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Shenanigans With Shadow - Shropshire Canine Behaviourist & Pet Services

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Shenanigans With Shadow - Shropshire Canine Behaviourist & Pet Services

Canine behaviourist, dog adventurer and pet sitter who uses balanced training methods. 🐺 One of my dogs I named my business after.

Hi, I'm Alice and I am Canine Behaviourist using balanced training methods and I cover everything from 1-1 six week puppy courses to dog/human aggression cases. I have adhd, asd and other mental health issues along with an assistance dog I trained myself. Shadow and his shenanigans who was born 2009 and so this way his legacy will live on long after he is gone. My name is Alice (I legally changed

my name in 2023) I am Kurdish and I come from Hackney. I offer Shenanigans adventure days every Tuesday so I don’t do training services then. My terms and conditions can be found on my website here:

https://shenaniganswithshadow.co.uk/t%26c%2Frefund-policy

It is your responsibility to read through them and sign before booking any services with myself. I offer pet sits in your home for dogs and cats for overnights and days. I do not offer drop in services though due to my schedule. I will cover other animals on the sit like fish, chickens, birds for feeding and watering too. I do not cover other animals or cage cleaning, not due to a lack of experience but due to to personal preference. I offer therapy/assistance dog training for handlers/schools if you need and have trained assistance dogs for handlers in the past along with therapy dogs for a local sen school. I have 10+ years experience starting training in 2009 when I lived in London but I did not make a business name or socials until May 2019 when I relocated 200 miles away and as such no one knew me so I had to get with the times as they say. I cover Shropshire and further afield in person

Please head to www.shenaniganswithshadow.co.uk for more information about my services. Feel free to email, message, call, whattsapp or facebook message me too! Head over to my Google maps listing for all of my reviews.

12/01/2025

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas you filthy animals 🤣❤️

Those are my secret talents

24/12/2024

Couldn't think of a better way to spend Christmas ⛄ eve than with my extended family ❤️

Merry Christmas and a happy new to everyone ❤️

I chose to take time off work for training but not for my adventure days because I miss the dogs too much 🥺 and I plan on going on holiday next year at some point so this makes up for them missing me 🥺

Zo Zo bringing up the black (Collie x husky looking dog) is 10 😳 she's doing so well on her adventures and we make sure she doesn't overdo it either, with bi weekly updates for her mum on how she's doing. She didn't like being left behind when her son would come out with me and would howl so she made sure her mum let her join in on the fun and she's always SO excited jumping around when I see her every other week 😳 as much as her much younger offspring haha ❤️

21/12/2024

This is not dog related but this has been pi***ng me off for months now! The ADHD fad videos.

21/12/2024

To the piece of s**t that found my business bank card and spent nearly £300 on it around 11pm Friday night, you best prey to fu***ng god that the companies you spent my money at do not give me your name and address when they find out that they now have to cancel such large orders and refund me. Because I will fu***ng Liam Neeson you.

Joke is also on you. I NEVER keep money in that bank for this very reason. It gets transferred out within a day of being paid so your third transaction was declined and I check my bank daily so I DO notice this s**t quick smart.

Absolute scum. I hope you choke on your Christmas dinner.

15/12/2024

A little Christmas pet sit for the beautiful boys ❤️

They were as excited to see me as I was them which warms my heart as Belgian is funny with people eh doesn't know (we met over a year ago now and I sit for his parents whenever they're away)

They're dog reactive which means they're in good hands due to my speciality being guarding breeds and aggression cases, so their parents know they're always in good hands with me inside the home and outside on our walks 🥰

I adore these boys 🥺

They're both pretending they have no interest in my dinner 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

11/12/2024

Aldo thinks Christmas 🎄 has come early 🤣😳 seen me yesterday for adventure day and then today for a walk (I don't do dog walks, only for current clients on an ad-hoc basis for a favour/

Someone needs to help me convince partner why we need a German Shepherd in our lives 🥺

The three musketeers are too cute 🥺

11/12/2024

Would love to go see him!

