Remraf Pet Services : Dog Walking & Training

26/09/2025

✨ Remraf Pet Services: The Passionate Pet People ✨
Trusted by Hertfordshire’s most devoted pet parents since 2018. Because every pet deserves the best!

We offer dog walking, in-home pet sitting, puppy and cat visits, and overnight stays - all tailored to your pet’s needs!

🐶 Dog Walking – Enriching, structured walks tailored to your dog’s energy level and needs. Whether they love a brisk adventure or a gentle stroll, we ensure every walk is safe, fun, and rewarding!

🏡 Pet Sitting & Overnight Stays – Going away? Keep your pet happy and stress-free with our loving, professional care in the comfort of their own home. Perfect for dogs, cats, and small pets! For pets who need extra company, we offer overnight stays to provide security, cuddles, and care—so you can travel worry-free!

🐾 Puppy & Cat Visits – For young puppies needing potty breaks or cats who prefer to stay home, our visits provide feeding, playtime, and companionship while you’re out.

With us, you’ll enjoy complete peace of mind knowing your pets are cared for with love, expertise, and professionalism. 💛

📍 Hertfordshire
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07/06/2025

This is a little dog in a prong collar.

The strong metal spikes go into the dog’s neck and throat skin if they move fast or pull on the lead.

In fact they are poking into the neck at all times they just hurt more if the dog makes even the slightest of decisions that the human on the other end of the lead doesn’t want.

This is a dachshund.

A small dog breed not known for overt behaviour or emotional instability. If anything, little dogs suffer with fear or anxiety issues that affect their behaviour because the world is big and tends to disregard their need for agency.

Look at the dog’s eyes. See the slight glaze? See the lack of safety, the confusion, the kind of ‘deadness’ there?

That is a nervous system response.

When a nervous system cannot escape danger or fear related responses it takes the animal (and human) into a freeze response.

The freeze response can become functional. A functional freeze means the dog moves as we want them to, plods on, keeps ‘performing’ but inside is chaos.

Their immunity is off so their body cannot fight disease. Their digestion is low so they can’t digest their food properly. Homestasis is not there. This dog - even if functional freeze without the outward signs - is suffering.

Now the ‘trainer’ here might have initially seen hesitation or discomfort when this collar went on. They might have assumed the cessation of that outward discomfort as acceptance.

The dog hasn’t accepted the collar!

THE DOG HAS GIVEN IN!

This little dog will now - even if that collar is removed - will never feel fully safe. His nervous system may never come out of freeze state. Not without specialist and educated help.

This little dog needs rescuing from this dog ‘trainer’

Because they clearly do not understand the nervous system responses that anyone at all who works with dogs should understand.

Dogs in our homes should be celebrated for their choices, taught to be optimistic, helped through life with love and respect. Their life matters to them as much as our life matters to us.

No dog needs to look like this poor little mite.

We are better than this. We can do better.

If your dog is having trouble adjusting into a human world - that’s perfectly normal!

They are not bad or broken.

Please advocate for them and don’t let them be treated this way, no matter how charismatic or persuasive a dog trainer is.

05/06/2025

I have seen so many people defend the use of choke chains and shock collars, because their dogs still show them love and affection. The fact that dog's tolerate such abusive methods, is not evidence that these methods are not extremely detrimental to welfare. It is evidence that dogs have a great capacity for unconditional love; an ability I don't think we as humans can even begin to replicate. - Holly Leake

02/06/2025

11/05/2025

We are strictly FORCE & FEAR FREE!! Which means NO collar checks, no verbal corrections and certainly NEVER any tools utilised around your dogs neck or face!!

There are still many trainers/behaviourists out there that promote themselves as force and fear free yet still use collar checks and verbal corrections …

always do your own thorough research and ask questions about how they plan to help your dog!!

No dog, animal or human being thrives when they are living under threat, when they are fearful, or when they are in pain. We work to eliminate the use, promotion and condonement of all aversive tools and methods in any situation with all dogs.