Tail Talk Dog Training and Behaviour services.

14/02/2025

PUPPY LOVE 🩷🩷🩷BOOKING NOW
MARCH 1ST - PUPPY CLASSES
-https://www.tail-talk.co.uk/puppy-classes

12/02/2025

Back for session 2 today
Zico is now teething.
Such a lovely boy to work with and his family too 🥰

12/02/2025

Agree👏

If you start your training journey with reward based training you might suck at first, and that's pretty normal for most new skills we learn. It doesn't mean it doesn't work, it just means you suck at it......but with practise you will get better and you may even become a reinforcement based ninja 🥷

Your dog will love you for it. ❤️

If you use positive reinforcement to train your dog you will become skilled at using positive reinforcement and when you come across that dog that it doesn't seem to be working with you don't resort to punishment. You talk to your other reward based trainers and someone will have a solution or you work through finding one yourself and in turn you get better and more skilled at it

It's absolutely not just about treats and harnesses. That's what it appears to be to the untrained eye of those who don't use it or understand it fully.

It goes way beyond operant conditioning because when we are working with a dog with big emotions operant conditioning often doesn't happen.

We use neuroscience, we look at emotions and conditioning. We use intrinsic reinforcement and neurochemistry as reinforcement, we use premack. Our tool box of rewards contains much more than cheese 🧀 and a harness 🦮

My goal in training is to use as little aversives as possible and I absolutely love finding better ways to train dogs with reward based training 🐾🐾

11/02/2025

🐶Kol wants to tell you that we have some slots left on the March block of
ADOLESCENT Teen-paws 🐶 have you an older puppy you need help with? Have a chat with Susan and see if this class could help you on your teen journey
Booking 👇 https://www.tail-talk.co.uk/teen-paws

11/02/2025

♥️MARCH PUPPY CLASSES♥️
STILL TIME TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
https://www.tail-talk.co.uk/puppy-classes

10/02/2025

We loved meeting Billy this morning!
I do love my big breeds as you all know! However working with alot of smaller breeds recently and really enjoying it.
Billly is a yorkshire terrier x pug
(mostly yorkshire terrier) with eyes to tell a story of his past life.
I will enjoy working with you and your new family 🙂

10/02/2025

I think this is a really helpful video please watch folks. 👇

Here are 5 reasons why you might be experiencing the puppy blues, and 5 tips to help you through the struggles of a new puppy. 👉 Are you in the comparison m...

10/02/2025

**** only 2 spaces left ****

🐾My Dog and Me photos

🐶I have 3 spaces for doggy photos at Highland Hounds, Elgin on Sunday 9th March.

🌳This is an enclosed woodland, so you can get beautiful photos in the natural environment.

⏰️4.30pm and 5pm.

📨Message or email for info!

09/02/2025

Some of our Teen Paw graduates! 😍
Arthur Dulsie Blue

08/02/2025

Busy day for us 🥳🥳🥳
Puppy and Teen graduation day!
Proud of all the families with thier puppies and young teens. See you all again soon 🙂xx

06/02/2025

Congratulations to Catherine/Jenny Linda/Diva Annie/Argo Jacky/Rona. 4 weeks of confidence building,learning new skills to help with everyday walks, having fun.🙂

06/02/2025

🐾SATURDAY PUPPY CLASSES 🐾
MARCH - BOOKING NOW
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05/02/2025

Great to see this gorgeous Springador again today. Pippa has a great check in responce with her family. They have been working with her lead walking, can see her improving with this.
Whistle work will be added to her recall training and her to have more reinforcement at the side position not always the front when she returns with recall.
She loves to use her nose and searching skills as a reward too. And when she returns if off lead the freedom to move on again is one of her rewards, which is very reinforcing for Pippa. Happy teacher🤣 Susan x

05/02/2025

Learning is caring 😍👍

Force free training is far more than just saying yes and using food….

It goes a lot deeper than that!

Do we understand how to implement boundaries and rules?
Of course!
Do we understand how punishment works and when to use?
Of course we do!
Do we understand the definition of punishment in training terms is to reduce an unwanted behaviour?
Of course we do!
Do we use punishment in a fear or pain inducing manner?
Course we don’t!
Do we understand that sometimes getting things wrong is how all beings learn?
Absolutely!
Do we do our best to set up our dogs up for success for the right situation but don’t get it correct 100% of the time?
You bet ya!
Do we wish to avoid using punishment where humanly possible?
Too right!
Do we learn from this as trainers?
Most definitely!
Does this still make an ethical force free trainer?
Hell yeah!!!!!!

Force free trainers don’t just say “yes” all the time , we also never intentionally cause pain or fear.

Learning is caring 🥰

TDTS

04/02/2025

You watch them Arthur as I lead the way at the front like an Explorer with my bag🤣🤣
I will pay you in Tuna fudge later 🤭
We walked we trained we laughed.

03/02/2025

Roy, Jock, Midge and Seb cover photo winner for February 😍 think you will agree its a great photo! Thankyou so much for the Amazing photos of your dogs on the beach it was so close this time with the ❤️👍
Loved seeing them xx

03/02/2025

National Golden retriever day today! Lets see your ones please. This is Amelie Sweet Sue 🥰