🐶Behaviour Modification
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🐶Puppy Training
🐶Options for Doggie Care and Weddings We offer a home away from home dog sitting service.
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We look after your dogs like they are our own with walks, play time and socialization with our beagles. We also offer other services which includes advice on puppy integration with other dogs and being a wedding cha-paw-rone. Please get in touch if you have any questions :)
💒❤️ J&L Weddings! ❤️💒
Road trip today for the beautiful wedding of Becky & Dale!
Their 3 scrumptious Frenchies were so well behaved and were masters at striking their poses!
Very proud of them and very grateful to have help from this amazing human!
Photos to follow of the special guests! ❤️❤️❤️
🐶 J&L Training - Honey & Jax 🐶
I was called for this dynamic duo to help with reactivity for Honey and to make sure Jax’s puppy training made him the best boy he could be! 🤩
Little did we know that Jax already knew how to behave! His impulse control, his greeting guests, his walking, his teething, all the normal puppy things that people struggle with he just seemed to get!! Thanks to his wonderful family keeping consistent with his training, he hasn’t needed too much attention (apart from maybe his choices of beds 🙈)
So we turned our attention to Honey x she was reactive to the visual of dogs whilst out on a walked and got herself so worked up she would redirect onto her owners, which of course caused concern when out x all of this caused anxiety when out walking, which fuelled the vicious circle for humans and doggos involved! Therefore, when Jax was introduced, it was a worry that he would listen to Honey more than his owners! 🫣
So we began working on Honey’s response when seeing other dogs and wow! I have never seen a dog respond so quickly to this! We had a few moments of close proximity which added pressure during her first training session but she shocked us all and smashed it!
The second time we went to a park, which was MUCH busier than we anticipated! Once again, between the confidence which her owner and her attentiveness to her new training, she flew through it with flying colours!! 🌈
We are continuing with some more bits to get both humans and doggos to exactly where their goals are set but this family is doing amazingly well so far!!
WELL DONE GUYS!!! KEEP SMASHING IT!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
🐶 INTRODUCING MISTA 🐶
A few have been told about this beautiful boy but he deserves a proper welcome!! 😍😍
This is our little Mista x unfortunately he has found himself without a home so has come to us to be our long term foster pup! ❤️❤️
He is a 12 year old Shih Tzu but he thinks he is a puppy with the energy he has! Although he does like a good sleep, he is always down for playtime and a good run about! 🦮🦮
He is fantastic with all the other dogs that have come through our doors and slotted in like he has always been here! He adores his cuddles with us and a bit food mad (maybe learnt from the beagles! 🙈🙈)
He is still looking for a home but for right now is settled with us and become an amazing additional to our little doggies gang! 🥰🥰
🐶 We love you lots Mista!! 🐶
These faces make it worth it!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
😍 Some Happy Beagle Faces to Brighten your Day! 😍
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🐶 J&L Training Info - Force Free Vs Aversive 🐶
The argument between dog trainers that will stand the test of time! 🙈🙈
I have experienced multiple occasions when a dog has experienced aversive training methods and I have been asked to provide further help or even just looked after a dog following aversive training and kept quiet so not to join the debate. 🫢🫢
But one recently has urged me to write the post 😤😤
A social media ‘famous’ trainer that shall remain nameless worked with this dog around a year ago. The beautiful dog in question has EXTREME fear aggression when it comes to strangers, mainly due to suspected abuse in the previous home and a stint of surviving on the street before landing on his paws with his current family. A video was made and posted by this person, insulting previous trainers to start the internet warriors on the rampage about the ‘failure’ of force free methods. This trainer was bragging about the dog in question going from being muzzled and lunging to wandering around the house without the muzzle in 2 hours, with the use of aversives (in the video it says a vibration collar and talks about the use of it but the owners were actually advised to use a prong collar which remained on him to manage his behaviour- something not mentioned in the video) 🧐🧐
All sounds very impressive, almost too good to be true!! 🤨🤨
Well it was!
