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20/12/2024

Congratulations to Tracey and Lincoln who completed their Level 5 Training Club award yesterday!!

Very well done 🌟🌟

20/12/2024

Newt and I had a great time at this workshop.

Newt loves to use his nose and it’s a great opportunity to practice being around other dogs and waiting his turn.

Thanks very much Amy Kellaway 🎄🎅🏽🎄🎅🏽

19/12/2024

Ziggy and I went to a hoopers show at Go-Go Hoopers on Saturday where the courses were great and we had a really good time.

Results wise it wasn’t our day!!

We had three eliminations and one 5 faults.

This gave me information on what we need to practice, such as tight wrong side of barrel skills, further proofing around entrances and exits and layering.

There was also lots that went really well, such as tight barrel cues, stays and forward drive at distance.

We will practise lots and are really looking forward to more shows next year 😍😍.

19/12/2024

Congratulations to Julie and Neo for passing their Level 3 Training Club award this week.

The very clever and talented Julie also made myself and her class mates these fabulous, sparkly tops!!

The class call me a ‘White Witch’ so that’s what I have on my top, and everyone else has paw prints. They are amazing!!

Thank you so much Julie 🌟🌟🌟🌟

18/12/2024

** This slot is now taken. Thanks **

I have availability for a 121 at 11am at The Dog Field at Pilning tomorrow (Thursday).

Get some training in before Christmas!!

Please contact me to book.

Thank you 🎄🎅🏽🎄🎅🏽

18/12/2024

Thank you very much to Lexy from Stoke Bishop Vets for making Newt and Blue’s visits this morning as positive and happy as possible ❤️❤️

18/12/2024

Congratulations to Leo, Beetle and Shadow who completed their Puppy Skills Class yesterday.

Niya was also a star but didn’t make the last session.

Well done everyone and we hope to see you all again soon.

🌟🌟🌟🌟

17/12/2024

Thank you so much to the wonderful businesses who supported our raffle to raise funds for Dogs Friends, which is a Somerset based dog rescue.

All of these businesses contacted me to offer prizes when I started advertising the raffle with just a few prizes. I didn’t contact them asking for prizes, which shows just how kind and fabulous they are.

The Dog Field at Pilning secure field hire.
Canine Relate – Relationship Guidance for Dogs and Owners.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1B7Up3JmHj/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Bluebell Dog Walking and Training.
Super Scentwork.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1HFYika6v4/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Emmaline Pell Horse and Dog McTimoney. Equine and Canine McTimoney Chiropractor and Sports Massage Therapist using Laser Phototherapy.
https://www.facebook.com/share/19hSoncxfA/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Nicola Puddy Photography.
Specialising in people and pets.
https://www.facebook.com/share/18ZRxHLPWU/?mibextid=wwXIfr

The Doggie Den.
Hoopers and Scentwork training and competitions.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1MmCqSZ53q/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Free Flow Clinical Canine Massage.
Clinical Canine Massage Practitioner.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1RVtGPNUEg/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Energised Performance: Mind Body Fit Coaching.
Performance and Wellness for Mind, Body and Adventuring Souls.
https://www.facebook.com/share/18GLVeCfY8/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Ragz N Tugz.
Homemade dog toys, collars and more.
https://www.facebook.com/share/19eXoxegDq/?mibextid=wwXIf

Fae Cottage Artistry.
Freelance Animal Illustrator.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1BP1QMvZUR/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Rachel’s Glass Designs.
Stained and fused glass.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1ZM1oiRC5k/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Luther’s Hoopers.
Hoopers training.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DMEef3obX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Go-Go Hoopers
Hoopers training, shows and camps.
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/18oWir7epx/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Kathryn Fieldhouse Complementary Healthcare.
Complementary therapies to enhance physical and emotional wellbeing.
https://www.facebook.com/share/18ogpbXLqZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I have personally used many of the services these businesses offer and can highly recommend them.

