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Games based dog training; transforming your relationship & get real life results
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12/09/2024

Happy 4th Birthday to us! ❤️😍🥰🥳🐕🦮🐩🐕‍🦺🐾

30/08/2024

However, there’s more to this . Not in terms of where my ethics lie. That’s very clear. I’m 100% force free and believe that there is no need for methods which cause dogs fear, pain or purposeful discomfort.

However, as a school teacher, I feel that there is a calling for us, the force free advocates, to do more. For us to listen. To empathise. To educate.

Because if we only ever stay routed in the ‘I’m
Force free I won’t speak to anyone that uses aversive methods’ camp, we never help the transformation that could happen within the dog world.

We can apply empathy, kindness and compassion to dogs.
Then why, when it comes to humans can we not do the same?

Don’t get me wrong, the person on the other end needs to be just as open to this, to listen and to understand.

But if we only ever stay in the same 2 camps, we never progress.

And the dogs deserve for us to all progress. To be better. And to do better.

Now before you jump on me, this doesn’t mean I’m going to be best friends with an aversive trainer, or train alongside them or start recommending them.

But what it does mean is that I’m open to helping the dog training world to grow and to progress into something better. Because the dogs of the world deserve something better.

And ultimately, just because there are 4 quadrants doesn’t mean we should use all 4. I (and all teachers), would never dream of using them to teach children in a classroom, yet it seems okay for animals. Despite there being massive similarities between children and dogs (but that’s a conversation for another time).

So for those that are a little intrigued about the force free world, welcome that. Strike up that conversation, share how you train, why and what it can do. Be the teacher. But do it with empathy. Understand where they are, because when you begin at their starting point, you have more chance of them leaning into growth.

And if they’re not open, then move on. Don’t waste your energy getting into an arguement which will just show you in a bad light. Move on, do your thing, but be ready to listen to those that are interested in why we do what we do. Because they’re the ones that can held change the outlook of the dog world.

21/08/2024

The lovely scottyscartoons has featured us in their newsletter!
Thank you for such a lovely write up 🥰

18/08/2024

Spending a Sunday at Poodle Fest. Poodles of all shapes and sizes, what more could a girl want?! 🐩❤️🐩

13/08/2024

So lucky to be apart of the PPN 🥰 Pet Professional Network

19 DAYS UNTIL OUR BIRTHDAY - CELEBRATING OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR SUCCESS STORIES 🎉🎉🎉

Meet Shelina Carpenter, our incredible Member who's dedicated to poodles! Passionate about training and animal welfare from Train with the Flo.

Hi, I’m Shelina, a dog trainer, poodle enthusiast and lucky enough to spend my life with my 8 dogs.

My business is Go with The Flo, named after my first dog Florence. This is split into 2 parts; the first being in person training. This includes group classes, 1 to 1 training sessions, behaviour coaching and agility training and is what Go with The Flo is most known for. Then there is the second part, which focuses on poodles and poodle mixes.

Comprising of online training memberships and programmes, The Poodle Training School is accessed all over the world, with majority of members being in the USA. This is ever growing thanks to the support of PPN.

PPN has helped me learn how to engage my audience and grow my free group. I started at around 200 members and now have 14K and counting! It’s helped me sequence my thoughts and create a membership that works for me. With support on pricing, emails, conversations and set up, PPN has been invaluable to me and my business.

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Thanks to Shelina for taking part in our birthday celebrations!

You can join Shelina in our kind and safe community towards the end of August or at one of our birthday meet ups.

Keep your eyes peeled for opening and meet up announcements.

'Together we are stronger'

12/08/2024

Happy Monday ❤️ it’s a new week so time to set your goals for this week. No matter how small!
Mine is to do some filming with Arthur, I might even do some with Albert.
Tell me yours ⬇️

08/08/2024

Arthur’s back in his favourite position! ❤️

Just 10 days until Poodle Fest and we can’t wait!

04/08/2024

It’s bath day for the boys. Albert is apparently very keen to have his bath as I turned around and there he was on the table waiting for me 😂

Being dirty can make them bark more, especially with hairy or curly dogs.

The Poodle Bark No More programme is open and accepting new members until Friday midnight. But if you join before midnight today, you can save £150 😱

https://mailchi.mp/withtheflo.co.uk/bark-no-more-poodle

31/07/2024

Just finished a live in the stop barking challenge and look at this photo taken by one of the challengers. Ollie was being a good boy and has taken my advice about calmness 😂

29/07/2024

It’s Day 1 of the Stop Barking Challenge for poodles and poodle crosses! 🐩

I’m talking all about barking and the emotions that drive it. When we understand these better, we can choose the appropriate training games needed to help overcome the barking.

Tag your poodle friends!