This dog is still terrified of strangers. So if it only took 2 hours to ‘fix him’, why isn’t he fixed? 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
I was lucky enough to meet this dog outside of a training capacity and was able to have freedom to spend time with him without the pressure of needing ‘results’. 🐾🐾
Over a 24 hour period, I am being generous if I say I spent 2 hours with this dog- some time with the owners, some time without- but let’s say for arguments sake I spent the same 2 hours. ⏰⏰
This dog has not lunged at me. He has given clear eye contact without reaction or fixation. He has brought me his toys to play. He has given me paw, which is behaviour he does to his owners for comfort. He has taken food from me, which the owners advised he won’t do when over threshold. He has positioned himself for bum tickles and tactile contact for comfort. He has slept, although briefly, next to me. He has been given space and he has chosen to develop a level of trust within me, rather than being forced into it. 🥰🥰
So how did I do it? Patience and positive reinforcement (toys and verbal) when good choices were made. That’s it! 🤓🤓
There is absolutely no difference to him when a new person comes along and he will still have the same reaction to bark, lunge and enlist the fight response to what he deems a threat! He has not been able to make the connection that not every stranger is a threat. He hasn’t been given the tools to change his fear when it comes to strangers and only for his wonderful family to manage his behaviour. 😭😭
If a trainer brags about how quickly they can ‘fix’ a behavioural issue that has been years in the making, that IS NOT A FLEX!!!
Obedience maybe. Fear Aggression, very questionable - let me know if you want me to explain why in a different post! 🤯🤯
This dog will take time to undo the many triggers he has developed over the years and that’s ok! He has a wonderful team on his side now with the desire to make sure he has a happy life and the commitment to him to enable him to show his beautiful nature to the world! 😍😍
So please, carefully consider the trainer you enlist to help you and really assess the methods they use for your dog! Ask questions, find out why they are doing what they are doing based on your dog, rather than trying to do it in the quickest time possible! 🐕🦺🐕🦺
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🐶👏🏻 Results of hard work! 👏🏻🐶
Apologies for being MIA the past week! I have been celebrating my 25th birthday (plus a few years! 😜)
Whilst I was off galavanting, I got a wonderful update about Oliver from a previous post! His mum got in touch to help with the harmony in the house, as Oliver and Tinkerbell couldn’t be in the same room and it was proving to be a challenging living environment!
But look at what she has achieved in less than 2 weeks!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍
With hard work and commitment, touching base for advice within the process and consistency, she has managed to get these wonderful moments of calm!
There is still work to do but this is a HUGE step in the right direction! Tiffany, you have done incredible!!!!! ❤️❤️💪🏻💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻
😂 🙋🏻♀️ Hands up if you can relate!!! 🙋🏻♀️😂
I say this alllllll the time 🙈
I say it multiple times in each training session I do 🙈
I have even written it in messages to people! 🙈
I also say my brain works quicker than my mouth can keep up and I get so overwhelmed with information in my mind that it comes out in a strange ramble!
So if I ever say this to you, know that it’s much more to do with making sure I’m not speaking nonsense to you! 😂😂😂
🥶❄️☃️Let it Snow☃️❄️ 🥶
So this morning I have woken up to many messages of doggies having fun in the snow!! (As we are in Malta and missing all the fun! 😢😢)
While this lovely to see, make sure to take care that your pups don’t get too cold! Just like the heat, the cold can also make a doggie poorly! ❤️
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Congratulations Amber Thompson!!! 🥳🥳
The lucky winner of a £50 J&L Voucher to use as you choose!! As you can see Frank is over the moon for you!! 😂🙈
But thank you everyone for sharing, tagging and supporting my little business! 🥰🥰
I am always and forever grateful!
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Competition draw! 🐶🐶🤞🏻🤞🏻
Going Live in 30 minutes!!!
Hop on to see if you’ve won!!
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🐶 Oliver 🐶
Have I had a cute week or what??? This little lad is just adorable!! 🥰🥰
Oliver lives with another furry friend- a cat called Tinkerbell! 🐱 As time has gone on, the harmony that was once there has been disrupted and now Oliver thinks the best thing to do is to chase Tinkerbell! 🙈🙈
As Tinkerbell is a little older, jumping up and down can be a bit painful so it’s not ideal for her to feel stressed enough to jump through the pain! So our little Oliver lad needed to learn a different way to behave with her.