A huge ‘Thank You’ to you all ❤️❤️

15/12/2024

We ran two Christmas Training and Games workshops this afternoon and they were such fun.

The first part of each workshop consisted of training skills such as positions, stays, recall, lead walking, catch, retrieve, working with distractions and paws up.

We then put these skills into practice with a series of games in which points were gained and prizes won.

Congratulations to our winners - Lincoln and Fable 🌟🌟.

Thank you so much to everyone who attended.

The dogs were all amazing and worked beautifully around each other, showing a wide range of skills and great teamwork with their handlers.

Thank you so much to Amy who gave up most of her day to help both me and everyone who attended.

We will definitely run more of these workshops 😍😍😍😍😍

15/12/2024

We drew the raffle tonight at the Christmas Get Together.

Here are the winners!!

The winner is stated below the description of the prize.

A 50 minute 121 hoopers lesson with myself at The Dog Field at Pilning.

Kerry Milton

A 1 hour slot at The Dog Field at Pilning Secure Field.

Angela Beavis

A one hour group class or 25 minute 121 scent work session with Amy from Bluebell Dog Walking and Training.

Katja Laug

A Canine McTimoney Chiropractic Treatment with Emmaline Pell.
The session is worth £55.00.
The winner must be able to travel to Pilning for treatment.
Veterinary consent is required ahead of initial treatment.
Fully qualified and insured.

Linda Newton

A treat, chew and toy hamper for dogs with items donated by Lindsay and Holly and Halcyon Hounds 🐕

Hayley Gillard

A treats hamper for people with items donated by Halcyon Hounds 😍

Mary Whitlock with Milo

A one hour location photoshoot, with a link to download all edited photos, donated by Nicola Puddy Photography.

Kathryn Higgins

A hamper for dogs donated by The Doggie Den.

Fiona Perry

Nic Piling from Free Flow Clinical Canine Massage has very kindly donated a treatment worth £40.

Vet consent is needed and the winner must travel to Clevedon.

Fiona Perry

A book and treats donated by Energised Performance.

Shelley and Spud

A fruit cake donated by Ann with Solo.

Kim Steadman and Ralf

A Christmas collar donated by Ragz N Tugz.

Sadie Rowland

A portrait of your dog very kindly donated by Fae Cottage Artistry.

Emma Gowler

A 12kg bag of Harringtons superfoods, grainfree salmon with veg donated by Fiona Perry.

Catherine Manfield

Rachel’s Glass Designs has donated a beautiful glass paw print.

Lisa Emery and Rio

Luther’s Hoopers has donated multiple Fish 4 Dogs goody bags.

Caroline Shears
Chris Badman and Poppy
Lisa Emery and Rio
Jenny and Lily

Jan Rowbotham from Go-Go Hoopers has very kindly donated an hours 121 hoopers session with herself at Hunts Farm, Crowle.

Wendy Bond

A voucher for a 60 minute massage or reflexology treatment with Kathryn Fieldhouse Complementary Healthcare.

Tracey Lennox with Lincoln

I will contact everyone tomorrow evening regarding the prizes you have won.

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated prizes and bought raffle tickets.

We raised £680.00 for Dog Friends and the final payment of £288.00 has been paid this evening.

We previously made payments of £240.00 and £152.00 as shown on previous posts.

Thank you all so much and have a great Christmas 🎅🏽 🎄🎅🏽🎄🎅🏽🎄🎅🏽🎄🎅🏽

15/12/2024

This is a very good article.

Safe spaces are great, especially at Christmas time when households can be busy and children (and adults!) excitable.

We had friends with children and young people of all ages to our house last night.

Food and chocolates were everywhere, alcohol was flowing and presents were opened.

One of our dogs was in the utility room, and the others were in our van on our drive.

Everyone was safe and happy.

13/12/2024

Our raffle in aid of Dogs Friends has raised £552.00 so far, which is amazing!!

