Molly and Fudge are superstars. Seeing them become more confident and relaxed as their training progresses has been amazing to see. 2 gorgeous rescue dogs that have been amazing to work with and we will continue to keep pushing forward over the coming days 🩵
Bonnie and Luna out on a structured walk together. 🐾
Molly is a nervous, reactive rescue dog who would lose her mind when seeing other dogs out and about. The first part of her residential training we spent a lot of time putting in the foundations in a low distraction environment teaching her exactly how we want her to act when seeing a dog in the distance. We practice this over and over again continuously rewarding good choices. We are now putting this into practice in real life. Even though she’s still a little nervous her actions make her so much more enjoyable to walk and her confidence will slowly start to grow 🩵
We have just had Meow the little Welsh corgi join our residential training program. Meow is a nervous reactive dog of humans and will lunge and bite if he got half the chance. Even though the corgi is a small dog it is part of the herding breed and needs to be treated like the working dog it is by giving it the outlet it needs or problems can manifest and slowly get worse.
Our aim is to build a relationship with Meow, build some trust and tap into his natural drives and abilities to allow him to have fun and meet his daily physical and mental stimulation needs along with daily structure and routine. We can then move on to some counter conditioning working around his triggers.
Keep your eyes out for future videos and watch this young lad flourish 🐶🐾
Fionn is making some excellent progress 🩵
Finn working on impulse control whilst on the place board. Once we teach and shape a behaviour we then have to proof this behaviour by adding duration, distance and distractions. As you can see Finn is making huge progress. What a gorgeous dog he his 😀
Fudge has been working on her obedience around triggers and distractions. Getting fudge to engage with us around distractions will help her control her emotions moving forward and in real life situations. Fudge is starting to understand the desirable behaviours we expect and as a result she is having lots of positive encounters with what once was her triggers 🐾🩵
Some place training with Fudge 🐾
Fudge on the confidence builder 🐾 look how proud she is at the end when she finally went through the curtain of poles 🩵
How gorgeous is Lenny? 🐶🐾
Fudge has just joined our residential training program to work on his on a number of issues she’s been having. Fudge is a nervous girl which results in reactivity to other dogs. She lacks engagement and confidence in high distraction environments. The first few days we will be building a relationship to earn each others trust along with working on engagement whilst having a structured day with rules and boundaries. Fudge is a gorgeous girl and we are looking very forward to helping her live a more relaxed life 🐾
We see a lot of people and trainers that only train their dogs on a training field. This is perfect for the first part of a dogs training to teach the dog new things and what’s expected whilst being able to control the environment. Once the dog fully understands what’s expected it’s then important to move on to different environments. Here you can see we have moved woody into the home environment. A place command has been taught which we can use in a wide range of situations and also to have manners around food. With lots of repetitions this will become muscle memory and a life long behaviour.
Woody 🩵
Some confidence building today with Lenny and something told me he really enjoyed it 😀🐾
Every dog that comes through our door is unique. Like humans they all have a different character, different strengths, different weaknesses, are motivated by different things and learn at their own pace. Has trainers it’s up to us to find the root cause of the issue, find out what motivates them to work and use them to our advantage to make progress in their development 🐾🦮🩵
Rocket out doing some confidence building work 🐶 He’s a very nervous boy that gets stressed easily. We have to build his confidence, environment exposure along with clear guidance and structure. A gorgeous boy that’s making improvements daily 😀
Yuki out on today’s session. What an amazing dog Yuki is. So loving and willing to learn 🩵
Very early days but Koko is starting to engage and enjoy his training session now. Big shout out to Chris for his time and patience. 🐶
A little lead work today :)
Baxter has just joined our residential training program. Baxter is a little nervous which leads to him reacting sometimes around certain dogs. Today we have started to build engagement and a relationship whilst implementing calm, consistent, leadership. Baxter is really enjoying it and soon will be at the next stage of his training. 😆
Young Nettie on environmental exposure at Fables cafe. What a gorgeously little girl she is 😍