We’ve set up a slow but steady plan for the both of them which includes small sessions of exposure, teaching Oliver not to chase and to take the excitement away of the noise and movement of Tinkerbell moving around the house!
I can’t wait to see the progress here and hopefully we can get them back to sleeping next to each other!! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
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🐶 Bear 🐶
While this picture looks like butter wouldn’t melt in this stunning boys mouth, he is known to be a cheeky one! 😍😍
His family got in touch due to barking at the TV and losing his mind when guests arrived. When I arrived, I found there were also areas he was resource guarding that were being managed for safety reasons.
These things are never an easy thing to tackle because of how quickly a dog go from ‘engaged in the task’ to ‘I am over my limit’ when it comes to something they find valuable. Bear is the most loving, sweet boy when I am sat available for cuddles but a typical Frenchie isn’t the same as training other breeds, as they have their stubborn a streaks (and how well I understand that due to the gang of beagle I have! 😂😂).
We’ve set things in place for working with some of the things the family wanted help with originally and will dedicate a session for his resource guarding when I next get to see him!
But seriously, those eyes!!! 😍😍
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🐶 Libby 🐶
This beautiful little girl didn’t have the luckiest way to start her life but thankfully she now has a wonderful home who adore her!!
I was called out for her because she began to become fearful on walks, only walking half way down the street each time. Whilst a few things had been tried, nothing seemed to tempt her to want to venture further!
In the house, this girl is confident, happy and a bit bonkers, but on a walk she was lacking confidence and wanted to return to her safe place! So I gave her family ways to help change this for her so walks weren’t such an overwhelming thing!
The sweetest little girl!! 🥰🥰🥰
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🐕 Recent Clients 🐕
On this page I have some reviews that make my eyes well up!! I’m so grateful for the love that people have given me in these reviews but I noticed that they are all from quite a while ago!
Since then, I have been blessed with MANY more training clients and also more guest doggies!
So if people have a minute, please could you add a review to the mix?
Eternally grateful for all the support I have received in the years of working with dogs! I wouldn’t be where I am without you, with some people being here from the beginning! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
💍 💒 ❤️ Happy Engagement ❤️ 💒 💍
To all of those who said ‘Yes’ over Christmas and New Year, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
My beautiful bestie got engaged over Christmas and I’ve always thought there was something really lovely about those proposals! 🥰🥰
I’ve also found this time of year is when people make big plans towards their weddings, as with a New Year comes organisation! So a little reminder of one of my favourite services that we offer!! 🥰🥰
❤️ WEDDING CHAPERONING!! ❤️
Have a Canine Behaviourist bring your special guest to your big day and take care of all that comes with it in a professional and personal way! With bespoke options for each couple, we can cater to every canine need for the day!
Dates have begun to fill up for the wedding season so get in touch now to avoid disappointment! 🐩🐩
😍 Rocky’s Residential Training 😍
This beautiful little lad came to stay for help with his walking! At first, it appeared to be a reactivity to dogs when out and about, as he would bark, lunge, use his mouth, make growling noises etc. which doesn’t really make other dogs and owners want to approach. This was also starting to escalate into having similar reactions to people. (You can’t imagine it with this face right?)
Living with dogs all day everyday really helps me to see an insight on them that I don’t get with a 90 minute training session! From this, it was clear to see he is AMAZING with other dogs (and even helped calm the dynamic in the household, which is usually reserved for our resident dogs! 💙🩷💜🧡❤️)
However, when the outside world was introduced, Rocky lost his head.
This was coming from a place of lack of confidence, lack of impulse control and excitement. Whilst it can be argued that it is still reactivity due to the reaction coming from a stimulus, it wouldn’t be as simple as breaking through that thought process . He needed to understand what an appropriate reaction is to seeing something he is overwhelmed by.
I am so grateful for the different options I am able to offer when it comes to training, as I am a very firm believer that with dog training and different dynamics in the household, one size DOES NOT. fit all!
