Love my walk and train sessions with these 2 🥰🤩 always so synchronised 🤣
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Puppy Graduates dogs and their people doing a fabulous job of wait with distractions, then literal nose work with unrolling the mat with their nose for some calm, considered nose work
Puppy Graduates suits dogs that have been through puppy classes, junior classes or 1:1s that are comfortable in the classroom environment.
Next one starts 14th March 7.30pm
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There's a reason why her nickname is 'the ferret'!
Rita helped me practice some of the tricks for our Halloween 🎃 class tonight
Rita helped me practice some of the tricks we will be learning in the Halloween class tonight 🎃
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Zoom zoom Hoopers progress @blunsdoncaninehoopers
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Tails of Imogen
Imogen is fearful of anything novel, we've been working on Treibball to try to build her confidence and resilience.
You can see she is still hesitant of the ball, particularly when it moves towards her but she can't resist poking it with her nose before I'm ready 🤣. Her confidence has come on heaps with this, she sees me getting the ball and runs to the garden.
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Tails of Imogen
Strong start to our hoopers classes 🤣😅🙈
We loved our first session though, humans require training!
Watch this space....
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Me and Rita have been attempting to learn Treibball (herding giant balls!)
I have a class with a space left 15th Oct 11-1pm at @wagtailssecuredogfield Leigh £35, class ran by the fantastic Donna.
Open to those who have attended one to ones and classes with me, we will be working with one dog at a 6 may suit those dogs who are reactive.
The premise is to be able to send your dog out independently from a starting point, to collect a specific ball from a collection, and 'herd' (push) it back towards the handler, who remains in their goal area. Then the dog can be sent out again to collect the remaining balls one at a time. Any breed/type/size can learn this, and it's low impact on their bodies.
There are a lot of specific skill sets that the dog needs to have to be able to complete the whole sequence - these include:
*Working at a distance independently
*Send away
*Cue discrimination
*Targeting with nose or body (no paws or teeth!)
*'Stop'
Like with any sport, if we teach the foundation skills well, we get a better outcome, so initial sessions can seem finickity. It's designed to be done with control, not mindlessly flinging balls here, there and everywhere
A lot of the skills transfer beautifully to other sports and activities as well!
Those who have attended before we will aim to build on your dog's skills they have gained already.
Please pop me a message to book.
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Mochi was so zen this morning, he has come on leaps and bounds from barking at dogs and people approaching thanks to his person's hard work and impeccable handling and timing. This is our 4th session and we were able to progress to a busy park environment on a long line, so he feels he has choices/ no tension and enough distance to remain relaxed.
A huge well done 👏 😀🐶
We were discussing adaptations in class, I have to share this ingenious ramp system Dylan's people have made for him! Best thing I've ever seen!
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2 weeks ago Imogen had her leg amputated, the operation to fix her very wonky leg (trauma injury as a pup pre rescue) she had last March was unsuccessful, she had severe lameness since January with no suitable options to resolve the issue, leaving her with pain and lameness that would just worsen over time. It was a horrible decision to make, I lost alot of sleep. We put alot of time, energy and emotion into the last operation which was a big operation for her and us and a lot of rehab with physio, hydro etc but despite everyone's best efforts and orthopaedic specialist input it wasn't meant to be.
She has been an absolute trooper and so far recovery is going well, I let her off for a short time today and she managed to chase a pigeon 🙈. This little dog is an absolute legend 🥰.
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Imogen is still on restricted lead walks post knee op last March (hence the wonky walk). Loose lead walking is always a work in progress with her in scented or new areas. Today we practiced loose lead walking, 'this way' cue and sit and wait.
Yesterday I drove past a little spaniel being repeatedly yanked on their neck at a side of a road presumably they were trying to get the dog to sit but the dog just flattened their ears, lowered their tail and looked confused and scared.
Sitting at the edge of a road is helpful for safety but a 'stand' and wait is likely to be just as fine especially for older dogs or breeds predisposed to joint issues and pain. Sit to stand movement is part of Imogen's physio exercises so she is ok doing this movement.
So just wanted to show how you can use a pre taught verbal and hand cue for sit which really helps the dog understand what you are asking. Then use 'come' etc when you move off so that they aren't guessing when you are about to step off the kerb, this prevents dogs crossing the road before you are ready. I'm practicing stepping away from her to imitate hesitation at the road side and then using the cue to move off when we are actually ready.
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