Ruffles Dogs Training & Owner Coaching

12/02/2024

Will you show a rescue dog some love this Valentines?

For one day only Wednesday 14th February, Tug-E-Nuff are offering you the opportunity to treat your own dog to a fabulous tuggy and they’ll give a free toy to a dog in rescue.

Treat your dog this Valentines…

and Tug-E-Nuff will donate a powerball tuggy to a dog in rescue.
You pay no extra >>> buy 1 toy - give 1 toy (for free)

Double the love and show a dog in kennels some love today.
Just head to the link below and take your pick of tremendous tuggies.

Ready, set… LET’S DOUBLE THE LOVE

https://tug-e-nuff.co.uk/?ref=RUFFLES

14/07/2023

10/05/2023

🐾🐾🤩🤩🤐🤐STAY TUNED FOR BIG NEWS🤩🤩🐾🐾🤐🤐
Whilst working and focusing on something terribly exciting, we’ll be pausing activities on here until we’re ready to share our news 😉🤐🐾💥

29/04/2023

Calmness is KING! ☯️ A calm dog make more good choices and behave appropriately in all situations.
A calm dog doesn't lunge, bark, pull on their lead, show separation-related behaviours, whine, hump or whiz about the house with Witching Hour zoomies! 🌀
Give your dog the gift of calmness 🎁 and build the skill that resolves nearly every dog training struggle at the same time!
Help your dog make good choices by sending us a message and ask for the FREE Calm eBook 📚
For top tips on turning a crazy dog into a calm dog, listen to this: https://youtu.be/ toKJzwCccbO

29/03/2023

🐾🐶🌈We're very sad to hear of the passing of this morning. He was an exceptional and inspirational hooman, a true animal lover who championed dog adoption through his work with and other animal charities. He was also a trailblazer for the LGBTQ+ community creating the iconic drag act Lily Savage. A very funny and kind man who will be greatly missed! One of the few hoomans allowed over the rainbow bridge we're sure
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05/03/2023

🙌🏻👏🏻🐾🏆Sharing Your Success🏆🐾👏🏻🙌🏻
Great to hear that Teddy and his Mum are getting on so well with D.M.T. 👍🏻🐾
If you want to learn how D.M.T. can get you out of any sticky situation and have your dog’s focused attention whenever you need it, then get in touch 🐾
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03/03/2023

🐾So so true…..!🐾
No matter how hard we try, dogs will never speak our language!
But, with games that help to reshape a dog’s brain and overcome struggles with certain behaviour concepts, we can create a healthier, empowering, more rewarding and much more fun relationship with our furry family members 🐾🐾🐾
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17/01/2023

We are told not to judge a book by its cover! Same could be said about dogs. 📚🟰 🐕‍🦺❓🤔
What we can physically see is far from the whole or true story!
No two dogs are the same and a bark from one dog doesn’t have the same meaning from all dogs🐾🐶
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16/01/2023

☎️“Hello, I’m getting a new puppy next week and I’d like to start him/her in daycare as soon as possible “

🐾🤔This is a typical enquiry we frequently get here at Ruffles Dogs. Now, we LOVE puppies just as much as everyone and we go all weak in our knees when we see one.🐶❤️ But, there is good reason why we have chosen not to accept puppies under a certain age for our daycare or boarding.
Not because of their questionable toilet skills 🫣, but simply because it is not in the best interest of the puppies that young. 😊
To help our enquiring new puppy pawrents understand why we have made that choice, we found this article and wanted to share it. Please help us share it with anyone planning to add a puppy to their family. 🐶🐾

New puppy parents can be eager to get their dog signed up for daycare. But here's why you should hold off on doggy daycare, at least for a little bit.

05/01/2023

Woof Woof 🐶 Important Info:

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
After our busiest December ever, we’ve realised the only time we can take a little break ourselves is early February.
So, we will be pausing the fun at Ruffles Dogs between 28/1-12/2, when Matt will be resting his paws and Jan retraining his ankle to be ready for the spring and summer rush 🐾🐾🐾🐾
Back in business as usual from 13/2

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

15/12/2022

🎄🐾☃️🐾🎄Whether you’ve recently welcomed a new dog into your home, or you’re wondering how to prepare for your puppy’s very first Christmas, this resource has you covered!