Plus I get to give this amazing boy cuddles during his downtime between training so it certainly has its perks! 🥰🥰🥰
🐶 Winston 🐶
What a way to start the New Year!! I was lucky enough to begin a Puppy Plan with this stunning boy on the first day of the year! 😍😍
He is a working Border Collie mixed with a failed guarding German Shepherd…. Any dog professionals are making this face now 😳😳
This little lad is the mixture of two very complex breeds. The intense intelligence of the working Border Collie mixed with the protective nature from a German Shepherd (even if his mum was a failed one) can be a difficult combination. Also, the desire to train and be ‘on’ a huge amount of the time produces a restless puppy that enjoy to use his mouth to soothe himself. 🐾🐾
However, he has a very good support system in the form of his family! His basic training has already begun and the foundations that have been laid by an experienced doggie family are evident!! Whenever I have met puppies of these breeds previously, I usually leave with some scratches from the needle puppy teeth whilst elements of frustration come out during training. Not with this one! His family have done an amazing start to his development, which will pay off for life!! 😎😎
The areas they are needing help is out and about, as he gets stimulated very easily by cars! Typical herding behaviour but can be extremely dangerous. So that where we will be directing our focus for his next session and I already can’t wait!!!
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🐕 New Year, New You(r dog?)🐕
January is set to be my busiest month so far regarding behaviour! 😲😲
It seems there’s a lot of people setting goals not only for themselves but to solve issues and challenges they are having with their doggos!
Therefore, I wanted to put my availability out there for anyone toying with the idea, as the first 3 weeks are already full! 🥹🥹
Limited space- 24th January
Full day- 25th
Limited space- 26th January
Full day- 30th & 31st
As there are different options for how I offer my training programmes, please get in touch to find out what availability is specific to you and the things you would like to work on!
Thanks all! ❤️🐕🐶
🐶 Good bye 2023, Hello 2024 🐶
And what better way to kick off the New Year than a CHANCE TO WIN!! 🥳🥳
I’m offering a £50 voucher to the winner to use on or towards any of our services! These include:
🐶 Behavioural Modification
🐶 Puppy Training Packages
🐶 Wedding Chaperoning
🐶 Home Boarding
🐶 Home from Home Daycare
🐶 Petsitting
❓ So how to enter❓
Tag your friends, family, co workers, neighbours or anyone that you can think of who loves DOGS! ❤️
Whether they have one, want one or anything in between, we give info, tips, adorable pictures, videos of our guests, so this group is for DOGGIE PEOPLE 🐕 For EVERY person you tag, you get an entry into the draw! It’s that simple!
This is an effort to connect with like minded people who are interested in learning more about dogs, so if you are tagged on this post, please feel free to add us and join in! 🥰🥰
There NO LIMIT to the amount of people you tag, but they all must be separate (mainly for me to figure out how many entries you need into the draw! 😂😂)
This draw will be done in a week, so on 15TH JANUARY 2024 @ 6pm, so until then Get tagging, sharing and join our doggie family! ❤️❤️❤️
(And the picture is just for fun!)
Happy New Year to all!!!
Here’s to the best 2024!!
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🐶 J&L Road Trip! 🐶
Today we took the beagle buns to a play date at a wonderful play area called Bark n Bounce!!
They have a great set up for meet ups and we will DEFINITELY be arranging a few doggie birthday parties there! The dogs had the best time and made some new beagle friends called Alan, Bertie and Bagel!!
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🐶🎅🏼🎄 Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎅🏼🐶
From Jack, Lucie, Frank, Jasper and Amber
(And of course the humans!)
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🐶 J&L Hound Hotel Storytime!! 🐶
🧡 Amber 🧡
The last but by no mean least (and definitely the most chaotic) instalment of this little storytime series. Again, this story isn’t linked with any of the others, as this one was probably the biggest shock to us all! This story is quite different, as we had the pleasure of knowing our last little treasure for a few months before she officially became a J&L family member. She was a part of a multi dog household that used to use us for boarding and she was named Lucy (but not to get confused with Queen Lucie). She began visiting at around 6 months old and she was the most perfect guest! The way she slotted in with the resident dogs was adorable! (I still have a video somewhere of Lucy puppy pawing at Queen Lucie whilst lay underneath her and it’s scrumptious). So how did she go from guest to ours?