If you have a poodle or doodle and would like to join the challenge, put ‘challenge’ in the comments below

27/07/2024

Good morning from Arthur

What do you have planned with your dogs this weekend?

24/07/2024

I almost forgot to post… happy 3rd gotcha day to Dolly and Stan
It’s taken me 3 years to realise they are ‘Dan’ 😂

24/07/2024

Received this today. Pleased to say I’m always learning 🧠👩🏽‍🏫

23/07/2024

This little minx is (was) extremely reactive to people and dogs.

Our walks were a nightmare.

Barking.

Lunging.

Slobbering at the mouth.

I dreaded them.

So much so that I stopped taking her on street walks.

We’d been doing (not a lot, I’ll be honest) reactivity training at home.

At home? You say!

Yep, boosting her confidence, building her optimism, growing her disengagement

And…

When we went for a street walk the other day, there was not one single bark or lunge!

She walked past people and dogs and nothing!

I didn’t need to do a thing.

She totally had this!

You see the key to reactivity isn’t about putting them in that situation more and more or giving them
more socialisation. It’s about preparing them for that situation.

Helping them learn how to cope with that.

And it’s fun, because you’re not in a stressful situation!

If you’re wanting to transform your dog’s reactivity, I have limited space, DM the page and let’s get your journey to cool, calm and sophisticated started!

19/07/2024

Seems like ages since we’ve posted on here but Arthur is excited to say we are back! 😍🥳

05/06/2024

This little dog has left a massive whole in our hearts. Muffin sadly passed away Monday night after a very short bout of pancreatitis and heart issues. After a day at the vets, and only 1 bite attempt, we brought her home for the night.

She passed away peacefully in her sleep, on her favourite bed, with me and the pups next to her.

It’s been a strange few days, everything revolved around the Muffinator and now we’re all feeling a little lost without her.

She came on Mary’s🦄gotcha day and left on Lola’s 🦄gotcha day.

RIP my little Muffin 🐶💔

25/05/2024

Wishing this beautiful girly a very happy 1st birthday 🎉🥳🎂🎁

27/04/2024

Today is Flo’s 6th gotcha day!

💖my original demo girl💖

09/04/2024

Winner of Dog Training Company of The Year in South England 🎉🥂

When I brought Flo home as a tiny, wiggly puppy, I never imagined that it would lead to me becoming a dog trainer and having my own business (and so many dogs😂)

To think I only started this to support my own dogs and now I help owners all around the world overcome their dog's struggles and have an award winning business! 💖

It goes without saying, a huge thank you to all of my clients, past and present, to you my followers who interact with this page and to my family and friends for being so supportive.

Special mention for the demo duo, Flo and Arthur, who show everyone what's possible to achieve with their dogs. This wouldn't be possible without them 🐶🐩🙌
Prestige Awards

10/03/2024

Happy Mother's Day to all the Pet Mums out there!

Let's celebrate... post a pic of you and your pet below

I'll start....
🐶❤️🐶

08/03/2024

If you saw my post earlier this week, you would have read that I like a dress up 😂

Well here I am for World Book Day! One of the kids came as my dalmation 😂

06/03/2024

🤗 It’s fun to open up about ourselves sometimes. 🤗

Social media can be a pretty impersonal place, so let’s put that right today!

Here are 3 random facts you might not know about me.

💕 I'm actually an assistant head teacher in a SEN school. I've been teaching since 2012. I might got shot for this... but kids and dogs are similar! 😂

💕 Before dogs, I had horses. I mean we had family dogs but I was all about my horses. They've all past now but the photo below was my Long Legs 🦄🦵

💕 I love fancy dress! Perhaps it's the teacher in me? But dress up days are the best (this week is world book day, and it's dog themed, any ideas?)

So let’s get to know each other a little better shall we…

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

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Tuesday	6pm - 8pm
Wednesday	6pm - 8pm
Thursday	6pm - 8pm
Saturday	12pm - 6pm
Sunday	10am - 1pm

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We’re okay! I don’t take how lucky I am with these guys for granted for a single second when it comes to fireworks. Spud is more on edge, as you can see from him standing up. But frozen cow hooves, tonnes of chews and a very loud film is working well. Hope you’re all doing okay with the 🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇

