Positive Canine Coaching

Positive Canine Coaching Positive Canine Coaching runs puppy fundamentails & follow-on classes, scent classes & 121s. 🐶

16/01/2025

Waiting for the first pups of 2025 to arrive for Puppy Fundamentails.......

Scentwork Taster Session. There is just one spot left on the Taster Session taking place on Saturday 25th January. Drop...
10/01/2025

Scentwork Taster Session. There is just one spot left on the Taster Session taking place on Saturday 25th January. Drop me and email at [email protected] if you're interested.


Happy New Year everyone - I am officially back in 'the office' today, catching up, in between sorting things out. We mo...
06/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone - I am officially back in 'the office' today, catching up, in between sorting things out. We moved house just before Christmas, and it's lovely to have a garden for Miss Z, and more space for us.

I'll be posting details over the coming days of what's happening in January and Feburary, including the two Scentwork Taster sessions that are taking place on Saturday 25th January and Thursday 20th February. If you're interested in finding out more about Scentwork with your dog, but aren't sure about signing up to the full course, this is for you!

Drop me an email at [email protected] and I will do my best to help, or point you in the right direction.

31/12/2024

Wishing you and your lovely doggos a Happy New Year!

It's that time of year again to wish clients old and new a fantastic Christmas. Thank you for choosing Positive Canine ...
22/12/2024

It's that time of year again to wish clients old and new a fantastic Christmas.
Thank you for choosing Positive Canine Coaching to train your pups with. Have a wonderful time and I wish you all the very best for 2025. 🎄⭐🎅🐶 ###

What are your plans for Christmas? If you're heading to friends or family with a dog or puppy, consider taking a crate o...
10/12/2024

What are your plans for Christmas?

If you're heading to friends or family with a dog or puppy, consider taking a crate or baby gate with you (so long as they're comfortable being in a crate). If other dogs are likely to be in the house you're visiting, babygates are great to keep them apart if they don't know one another too well. Prevention is better than cure and it's not easy to keep both eyes on things, especially during the festive period.

We have an extra person coming for Christmas Day this year, which is exciting, and they're bringing their dog too. While Miss Z is friends with their dog, my parent's dog has never met them, so we will be putting plans in place so that they are kept separate throughout the day. If you take measures to make sure everyone is comfortable, you'll be able to relax and enjoy the day, as well as your pup.


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06/12/2024

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03/12/2024

I'm clearly getting better at cutting the veg smaller.....

Scentwork Taster Session. Here's another date for your diary. If you've been wanting to give Scentwork a go with your ...
28/11/2024

Scentwork Taster Session. Here's another date for your diary. If you've been wanting to give Scentwork a go with your dog, book on to one of the Taster Sessions happening in the New Year. For more information drop an email to [email protected]
Places are limited.

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23/11/2024

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We humans are creatures who tend to make a lot of comparisons. We compare different factors of our lives to those of other people – whether that’s how much money we make, the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, and so on.

When it comes to our dogs, we have more of a tendency to compare them to the dogs we have known before and expect them to behave in the same (or a very similar way). This expectation is usually dashed, and we find people saying things like, ‘My last dog wouldn’t do that,’ or something similar.

Every dog is an individual and will all have their little differences and quirks. Dogs of the same breed will behave differently, even if related. The breed I live with is the Border Collie and over the years between sharing my home and work with them and working with others I have encountered quite a few! Every single one of them has been different, even when closely related.

I have had a mother and daughter who were complete opposites in personality. One very independent and not bothered much about people, while the other wanted to climb in your pocket and have all the fuss available from anyone in the area.

Many of the dogs I have known were keen to work, as is generally expected with herding dogs, and then there was the one who, when presented with sheep, took himself back to the house to play with a ball.

The dog who shows his excitement by standing by the back door and doing a silent little pre-walk dance, and the one who shouts her head off at full volume as soon as she thinks something exciting is happening (although this is calming as she moves through adolescence!)