07/12/2024

Did you know you can get presents for underprivileged children at b&m? B&M Stores

There's a trolley 🛒 near the door in the Newport one for you to deposit your gifts into.

I got a little boy and girl down felt tips as I didn't want to get pencils in case they couldn't afford a sharpener and a colouring book each. The kind checkout person said they'd wrap the felts and the book together so they'd get to the children together as I was worried they might think it was four presents instead of two.

There's loads to choose from but I chose colouring because as a kid I remember spending HOURS colouring and it brought out a super artistic side of me and let me escape too. Not every kid has huge imagination for Barbie's and dolls (I didn't really do well with them)

Plus I don't like the body of them because it's unrealistic expectations as we grow up as men and woman 🤣

I'm sure there's other shops that do this too. I only found this out cause of their announcement over the speaker.

If you know of any others feel free to post below and share this post to make others aware so we can make a child's Christmas just that bit warmer this year ❤️

I'm not even into Christmas but I love giving gifts 🎁

This lot cost me about £8 so for those that don't have much themselves you can gift as little as you need to. There's some great prices and things that were even cheaper in there. I just found £3 for a jumbo colouring book was better than £2.50 for mini and pens.

I've been taking a hiatus from socials lately as I'm concentrating on the job over socials and am so busy I don't have much time to post. I still am working though so don't forget to get in touch if you're needing training, pet sits or even an adventure day as we have one spot left for ad-hoc or regular ATM.

Reactive Social walks will be back in February as I always end them October/November - February due to time constraints of myself and others.

01/11/2024

Happy Halloween 🎃👻 I've been too busy to use socials lately but I do have one space opened up for this week and next week only this month for an adventure day due to client going away. 😊 (I have more photos from my annual Halloween shoot which will be posted in a separate post)

Shropshire pick ups only. (We do have clients in Shrewsbury and Market Drayton etc)

⚠️⚠️Shadows Adventure Day Shenanigans⚠️⚠️

Get in quick as the spaces are incredibly limited! If you want the dog to go on an adventure for the day to break up the mid week blues, you want to do some Christmas shopping, you have work all day or you just want your dog to have some fun and correct socialisation then look no further and just fill out the form below 👇🏽

https://form.jotform.com/232304831249351

For more information on the adventure walks check out the link below 👇🏽

https://shenaniganswithshadow.co.uk/shenanigans-adventures

£40 an adventure and pick up and drop offs are included. (Most people give us a key/leave a key as they're not home but those that are home hand us the dog at the door)

We have some exciting things coming up for the new year 🐾

No dogs were harmed or uncomfortable in the process of these photos. As can be seen, they chose to sit for the photos and could have fu**ed off at any time 😂 Although some may have been a bit upset that they weren't allowed to come sit in my lap when I was on the floor taking different angled photos and their faces depict this in other photos 😂🎃🤦🏽‍♀️

24/10/2024

She's been in kennels since she was 9 days old! Was rescued with her mum and 8 siblings. 700 days in kennels now!

No kids, a male dog may be suitable, no small furies or cats, has spent a bit in foster, based in potters bar in Hertfordshire, not sure where that is but has an EN post code. 🥺

Mia, a Dutch shepherd, is one of 118 RSPCA pets that has been waiting more than 100 days for a home.

22/10/2024

A little video of Charles dickins with one of his birthday cupcakes I made for him 🥺

Safe to say he loved it! Apple and walnut flavour 🥺

They all loved them except Mammoth who is a fusspot since her heat 🤣😭 So Charles Dickens and Mr. Patrick Star ⭐ shared the last one 🥺

(My jet wash got him sparkly white afterwards 🤣 except his head. I toweled that as he didn't want to be washed on his head as he's not comfortable with that yet (we use it further away for the sensitive parts.

