All About The Dogs -Training!
🐶🎉EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT🎉🐶
All About The Dogs Training Services are now available to book online with our brand-new website!
We offer multiple training services in Stafford and surrounding areas, as well as online!
Our training services include Basic Group Training courses to set those foundations for the everyday essentials and to learn key management skills around distractions of other dogs and like-minded people. Group Progression classes to enhance those basic skills into real life training, and 1:1 Training Sessions for those who would like a personalised plan that is tailored to your training goals.
We offer positive reinforcement training only for you and your dog to build a life-long relationship and most importantly, to have fun!
Watch our video or take a look around our website to find out more. You can use our website to easily book into one of our courses or a 1:1 consultation!
We can’t wait to start your training journey with you!
www.allaboutthedogs.co.uk
✨Group walk recall✨
A great recall is the MOST important skill to have when being off-lead, or even on a long lead. We do not let any dog off lead if they do not have a recall. Simple. Even if a dog has great recall, we will spend the time to build our own bonds with the dogs and build the recall to ourselves to ensure all dogs will respond if and when we let them off lead. Just because a dog might respond to recall with their owners, doesn’t automatically mean they will for their walker. Each behaviour should be built up with every new person and not just be a given or expected.
You may think this is a bit over the top, but did you know it is actually against the law to have a dog off lead if it doesn’t come back to you? It could be the friendliest dog in the world, but it would still be classed as an uncontrollable dog. Not only that, there are countless of things that could go wrong that could ruin how your dog interacts with its environment and others, as well as affecting other dogs and their owners.
We will always start with lead walks, build our connection and responses to name and the ‘easier’ skills such a sit, down, maybe a cheeky paw etc in easy and building to more distracting environments. If this is going well, we will start our recall responses using short leads. After a period of time we may introduce a long line to a harness, or extendable lead, but always a long line before any off lead activities as these give the most realistic feeling of being off lead for the dog. We will build the recall using a long-line, giving more length when successful, making it easier if it’s too difficult or in distracting areas. Eventually when the recall is 100%, we may drop the long-line and then remove it all together being able to let the dog off lead in safe and appropriate places.
We work on this with each dog individually if it’s appropriate for that dog’s walk. If the dog is walked in a group, the process starts all over again. *captio