I’ve put off posting this because I couldn’t give it justice Now I have a moment to sit and write, so here goes… This little boy loves, and I mean LOVES, to pick up everything on his walks! He will find all of the food! The tiniest pieces. And it’s nasty! Let’s face it, there’s gross things out there. We’ve been working on this alongside his reactivity but his mum was finding he just couldn’t leave food alone in the real world. Well on our walk, focusing on reactivity, we happened across 3 of the juiciest (ok, in the dog’s eyes) pieces of fried chicken 😱🍗🍗🍗 They were huge And no doubt smelled delicious Let’s face it! It’s the gold standard of naughty things for our dogs to eat. Now, we could have called him and pulled him away and completely avoided that area on the way home but instead we used this as a rea life learning opportunity. He was more than aware they were there. I mean you couldn’t miss them! (Although the person’s whose dinner it was, may have 😂) And his arousal levels had spiked. Which in turn makes listening hardier. I know his mum was looking at me like I was mad but she trusted me and I’m so pleased she did. It was time to test the disengagement we had been growing at home. In the video, you’ll see we throw a piece of food towards the chicken. Now if he wants to he can pull towards the food; for a little dog, he’s strong. He could bark at it. He could lunge forward. He could get frustrated and bite the lead. But what did he do? He looked at it and you can see his brain working ‘should I? Or is that none of my business?’ And what does he do? He only turns away from it and goes back to his mum 😱🥳 No pulling him, no excessive nagging, no jolting the lead, no shouting 🥳 He CHOSE to come back! Multiple times! And this is the power of games 🤩 It really is magic. And after this, he then walked past half a biscuit without a fuss. I am

Flo had a new experience today. We took a little trip to Barkers K9 Hydro-Physio & K9 swimming centre - Tolworth and she had a proper swim The first few goes she had to be carried in. Then she got brave! Keep watching for it 😍🥰🐶🤿🏊🏽‍♀️ Spuds turn next week ❤️

Check this out! I know how hard it is to have a dog that loves other dogs or people. Pulls towards them. Can’t focus on you. Just wants to play. That’s why this week’s intermediate students have been working on their dog’s disengagement skills with the game A2B And they did so well! 👏 Even when those really tough moments happened, they refocused so quickly! This was their warm up 🥳 Getting real life results is what our classes are all about #dogslife #dogtrainingisfun #dogtrainerlife #londondogs #dogtrainer #suttondog #smallbusinessuk #dogtrainingtips #gamesbasedtraining #dogtrainingrevolution #surreydogs

Today is Odin’s 2nd birthday. He’s been apart of the Flo family since he was about 9 weeks old. He’s goofy, loving and a right pickle at times but we wouldn’t change him (ok maybe his mum would😂) Here he is playing the class clown at agility 😂 Let’s all wish him a happy birthday 🥳

YKC agility 😍❤️

Crufts 🥳 I know one of these dogs 😍😍

It’s time for the walk. You get the lead. You get a sinking feeling. Hoping you’ll avoid dogs. People. Cars. But the dog has to be walked! ———————————————————————————- Now picture that walk. Do you enjoy it? Does your dog enjoy it? If either of those are a ‘no’, it’s time to do something different! By using your dog’s brain, you can tire them out just the same as a walk, but also train at the same time! Making you and your dog happier! If you’re both less stressed, your dog will be in a better place to learn. #dogslife #dogtrainingisfun #dogtrainerlife #londondogs #dogtrainer #suttondog #smallbusinessuk #dogtrainingtips #gamesbasedtraining #dogtrainingrevolution #surreydogs

A bit of a family training session yesterday 💪 (No idea what my camera was doing to Dolly! She was ghost like to start with!) We added the distraction of Stan and Dolly for Gym and he just amazed us! My uncle really is doing his homework 😂🤔😱 3 dogs, off lead, each choosing to be with their person, now that’s the dream! 💪 If you’d like this to be your reality, send the page a message and I’ll let you know how we can help Don’t forget our reactivity valentines offer, a 1 to 1 and the reactivity group classes, with a massive £70 saving!

Does this feel familiar? The pulling? The barking? The lunging? No focus? Whether it's at home or outside, It's stressful! Having a reactive dog is tough! You dread walking your dog. Try to avoid distractions. Hope the neighbours won't complain. Dread people walking past the house. But what if it didn't have to be this way? What if, you could have a chilled dog at home. A dog that sees a distraction and says 'that's none of my business!' A dog that chooses you over the environment. Just imagine it! A quieter, calmer life, where you enjoy your poodle and they can make their own good choices. And here's how you do it: 1. teach your dog to value being close to you. 2. grow their ability to disengage. 3. build their confidence and optimism. I know tackling this can feel daunting. What info to listen to? What to ignore? What do I do first etc But it can be easier than you think. This is exactly why I created the The Overcoming Reactivity Programme. An 8 week programme that takes you from feeling stressed, alone and wondering 'why my dog?', to knowing what to do and when, feeling confident and content with your new stress-free, happy life with your dog. Join us here https://www.withtheflo.co.uk/my-dog-is-reactive/

Last night we had our weekly field visit and my uncle and Gym came with us. My guys were too busy mooching around so we worked on Gym’s recall into middle 😱😍 I’ve gotta say I was impressed! (Ok, ok I know I taught him middle😂) but outside in the dark with 9 dogs and 3 cheesey people… the boy did good!