Kat's Dogs

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Hi, my name is Katie and I'm a canine behaviourist and dog training instructor. In 2012 I completed my degree: BSc (Hons) Applied animal behaviour and training. I have been training my own dogs since I was 9 years old and teaching other human/dog partnerships for the last 8 years. I currently work my 7 year old border collie at grade 5 in agility (after three years off due to university and having

my baby) and am looking forward to getting stuck in with training our new addition, 8 week old border collie, Bridie. My achievements to date include: YKC crufts obedience winner, Crufts agility dog of the year qualifier, crufts team agility, Olympia semi finalist, CSJ novice finalist, Junior European Championship team member and European open team member in which we gained bronze for Great Britain. These a few of my personal achievements I am most proud of but I am also proud that I have trained other partnerships to become successful (some winning from grade 1 to 7 in agility and others just to become well adjusted, obedient pets). I offer 1-2-1 behaviour consultations, pet obedience, beginners to advanced agility training, puppy training, behaviour rehabilitation, dog walking and much more. Hope to hear from you and your four legged friends soon!

18/10/2024

10 years 🤯🤯🤯

Thank you thank you thank you to every single one of you that have supported me in any way whatsoever. I'm a lucky lucky lady 💕

25/07/2024

Nominations are open for the mumbler awards. Would love to be considered for business parent of the year... we are less than week in to the school hols and already feel like I deserve a medal 🏅 🤣🤣

If you could spare a moment I'd be super grateful 🙏

https://harrogate.mumbler.co.uk/awards/nominate/

06/06/2024

Well this was a lovely email to open 😍😍😍

I want to apologise to anyone who has been waiting for a response from me over the last few weeks. We had a very poorly little girl in hospital and the show season has started which means I hardly have time to breathe! I am going to try to respond to all enquiries today. The best method to reach me is via email as there are just too many methods of communication for me to keep on top of 🙈

14/05/2024

WE ADDED ANOTHER CLASS!!! 🥳🥳

The 7.15pm class filled up in about 24 hours so we've decided to add a 6pm class too, still 2 spaces left.

We also have spaces left in the morning group.

STARTING TOMORRRRRRROW!!

02/05/2024

Very exciting!!!! We have finally made time for some new classes. It's been a while since our last new intake for agility and no guarantee when we'll be able to squeeze another in so if you've been thinking about it now is the time!

We train everyone from pet dogs just for fun (although done properly!) up to world championship medalists and always have so much fun 😁😁

Puppy class is general training open to all puppies up to 6 months, with a focus on relationship building and making training fun fun fun 🥳

We are so excited to welcome some new faces to our Kat's Dogs family 🥰

09/03/2024

Proudest mum on the planet. We could all learn a thing or two from her ❤️

28/02/2024

I've got a few new clients at the moment who are also parents of young children so I do find myself using a lot of comparisons and analogies to explain our dog training. I was quite pleased with this one that came to me today so sharing here 🤣

Comparing loose lead walking to learning to read!

Would you hand your 4 year old child a novel and expect them to read it enthusiastically and fluently? No. Obviosuly not, they don't even know the alphabet yet!

So how can we expect our puppy or dog to walk perfectly on a half hour lead walk when we haven't even taught them the alphabet?! 🤪

When teaching children to read we first teach them the sound of each letter, we praise them heavily for recognising "b" sounds like "buh", "e" sounds like "eh", "d" sounds like "duh", eventually celebrate them understanding that buh - eh - duh spells "bed"!!! We praise every word they manage to decipher and only once they are doing this well expect them to add more fluency... that comes from practice, practice, practice and being rewarded for getting it right! Eventually we praise every sentence rather than every word. Then every page. Then an entire chapter. Then a whole novel! And throughout this entire process of using praise to increase confidence they are more willing to try and learn to LOVE reading. Would it be reasonable to read one book with them, tell them how awesome that was, then expect them to continue reading without ever acknowledging their efforts again? Or should we continue to nurture them, reward them, help them to find joy in reading?

Don't expect your puppy/dog to read a novel if you haven't taught them the alphabet 🥰 reward the small steps, frequently and enthusiastically. Increase the difficulty when they have mastered the step before. But continue rewarding! And don't be cross if they struggle in a new situation, perhaps they haven't been taught that "tricky word" yet. Start in a low distraction environment (my kids ain't learning anything if youtube is blaring in the background!) and gradually increase what you are asking of them when you have built lots of success 🙌

14/02/2024

Happy Valentines Day 💝

My friends at tugenuff have a lovely offer, today only!

Buy any toy and they will donate one to a rescue dog 🥰🥰🥰

Spread the love ❤️

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

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