K9 Education Dog Training

26/01/2025

I've just googled "how many dogs can you be insured to be a dog walker?
Check out your dog walkers insurance, some are for 5 dogs while others are 6.
If your dog walker is taking MORE, they won't be covered and totally irresponsible... with your dog!

25/01/2025

Could your dog be in pain?

⚡️DOGS IN PAIN STILL RUN AND PLAY⚡️

People often think that a dog that in pain won’t go for a walk, won’t play, won’t chase a ball, won’t do agility, won’t …. and the list goes on. I’ve heard it all.

But please consider your dog can be doing all these things and be in chronic pain. Yes I know it’s difficult to believe but dogs are very stoic animals and hide their pain very well, so it’s important to learn to recognise even the most subtle signs of pain. We need to get to get away from this myth that if your dog is not crying whimpering or whining that they are not in pain.

The ‘Suspicion of Chronic Pain’ looks at the following four changes in your dog:

* Struggles when jumping on/off furniture, reshuffles to make the jump/ has near misses/ or is even unable to perform this jump)

* Gait Change (e.g. slower, stiffer, shorter strides, sways hips when walking, lameness, skip in a stride, bunny hopping, unsteadiness)

* Posture and Physical Appearance Change (e.g. losing weight of back end, pulls hind limbs under torso, saggy topline, roached back, overdeveloped shoulder and chest region)

* Capability Change (e.g. slowing down on walks, not able to perform daily tasks like they use to)

“NO ONE can rule out another being’s PAIN.
NO ONE. Not me. Not you. Not a Doctor. Not a Vet”

If your worried your dog could be in pain please seek Veterinary advice

I also run a Musculoskeletal Pain Assessment Clinic the first Saturday of every Month to assess if your dog is in musculoskeletal pain, as well as a comprehensive overview of pain, osteoarthritis, owner questionnaires and clinical measurement instruments to assess your dog’s pain, and home environment advice.

If you’re worried your dog may in pain, and would like to discuss, and/or book an assessment, my details are below. ⬇️
I’m here to help.

📧 [email protected]
📞 07418 082 240

🌍 Clinic is based in South Nottingham covering clients from the East Midlands; Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, & Northampton.

23/01/2025

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19/01/2025

Well done to the K9 Beginners for passing the class with flying colours.

They have worked hard with their dogs and it shows.

Would you like to join us on the next class, visit www.k9education.co.uk/beginners.

19/01/2025

Congratulations to the K9 Recallers who have learnt how to get those doggo's to come back to us. If we bring the fun, they will come!

If you would to work on your recall, please take a look at www.k9education.co.uk/recallers.

19/01/2025

🐕Only 2 spaces left on the class starting Tuesday night. Don't miss out!🐕

19/01/2025

❗️Canine Pain Awareness❗️My dog is naughty!

Have you ever described your dog as “naughty” “silly” or “stubborn?”
✨If so consider that your dog may be in PAIN✨

Associations between certain forms of common behaviour problems in dogs (i.e., aggressive behaviour, noise sensitivities are now widely recognised as pain related (Mills et al., 2020) (link below).

But consider that some of these behaviours listed below, may also be pain related behaviours:-

~Barking
~Lunging
~Jumping up
~Resource guarding
~Chewing
~Zoomies
~Continuous circling
~Mounting behaviours
~Destructive behaviours
~Separation anxiety
.and the list goes on.

Some of these behaviours sometimes called displacement behaviours are often learnt behaviours that your dog may choose to do because they can’t cope with the pain or find a certain activity that’s being asked of them too painful. We also know that pain has a negative effect on learning & performance, cognitive processing and ability to learn new things.

So next time your dog:-
~Refuses to sit and perform basic tasks at training
~Barks or jumps up at you when you ask them to do something
~Or does zombies in an agility competition
~Or continuously circles & circles
~Wines and is destructive when you leave them

Consider that these “unwanted ” behaviours are a way of your dog trying to communicate that they are pain.

If you’re worried that your dog may be in pain, please visit your Vet to get your dog checked.

Pain and Problem Behavior in Cats and Dogs
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/2/318

19/01/2025

16/01/2025

This morning I was made aware of a situation that happened in Glenfield.

Seven dogs were seized by Leicestershire Police and put to sleep for no reason following the death of the lady who was fostering them.

Instead of returning them back to the rescue as they should’ve done, they decided to kill these dogs

Language Warning
Leicestershire police you are a bunch of bastards. You need to be held accountable and I will find out who gave the instruction.

Leicestershire Police: Dogs section

Leicestershire Live

UPDATE
I had a delightful conversation with PC Tebbat today. He confirmed that none of the chips were registered to the rescue and that the son had power of attorney to ask for these dogs to be destroyed. A couple of the chips weren’t registered to the lady as they were all from a kill shelter in Romania.

When asked who did all of the individual assessments it was as if I was speaking in a foreign language?

All of the dogs had fear aggression of men, but PC Tebbat couldn’t understand why the dogs were aggressing towards a female police officer. Have you heard of trigger stacking by any chance?  if you understood canine behaviour you would understand why they were probably aggressing towards the female officer.

15/01/2025

No need for these torture devices! If a “trainer” tells you to use one, run!

Yesterday and today I saw clients who were using these instruments of torture.
They were told to use them by their previous “trainers”
They were told that they didn’t hurt.
They hurt and damage the delicate neck, the thyroid gland, the trachea….many get terrible arthritis in their neck as they age, from this equipment.

I train humans.
I train humans to treat their dogs with kindness, love and care.

Does pain and intimidation work?
You bet it does.

Does the little boy threatened with a beating clean up his room before his dad gets home? Of course.

 Does the little boy down the street clean up his room just as well when his dad promises a hot fudge sundae if he gets it accomplished?

I don’t know. Maybe the little boy who is threatened cleans up his room better? Maybe the boy excited to get a hot fudge sundae does a better job?

One relationship will leave the child living in a state of fear. Emotional scars will last.
Nobody wants to live their life afraid of what’s around the corner.
Nobody should want to inflict this on their dog.

I want my dogs to be happy and excited when I walk in the door. Happy about what fun we will have and what wonderful thing we will do next. Not afraid about what will happen and what pain will be inflicted.

Can’t believe this kind of stuff still goes on, but it does.
It’s not OK. It does hurt.
It really really does.
❤️‍🩹🐾

Grateful to have made a difference today.
We can’t help every dog, but for those that we do help, by training and educating their humans, their lives have been changed forever. 

14/01/2025

Let them sniff!

Ever wondered what the world smells like to your dog? This stunning image captures the colorful chaos of scent trails left in the snow—something your dog detects and deciphers with incredible precision.

Each colored footprint represents a unique trail, left by people and animals walking through the area. While these overlapping tracks might seem chaotic to us, your dog can differentiate between each individual scent. They can tell who walked by, how recently, and even details like their emotional state or if they were carrying something interesting (like food!).

Dogs have up to 300 million scent receptors in their noses, compared to our 5 million, and a dedicated part of their brain analyzes smells, allowing them to "see" a world of scents invisible to us. Think of these trails as chapters in a book that your dog reads with their nose—fascinating stories of who’s been there, where they went, and what they were doing.

Next time your dog stops to sniff on a walk, remember they’re processing a rich sensory landscape like this one. Letting them follow a scent trail isn’t just fun—it’s a vital way for them to engage with their environment, exercise their brain, and satisfy their natural instincts.

Let your dog’s nose lead the way—it’s their superpower, and this image is a wonderful reminder of just how extraordinary it is!