With top tips, games and strategies, we want to empower you not only to survive but to THRIVE through the Christmas holidays with your dog and to truly enjoy this magical time of year!
DM us your email and we’ll drop this brilliant ebook to you 🎄🐾☃️🎅🏻🐾🎄

19/11/2022

🤩✨ Wowzers!!!! What an epic first day that was!!🤩✨
While I’m out of action for a while due to an accident 🫣 (Yes that’s my foot in a fracture boot and my crutches 🤦🏻‍♂️) I’m making good use of the time by attending the annual 5 Day’s Super Trainer Live event from Absolute Dogs 🐾
Can’t believe how much learning was crammed into just one day? Covering:

🐶Importance of Ditching the Bowl
🐶Strategies for Building a Dimmer Switch
🐶Self Control

When I’m on my feet again, without crutches, I look forward to sharing all this new knowledge and learning from 5 days of Super Trainer Live with you 🤩
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29/10/2022

👻💥🎉Haunting HALLOWEEN HACKS for a HAPPY HOUND!🐾🐶

FREE RESOURCES BELOW ⬇️

The height of the Spooky Season is such an exciting time of year, especially if you have a family with young children. There are pumpkins to carve, costumes to plan and fa-BOO-lous decorations to hang. There are tricks, treats and spooks galore with vampire visitors and ghostly guests knocking on your door. For your family, it’s a chilling, thrilling and exhilarating time!

But what about your canine companion(s)? 🐶🐾🤔
Halloween can actually be incredibly stressful and overwhelming for many dogs! It’s a night full of weird, wacky, strange and downright scary things that your dog may never have seen or experienced before! Trick or Treaters alone can very quickly fill your dog’s stress bucket, especially if those visitors are dressed as witches, ghosts and other creepy creatures!

With Halloween now only days away, we wanted to drop by to make sure you have everything your dog needs and you’re all set and ready (and we don’t mean your decorations, costume and Trick or Treat candy, as creeptacular as all that is)!

When considering how you can get ready for the spookiest time of year and prepare your dog with confidence, it’s so important to be proactive and train FOR the situation so that you can be your dog’s best advocate and give them a little less spook and a little more success this Halloween (and spooky events that occur at any other time of year – such as Fireworks Season, which is just around the corner)!

Absolute Dogs have some handy hacks and cool bonus resources for you to help you make your dog’s Halloween a spooktacular success!

🎉SO LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTLED!

🤩Taking the Fear out of Fireworks eBook
https://game.absolute-dogs.com/optin1635358217425

🤩Take the Horror out of Halloween for your dog Podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/761645/11471830

🤩The Halloween Edition Podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/761645/9233237-the-halloween-edition

🤩A Trick (or Treat) For You Podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/761645/5987494-a-trick-or-treat-for-you

🤩Please Don’t Knock Door Sign
http://absolutedogs.me/halloweensign

🤩Tips For Your Dog On Halloween AbsoluteDOGS TV Episode
https://youtu.be/A35DFDv5mfY

🤩Fireworks Podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/761645/9233241-fireworks

24/10/2022

🪔✨ Happy Diwali to all our pawrents and furkids celebrating today ✨🪔

💜 Did you know…? Each year, on the second day of the five-day Diwali celebrations in Nepal, the country celebrates Kukur Tihar or "day of the dogs" by worshipping our four-legged friend. Pooches of all kinds—strays and pets—are showered with flowers, adorned with garlands and tilak or gulal.💜
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18/10/2022

🤩🐾✨🎊WIN £200 of Tug-E-Nuff Toys🎊✨🐾🤩

To help more dog owners like you discover the Power of Play, we’re giving away a WHOPPING bundle of transformational tuggies worth more than £200/$300. Plus, you’ll get our awesome Enrichment Guide + bonus Transformation Tracker just for getting involved.

