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Canine Needs - Dog Training & Behaviour

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Dog training and behaviour services covering all of London. Friendly, professional, experienced dog training services.

Both Hannah and Sorcha have studied dog behaviour under internationally renowned trainer John Rogerson at The Northern Centre For Canine Behaviour.

29/12/2024

2024 has been a year of reimagining.

I launched Canine Needs in 2011 when I was just 25 years old. Like most dog professionals, I couldn't care much for humans and mostly just wanted to work with dogs.
When starting a dog business you very quickly learn that it's all about people and the dogs are just the sparkles that make your job more enjoyable, this is found in the quiet moments of understanding, or in the shared silent song of the forest.

I have grown so much in the time I have had my business and my experiences have shaped me into a wiser person. I am so very proud of my 25 year old self and her vision and the business I have built so far. I have worked with thousands of dogs, each dog has 1-10 people that I also work with, each of these dogs and their people have taught me so much about how dog and human behaviour interact with each other that, thanks to the dogs, I have become absolutely fascinated with human behaviour.

We share every intimate detail of our lives with our dogs in the western world. They know more about us than we know about ourselves. Sometimes they are like little furry therapists, on hand whenever you need them. Ask anyone with a close relationship with their dog and they'll tell you that their dog doesn't need to talk to be effective at what they do. They want to talk to us though, they are trying their hardest to talk to us all the time. Part of my job is obviously translating for them but since I've started asking them different questions, what they are trying to tell us is quite truly fascinating and insightful, they are trying to heal us in a way that only they know how.

I can't call it Dog Therapy since that already exists as something else and I'm not a therapist. Canine Coaching though, is new and I'm a coach so I think that works... I have spent the last 3 years studying online courses on life coaching, positive psychology, polyvagal theory and other interesting points, concepts and ideas, along with my 14 years of professional experience and much longer personal experience, I am super excited to officially launch Canine Coaching in 2025. 🎉🐾💖

14/12/2024

You may see service dogs training in malls, or in shops. This is a great tip sheet to let you know the differences legally!

13/12/2024

Did you know that correct puppy socialisation is teaching your dog to IGNORE other dogs?

26/11/2024

Have a nice life Olive, miss you already 🫒🐾💖🥹

14/11/2024

Dogs have one of the most important jobs in the World...
It falls to them to teach the next generation love, kindness and acceptance in a way most adults aren't able to. 💖

31/10/2024

Join us as a Volunteer at The Great British Truffle Festival! 🍄🌳

Do you love the outdoors, fungi, and connecting with nature-minded people? Here’s your chance to support an incredible event that celebrates and protects the natural habitat of the Great British truffle. We’re looking for event volunteers to help bring this festival to life. 🌱

17/09/2024

Grid worthy 😍
Today the puppies are 6 weeks old.
This is a big date for the pups. They are almost fully weaned now as their mum is mostly done, they get told off by her quite a lot now and they're learning fast. Most of all their toileting is now done outside, there was one p**p on the puppy pad last night and a few pees, all daytime toileting is pretty much nailed ✅
If you have bought a puppy from a fantastic breeder they should be housetrained by the time they leave at 8 weeks old.

03/09/2024

This 5 day course in rural Portugal is ideal for anyone that works with or wants to work with dogs in a professional capacity.

For the November course we will have a whole litter of puppies to work with!

31/08/2024

People always ask, how can I take other people's dogs into my home for training or foster a dog and then give them back/re-home them... Don't I get too attached?

Working with other people's dogs is a bit like watching a movie, a mini journey that you go on together. Some dogs you get more attached to than others, they are the really enjoyable movies that you wish you hadn't watched so you could watch them again for the first time.
Some dogs are more difficult, these are the movies that challenge your perceptions on what you think you know and maybe you learn something.

But what I have with my own dog is an intricate novel that has been carefully weaved and crafted over a decade, thousands of days poured into a tapestry, a story that will one day be finished but will live in the library of eternity of bonds that could never be broken. Even if someone tried to translate the novel into a script, then make the movie it still wouldn't capture but a drop of the real thing.

And that's how I do it. My relationship with my dog grounds me and keeps everything in perspective. If I kept every dog I wanted to keep, my precious relationship with my own dog would get more and more diluted with every dog that stayed.