A huge Thank You to everyone who has donated prizes and bought tickets.

Tickets are on sale until Sunday evening and it would be great it we could make £600.00.

🎄🐕🎄🐕🎄🐕🎄🐕🎄🐕🎄🐕🎄🐕🎄🐕

11/12/2024

I don’t want my hoopers Ladies getting cold bottoms!!

😁😁😍😍🤣🤣

11/12/2024

Raffle tickets are for sale at £2 each until Sunday.

There are some brilliant prizes and all money raised goes to Dogs Friends who are a Somerset based rescue.

Please contact me to buy your tickets.

Thank you 😊

10/12/2024

Top tip!!

Rather than thinking about what you don’t want your dog to do, think about what you do want them to do and teach that instead.

For example -

Jumping up at people - teach your dog to keep their paws on the floor.

Pulling on the lead - teach your dog to walk on a loose lead.

Trying to raid plates at dinner time - teach your dog to lie calmly on their bed.

Reward these new behaviours well with things your dog really likes.

08/12/2024

That’s the last of our Sunday training classes finished for 2024!!

Next Sunday is all about festive workshops and our Christmas Get Together 🎄🎄.

I would like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to Amy for all her excellent help each week ❤️❤️.

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Videos

About turn.

For my Training Club classes. This video shows the about turn on a verbal cue only, needed for Level 5. Blue is ahead of me, is not looking at me and responds immediately to my verbal cue of ‘This Way’. My position stays the same. I’m not turning or moving backwards. Have fun 😊

Olive was flying today!!

Super spaniel!!

Ziggy was also very cool in her lesson at Go-Go atoday 😎😎❤️❤️

Ziggy was also very cool in her lesson at Go-Go today 😎😎❤️❤️

Newt hoopers

Newt was a very clever boy at his hoopers lesson with Jan from Go-Go hoopers today. Adolescent behaviours meant Newt has had a break from the equipment for a while and instead we practiced focus on me, play, stays etc instead. Patience paid off and Newt worked on this great sequence today. Thank you to Jan and my lovely classmates for being so accommodating and for setting us up to be successful. All the dogs were great today.

Lincoln

Tracey sent me this lovely clip of her practicing some of her Training Club exercises with Lincoln yesterday. Recall over a jump and send to a paws up! It’s a great way of keeping your dog happy when there is torrential rain ☔️ 😍

Down stay with distractions 😁😁

Progressing exercises

This short video (less than a minute so it’s not boring!) shows how exercises can be progressed and that foundations are so important. The funky, tricky stuff is the basics done really well. It also shows how easy it is to adapt exercises within the same class in order to cater for different abilities.

Russ and George were on fire in their hoopers lesson this week. George ran beautifully.

Ziggy Hoopers

Ziggy and I had a great lesson with Cath at The Doggie Den today. It was lovely to see Ziggy full of beans and back to her normal self. She’s had a mini holiday, the weather is cooler and we’ve been doing lots of NFC runs.

Send around

Here is a quick video of the steps I train for a send around. It’s squished together as one video, so it’s not too long, so practice each stage separately and take as long as you need. Always mark as the dog is on the back of the item, opposite the handler. Step 1. Throw treats in a straight line past the item. Step 2. Start to add a curve to throwing treats. Step 3. Add distance, just a little at a time. Move when the dog eats a treat so they don’t see you. Step 4. Add a cue. You can use food or toys but if you use food you can get more reps. We teach a send around for Level 1 in Training Club, hoopers and other sports and it’s great for having fun with your dog on walks, such as sending them around a tree or goal post.

Happy Friday Everyone 🙂🙂

Chin Rest

In our Training Club Classes we teach a chin rest and then gradually add distractions. This is a great exercise to practice as a calm, still exercise that continues for a few seconds (duration) and is really useful to help with handling, vet visits, groomers etc. Thank you to all the dogs and handlers in this short video clip 😊