I'll upload the photos tomorrow 🥺

21/10/2024

Starting off for someone's Halloween 🎃 birthday 🎂 pawty tomorrow! 🥺🤗

For just £5 extra you can have a pawty for your pup 😊 on my adventures!

They get a present, some treats and a homemade treat for them and their adventure crew to share ❤️

19/10/2024

Another lovely review and another one to be added to my adventure days!

Poor girl had been attacked by out of control off lead dogs twice and became very very fearful of dogs due to this 🥺 Owners goal was to walk her pup and the pram and the little one herself while her husband is away with work and she's well on the way to doing this now with some practice at home while hubby is home ❤️

Proper training can change your life, not just your dogs!

This means I only have one space left for a regular adventurer to join every other week/once a month as my books are now full ❤️

Due to having 5 people graduate this last week I now have some space available for training sessions so please get in touch with Rebecca my PA to book on!

+44 7865 753058

Or fill out a form and we'll be in touch!

https://form.jotform.com/230107967086359

Some of the dogs on my adventure days have been rehabbed by myself and all have been trained on their adventure days which owners have seen massive changes at home 💞

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London Borough Of Hackney

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Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm

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+447877045596

Website

http://www.shenaniganswithshadow.co.uk/

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A little video of Charles dickins with one of his birthday cupcakes I made for him 🥺 Safe to say he loved it! Apple and walnut flavour 🥺 They all loved them except Mammoth who is a fusspot since her heat 🤣😭 So Charles Dickens and Mr. Patrick Star ⭐ shared the last one 🥺 (My jet wash got him sparkly white afterwards 🤣 except his head. I toweled that as he didn't want to be washed on his head as he's not comfortable with that yet (we use it further away for the sensitive parts. I'll upload the photos tomorrow 🥺

We still have some space for Sunday's social walk on the 27th if you would like to join 😊 Shadows reactivity socials are £30 per dog and are held on the last Sunday morning of the month in Telford, Shropshire unless otherwise specified. 🐺 The training walks are for overly friendly and reactive dogs to join and location does vary. 🎠 Please sign up to our newsletter on www.shenaniganswithshadow.co.uk or follow the socials to get updates of future social walks and check out my events page for updated calendar entries. 🌊 Please fill out the Reactivity training walk form if you've not attended before and signed one of my forms in the past.👇 https://form.jotform.com/230547773997373 🔗 What's included: The reactivity training walk lasts about two hours ⌛ Training starts at the halfway point and these will be on lead training exercises which will be specific to your dogs behaviours. 🐶 People will be paired up for the walk to the halfway point, so reactive and overly friendly dogs welcome.🐩 There will be an exercise shown to the group on how to correctly hold your dogs lead for maximum control before we set off, while waiting for anyone running late (10 minutes max) 🏃‍♀️💨 You don't have to stay for the walk back to where we have parked the cars if you haven't parked there or need to go earlier than the walk back takes. This means if you need to leave as soon as the training part has finished you don't need to feel obliged to stay and be late for other events. 🍛 Requirements from yourselves: 💼 Please bring your dogs favourite treats (high value), treats or anything else they like, i.e favourite toys or it could just be you praising them.🍁 Some water and a collapsible bowl. (You can have a solid bowl of course but the collapsible are space saving)🧊 Wear comfy shoes/ walking boots/ wellies as terrain, weather and elevation differ during our walks. They are not always pram/wheelchair/mobility scooter friendly.

