Merton Dog Training

Merton Dog Training Over 30 years of experience in dog training and behaviour. Fun & friendly classes in a controlled environment. All ages of dogs welcome and also rescues.

One to one sessions and home visits. Group social walks. Positive and fun reward based training.

⭐️Lucy’s Sunday Canine Holistic Health Tips⭐️🐾 HomeopathyHomeopathy is a natural system of healing that has been around ...
06/07/2025

⭐️Lucy’s Sunday Canine Holistic Health Tips⭐️

🐾 Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a natural system of healing that has been around for over 200yrs, it works to balance the body’s ‘energy’ so that it can heal itself. The symptoms of disease are a reflection of what is happening inside the body.

It is not not a one-size-fits-all solution, remedies are specific to the symptoms of each patient and the right remedy and strength of remedy has to be chosen.

It’s not a quick fix as it takes time to truly heal the body from the inside out and may need to be used in conjunction with other healing protocols. Homeopathy can be used to help with a wide range of issues including:

*Insect Bites
*Itching
*Coughs
*First aid
*Allergies
*Pain
*Skin issues
*Dental issues
*Joint issues
*Cancer
*Epilepsy
*Anxiety
*Vaccine reactions and much more.

🐾My personal experiences with Homeopathy.

I never used to be a believer in homeopathy, not until I had no choice but to try it as a last resort in order to try to save my cancer dogs life.
As part of my girls cancer protocol I contact a homeopath for a consultation and within a week of finding the right remedy, I watched as the cancerous tumour in her mouth began to shrink. Within a few months the tumour had completely disappeared, I have included these pictures with those included in the infographics on this post.

I then also went on to use homeopathy as part of the protocol, to help my 10yr old dog who randomly developed environmental allergies. Via diet tweaks, gut healing, boosting her immune system and management. I had managed to solve most of her symptoms, however it was not until I started using homeopathy with her that the rest of her symptoms disappeared.

In both situations I worked with a homeopath and it did take a little while to find the right remedy and the right strength. As I have seen for myself that homeopathy works when done right, i know they or is 100% worth trying and I am now a huge believer in it.

⭐️If you wish to use homeopathy I highly suggest doing your own research as well as doing a consultation with a homeopath or homeopathic vet.

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/homeopathy-for-dogs/

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/12-homeopathic-remedies/

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/20-natural-remedies-for-dogs/

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/homeopathic-treatment-vaccine-reactions/

https://www.dorwest.com/collections/homoeopathic-remedies

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/veterinary-nosodes/

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/3-homeopathic-first-aid-remedies-for-your-dog/

We are proud to announce that we are sponsoring a grassroots U7 football team. We couldn't turn down the opportunity to ...
05/07/2025

We are proud to announce that we are sponsoring a grassroots U7 football team. We couldn't turn down the opportunity to help a community of such wonderful kids playing a sport that they love. We look forward to the season ahead and seeing the kids skills grow.

04/07/2025

Lovely morning, walk with the girls today.
They had a play at the beginning and then chilled and had a sniffy walk for the rest of it.

All very happy and pretty girlies.

03/07/2025

When it is too hot to walk your dogs you can do other fun things with them like teaching trained retrieves. To do these you must first start by training a deliver to hand.

These are so fun to do, whether you do them as a bit of fun, in order for your dog to do service dog tasks or if you want to start doing gundog training.

It has been a while since I’ve done these with Elsie, Cocoa my chocolate labrador was always my star at doing trained retrieves & blind retrieves. Terriers are definitely not the easiest breed to do these with, especially as they are not genetically predisposed to them.

With more practice she will soon be able to do it via only my body language signals and silently with no vocal prompts. Then I can work on distance and some more advanced retrieves.

However I think Elsie did fantastically, considering she is almost 10yrs old now and I’ve not done this with her in quite a while. 😍

30/06/2025

🐾 Intermediate training Classes 🐾

*5 week course
*Starting date: Saturday 5th of July for 11am
*Maximum of 6 dogs
*£125 per dog
*Based in Morden SM4
*A few spaces are still available

⭐️To do this class you need to have at least done puppy or basic obedience classes or one to ones.⭐️

Training will be to advance:

*Heel work.
*Impulse control.
*Leave, stay, wait, back, sit, down including in the heel position.
*Advancing your dogs training beyond vocal commands.
*Working your dog in drive.
*Advancing their engagement.
*Recall.
*Your understanding of your dogs, their behaviour and body language.
*How to communicate more with your dog via body language signals.
*Understanding how your own body language can affect your dogs training, helping you to become a more experienced handler.

