Safe Space Saturday

Safe Space Saturday A safe space every other Saturday for nervous and anxious dogs.

13/11/2024

DIY dog game

Pop into the shed for a break and play with the DIY games
This one is a brilliant way to utilise boxes 📦.
They'll be the cup game out too.

This has made my day ❤️ 🤣
23/10/2024

This has made my day ❤️ 🤣

19/10/2024

Brilliant sessions today, lovely to spend the morning with you lovely bunch.

I measure progression in a few ways, my main way is looking at tension in the dogs body. Herbie and Bella came today, both of these dogs I haven't seen in a while. Herbie was so much looser in his movements, a wiggle to his body, less upright too, it was so lovely to see, the next thing I look for is communication, Herbie is now responding to his mum straight away and voluntarily. Without that communication you have nothing, so to see this development was awesome. The other way is distance, can they get closer and stay relaxed and stay listening, do they disengage without prompting or do we need to help. Herbie distance has definitely decreased. We need to be over around 8 meters for him to still stay comfortable. But that's massive progress.

We also welcomed back Bella, who is sooo different! Very relaxed, happily rushing towards me to get treats. Our first SS she would be in the field on her own at the bottom by the shed and me in the middle.
Bella is ready for close up work on a sharing session with an appropriate buddy.
And this is the thing why SS helps so much is because we couldn't have dived right into to close up work, we needed them to feel safe, we needed the humans to have techniques, the dogs to have learnt skills and the communication to help them feel safe and be successful.

17/10/2024

Very excited for this Saturday.
We're revisiting the basics.
We're making sure our Marker word hasn't lost its sparkle and we're practicing our Touch Cue.
Its so easy to forget the little things, but "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."
- John Wooden, Basketball Coach

Plus of course all the stations that are available to use which offer enrichment, problem solving skills and plenty areas to practice your Sarah walk, 123, LAT and Lets Go.

After Monday, making use of spaces like our Safe Space is essential. Its Safe to make progress.

16/10/2024

After Monday's events... when I say to people, can you please call your dog and give mine space as mine struggles with off lead dogs running towards them and their responses were.. "I called it back didn't I" (after multiple attempts at recall using a very repetitive high pitched voice) or the other one from the bloke with 2 whippets was "it doesn't matter, mine won't be bothered " . All that falls on deaf ears, so next time this inevitably happens I've decided I'm going to shout "mine has ring worm and so do I , please call your dog" or maybe "mine has kennel cough" maybe, that will make them call their dog away and make them practice recall!!

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