As I said, the home that she had previously was a multi dog household too, although one of the dogs that was living there didn’t seem to be too keen on her. She was misunderstood by these dogs, as she was (and still is) a bull in a China shop with certain ways she handles herself! This was resulting in tension within the house between the dogs. There were a few methods to try and help develop these relationships but they weren’t the right things for her so they didn’t work, resulting in escalation. She has tried to push her luck with our resident dogs that came before her but they’ve always been able to put her in her place and we’ve never had any injuries. (She drives Jasper mad by hanging off him but again he knows how to tell her enough is enough hahaha). Also, looking back, I believe this to be a huge factor to the development of her separation anxiety, which is another problem she was having and ultimately why she ended up coming to live with us.
So it was the summer that I had finished my Canine Obedience course and I had spent a good few weeks suggesting anything and everything I could think to help from the stuff I had learnt over those 6 months (although I would later figure out I needed more than obedience training for her!). In the last weekend of the course, I was asked to foster her but I knew I didn’t want her to go anywhere else. I began to look at insurance for 4 dogs and consider the steps to make her ours. This decision is the only time in my adulthood my mum has put her foot down and told me what to do! 😂 When I told her she had stayed (the first picture in the post) she replied with ‘you can’t have 4 dogs, bring her to us!’. So Jasper became a brother and ‘Lucy’ became ‘Amber’.
Honestly, after my obedience course, I felt like I could fix any dog, especially one like Amber because she had been an angel for us! The previous training styles used hadn’t suited her and something I didn’t realise at the time was that, because of this, she didn’t see the value or motivation in training. I couldn’t hold her attention for as long as with the others and her patience was pretty much non-existent! In hindsight, all she needed was some impulse control, regulation of emotion and the right mixture of dogs to be her saviour. Yes she still has areas to work on but doesn’t everyone? But that summer, I was blissfully unaware of what would unfold because at the end of the day she had been a perfect guest so why would that change?
Well it bloody did! It was almost like she heard us say ‘welcome to your new home’ and flipped a switch! 😂. She was overwhelmed, over excited, over tired all at the same time. She reveled in having some many dogs that wanted to play with her that she fought the sleep and then the beast was released! 😂 There wasn’t any malice in her whatsoever and she taught me that dogs can have multiple things to tackle at one time, which is something I hadn’t really looked into properly before. Both her and Frank inspired me to do my degree because they deserved me to understand them. Without them, I wouldn’t have made that leap and my life and future would be looking a lot different right now.
The picture I have as the first one isn’t the first ever picture I have of her but it is the first one where she was Amber, so that felt more fitting to post. She continues to be one of my greatest challenges, as she is anything but a textbook dog when it comes to her behaviour. But the difference between her back then and now is night and day! I adore her quirks and they have taught me so much! She is arguably the most affectionate of the bunch, with her asking for attention because she enjoys you’re affection and I am forever grateful to her for being our beautiful little weirdo!
So that’s the story of Ambie Bambi, our fifth and final dogling! I hope you have enjoyed reading about each of our babies and let me know if you want to hear any other stories from us!
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🐶 J&L Hound Hotel Storytime!! 🐶
💜 Frank 💜
In this penultimate episode in the J&L doggie saga, we now break the link between the stories, as the last two came as a surprise to everyone! At this stage, a few years had past since we thought we had completed our little gang. I had gone from working in a vets to accidentally starting my own dog boarding business and things were going great! So great that Nana Ally was able to leave a job she hated and join the team! So there we were, every day, me and Nana Ally with Jack, Lucie and Jasper, looking after other doggies whilst their families went on holiday or to work. The idea of another dog hadn’t crossed my mind….. until……
It was a Sunday afternoon and I got a phone call. A lovely person on the other end asked if I could look after her dog from tomorrow for a week. It was last minute due to work commitments and at this stage I would usually require a meeting before hand. This was before the stricter council changes (which I fully agree with regarding a meeting prior to a dog staying) but decisions were more flexible based on the business. As this wonderful owner told me more about her dog, I heard the words ‘3 month old beagle puppy’. From this I only had one question…. ‘What time do you want to drop him off?’ 🙈 Puppies have always been something that I just understood, even before studying. Yes the studying helped to understand the Why behind the things I did but learning with the previous three dogs helped me to know the How before the education started. This new pup was before his socialisation sponge phase, he would be home before it started, he was crate trained already for if he needed down time so I figured I could help him along his socialisation path as there was only one other guest staying who was a very friendly doggo!