12/10/2022

7 Days to a Less Reactive dog!
LAST CHANCE TO JOIN 👍🏻🐾

Say goodbye to barking, lunging and over excitement with this 7 Day Challenge for 2022!
OPEN ONLY for another 24hrs 🐾🐾

https://nbn.absolute-dogs.com/7-day-challenge1663836157219?prod=barking-lunging-reactivity-7-day-homeschool-challenge&ref=1018

If you have a dog that’s reactive (whether it’s barking, lunging, being a nightmare on walks or getting overexcited about anything and everything) and you’ve ever been to another trainer, we can bet that many of you experienced something far less than fun. Some of you may have even been told that there is no point trying as your dog is beyond help now.

This is an incredibly popular challenge! But why?
● It’s not because it only costs £7
● It’s not because thousands of people have taken part before
● It’s not even because of the new games and skills you will learn
It’s because it works!
If you have a dog that is:
✔️ difficult to walk
✔️ lunges and barks at people, dogs (or anything!)
✔️ gets overexcited
✔️ and you really can’t get to grips with where to even begin to help them – then you need this!
It takes place over 7 days and begins on Wednesday 12th October. Just 30 minutes a day max should do it but you get the challenge for life so you can watch the videos when it suits you best!

But surely you can’t fix reactivity in just 7 days?
Well that very much depends on the dog in front of you!
I’ve had dogs that improved massively in just 7 days with a few tweaks to their homelife and training, to dogs that improve over the coming weeks and months.
It's more about consistency, being aware and having the right tools (aka games!) in place than it is about time.
So get ready to check off that list…
✔ Reactivity, check!
✔ Off-Leash Freedom, check!
✔ Household Manners, check!
You CAN transform your reactive dog through FUN GAMES in this 7 Day Challenge for just £7 ⬇️

https://nbn.absolute-dogs.com/7-day-challenge1663836157219?prod=barking-lunging-reactivity-7-day-homeschool-challenge&ref=1018

I’m always here to answer any questions you have - just message me anytime! 😊
Let’s do this! 🐾🐾

08/10/2022

👋 Is your dog prepared for the clock change? ⏰

AD share some pawsome insights and tips on how we can help them. It may ‘just’ be an hour, but that can be enough to cause serious upset if your dog is very routine dependent.

With the time change can come a disruption in routine.

For our dogs, routines predict things like…

🟢 Walks
🟡 Meal Time
🔵 You going to work
🟣 Wake Up/Sleep Times 😴 💤

A disruption from routine can be stressful. Being flexible and adjusting the routine can reduce frustration behaviours and over-arousal and excitement.

If your dog isn’t able to predict something before it happens, they’ll remain calm and content, and ready whenever you are.

Ditch the Routine today with your dog for a smooth transition when the clocks change 🙌

08/09/2022

A fellow passionate dog lover has sadly passed away today 🖤
HM Qeen Elizabeth II - R.I.P.

26/08/2022

☀️☀️As the weekend of Solar Panel Installation begins here at Ruffles Dogs HQ, Frank appears to wholeheartedly agree with our Green Ethos 🌿🪴🐾🥰
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25/08/2022

Tiny Noah found himself on our doorstep at just eight months old, but with the help of supporters like you, we were able to find him a loving home. With your help, we can be there for dogs like Noah. Will you make a difference today?

11/08/2022

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🐶 Plus + - our formula is chicken flavoured, to encourage even the fussiest of pooches to drink it.
You can order Fresh-K9 here :

https://a-ok9.com/products/fresh-k9-1-pot?ref=Kof0rjh8X1QUJ

✨🤩If you use this discount code at checkout, you’ll get the Ruffles Dogs’ Partner Discount🤩✨:
RUFFLESDOGS
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02/08/2022

🤩PRIZES TO WIN - SEE BELOW🤩
☀️💧Do you find it hard to make sure your dog is drinking enough? Are you concerned about their hydration on competition days or in hot weather?☀️

🤩KEEP READING - PRIZES TO WIN 🏆

Drawing from their own experiences of hot and thirsty dogs during Summer walks or competition days, A-OK9 has created a solution that will tempt our dogs to hydrate, even when they turn down water. 💧

