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♿ Specialist in working with disabled handlers
💻Human coaching and CPD
🐾100's of lives changed

⚠️Wren needs your help⚠️Some of you will know Lydia, and her assistance dog Willow, one of our assistance dog partnershi...
04/12/2025

⚠️Wren needs your help⚠️

Some of you will know Lydia, and her assistance dog Willow, one of our assistance dog partnerships. Last year they welcomed Wren into their home, with the hope that Wren would one day take over as Lydia's next assistance dog. They did everything right- good breeder, health tested parents, travelled literally hours across the country to come to us for training every week. But something wasn't right with Wren, and as a fabulous owner informed on the role of pain in behaviour, any thoughts of assistance dog training halted, and Lydia had medical cause thoroughly investigated. And the result a year later is more devastating than anyone could have imagined.

Wren now needs specialist surgery to save her life, surgery that needs to be paid out of pocket as the £12,000 she's insured for has already been used up. Without surgery, Wren will face being put to sleep.

We don't normally share go fund mes, but this one is close to us and neither Lydia or Wren deserve the plate they've been served.

If anyone has any spare change to donate, please donate at the link below. Or if you aren't in a position to donate, sharing the go fund me will help increase the chance people who can help will see Wren's story. 🙏

https://www.gofundme.com/f/u6q9j8-saving-wrenny?attribution_id=sl%3Ad79550d0-dd8d-4dc6-8700-cfed68d51367&lang=en_GB&ts=1764779416&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&fbclid=IwVERTSAOe6RFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7L278jd1sBYJrvf9y685L-oDhGvhhWFThWZyz8QlQ1Lbr0MPD_Vy5_hIUg9A_aem_vBiwfKo3bijOfbf1sLi9Aw

04/12/2025

Obie is one of the puppies currently on our Puppy Life Skills course. 💜 At 11 weeks old, he's just a baby, but one day will hopefully be his owner's next assistance dog! 🦮 His owner is unwell in hospital, so granny has stepped in to continue his group class education 🐾

Two of the skills we worked on this week at puppy class are greeting people in cue calmly, and sit or down with duration on a verbal cue.

Assistance dogs must eventually learn to ignore people when working, so introducing a calm greeting on cue early on is a helpful skill! Look at how quickly Obie turns his attention back to granny!

Dogs being able to respond to verbal cues without hand signals is vital for wheelchair users, who literally have their hands full self-propelling their wheels, so Obie learning to respond to verbal cues will be helpful. Here he is practising sit on a verbal cue with a small distance between him and his handler (using a thrown treat to create a bit of distance), getting him used to sitting at a distance without returning for emergency stop training as he gets older.

These skills are useful not just for assistance dogs, but pet dogs too, which is why all puppies learn them on our Puppy Life Skills and Awesome Adolescents courses!

Our next Awesome Adolescents course (for puppies age 5-12 months old, or Puppy Life Skills graduates) starting in January is now open for booking- just click on the website link in our bio and visit the booking page,!

01/12/2025

Reward delivery is super important in dog training for motivation, and can be even more important than the actual reward itself! Food being thrown, rather than being fed to the mouth, can be much more motivating for many dogs, and the more motivating a dog finds training, the quicker they'll progress. Teaching dogs to catch food isn't just a cute trick- it's a fun reward method that can be really useful if you have a disability that affects mobility, particularly with little dogs and puppies!

♿ Want to learn more about how to adapt training to meet your specific mobility needs and training goals? DM to find out more about our ParaCanine Coaching program, specifically for dog owners who are disabled, chronically ill or have mobility difficulties- next intake starts in January with limited spaces!

❄️Winter Zoom Workshops- First Workshop Now Taking Bookings!❄️Don't let your training go cold over winter- join our wint...
29/11/2025

❄️Winter Zoom Workshops- First Workshop Now Taking Bookings!❄️

Don't let your training go cold over winter- join our winter Zoom training from the comfort of your living room!

☃️ Christmas Heelwork to Music workshop- learn a mini routine!☃️

❄️Monday 22nd December 6-7pm (GMT)
❄️ Suitable for training from your living room- designed for limited space
❄️No Heelwork to Music experience necessary
❄️Includes routine variations for both walking handlers and wheelchair users
❄️Props that can be substituted for common household items
❄️ Absolutely no dance ability required!

And as with all our winter workshop series:
❄️Recording provided after the session
❄️ Membership of a private Facebook group for feedback and sharing progress for 7 days after the workshop
❄️Suitable for all breeds, dogs that may not normally be able to attend classes, and handlers in all locations!