So the following day, the most adorable little puppy was brought to me along with his owners. They went through his food and all the normal stuff that owners do before they leave. They told me he was named Frank, after a family member that had passed away, and he suited it so much! Little Franky puppy! So then after his owners had left, I introduced him to the others. From that first moment, it was clear he was a dogs dog!! He was sniffing everyone’s butts and his little tail was going mad!! He would play bow, had a little yappy puppy bark (miles away from the sound he makes now!) and when he tired one dog out, he would move onto the next. I couldn’t believe how easy he was for a 3 month old puppy! So of course I fell in love!! So how did he end up with me as his mama?
A few days into the stay, I had another phone call with his owners to check in on how he was doing. I reported how wonderful he was doing with every aspect and how much I loved him. I made a joke that now looking back might have been pushing my luck a bit but luckily they had a sense of humour too! I said ‘He is so good that I might turn all my lights off when you come to pick him up and pretend I’m not home’ (I know, pushing my luck!!). The silence on the end of the phone was deafening! I quickly reassured them that I was joking but they uttered a sentence that would change my life in so many ways!
‘Actually we were going to wait until we were face to face to ask this, but we were wondering if you would consider taking him’
Seriously? Someone wanted to give me the most perfect puppy in the world? There were many reasons why and to this day his first owners have held their hands up to say they rushed into getting another dog after losing their previous one suddenly. They turned down homes they didn’t feel were right and do the best for little Franky puppy given the circumstances they found themselves in. They haven’t left their commitment to Frank either, as they have had many visits with him, brought him gifts and he adores his time with them, which isn’t very common to continue visits 7 years down the line. But they are some of the most wonderful people I’ve ever met and knowing Frank, I don’t think he would’ve coped being the only dog. So this brings us back to the question. There was only one answer to this question as far as I was concerned.
But according to some of the other people in my life, there was also different answers to that question such as ‘no we already two dogs’ (who would have thought 🤷🏻♀️). After discussion and against what I really wanted but probably the sensible decision, I had to sit down with the owners and tell them I couldn’t take him. I promised them that I would do everything I could to find him a home and I really did! But one by one all the options I looked at fell through for some reason. Maybe call it fate! So a few weeks later the owners contacted me again asking if I could board him for a weekend. Of course I wanted to see him again and had space so he came back. That weekend, as I looked at him and he cuddled me, I realised I couldn’t let him go, despite it being the sensible option. But I’ve never been known to be sensible! So then he came to live with us and he’s been with us ever since!
So how has this pup changed my life? He is the reason I continued my education and did my degree. He is the reason I understand how to help anxious dogs. He is the one who made the decision between whether I had human kids or not, as I knew with 3 dogs it would be near impossible for me. He has taught me so much about dog body language that the books can’t teach. I would be lost without him, even with his howling while walking, his screaming when we entering the house and his baying instead of barking when playing with other dogs! He has been adorable from day one and he remains it to this day!!!
So that’s the story of Franky Poomie Puppy, our fourth doggie! Stay tuned for the next addition to the group!
(On these stories feel free to post your first and latest photos too!!! 🐶🐶🐶)
🐶 J&L Hound Hotel Storytime!! 🐶
❤️ Jasper ❤️
The first 3 stories of this sage all link together, as without the previous addition it may not have lead us to the current story. So we were up to us settling in with Jack and getting the balance right between chaos and calm. While that decision was being made, another conversation had been had that I was completely unaware of. Whilst there was a concern of whether we had made the wrong choice and needed to take Jack back, my mum aka Nana Ally and her Bobs aka Bobs had decided if we had to make that choice that they would take Jack as their own. They had fallen in love with him too but they settled for him as their grand puppy after I watched Marley & Me. But the doggie seed was planted!!
