Penny Davies - Canine Consultant

30/10/2025

30/10/2025

Next available behaviour consultation date 11th November

30/10/2025

Hard work, consistency, patience, the will to succeed and accepting small wins has got us to this point.

Ruby is just a year old and look what she’s achieved:

✅ Learnt to control her impulses
✅ Sit and wait patiently
✅Relax on her settle mat
✅Walk to heel
✅Recall
✅ID a scent
✅Indicate
✅Search
✅Retrieve

What has your young Labrador learnt?🤔

29/10/2025

Sitting, watching and practising the art of doing nothing. Never under estimate the importance of incorporating this into your daily routine.

28/10/2025

This was puppy’s 4th session at just 16 weeks and the first time she’d seen this little obstacle course. Totally unfazed by everything and she even offered us a ‘settle’ on her fluffy mat! Really looking forward to seeing this little star progress.

Do you have a baby puppy and need some guidance? With advice and support from 8 weeks, the Early Learning Course maybe just the ticket!

27/10/2025

🎃UK Sniffer Dogs Bronze Halloween Trial👻

The dogs were awesome today, totally unfazed by the spooky theme and just cracked on with their job💥.

Scent detection is such a fabulous discipline:

✅Strengthen the bond
✅Provides mental stimulation
✅Builds confidence
✅Releases endorphins ✅Helps reduce anxiety
✅Helps reduce barking
✅Helps reduce reactivity

Why not give it a try, any dog can do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👏🤩🥳

26/10/2025

🍀Jumping on an angle and working on straight lines - a life’s work😂

🦪Building confidence using a ladder of target dummies on interesting ground.

🍭None of the above😂, she enjoyed a sweeping exercise in the woods

24/10/2025

All in a days work! We actually achieved this in a very short time🤩. This Pekingese x had rehearsed this behaviour for over two years, it had become the normal response towards other dogs and was escalating fast! Ditch the harness, reset, take control and boom, everyone’s a winner🐾👏😉

22/10/2025

Recall - does your dog come back to you regardless of the ground?

It’s one thing asking your dog to come back on a playing field but quite another when you’re recalling it through long grass which has had birds and rabbits hunkering down in it!

Building a reliable recall takes time, consistency and patience. If you haven’t generalised this behaviour (a speedy response to the whistle regardless of the location and environment) then you may as well put the whistle where the sun doesn’t shine because it’s likely your dog will completely ignore it🫣

Don’t despair (or delay), please get in touch so we can evaluate the situation and help you to achieve success😊