I always say never trust a dog trainer who doesn't have their own dog, this is for many reasons, here is one.

30/08/2024

Since I've started my rewarding new role as a Volunteer for the Blue Cross Pet Loss Support line, I see lots of similarities between people's grief. This one comes through a lot when people talk of their losses 💔

29/08/2024

Why are puppies so cute? No, seriously why though? Feel free to answer your top reason or two in the comments below! 🙏

These pups are now in their Primary Socialisation Period. Stay tuned for their training programme which will be starting next week when they will be 4 weeks old, we'll be starting with toilet training (technically we already started with truffle training and with handling but this will be more specifically developed also) 🐾

08/06/2024

Hi, I'm Hannah, founder of Canine Needs 👋

I change dog behaviour using the power of your relationship and train dogs using positive common sense.

My mission is to evolve my business into a vehicle for people to use these dynamics that we discover in our relationship with our dogs and apply them to our relationship to ourselves and the people around us to improve quality of life, work/life balance, self care and personal and professional relationships.

Dogs have the power to heal us and I think I have a formula for how we can utilise this magic ✨

07/06/2024

Behaviour is shaped by ✅Success and ❌Failure.

Behaviours that bring successful outcomes repeat. Behaviours that result in failed attempts cease.

Dogs bite because everything else they've tried has failed - biting works successfully.

Dogs sit and stare at you/paw at you/bark at you because it *successfully* gets your attention.

Applied to the news I have accidentally come across this week, it looks like this:

Cesar Millan is unlikely to change his methods to become more ethical because what he does now, has built a fortune.

Rishi Sunak doesn't care about the future of the Country or creating lasting change or anything of real benefit because he's just joined the rich list.

The Global political sh*t storm functions the way it does because it can and successfully generates the money for the people in power making the decisions.

We look at our phones last thing at night and first thing in the morning because it successfully satisfies our cravings for dopamine.

You can apply 'Success and Failure' to any behaviour and that in itself will provide you with a path to changing behaviour. Whether that be your own, your dogs' or people in your life...
NB (technically you can only change your own behaviour but that has the power to influence others)

01/06/2024

There are more superior ways to train your dog with Positive Reinforcement than just flinging treats at them repetitively.

I'm not saying don't use treats, there's definitely a place for them. I'm saying the first two options foster connection and relationship, where as the last option doesn't in many situations. (It can work to build a connection in cases of neglect for example)

All I'm seeing on my feed for the last few weeks is people flinging treats at their dogs, so I'm just gonna leave this post here as a reminder. 🐾

06/05/2024

Our relationships with our dogs are like any other relationship, they ebb and flow and find their grove, they can support and nourish, they can also deplete and distract.

Part of a healthy relationship is respecting each others boundaries. This goes both ways. Contrary to popular belief, your dog will not always feel like showing up for you. News flash, you will not always feel like showing up for your dog either.
That's ok, communicating your boundaries with each other only supports the creation of a strong, healthy, respectful relationship.

I say go 'away' to my dogs because they can need more than I am able to give them, are in the way of where I need to go, are being intense with visitors, are wet or muddy or I'm busy or I've had an argument or I don't feel like I have enough energy to share with them sometimes. I don't have a problem communicating this with them because I am aware that this is life and setting and maintaining boundaries is a normal part of relating.

Many of my clients and perhaps you guys too, feel guilty for creating space and boundaries in your relationship with your dog. The thought of telling your dog to 'go away' for some people, moves them to tears.

That's ok.

My job as a behaviourist is to advocate for your dog and communicate what your dog needs, which is more often than not, space and boundaries.

But what I really want to help with is Why? Why do people feel riddled with guilt at the thought of temporarily turning their dog away?

I feel perhaps it is to do with deep memories of rejection in childhood. Those times we desperately needed connection, love, reassurance from someone close to us and we were denied it

As a parent myself now I understand the importance of self care and how operating from an empty cup impacts all my relationships, but realistically my cup is not always full and we are all doingbthe best we can by those we love, even the generations that came before me.

It's ok, to say Away

Away = not right now please, I need to do me, I will come back to you when and I can, and it will be better for both of us that way. 💕

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Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 2pm

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+447702358793

Website

http://www.canineneeds.com/

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