Fresh-K9 hydration powder is a highly palatable energy, electrolyte and hydration drink for your dog! Simply add a 1-2 tablespoons of the tasty powder to water, shake in a bottle, pour in a bowl and watch your dog actively choose to stay hydrated!
Our furry friends at Ruffles Dogs love it 🐶🐶👍🏻

🤩READY TO WIN PRIZES?? 🤩🎁🎊
The first 2 to like, comment on and share this post wins one of two A-OK9 Fresh-K9 Adventure Packs (pictured) 😲😲🤩

To know more about the amazing A-OK9 products or to purchase your favourites if already using them. Click here:⬇️

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10% Discount when using code: RUFFLESDOGS

Benefits of Fresh-K9:

Energy rich – added calorie content to refuel active dogs
Perfectly aligned to the daily electrolyte requirements of a dog
Portable size – carry the pouch with you in the car/bag and use the handy Fresh-K9 water bottle to hydrate your pooch on-the-go!
Tasty chicken flavour to tempt even the fussiest pup

02/08/2022

Your dog’s quirks and traits make them who they are (and are probably on the list of things you love about them most).

In particular, interactive play – that’s play between your dog and a human using interactive toys – can bring out the weird and wonderful in dogs of all shapes and sizes.

So if you’ve ever been playing tug (or another interactive game) with your dog and wondered ‘is this behaviour normal’, don’t fret - this article from tug-e-nuff is hugely insightful.

“Every dog is unique and will have been shaped by breed, genetics, littermate play and life experiences, resulting in their own wonderful style of play,” said tug-e-nuff in-house Play Expert, Chelsea.

“Barking, growling, tail wagging, toy shaking… It can all be normal – but there are some instances where we should take action. It’s all about working out what’s normal for your dog, and what that means for the way you play.”

Here are six of the most common interactive play behaviours that leave owners scratching their heads – with insight from Chelsea to help you work out what’s normal, and when you should be concerned.

6 Surprisingly Normal Behaviours Dogs Display During Play:

https://bit.ly/3PUapuY

31/07/2022

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️🐾🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️🐾
We warmed up all day here at Camp Ruffles and now we can’t stop roaring over the phenomenal win for the English Lionesses 🎉🥳🎊🎉🥳🎊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐾⚽️
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17/07/2022

🐾🥵☀️Whether in the garden, inside your house or out for a walk it’s important to keep your dog cool during heatwaves and hot or humid weather. This helps them feel more comfortable and reduces risk of heatstroke ☀️🥵🐾
‼️Dogs are more at risk than we are. Heatstroke is serious and as a dog’s internal temperature rises it can lead to organ failure. Heatstroke can quickly kill and 1 in 7 dogs that are taken to the vets with heatstroke die.
‼️All dogs can develop heatstroke, but some are more at risk than others. Research found that dogs with a higher risk include those that are:
Overweight, Flat-faced, More energetic, Older, Bigger particularly over 50kg, Have longer or thicker fur, Have health issues
Breeds that are most commonly taken to the vets with heatstroke include:
Chow Chows, Bulldogs, French Bulldogs, Dogue de Bordeaux, Greyhounds, Boxers, English Springer Spaniels, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Pugs, Golden Retrievers and Staffordshire Bull Terriers.
Exercise/Walking is the most common cause of heatstroke,
‼️Signs of heatstroke progress quickly and include:
Heavy panting, even when not exercising
Breathing problems, particularly in flat-faced dogs
Tiredness
Stiffness or an unwillingness to move
Dribbling
Confusion
Being sick
Upset stomach
Not walking in a straight line
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Fitting
‼️If you think your dog has heatstroke, immediately contact your vet while cooling them down. Getting early advice and treatment is essential to saving a dog’s life.
It is important that you start to cool your dog as soon as possible - this can make a big difference to whether they survive.

https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/keepingyourdogcool?fbclid=IwAR0UIjh2VEd8lhSZFXbT6B3Kp5OQ3cbuiqJUVdS93_VijnS8zczqZ3yyhqc&fs=e&s=cl

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