Amy Thomson Dog Training

14/02/2025

Lovely Valentines day class this morning. We did heart to heart 'this way' cue, find your owner's heart ❤️ line up, whisper you love me (nose to your hand in front of your ear), circles of love tasks (go round cue and waiting for your person to walk around you), holding hands (give paw) and sticking together rally course 🌟 ❤️ 🌟 ❤️

Thank you for coming!

13/02/2025

Week 2

13/02/2025

Thank you to Emma for teaching Rally this evening, thanks to everyone that came along 😀 🐕

13/02/2025

Any more takers for our valentines class tomorrow?

Hi All,

I have a fun drop in class Fri 14th 10am - 11 am, open to all present and previous owners who have attended classes or one to ones, dogs need to be comfortable in the classroom around other dogs and people.
Pop me a message to book.

12/02/2025

Welcome to our new puppy starters and their people

12/02/2025

Week 5

12/02/2025

Can I just say, we had 7 dogs and their people attend the social walk on Saturday, not only did everyone brave the mud and the less than optimal weather, but all the dogs did amazingly with each other and all the animals.

I know several were apprehensive about attending but were pleasantly surprised by how well their dogs did, so a massive thank you and well done for giving it a go. I was so proud of them all 🥲👏, it makes it all worth it when I see people's hard work coming together and paying off, yes there were a few moments that required a bit of styling out but that's dogs and dog training for ya!

I hope you've all defrosted by now.

Thank you for your donations to the Care Farm 🚜

12/02/2025

Woweeee, I have been nominated for an Animal Star Award!

I am so grateful to be nominated and for those working so hard in the industry to get the recognition they deserve.

It can be both a rewarding but difficult industry to work in at times, so awards like this that recognise and shine a light on the positives is amazing.

www.animalstarawards.com
animalstarawardsuk

12/02/2025

Trying to do training at home with more than one dog can be a challenge. This is something I've been working on with my 2 dogs and it's going really well, one now waits on their mat while the other does something with me and then we swap over, it's been so much easier to practice training and do their physio exercises

Being able to train one dog in a household without another dog raising hell is a holy grail in training. We got it and I'll describe how we did it.

05/02/2025

Week 4 😀

05/02/2025

Our next Succeeding Together talk (all past and current clients can access Succeeding Together group for free, please pop me a message if you need log in info):

Golden Years Grooming Topic and Q&A session on Monday 10th Feb at 9:30am UK time with Daniella Stewart

Daniella Stewart - Award Winning Holistic Dog Groomer
Daniella’s journey started when she adopted Maximus, a collie x. Max didn’t have the best start in life and therefore struggles around dogs he doesn’t know. “He turned my world upside down and I had to learn more about dog behaviour and training methods than I ever thought possible. I really struggled to find somewhere to take Max to be groomed who understood his quirky ways and weren’t going to force him into any situations that would push all our training backwards, and so it’s because of him that I decided to do a dog grooming qualification, Dogs spend approximately 260 hours+ of their lives being groomed so its always worth investing the time to make sure it’s a positive experience for them.”. Daniella is now further increasing her skill and knowledge studying for DAATA Level 2 and has completed a Holistic Dog Grooming Diploma (CPDUK Accredited) and Level 1 DAATA. Daniella is focusing on Cooperative care to make the grooming experience about the bigger picture of the welfare of your dog.
Daniella is here to Answer your questions. You can email them to us at [email protected].

05/02/2025

Hi All,

I have a fun drop in class Fri 14th 10am - 11 am, open to all present and previous owners who have attended classes or one to ones, dogs need to be comfortable in the classroom around other dogs and people.
Pop me a message to book.

04/02/2025

Diagnosing a Fart

Yup, you read that right, this was a phrase used by a good friend and colleague during a conversation yesterday and I thought it was too good not to share.

We were talking about Resource Guarding and how we both felt it was a label that is often used with an incorrect meaning attached to it.

Many people and even professionals see Resource Guarding as a dog saying " it's mine" a dog that doesn't want to lose or share something, an item, a space, themselves and that's it.

However, RG is usually the symptom.

It can be pain, gut health, boredom, conflict the list goes on and on.

It's important to not just end the diagnosis with the label.

Just like diagnosing a fart.

Why did you fart?

The fart was the symptom.

You may have felt nervous which created gas, you may have constant gut issues, an underlying health issue, have eaten something that didn't agree with you, be on medication, this list goes on.....see the link now 😅

Everyone knows my issues with labels even though i know we often need them. Labels can impact our responses, the information we share and our understanding and desire to dig deeper.

In a world where we are all looking for our own answers online, you first have to have to know how to peel that onion and understand what's actually going on, not just react to the symptom.

If you start taking pills for wind and it turns out you have a stomach ulcer, the pills could irritate the stomach ulcer and make it worse, get the idea!!!

This is why a good professional will never offer quick fixes or jump straight to " fixing" we spend time investigating and learning more, we peel the onion to try and diagnose the fart 😅

30/01/2025

Week 3 😁

30/01/2025

Are you booked onto our upcoming webinar on the afternoon of Monday 24th February? Although it's aimed at professionals, everyone is welcome as no prior legal knowledge is required.
It will start at 2.30pm and run until around 5.15pm. It is a live only event so will not be recorded.
Places cost £50 per person and you can book online using the link below or call Doglaw Ltd on 0800 999 3647.

The content is expected to be:-
- Cruelty & Duty of Care offences - Greg Gordon (barrister)
- Dogs in rented housing (incl. the Renters Rights Bill) - Matthew Ahluwalia (barrister)
- When dogs cause damage : civil liability - Oliver May (barrister)
- Enforceability of puppy contracts and rehoming agreements - Richard Shawcross (Solicitor) + Jack Sullivan (trainee Solicitor)

Trevor will be the MC for the event.

https://www.doglawsos.co.uk/doglaw-webinars/