Every dog is affected by the combination of their genetics (nature) and the things they have experienced (nurture), which means that even siblings will be different – each one will receive a slightly different mixture of the genes from their parents, and their experience of life will differ slightly. Occasionally we see a story of people who plan to have a much-loved dog cloned, but even then, with identical genes, the experiences will never be identical so their personality may well be different.

For me, the differences are something to be celebrated. I have loved each one of my dogs very much despite (and, if I’m honest, sometimes because of) their differences and quirks. Every different dog brings us something new and finds their own places in our hearts so, even though they may present different challenges to us in their care and stewardship, they all teach us something and make us better dog people.

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Waiting for the first pups of 2025 to arrive for Puppy Fundamentails....... #lovingthewoof

Wishing you and your lovely doggos a Happy New Year!

When you've got a scent class followed by a Puppy Fundamentails class and know you'll run over and have very little time to get stuff ready! #puteverythingout

Nice early visit to Contented Canine Secure Fields this morning.... Z really loves the water.....🐶🥰 Going to be a hot one this week, make sure you keep those pups cool....early walks, rather than later, plenty of access to drinking water, sniffy games rather than full on, running like lunatics....(or excessive ball throwing), plenty of shade..... #lovingthewoof

When you've been teaching for a few hours and the dogs missed you.....

Having a fab time at Clockhouse Vets Open Day. Thanks Mary for bringing Morgan along and Fred and Daisy for working Rosa too. #scentwork #scent #scenttraining

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Another day, another tennis ball discovered.......

Well that's a wrap! Thank you to clients past and present and I look forward to working with more of you in 2024. I'll be back in the office on the 8th Jan. New puppy classes begin on the 11th Jan, but in the meantime I hope you get to spend some quality time with loved ones as well as time to rest and don't forget to advocate for those dogs. Merry, Happy Christmas. 🎄❤️🎄 #lovingthewoof Email. [email protected]

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Welcome to Positive Canine Coaching

I’m Katherine Johnson and I’m an IMDT qualified dog and puppy trainer who covers the county of Gloucestershire.

I’m currently trained by my 2-year-old Labradoodle, Zelda and my 2 house bunnies, Ralph and Ruby. My love of animals started over 30 years ago when we owned a rabbit and our first puppy Rebel, a Golden Labrador. Things have changed so much in the dog training world in the last 30 years and I was adamant I wanted to teach my current pup Zelda in the right way, by building trust and creating a good bond with her using positive and force free methods. I re homed her when she was just over 4 months old from a previous client, who felt she couldn’t give her the life she deserved. I was lucky that Zelda had been given a great start in life and had come from what seemed a very good, loving home. As with lots of puppies when the hormones start to kick in, many of the behaviours previously taught can prove to be a bit more of a challenge and she’s currently struggling with certain noises and objects she may have previously encountered when she was younger. We’re also spending a lot of time working on her recall as I believe as a trainer and a dog owner, recall is one of the most important behaviours to get right, but this too is a work in progress!.

Before Zelda came in to my life, my two house bunnies ruled the roost. Ruby is a rescue rabbit from the RSPCA, and I believe she was used for breeding and Ralph was the last of an unwanted litter. Ruby is the one I have to keep a close eye on. She was found with no hay and a bowl of muesli. For those of you who know about rabbits, hay should make up 85% of their diet and they shouldn’t be fed muesli. Rabbits teeth grow all the time and the hay helps keep them short. Ruby’s teeth are in a awful condition and she has to have an injection every 3 days to help her. She has also had bouts of gut stasis which basically means the gut slows down or stops working, so I monitor her closely looking for any change in behaviour. I get asked all the time “Can you train a rabbit?” Well, yes, actually you can. They both use a litter tray to go to the toilet and they both run back in to their pen, when it’s time to go to bed.

When we bring a dog in to our lives, or any animal for that matter, it should not only enhance our lives, but also theirs. Every animal has their own personality and my main reason for becoming a dog trainer is to help owners have the best relationship then possibly can with their canine and also help reduce dog bites in the home. If we can get the relationship with the puppy right from the beginning, the chances are we’ll both have a loving and fulfilling life together.