So Nana Ally and her Bobs spent the next 7 months or so taking their duties very seriously and took care of Jack and Lucie for us when we had work things, friends things or just arranging sleepovers for crazy run abouts in their big garden. The conversation had always been that they would get a dog when Bobs retired but this was escalated quickly by a gift from the rest of the family! For one of Bobs birthdays, we clubbed together to pay for a lovely night out doing a whiskey testing event. Well let’s just say that enough whiskey was consumed to look into rescue websites and make arrangements to go and see a lemon & white puppy beagle the next day! 🥃🥃
They told me that they were going to ‘look’ because they didn’t know anything about this puppy except what they looked like. They would ask the age, gender etc and see how they felt when they met the dog. I knew what this meant. I was getting a sibling puppy!!! At this time, I worked at a vets and I was checking my phone CONSTANTLY to get news on this new pupper!! But one of my colleagues came to me and told me my mum had been on the phone to register a new dog! How dare she not speak to me?? So I called and told her to bring him to meet me because I couldn’t wait until I finished work!!
An agonising wait later and that beautiful little face came in cuddled up with my mum and I immediately scooped him up! Those little eyes, those droopy ears, the big paws! I was already smitten 😍😍 We arranged for us to take Jack and Lucie round after the work day. From the moment they walked through the door, it was clear this little lad was gonna go with the flow and listen to the resident doggos that already ruled the roost! We didn’t realise at the time but this is the moment that Jack was dumped and Lucie met the love of her life! Maybe it was because she’s always been very motherly towards puppies, maybe this new dog had a chilled vibe that was more to Lucies taste, but whatever it was Jasper and Lucie are still going strong 9 years later! 🥰
We’ve had a long standing battle trying to convince Jasper that he isn’t actually my dog, as he began his life with spending one on one time with me every day while his real doggie parents were at work. He follows me upstairs pretty much every time I tell my dogs to come with me and he greets me in the most beautiful way by diving onto me with his paws around my neck! Our biggest battles here have always been him stealing the bed because he sleeps like a starfish!! 😂 apart from that he is almost perfect!!
So that’s the story of Jaspie Smashie, our third pupsicle! Stay tuned for the next addition to the group!
(On these stories feel free to post your first and latest photos too!!! 🐶🐶🐶)
Radcliffe/Bury
Manchester
M26
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Happy New Year to all!!! Here’s to the best 2024!! 🥳🥂🍾
🐶 Exciting Announcement to Bark About 🐶 For the month of December, we are entering a soft launch for our new approach to our Behaviour Modification Programmes! 🤓 This has been cooking for a while now and, although I’ve tried to cover all bases, I want to gain some feedback from the people who need to have the biggest say- YOU!! 🫵🏻 So will this suit you? Requirements- 🐕 You have a dog who needs some help with training. This could be lead walking, reactivity, jumping up at people etc. (This programme won’t suit for Separation Anxiety and we have a separate programme for that if required) 🐕🦺 You have a busy lifestyle and no idea where to start to help your dogs training issues but want to fix them! 🦮 You would like to make the most of our introductory discounted price. 🐩 You are prepared to complete a form following your training programme to offer constructive feedback for us to improve. The goal- I will lay the foundations for the training for what you need, teach the cue words for you to use and give a handover of how to continue the success in real life situations - Basically do all the repetitive, tedious stuff that humans don’t get chance to and that dogs brains love!! 🧠 This is not for people who think I will wave a magic wand and their dog will be fixed with zero input from you, but it will lay the difficult groundwork that so many owners find challenging to fit in around a hectic lifestyle! ⏰ If you are interested in any of the above, please contact me, as there is limited availability due to my commitment to each owner throughout this process! Looking forward to hearing from you! ❤️🐶
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