Well Done Lottie
Lottie has been working hard!🤩
New environments can be hard for Lottie as they can be a mix of exciting and scary. This often means tasks like loose lead walking are not possible in new environments, as her emotional thresholds are overloaded 🤯❌
However, her owner has been working with Lottie to help grow her experiences within her coping abilities. This means she is now processing new environments more calmly and with confidence ✅🥳
This video shows such a small behaviour of loose lead walking in a new place, but it is a huge milestone in her progress and importantly her emotional well-being! 🙌😍
Well done Lottie. You and your mum are a force to be reckoned with - Ultimate Team! 💙🌟
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Dave smashing it!
Last week we visited Dave for his first follow on session 🎉
Dave did great during his session. In just 4 weeks Dave has progressed really nicely at home and improved with a lot of his decision-making 🤩🌟
During the session, we work with a fake dog to work on his initial social interactions. Dave did brilliantly and managed to greet the stooge dog nicely at the end 🥳🐶
We look forward to his next session to hopefully work on real life outside the home 💙
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Traveling home from our Scotland holiday 💙🏴💙
Looking forward to getting back out to see everyone from tomorrow 🙌🥳
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Finley aced his session this week 😍🤩
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Amazing Finley
Finley aced his session this week 😍🤩
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Frosty Walks = More Sniffing!
Did you notice your dogs sniffing more on frosty mornings? 🐶🤔
Watch the video for why! 👀
Depending on your dog, increased scents during frost can encourage more environmental interactions. This means for visually reactive dogs who are looking for the next trigger, frosty walks can help to get them engaged with the environment. We can then reward their engagement and thus reduce their social pressure and arousal. It can also mentally tire out our dogs to encourage rest following their walk 🙌🥳
However, if your dog is always over-excited about the environment and smells of animal tracks can cause over-arousal, frost walks can actually work against you. Therefore, avoiding frosty walks, by taking a rest day at home or waiting until it has thawed out, can help keep your dog focused. But if needing to adventure out, try to help them out with long-lines and extra special rewards for keeping their focus! 🤩💙
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Did you notice your dogs sniffing more on frosty mornings? 🐶🤔
Watch the video for why! 👀
Depending on your dog, increased scents during frost can encourage more environmental interactions. This means for visually reactive dogs who are looking for the next trigger, frosty walks can help to get them engaged with the environment. We can then reward their engagement and thus reduce their social pressure and arousal. It can also mentally tire out our dogs to encourage rest following their walk 🙌🥳
However, if your dog is always over-excited about the environment and smells of animal tracks can cause over-arousal, frost walks can actually work against you. Therefore, avoiding frosty walks, by taking a rest day at home or waiting until it has thawed out, can help keep your dog focused. But if needing to adventure out, try to help them out with long-lines and extra special rewards for keeping their focus! 🤩💙
#positivereinforcement #dogtraining #behaviouralmodification #canine #behaviourist #animalbehaviour #behaviour #dogbehaviourist #behaviouralreferral #spainel #frostywalks #frost
Happy New Year 2024
🌟Happy New Year From Forrest Animal Behaviour🌟
This year has been a rollercoaster!🎉
From the start of the year on maternity and then reopening our books in April, it has been non-stop! 💙
I can not thank you enough for the support from all our clients and importantly veterinary practices for recommending us and using our services 🐶🐱🩺
We hope you have enjoyed the year as much as we have 🥳🥰
We look forward to continuing to help you, your pets and your veterinary practices with your behavioural journeys in the new year. Bring on 2024! 🌟😁
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Super Star Barney
💙So Proud of Barney💙
Barney has had a long journey with behavioural support, but he is currently smashing his consent work 😁🥳
Here Barney chooses to wear his muzzle and we have now transitioned his chin rest to inanimate objects. This means that his owners can handle tasks while he chooses to consent by staying in place and chin resting. At any stage Barney can stop and move away, thus removing his consent ⭐🥰
Well done to him and his owners for all the hard work and dedication 💙👏
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Lick Mats
Do you use Lick Mats for your dogs? 😛👅
Here is Saxon having a Lick Mat after his injection medications. The use of the Lick Mat helps him to re-focus and release any frustrations after the handling. It also is a great happy reward for him! ✅🐾
You will also notice his bad haircut! After a skin flare-up a few weeks ago, he is now showing off the reversed mohawk 🤣🥳
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Murphy acing his good watch behaviour
This week we joined Murphy on his local dog walk 🐶🐾
Murphy is making great progress with his behaviour work! Just look at him doing a great good watch and keeping himself calm! 🌟💙
Well done Murphy and his owners for showing great teamwork 🤩🙌
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Why do we encourage sniffing games such as 'Find it' ??🤔👀
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💙Thank you to everyone for your continual support!💙
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🐽 The Power of the nose! 🐽
Often we forget about the world of smells for dogs. Its have been found that dogs can process smells in the 3D form to recall picture like memories in their mind 😶🌫️🤯
This uses a lot of brain power and energy which is highly enriching for canines ✅️🤗
Here is Saxon using his nose to hunt down a smell from another dog. Saxon is a country dog, he is normally used to country smells of rabbits, pheasants and livestock. However, on rare occasions, he gets to have some estate walks! Meaning lots of novel, mixed and social smells to investigate 🥳💙
These short 20-minute walks are more tiring for him than 2-hour country walks! 💤
Allowing your dog the extra 10 minutes on a walk to sniff will improve your dog's quality of life 🥰🐕
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Here is Roo in action 🎬
Yes, as behaviourists it is possible to train and teach cats new behaviours! ✅️🐱
Here we are doing some target and motivational drive work for Roo to ask her to come and sit on the mat. This will be adapted later on to target to wanted areas of the house that she has had aversions too in the past 🎯😁
We also had her older house friend Minnie come and join in 🐈🐈
Well done Roo! 🥳💙
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🐶 Look at Paddy Go! 🐶
Paddy is now a year on from his first initial assessment. We haven't seen Paddy for the last 6 months but his owners have continued the hard work and progress and sent us this lovely update! ✅️🤗
Last year, this behaviour on walks would have been a faraway dream for Paddy's owners! 😶🌫️
When we first started with Paddy he was scared of life outside the home. This would lead to hypervigilance and hyper-arousal but only once coxed with a lot of effort to get him outside 😔🤯
During his treatment he actually had 4 months of no walks, to enable us to build confidence to leave the house 🏡
Now he is able to happily leave home, enjoy his walks, interact with his environment appropriately and be off lead!! 🥳🥰
He has been a character to work with and such a loving boy! 🤩💙
Well done to Paddy and his owners! 👏👍
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🎉 So proud of Barney this week! 🎉
This has been a long time coming (months!) but this week Barney was able to confidently consent to be brushed even with sticky grass balls in his fur! 🐕🌱
Barney has had a lot of worry about all aspects of handling from harness work, brushing, ear cleaning or drying. This unfortunately in the past has resulted in injuries 😔
However, with the massive dedication of his owners and patience, we are seeing massive strides in the right direction! Importantly, all within Barney's tolerance and consent! 🤩🥳
This is a big tribute to his owners for all their hard work getting Barney to this point! You have been amazing! 🤗👏💙
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Here is Bailey doing some Drop work with his 6-year-old human sister! 🐶🤗
Both show great teamwork! 💙
Drop work is a big part of Bailey's behavioural work, therefore it is so important to get everyone in the family on board. Bailey has already been practising with his adult owners, so in this session we got the kids 👨👩👧👦
Having supervised training with your children and dog can help progress dog training, while also ensuring children remain safe as they know how to interact with their dog 🥰🤩
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