.

22/12/2024

We’re rounding off 2024 nicely with 7 gorgeous puppies completing their Puppy School at Home sessions and all before Christmas. It was lovely to work with you all in the comfort of your homes and we wish you all the very best going forward.

Huge congratulations go to - Freddie, Daisy, Honey, Benny, Jasper, Alfie and Oakley.

12/12/2024

08/12/2024

Us dog trainers need enrichment too!

We had a gathering today for our Christmas social team building. We met up at Cafe au Chocolat in Tewkesbury, for all things sweet and gooey and chocolatey, giving our tastebuds a real kick and also some much needed down time and catch up and just general nattering and laughter.

We then partook in the brilliant Sam Morris Artist studio and had a couple of hours of fun with paintbrushes painting a Riot of Robins.

We love our new artwork and it was great relaxing for a few hours.

26/11/2024

All sat on the stage and waiting to perform - it must be panto time. Oh no it’s not 🤡 it’s our latest gorgeous puppies graduating from Puppy School 😁

A little class which packed a mighty punch. These guys and their owners were just brilliant, we had such a laugh each week. We will miss you all very much.

Many congratulations go to Miss Rosie and her wonderful clan, Miss Cali whose tail never stopped wagging and Mr Archie the only boy in the group and who performed an astounding Bang, play dead trick.

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24/11/2024

Crazy weather today for Mantrailing but we managed it. We’re ‘ard 😂

We worked with a reduced team due to some clients not being able to get through the floods.

Huge well done for battling on with our returning dogs Lucy, Ivy, Willow and Pepper. And Mantrailing for the first time was Boycie, Benny (our youngest team member yet at 15 weeks) and Bonnie (a 2yr rescue who becomes hyper vigilant when people or dogs are near and who has found her calling and nailed her trails).

We are very proud of you all. See you in December for our Christmas themed event 🎄🐶🎅

06/11/2024

Meet Diesel, Ivy, Saxon, Forrin and Tilly who started their Puppy School journey with us last night.

We are looking forward to watching their progress each week.

03/11/2024

Our clients were back to Mantrailing yesterday ☺️💪

31/10/2024

Sassy Bellatrix the Schnauzer is super excited to share that her gorgeous and loving humans have helped her through her Puppy School at Home training with distinction 😀

It’s been fun guys, thanks for the laughs 🐶🐾❤️

28/10/2024

Thank you so much to Hatherley Manor Hotel & Spa, Gloucestershire for running their Paws and Prosecco Afternoon Tea event today.

They worked really hard to slot us into a corner so my boy was able to manage his arousal level. We had a goody bag to take away and also a plate of goodies for him to eat whilst we ate ours. He’s now fast asleep on the sofa.

We all had a great time and we’ve booked again.

24/10/2024

And the second cohort of graduations go to:

Bentley - a shy and thoughtful boy who on week 1 took his time to trust us but what a rewarding little chap he is. He’s got himself some brilliant humans and we might add, for a schnauzer he barely barked once we showed him what to do instead 🫶

Honey - sweet by name and nature. A super bright little girl who could have aced PS at 6 weeks old! A pleasure to have her in class each week and watch her show her humans her many talents.

Macy - now we can’t have favourites but we did have Macy! What a treat for us to have her to train. She’s working hard on her humans but having the most fun along the way.

Go forth little angels and keep reminding those humans how lucky they are to have you to learn from, we can’t wait to see what they learn with you next 💜

24/10/2024

We’ve had 2 classes graduate recently.
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First up -

Denzel - little boy with a big heart. He certainly became class inspector quickly ensuring cuddles were distributed to him first before his friends 🤣

Brody - just the most perfect soft little gentleman. Nothing he doesn’t already know but he was modest about his skill set.

Willow - whirlwind! A bouncy bundle of love and teeth! She was so eager to learn every week and her humans did a fabulous job keeping up with her.

Nancy - the other whirlwind of the group! She kept us on our toes for sure but what a special little lady. She had a team of three servants each week and they all learnt how to speak speedy terrier!

You will all fly in the big puppy world little ones. It’s rare to have a whole class of such kind and social pups, we really wanted to keep you all!

13/10/2024

Sharing this after meeting a man yesterday who refused to put his 3 uncontrollable off lead dogs on a lead because “isn’t your dog friendly, you need to socialize it more…..” allowing his very rude and rambunctious dogs to run up to my clients dog (when it was working).

Please if only for your own dogs safety be a responsible dog owner and clip on around on lead dogs especially when asked politely to do so. It’s the law you know 🤯🤯

There was recently a dog on dog incident in which resulted in an upsetting outcome and since then a few other incidents have been raised regarding dogs off leads not being in control by their owner. Therefore we wanted to provide some advice to dog owners regarding on lead and off lead etiquette.

Engagement, focus, and reliable recall is required if your dog is off the lead. Your dog coming when you call them, is crucial. If you’re comfortable with your pet being off lead please ensure they have good recall in place.

Here are some tips below which will help make sure both your dog and other dogs have the best time off and on the lead:

• Keep your pooch away from other dogs that are on-lead. Many owners will keep their dog on lead for various reasons such as training, reactive behaviour towards other dogs or people, nervousness, not reliable recall, legal or health reasons (including if their dog is post-surgery and is on strict gentle walks).

• Be sure to keep a close eye on your dog at all times – they may wander into an area that you’re not familiar with when they’re distracted by the other dogs

• It’s important to monitor dogs playing in a group environment because things can quickly escalate, especially when a new dog is introduced to the group

• When your dog is off lead, you should keep them away from others that are on lead

• When passing another dog, whether on or off the lead, it’s good etiquette to put your dog on a lead.

• We’re dealing with animals, and even though they may behave well most of the time, it’s wise to have full control.

One of the main concerns is people who let their dogs bound over to other dogs - who may be on the lead or walking quietly beside their owner - usually with some person shouting after them “don’t worry, he’s friendly”

When you are out walking your dog, don’t let them dash up to other dogs - especially if they are on a lead. Dogs will be on lead for a reason. If you see an on-lead dog and your dog is off lead, call your dog back, give them a treat and put them on the lead until you have passed them.

If you can’t do that, don’t have your dog off lead around others.

Further advice and resources can be found on: https://orlo.uk/lUU9j

Regarding animal crime you can find information here: https://orlo.uk/f1lzw

[image taken from the respect the lead website]

12/10/2024

It was a chilly start to Mantrailing this morning but that didn’t stop the dogs from working.

5 new starters, the youngest was 17 week old Charlie who absolutely smashed his baby trails.

We had 3 dogs progressing their trails this afternoon and we worked on starts, open spaces and building confidence.

Huge thanks to Vic at Hereford Mantrailing who is just awesome as always and the best Mantrailing Instructor.

Trailing today:
Charlie - our youngest dog yet at 17 weeks and Ivy, Luna, Dig, Pepper, Cleo, Fly, and Milo.

09/10/2024

Well that was fun 😀🙈🤯🤩🐶🐾

Our 6 week bronze course finished this evening and just look at these 5 adolescent dogs all posing nicely for the camera. We certainly didn’t get that in week 1.

Massive well done to all the owners of Murphy, Wilf, Buddy, Connie and Masey for turning up each week and chipping away and building that focus. Fantastic tricks from all of you and really good effort with the group stay.

Congrats all