Appropriate puppy social time, a mixture of dogs we have in this group so lots of opportunities for Luna to learn. Some really lovely clear signals from our adult dogs. There are dogs in this group who will play with Luna and she's really enjoying a run around but this type of learning is very important also. Hopefully this all helps when she meets dogs on walks for her to think a little more and keep herself out of trouble. Not all dogs will be as socially forgiving as these guys so it's safe here if she makes mistakes (which she sometimes will as a pup). Luna started on 1-1 walks with just meadow then meadow and meg and we've worked her up to joining this group 🥰. Her social skills are really lovely and polite super sweet girl 😍
Pleased to welcome gorgeous little Merlin to muddy mutts 🥰 his first puppy walk with him today and wow he is super clever ... He's like what shall we learn next ... I have to remind myself to slow down and let him take in what he's learning 🥰.
Please message me anything different you need for next week. I'm still away until tomorrow afternoon but if I'll try and sort the diary on the journey home ☺️ thank you.
Just a little clip of the gorgeous riding me and my boy bob have been exploring in mid Wales 🥰 it's been lush!
When your off work but you can't stop walking dogs 🤣 lovely boy Percy custard enjoying our pony holiday 👌
Such a lovely week we've had 😍
Love how they form strong friendships. I love dogs playing with the same friends 🥰🥰
I know we've been a bit quiet on here, we've been very busy! Heres our spring so far 🥰🥰🥰 enjoying beautiful dogs having fun
So in the last 3 weeks I've had a dog attacked by an off lead dog (I had to deal with the situation grabbing the dog off putting myself at risk not the other professional dog walker) and yesterday we were charged at by a lurcher multiple times while riding out horses.
The video here is a clip from years ago, thankfully no harm was done, and I had someone on the ground to help should I need it and the dog was more barky than full on aggressive in this clip, I was much less concerned that this dog was going to attack but yesterdays dog was definitely so over stimulated he had a completly different feeling about him. The dogs owner in the clip here was not in a rush to help, he apologised but I don't believe he would change his ways. The dog owner yesterday absolutely won't change anything as he didn't care about anyone not even his dog 😢.
Unfortunately there seems to be an issue with people thinking dogs need to be off lead at all times to enjoy themselves, but that can be at the expense of others if the dog isn't trained well enough. Anyone who knows me will know it's rare I put meadow on lead, because she's absolutely mega with her recall and can walk to heel past distractions and anyone who has that level of control of Thier dog has earnt the right to have them off alot. Now nutmeg isn't quite as well trained as meadow so she gets her lead on for some things though I'm 90 percent sure she can deal with it all I'm it's often safer and easier for me to have that safety net.
My work dogs all have variable recall and as I get to know them I learn about their abilities. Have I always made the perfect and right call with them, no I am not perfect and no dog is perfect. And probably about once a year one of my dogs will inconvenience someone else, out of the hundreds of walks I do with off lead time my rate is super low! And I've never had a major incident my handling has caused thank goodness. I of course have profusely apologised if any of my dogs have gone int
So I got up at 5:30am thismorning, half hour earlier than my usual, knowing I had a busy day ahead as mum was off today. Super prepared with food and snacks for me and doggos.
Meadow enjoyed a little farm run here at 7am then we left the yard at 7:30am only to finally start our first walk at 9:30am.
Thank you to the hindley group who were super helpful about me needing to cancel. I will never let people down but massively appreciate when people can manage without me if they are home when things like this happen. Reckon I'd still be walking now had I not cancelled.
Once I've warmed up with a cup of tea I'll be re checking over tomorrow's diary to see if I can foresee any potential delays 😬
Wednesday to Fridays videos 🥰
