Paw Forward Dog Training

08/11/2025

07/11/2025

If your dog gets over excited and needs a way to start their day off on the right foot, here is an easy enrichment activity you can add to their daily routine!

✨Scatter feeding✨

It helps to:
🐾 Encourage natural foraging behaviours
🧠 Get your dog’s nose and brain working
💤 Lower arousal and support calmness
💓 Regulate your dog’s nervous system
🏃‍♀️ Gently tire them out

All you need to do is sprinkle their food into the grass, over a carpet, or in a snuffle mat — and let them enjoy it!

06/11/2025

Instead of trying to stop your dog digging, find a way to offer them a safe outlet for them to do it!
This could be by getting your dog a sandpit or taking them to the beach, finding a safe spot in the woods for them to dig, or simply sacrificing a corner of your garden.

When they start to head to your flowerbeds, you can redirect them somewhere more appropriate 🥳

06/11/2025

In honour of tonight being the final of Celebrity Traitors, here’s what I think it would be like if I was on it! 🙈

(I entertained myself so much making this. Please laugh — even if it’s at me) 😂

05/11/2025

How do fireworks affect your dogs?

Do you think fireworks should be banned? For displays only? Or are you team firework?
Let’s talk about it!

Keep yourselves and your dogs safe tonight 🎆

04/11/2025

Only one space left now on our puppy/teenager course starting on 16th November🙌🏼

Get in touch for more details😍

04/11/2025

Oh this sounds so fun😍

04/11/2025

I often get asked ‘how do you know when your dog has entered adolescence’ and well… these are some of the tell tale signs! 💡

The teenage phase can begin anywhere from ~ 6 months old and can last up to (in some breeds) 4 years🥲
Adolescent dogs can be hard work sometimes but it’s a normal part of dog development and it doesn’t last forever. Be patient, be kind, and follow along for tips to cope with your teenage dog!

03/11/2025

Training goals I DON’T have for my teenage dogs (as a dog trainer) 👀

Social media often gives the impression that our dogs need to be perfectly behaved, with flawless recall and perfect loose lead walking. It also paints ‘reactivity’ as a disaster, and makes it seem like your dog MUST be neutral to everything — when really, it’s just part of being a normal, emotional dog. Especially a teenage one!

So, to bring a bit of reality, here are the things I’m not aiming for with my two teenage dogs (and yes, I’m a dog trainer).
My biggest goal is for them to be happy, and, well… so far, so good ⭐️

02/11/2025

🔹Gundog Skills — Week 4🔹

We had a smashing final session of our course yesterday!
Everyone shared a lovely win to start us off and all the pups progressed so much with their new skills by the end😍

What a lovely bunch of people to have had in class — thank you all so much for coming🤩

01/11/2025

Heelwork feeling a bit messy? 👀
Here are my top tips to tidy it up!

(They’ll help your loose lead walking too — but remember, heelwork and loose lead walking aren’t quite the same thing 👏🏼)

30/10/2025

Is your dog’s whistle recall failing? It might just need a recharge! ⚡🐶

Here’s how to charge your whistle properly👇🏼
Blow the whistle ➡️ toss a treat ➡️ repeat!

Just a couple of reps every now and then will transform your dog’s recall 🙌🏼