Teamwork Dog Training and Behaviour

Teamwork Dog Training and Behaviour Lincolnshire based dog training and behaviour advice and experienced support for trainers and behaviorists.

Paddy Driscoll MSc (in Clinical Animal Behaviour) MAPD no.246. Teamwork Training and Behaviour Services, established by Paddy Driscoll in 1996, now offers support for trainers and behaviourists via theTeamwork Training Skills Support mentoring service, and the occasional training days. Paddy has many years practical experience with dogs, running classes, 121 behaviour consultations and dealing wit

h complex and difficult behaviour problems as well as fostering and living with a variety of dogs and breeds. She has succeeded in training her dogs too - winning in the show ring with 2 (breed) champions, andreaching C only in Obedience. She has a Masters degree (with Merit) in Clinical Animal Behaviour from the University of Lincoln under the highly respected veterinary behaviourists, Prof Daniel Mills and Helen Zulch. She is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (UK) no 246.

Excited to have Jeremy Driscoll as the next Teamwork Training Skills Support Guest expert in our exclusive FB Members' F...
17/11/2025

Excited to have Jeremy Driscoll as the next Teamwork Training Skills Support Guest expert in our exclusive FB Members' FB Group. (And yes, he's a rellie - my brother :-) )
He will be be fielding questions on all things tech related to support members' dog training businesses.

https://www.dvisions.co.uk/about-dvisions/

My latest blog :-) At a time we seem to be seeing more and more use of aversives (tight slip leads, e and prong collars ...
01/11/2025

My latest blog :-)
At a time we seem to be seeing more and more use of aversives (tight slip leads, e and prong collars etc) resulting in superficially "well behaved", but stressed and unhappy dogs (panting, ears tucked back, tension are some signs we are likely to see), we owe it to dogs to be better at communicating positive techniques, and implementing them effectively, to owners.

Using food treats – have we gone wrong somewhere? Leave a Reply I was chatting to an old friend today about using food treats in training and she was lamenting the fact that food seems to be so overused in training these days – and that often dogs can’t/won’t do anything unless the owner is ...

Do you like to be a bit nerdy about training sometimes?A question I posed to Skills Support members today :-) A new stud...
30/10/2025

Do you like to be a bit nerdy about training sometimes?

A question I posed to Skills Support members today :-)

A new study (see below) said -
"Although it seems that self-selected music is more effective in humans compared to researcher-selected music, this could not be directly applied to veterinary medicine, as dogs and cats cannot choose the music intervention on their own, according to their individual preferences. "

Really? They can't? Do we KNOW that?

IF you wanted to teach a dog to CHOOSE what music it wanted to listen to, do you think it could be done? And how would you do it?

Georgiou, S.G. and Galatos, A.D. (2025) ‘Music as a perioperative, non-pharmacological intervention in veterinary medicine. Establishing a feasible framework for music implementation and future perspectives with a focus on the perioperative period of dogs and cats’, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 12. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2025.1672783.

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Simple, no-strings attached help; the opportunity to explore options to help clients, and support you and your business, and your professional ambitions and goals when you need it. 

02/10/2025




While on the subject of fear - I wrote this blog a few years back. No reason to change much about it now, except the mai...
30/09/2025

While on the subject of fear - I wrote this blog a few years back. No reason to change much about it now, except the main A road leading to the Humber Bridge from Lincoln is WAY more dangerous than the bridge itself so no amount of pay, professional benefit or intrinsic enjoyment of the job would motivate me to take the trip now! 😊

https://www.teamworktraining.co.uk/blog/fear-and-the-humber-bridge/






Fearful dogs – and what I learned from the Humber Bridge Paddy Driscoll The very, VERY high Humber Bridge I am afraid of heights. Big time. I’m not entirely sure how it became the issue it did, but on Sumer holidays as a child my parents learned that it was ill advised to try and make me go up t...

Sometimes in the Teamwork Training Skills Support group we like to have a bit of a deeper dive into behaviour topics as ...
29/09/2025

Sometimes in the Teamwork Training Skills Support group we like to have a bit of a deeper dive into behaviour topics as a change from the day to day practical issues of interest to trainers. Like looking at this interesting study.

If you are interested do check us out 😊
https://www.teamworktraining.co.uk/training-support-services

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1679991/full






Recent olfactory studies suggest that human emotional chemosignals can alter dog behavior. However, their methods impeded a firm conclusion on whether dogs r...

12/09/2025

Looking forward to the Train the Trainers course tomorrow!

If you have booked a place you should have received TWO emails - the first one confirming the details sent last week (5th or 6th) seems not to have reached everyone - so do let me know if you didn't get it and need to know anything.

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