🥰🥰 Helping dogs 💪🏽

Daisy has unfortunately had some abuse in her past (Through no fault of her current owners) and has been training for some weeks with me now. She's getting back to her old self and no longer runs at someone when entering the home, she can have people walk around without worrying and we are now working on her fear of waving/fast moving hands. She has gone from lunging, threatening to bite (she doesn't bite and hasn't done, just mouths) and trying to scare you away to just half assed running forward now and stopping before she gets to the end of the lead (if she was an actual bite risk a muzzle would be used but she just mouths. The only 'bite' I've ensured is the typical bulldog finger snap for treats 😂 hence throwing them now. She's started to realise that I am of no danger to her when my hands wave and I was able to pick up my bag without moving 1mph doing so at the end of this session and she was able to be let off the lead within seconds of the session ending where usually she'd have to be kept on it, just in case she changed her mind about me. Low and behold! I'm using none other than positive reinforcement! Something I do still utilise being a balanced trainer. Positive reinforcement has it's place in training and when working with a dog we continue to use it. However if it didn't, we'd move over to aversives due to there being vulnerable people involved in the home and for different reasons this needs to be nipped in the bud asap and not a year or two down the line. Daisy is doing absalutely amazing and her owners are a credit to her training 🥰🥺 I can't wait for the day she asks me for a smoosh because I'll happily oblige, but for now, I admire her from afar! She's come so far from the dog in the assessment that I couldn't get near nor could I even dare to look in her direction or she'd lose it. Week 3/6 so far! To those that judge me without bothering to hear both sides, I say to hell with you 🙌🏽 as you support animal neglect from the peop

30/6/22 look Karen Mary Allen!!!! This was over two years ago now 🥺

1st June 2022 😭😭😭 Peep my beautiful boy in the video sitting like a champ 🥺 He was the most amazing stooge dog one could ever ask for 🤗 Shadows legacy will always live on. No matter what anyone tries to do. My boys name will live forever and continue to help dogs like him that others failed to. I was 20 when I got him and I started out because noone knew how to train huskies back then as they were a new breed to the UK (well they weren't very well known that's for sure. His breeder spent 7 years looking for one before she found them and started breeding. Then stopped when they became too popular. He was the only one in our village and the city until a vet nurse fell in love with him and got her own a few months later ❤️ No one will bring down his name. Not now. Not ever. ❤️ And this is why I'll continue doing what I do..to make my boy proud. 🤗 Here in this video he was 12 ❤️

Resharing because some pillocks think I only train with prong collars 🤣😭 I train the dog in front of me. Let's see how well trained your dog is? 🤣😂✊🏽💦 And how many dogs you've trained ❤️

Today's Reactivity Social walk went off without a hitch! Thank you for all your support and for everyone that came today! We didn't have one cancellation and a super lovely turn out (I haven't advertised this month as I wanted a smaller group for Big S and a few others that need smaller groups who you can see walking right next to my dog on the way back!!!) And yes I'm going to steal all of your dogs 😉😂😂❤️ I'm so proud of every single one of you and your dogs! The difference between consistent training and not bothering to train makes! Big S here has had his owner helping him for some years and he's come so far since the overseas rescue dog he got a few years ago! He came to his first reactive social last week and as expected was rather reactive but calmed as the session went on. We then had a suicidal Pomeranian and an owner that didn't seem to grasp the fact letting your dog run into a group of reactive dogs isn't a good idea, that just sidled after the dog. Nearly had to use my spray but someone grabbed it. It put my police grade body cam through it's paces too! 😂 Big S did amazing though during it as did all the other dogs. This month he was back and was even better than last month and we just worked on building his threshold some more, while doing some exercises with the class that suited their dogs too. Everyone's favourite exercise as usual is the "settling while at the pub" exercise came into play and the dogs are learning how to settle in an environment with a lot going on and while their owners sit for a drink or a meal 😊 Everyone done absolutely amazingly and it was lovely to see some current and old clients on the social too, continuing their socialisation ❤️ I couldn't be any more proud of everyone that came today and their dogs and it's such a beautiful group of people where no one judges and everyone lifts one another up! Even got a bear hug from big S owner at the end of the session and a beautiful little pep talk