If interested please WhatsApp Lucy via 07795 661970

⭐️Lucy’s Sunday Canine Holistic Health Tips⭐️🐕 Doing your own research I am always saying about how important it is to d...
29/06/2025

⭐️Lucy’s Sunday Canine Holistic Health Tips⭐️

🐕 Doing your own research

I am always saying about how important it is to do your own research, so this weeks post is to show you some of the fantastic books you can get, holistic facebook groups you can join and Holistic pages you can follow.

🐾 Holistic Books to read

I have included pictures of these books, they are on everything from diets, holistic lifestyle, health, herbs, homeopathy, Essential oils etc. There is also a free YouTube video of the program ‘Pet Fooled’ which is worth a watch.

I have read most of these books over the years, the most recent ones being ‘The Forever Dog’ and ‘The Herbal Dog’ which are both fantastic books.

🐾 Holistic groups on Facebook

There are so many groups out there, however these are some of the best that have experts in them including Holistic vets, Canine Homeopaths and Canine nutritionists in them.

*Saving Pets one at a time (the original)
*Canine Health Concern- Natural Healthcare
*No Bull just natural health for Dogs
*Barf Uk
*Official DR Judy Morgan’s Naturally Healthy Pets Group
*Ask Dr Steve DMV

🐾Pages on Facebook to follow

These pages are really fantastic, especially as they are by Experts including Holistic vets, Homeopathic vets and Canine Nutritionist’s.
They will help to keep you up to date with the latest proven science and so much more.

*Functional K9
*Planet Paws
*Dr Karen Becker
*Dr Peter Dobias
*Rodney Habib
*The Dog Cancer Series
*Canine Ascension
*Raw Pet Medics
*RFVS (Raw-feeding veterinary society)
*The British Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons (BAHVS)
*Feed Real Institute
*Dogs Naturally Magazine
*The Natural Pet Doctor
*The Dog Nutritionist
*Dr Judy Morgan’s Naturally Healthy Pets
*Billinghurst Institute
*Vince the Vet
*Dr Cathy Alinovi DMV
*Odette Sutter DMV
*The Truth About Pet food

🐾 I am sure I have probably missed a few because I am part of so many groups and follow so many holistic vets etc.
However all of these are a great starting place if you are new to the holistic route or if you are looking further your knowledge.

26/06/2025

congratulations to everyone who has completed our recent set of Foundation stage 1 and stage 2 classes.

You were all fantastic and we loved having you in our classes and seeing the progress your dogs made.

Thank you for your commitment over the last 7 weeks and for choosing us to do classes with.

This is the big boy I did a one to one with recently before doing a home visit. The home visit was because his owners ha...
25/06/2025

This is the big boy I did a one to one with recently before doing a home visit. The home visit was because his owners had been having some issues with signs of aggression/ guarding behaviour towards some guests.

This lovely boy had absolutely no issues with me being in his home and gave me a lovely greeting via a very happy waggly tail.

I was able to assess him around a couple of male guests who there had been issues with in the past. The first thing I noticed via his body language was that as soon as he saw them he became nervous, anxious, on guard and wanted to warning them away.
However with quick redirection to an alternative behaviour he quickly settled, ignored them and focused on me instead.

His owners and I worked on quite a few different exercises with lots of reward in order to desensitise him and so that he learnt not to react in fear to the guests.
It was important that he understood that he doesn’t have to interact with them, he just needs to not react to them and accept them being there.
We also worked on him not being nervous, building his confidence and trust so he didn’t see them as anything to be nervous of. It’s was also important that he built up a positive association with the guests, so that he didn’t see them as a potential threat and was accepting of them.

It will be process for this big boy to completely move past his anxiety and nervousness. However this gorgeous boy did absolutely amazingly during the session. He really is a lovely boy with so much potential, he was a very quick learner and soon become much more relaxed about the guests.

His owners also did absolutely brilliantly during the session. They quickly took on everything that I said and did fantastically with all of the training we did.

25/06/2025

Socialisation is a term that many struggle to define.
It's often confused with play, but play is a completely separate and important skill.
In a world that pushes constant interaction ….where dogs are expected to greet and play with every other dog they see, we can unintentionally create a dog who views every other dog as a source of excitement.
This isn’t socialisation… and it never was.

A better way to think about socialisation is acclimation, helping your dog adjust to everything the world offers, not just other dogs.

Weather
Surfaces
Animals
Crowds of people, all ethnicities, ages, and movement styles
Noises
Scents

That’s just a taste of what true socialisation really is.

Acceptance is another way to view it.
Accepting, not reacting.
Building positive associations.

That is true socialisation.

24/06/2025

🐶 Saturday morning 9:30am social walks 🐕

‼️ We’ve added a new time for Saturday mornings, all Throughout June and July.

Dates below

21st June
28th June

5th July
12th July
19th July
26th July

We also still have our Monday & Fridays at 1pm and Saturdays at 12pm

📧 Please send an email to [email protected] to book on.

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Morden
SM4

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

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+447732357319

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