💻Book now at https://BriarDunnDogTraining.as.me/?appointmentType=86225824

This week gorgeous showline Cocker Spaniel puppy Bryson had his first training session with us- look at his fantastic si...
27/11/2025

This week gorgeous showline Cocker Spaniel puppy Bryson had his first training session with us- look at his fantastic side burns! 🤩 He is beginning his journey towards becoming a hearing assistance dog to help his Deaf owner. He did super in his first session getting some foundations set!

❄️Club Christmas Meal❄️Our annual Christmas Meal will be held as usual at Riverside Farm Carvery, Tottle Road, Nottingha...
25/11/2025

❄️Club Christmas Meal❄️

Our annual Christmas Meal will be held as usual at Riverside Farm Carvery, Tottle Road, Nottingham on Monday 15th December (exact time tbc with restaurant booking). All clients are welcome, whether you've trained 1:1 or at classes, in Nottingham or Derby or even online. Human only evening! (Except assistance dogs).

Please RSVP on our client Facebook group by 6pm Sunday 30th November!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1156704328117218/?ref=share

25/11/2025

Social media is full of highly edited videos of high drive dogs doing heelwork in cities, coordinated outfits and running handlers. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's not the reality for a lot of dog owners.

The side you never see, and we're often reluctant to show, is those of us dog handlers who are chronically ill showing our reality, or even someone going through a period of bad ill health. Even as a trainer who shares their disability openly, there's a side I've never shown.

The reality of being a dog owner with a condition/s that cause severe pain and fatigue, is those times you're stuck in bed, hair unwashed, and unable to get out of bed without mobility aids, or sometimes at all. And those of us living it know it's not being lazy, or a choice- it's the reality of often severe illnesses. Yet we still manage fulfilling our dogs' needs appropriately and aiming for high training levels.

But this vulnerable is the state that some of the most valuable training happens. Would I prefer to be at the training hall working on Heelwork stretches, distance work and HTM routines? Yes. But even bed training is still training, and even advanced skills can be worked on whilst you're horizontal. All that is needed is thinking outside the box. 🧠

This is a vulnerable post for me, but a reality for thousands of disabled and chronically ill dog owners who are still commited to their dog's training. So it's time it was seen.

Each week I'm going to share a skill or exercise you can train from bed or the sofa- relevant to everything from vet visits to working on high level skills for sports!

Make sure to follow our page for the next video!

💻Are you a dog owner living with disability, chronic health conditions or mobility difficulties? Looking for a trainer who genuinely 'gets it' who can work with you and your dog remotely? Get in touch about our ParaCanine Coaching service- especially for disabled dog owners, with a disabled dog trainer! Limited spaces available for January start.

24/11/2025

PLAY is a great way for improving dog confidence and motivating your dog, and being a wheelchair user or having mobility difficulties doesn't mean you can't play with your dog! Here's 3 top tips for improving confidence around your wheelchair with toys:

1. Start off with your wheelchair stationary whilst your dog or puppy gets used to it.

2. Use a toy with a long handle so you don't have to reach as far, the toy can be moved to simulate chasing, and your dog can choose to move away from your wheelchair if they're unsure.

3. Start moving your wheelchair as their confidence grows! If they stop playing when you move your wheelchair, go back to spending more time with your chair stationary.

💻 Looking for more tips on improving your dog's confidence around your wheelchair, or motivating your dog when you can't run around? DM to find out about our remote ParaCanine Coaching program- limited places are available to start in January!

22/11/2025

One of the topics that came up in our puppy class this week is adjusting training for teaching a puppy to walk with a manual wheelchair, rather than on foot! ♿

It's a bit trickier, but teaching your puppy or dog to walk with your wheelchair doesn't need to be a nightmare! Here's 5 top tips to get your puppy walking confidently with your manual wheelchair ♿🐾

♿1. Wheelchair confidence
🧀2. Don't rely on luring when moving
🐕3. Build value for the heel position
🟣4. Introduce moving on a circle
✅5. Push - Click - Feed

💻Are you a wheelchair user looking for a trainer who has lived experience of being a wheelchair user to help you with your puppy or dog training? Get in touch via WhatsApp or DM to find out more about our ParaCanine Coaching program! 🐾♿

20/11/2025

Sometimes the biggest challenge in training is getting started and deciding what to actually do! 🤔 I bet there's been times you've just trained nothing because you didn't know where to start.

Writing behaviours on sticks gives an easy way to select one, or a few, behaviours to work on in a training session- great when you've got choice paralysis, or those of us with neurodivergent brains 🧠 need a hit of dopamine changing up a training session

You can theme pots (for example, this pot is all Heelwork to Music moves) or make mixed pots of varied training areas!

You can even let your dog pick for themselves. 😉

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