Envy proving that we don’t need eye contact when changing from a lie down to a sit ❤️
We do lots of work on listening in class and this is a really important skill to have outwith the classroom! It’s also essential to give your dogs time to think about what we have asked.
Our dogs watch us all the time and if we can split our verbal cues from our hand signals it will build the dog’s understanding of what we are asking!
This in turn will help with focus and listening going forward.
Well done Envy and Emma ❤️
We work a lot on focus and leaving things within the classes!
Here we have Dougal leaving a pile of treats on the floor with a simple “leave” cue from his owner. He is then rewarded with a higher value treat 💙
This skill is really important to have when outside. There are lots of things on a walk we may not want our dogs to eat or touch! If we can teach a consistent “leave” it’ll make walking outdoors on/off lead much less stressful.
Well done Dougal x
Kip 💙
This guy doesn’t need an introduction as you’ve maybe seen him before on the page!
He belongs to one of my lovely colleagues at work and this distance work takes a lot of practice 💙
Excuse my awful counting to ten but how amazing did all of these dogs do!
These owners will be building up the time spent away from their dogs over the next few weeks, gradually being able to leave the room to do simple things like make a cup or tea or nip to the loo ❤️
The difficulty with being at home is our dogs follow us everywhere! This is fine up until the point we have to leave them. Building up our mat work is helping these dogs be happy with the separation and feel more comfortable being on their own.
Keep up the good work!
Our beginner class today doing amazing with their mat work!
This doesn’t happen from doing an hour each week at class but the effort their owners put in at home 💙
This is only week 4 and look at the progress already!
Another of our gorgeous new beginners is Romy ❤️
We started our mat training today and all of the dogs were doing really well considering this is very new for them!
Keep up the good work!
The gorgeous Envy showing off her mat training skills earlier today ❤️
Come down and say Hi at Birkenside Park today from 1pm-4pm!
We have 6 fun classes lined up for you enter and maybe win a rosette ❤️
We have myself and Kelsey from The Hound Lounge in Gorebridge here too so come and have a chat with us and join in!
See you soon xx
This lovely boy is Bernie!
He’s 10 months old and is very strong on lead. His owners had been struggling with pulling and he had started to injure his poor owner’s shoulder.
We started some training today and this video was taken nearing the end of our session today! The difference was amazing.
Lots of work to be done but hopefully he and his owners will have some nicer walks soon and start enjoying them more 💙
Arlo can’t wait to get back to class on Sunday evening!
I’m also looking forward to a few hours training with the new intake of puppies and dogs 💙
See you all Sunday!
Xx
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I have one remaining space in the 8.30pm beginner class starting on the 19th March!
Here’s a little throwback video to tiny Kip and Hazel at classes 💙
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🐾 Baby News! 🐾
I know lots of you had asked for me to pop a wee post on when madam decided to arrive!
Aubrey arrived 3 weeks early at exactly 37 weeks weighing in at 6lb 1oz ❤️
As you can see Arlo and Bruar are happy to have her home after having to spend a little bit of time in the nicu for supportive care!
Xx
Bruar loves a toy!
Here he has made up his own game putting the toy onto the swing and hitting it off 💙
Post a video or photo of your dog doing something a little out of the ordinary!
Just a wee reminder 💙
Dog training is not my full time job and I’m a fully qualified Veterinary Nurse providing care to your lovely furry friends during the week!
I do not reply to messages while at work no matter how many messages I may receive.
I will get back to everyone who has messaged over the last 48 hours by tomorrow evening. Thankyou for your patience 💙 xx
In our Intermediate class today the dogs were learning to follow cues while behind their owners!
Here we have the lovely Kip showing us how it’s done 💙
Some of the intermediate dogs practicing their mat training.
We have a mixture of adolescent and rescue dogs here able to be left in their safe place whilst their owners leave them for a few seconds.
You can see the practice they have all be doing at home!
Well done 💙
Ozzy 💙
We were building up confidence within the dogs in class on Sunday by leaving them either in a sit or a lie down.
Our dogs are so used to looking at us at all times that some struggle to stay when we turn away from them. Building this is up slowly helps with not only their confidence but ours too!
Well done Ozzy!
Hamish 💙
I would love to say Hamish did an amazing lie down stay at class today but the reality of this video was he actually couldn’t be bothered to get up!
Such a lovely boy! Does what he wants when he wants but what’s not to love 💙
