Let’s be Pawsitive - dog training with Nicky

29/09/2024

Tiff made some friends this week when we bumped into my colleagues at Waggin & Walkin! It was lovely to watch them say hello and play nicely together. Great for observing body language.. all doggos were very relaxed and happy to be in each other’s company. Play was equal and style mirrored by both sides, a true delight to watch 🥰

05/09/2024

Another sniffari adventure for Eric and Nelson as they follow theirs noses and explore 🌳🐾

01/09/2024

Starting to implement location changes now. Seeing how we get on with new places and added distractions. Always taking it at Tiffs pace 🐾🐾

30/08/2024

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29/08/2024

Happy 1st Birthday to Tiff! 🎉. Hope you have a lovely day gorgeous girlie 🎉🎉🎉🎉

22/08/2024

🐿️ The boys were on squirrel watch this week!! It gave us the perfect opportunity to practice some engage/disengage techniques 🌳🍃

11/08/2024

It looks like being a very hot couple of days across parts of the UK this week and that can certainly be tough for some of our dogs and us. It really is worth considering what you do with your dogs during these really hot spells as heat stress can have a huge impact on your dogs, it is the UK after all and we know the hot weather will not last and we can then get back to normal!

07/08/2024

Making great progress! What an amazing dog Tiff is growing in to 🥰

02/08/2024

29/07/2024

Keeping it cool today with Eric and Nelson 😎🐶

26/07/2024

How amazing is Tiff doing now?! What a superstar 🤩

24/07/2024

Sniffing their way through the week like pros, just Eric and Nelson keeping it cool 😎🐾

13/07/2024

Extremely proud to be listed on The Dog Trainer School professional standards directory. You can find me listed under Milton Keynes and my friend and colleague, Sarahs dog walking listed under Bedford 🥰🐾. Check it out 🙌🏻

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12/07/2024

Really starting to smash this loose lead walking now! Well done Tiff 🙌🏻❤️

28/06/2024

Tried, tested and approved by Bella and her little friend ☀️🐾🥰

19/06/2024

LETTING GO OF THE LABEL
People love to label things - from containers to personality types, physical or mental differences and everything in between.

Why do we like labels so much? Labels are comforting, they help us to feel more secure.

Labels allow us to close that particular “box”, because it now has a label and we no longer have to think about it or be concerned about it.

It’s been judged, identified, labelled and we can now move on, confident in the belief that there’s nothing more to be done.

We may also be very good at labelling dogs. My dog is stubborn, aggressive, lazy, shy, timid, greedy, jealous, untrainable…. It’s comforting for us to assign a label because it takes the pressure off trying to find out why they behave that way because we might believe that it’s just the way they are.

If we remove the label and take note of the behaviour in context and the circumstances or environment it’s happening in, we may realise that our dogs need our help to cope, not our labels.

Look into what can be done to improve or change that behaviour if it's something you’d like to change.

Sometimes a label does fits, it’s just the way it is and we need to accept that, but sometimes labels hide the need to look beneath the surface and discover what the real cause of that behaviour is.