The Well Heeled Hound

23/11/2025

Adolescence can be a tricky time for your dog to navigate.
Excessive barking, anxiety or over excitement, there are lots of big emotions to cope with.
These emotions can become very apparent when you have guests in your home.
Management is very often the key to help prevent unwanted behaviours. It’s important to not only manage your dog but your guests too so they don’t continue to inadvertently reward those behaviours.
I think these 3 found my company a bit ‘boring’ and decided to settle and nod off whilst I was training with them! 🤣

22/11/2025

Loose lead walking workshop.
Loose lead walking is a really difficult life skill to learn for both ends of the lead.
It’s team work not coercion. I want dogs to want to be beside you because they like it there.
My workshop helps guardians understand why dogs pull and how they can support their dogs learning with my A - E approach.
Supporting handouts are emailed to every guardian after the class to help with ongoing training.
It was an all girl Labrador kind of class today - well done girls.

22/11/2025

The Puppy Social.
A gentle introduction for all the pups in a carefully managed environment.

We did some fun training including learning about the 3 second meet and greet.

I’m not a fan of the off lead puppy party approach to socialising, it can become a negative experience for some puppies. I want all the pups to have a positive experience, I do allow meet and greet but I aim for calm and respectful interactions whilst moving around each other.

Well done everyone - there was lots of excitement this morning but you all managed amazingly, even those of you who have big emotions (not mentioning the terriers 😆)

21/11/2025

18/11/2025

This fella looks a little bit familiar 🤔
He’s ready to look for his forever home.

17/11/2025

Week 2 of the life skills course and it was Boundary week.
We covered both physical and invisible boundaries and how they can be used in real life situations.
From hiding behind legs, middle, creating an invisible boundary and teaching a leave.
Everyone had fun teaching paws on and off.
Norman the bulldog particularly loved paws on and dozed off 💤 whilst standing on his board! 😆
Well done everyone!
Thank you Evie for helping.

16/11/2025

Next Saturday the 22nd November I am holding my monthly classes.
If you can’t usually make my Sunday afternoon classes take advantage of them being on a Saturday!
Puppy Social (up to 5 months) at 9.15am (45 minutes) Only 1 space remaining.

https://TheWellHeeledHound.as.me/puppy

Any Age Class at 10.15am (45 minutes) - an opportunity to do some fun training to build focus. Dogs of any age are welcome
4 spaces

https://TheWellHeeledHound.as.me/AnyAge

Loose Lead Walking Workshop. 11.15am (90minutes). Learn why your dog pulls and my 5 step approach to achieving a loose lead!

https://TheWellHeeledHound.as.me/LLWClass

Classes held at the Scout Hall Hogarth Road Ipswich IP3 0EY

15/11/2025

This lovely lot turned out on a wet and windy evening to come and do TD Rally!
There were a few confused faces and laughs as we worked through stations and some very tired dogs by the end of the class.
Well done everyone and thank you for coming along on such a miserable evening!
Just realised it was a very colour coordinated class 😆

13/11/2025

It’s World Kindness Day.
When you make choices on behalf of your dog why would you choose to train any other way?
Train with kindness, empathy, understanding and knowledge.

12/11/2025

Join my Loose Lead Walking Workshop!
Are you interested in improving your dog’s lead walking?
Sign up to my workshop ….
**Uncover the Reasons** Discover why your dog pulls on the lead. By understanding the behaviour you can begin to modify it.
**5 Step Approach** Learn my 5 step method to achieve loose lead walking, along with various exercises and games.
**Teamwork** Loose Lead Walking is all about collaboration (not coercion) - let’s learn to work together!
** Reward Based Training** My training methods are modern, kind and focuses on positive reinforcement.

Please note this is a 90 minute workshop.
Small class with limited spaces.
Booking link below

https://TheWellHeeledHound.as.me/LLWClass

11/11/2025

1:1 lessons offer the benefit of tailoring lessons to your requirements.
Here are some of the dogs that have benefitted from fear free training over the last few days.
Lessons have included loose lead walking, recall, door etiquette and confidence building.
If you would like a 1:1 lesson please use the booking link below 👇

https://TheWellHeeledHound.as.me/

10/11/2025

Week 1 of the Life Skills course and I think I may have frazzled the minds of the human end of the lead!
We covered clicker training, marker words, treat delivery, luring, capturing and shaping!
We also made a start on cooperative care.
Today’s class was easy for the dogs, it was back to basics they (mostly) already knew what they were doing! However, I was making their handlers work and think, watching their every move 👀
Well done everyone!