Here we go again ❤️🤣 Rant coming. Balanced trainers/behaviourists VS cookie pushers. Bear with me, it's long but I promise if you make it to the end you'll have learnt something new about your furry friend and the different training methods that are available out there for you. (Also anyone that quotes Victoria Stillwell gtfo. She was a British dog walker moved to the USA that marketed herself correctly to the TV network that needed competition for Ceaser Milan and because she's female, wears a doggy dominatrix outfit and has a british accent which Americans go mad for, she fit the bill. She didn't (not sure about now) even own a dog herself and hadn't had any 24/7 care of a dog only hourly dog walks. She also is abusive as f**k towards people 😂 irony at it's best. It's come to my attention (a friend sent it to me) that someone local has 'had' to change their business name because mine sounds so similar and people get confused after thirty years in the business and to something that will show up on the algorithms first when you search trainers Telford. (publicity stunt much as they definitely don't sound that similar 🤣😭) but alas what it is, to be that important that someone changes their name because of you 😭🤣 Usually I just ignore it as every time I get fully booked for my services (which is happened for 90% of the services I offer atm) one of the Barbie brigade crops up with some new bullsh*t to try bring me down and it fails each and every time. But then I've been shown comments saying that my ethos is abusive and they're changing their name cause they don't want anything to do with the balanced side of training or being associated with it have had me crying with laughter 🤣😭 Not to mention people they are enemies with (which they told me themselves because the mutual stalker we had brought us 'together' for a hot minute although I just wanted info to see if my Spidey senses were correct and they were confirmed, before she sland

How is everyone else's whatever day of the week it is today going? 🤣 This is my day! Thankfully the neighbour had a sense of humour as I've just left a pet sit. My first one of three this month 🫠 It's someone I've sat for before so they have a sense of humour 🫠 Also I sent this to the client 🤣😳 Basically I lobbed a poo into someone's garden by accident 🫠

Black shepherd gets dominant and humps his bro from time to time. I've accidentally taught him "put your pen*s away" as his stop word as it worked first time and I found it funny and "get off" didn't work 😂 Yes before anyone moans, I told him to put it away as soon as I snapped the picture. He got on his brother the second when I snapped pic as I had just finished recording 😂 #petsit #telfordcaninebehaviourist #behaviourist #shepherds #belgianmalinois #germanshepherd

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I don’t use choke chains, slip leads, prong or shock collars. I use science based methods that are proven to not damage the dogs psyche like traditional based trainers like Ceaser Milan (the dog whisperer) do. No my methods won’t solve your issue in a matter of hours but those methods are masking the issue and are temporary fixes only. When other trainers talk about the thousands of customers they’d had you need to think about how many years they’ve been doing it. A lot of the time that only works out as a handful of customers a week over the years. They like to shout from the roof tops about the thousands of happy customers and ‘happy’ dogs but forget to mention what it does to a dogs mental state. I care about the welfare of the dogs while getting the same result, hence why I’m different.

I was gifted Shadow at 8 weeks old from my mum for an anxiety dog at the time to help me overcome my anxiety at 19 and have trained him myself. I rescued the girls in 2014 (Shadow was 5 and suffered separation anxiety so I got him an anxiety dog before I found out how to help his anxiety through training, but I could not leave Storm behind as no one wanted her. She now lives with my ex down south where she is spoilt rotten, as she chose him as her human and I get regular updates and see her once a year.) from a sort of mini puppy farm situation and found they didn’t have any training at 4 months old. This left them scared of the whole world. They were scared of leads, collars, cars, buses, people, kids, babies, fireworks, etc. They had fear aggression towards other dogs due to no socialisation too.

I trained them out of all their fears and realised, not only that I have a gift but also that I really enjoyed it. My end goal to add on to my dog walking business is to go into kennels and help the dogs on death row by training them so they can be homed before that awful day. Eventually when I have a place big enough I will adopt those dogs that have run out of time, train them and re-home them to other loving homes.

I currently have a diploma with distinction in Canine behavioural training and I study canine nutrition, canine communication, canine holistic health and medicine, canine psychology, puppy training. I have been getting 100% on all my modules. Shadow and Calypso won’t be on every walk with me of course but will be on at least one walk a day, hence the name.

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