Wag Pack Cornwall

26/08/2024

Happy International Dog Day lovely dog people! Post a photo of you and your four legged pals below ❤️🥰

17/08/2024

The office assistants are laughing at the fact I asked them to do some admin!

15/08/2024

The spotty one wants to make an announcement!

Please remember to take your rubbish home! We love that everyone enjoys the beach and the countryside but pick up:

🐾 Your rubbish 🗑️
🐾 Your BBQ 🍴
🐾 Any left over food 🍔🌭🍗
🐾 Dog p**p! 💩

Up at Tregantle today and found someone's rubbish. Huge amounts of plastic, food leftovers etc. One of the dogs found a whole cheeseburger. Had it been chicken legs, or one of the baps still wrapped in plastic we might have been looking at a vet trip.

Think and be responsible! Let's all enjoy the beach and thank you to the RNLI guys who I spoke to.

11/08/2024

Two of our Wags came from the marvellous Margaret Green Animal Rescue and they also let me volunteer dog walk some of their dogs (I remember a particularly gorgeous German Shepherd) about 20 years ago! Thinking of making a charitable donation? Why not support a great rescue with dedicated staff and without a big budget for PR, even £1 would be amazing!

Help Nicci Hastings raise money to support Margaret Green Animal Rescue

07/08/2024

Your Uber driver is here! She's got five star reviews but I think she only knows the way to the beach ...

04/08/2024

Because sometimes in life, we all need our emotional support animal 🥰🐷

30/07/2024

Had a lovely (iced!) coffee at Zinn's Coffee & Cake at Antony Woodland Garden with my dog walker pal Fiona Lead The Way Dog Walking at it was officially too hot for us to walk!

This is a great infographic if you are struggling to work out if it's too hot! Our fit and healthy Waggers walked early today - in the shade ✔️ extra drinking water available ✔️ no pavements ✔️ minimal car time ✔️ and then just p*e breaks or home visits later in the day for our older or more vulnerable puppies! 🐾🥵🐕🐶

23/07/2024

There's a reason we only really talk animals - what else would you talk about 🤔. Lovely Floof on the mend, Doode's heard something in the woods and the Dishy one is doing pointer plus! 🐾🥰🐕

09/07/2024

A day of best friends, just having a great time! What lucky woofs they are! 🐾🐕

05/07/2024

There's something in the water ... we're going to need a smaller boat! Not my video but I loved it so much I thought you guys would appreciate it too! Thanks to the Boss Dog's mum for letting us post 😁🐕🐾🦈

22/06/2024

Curlies looking cute in this week's top pics! Also - spot who gets to drink first ... the Boss Dog himself. A sure sign that size doesn't matter in the pack!

25/05/2024

Happy Birthday wonderful boy! I can't believe how grown up you are at 3 and how small you were when I first met you 🐾🎉

13/05/2024

And you all know which group your Wagger belongs to ... 🤣🐾

22/04/2024

A little photo dump from the last month! The sun has come out, the birds are singing and my washing machine is finally empty of muddy dog towels!

Check out Floof's spa day with free mud bath, kisses from Mr Bounce (yes, this is why sometimes all the photos are blurry), some fabulous groups including the Curlies and the Collies, the Boss dog looking noble and all the Wag Pack just generally having a blast! 🐾❤️🐾

14/03/2024

More rain! We've been wading through more mud and I don't know who is wearing more of it ...

Everybody has been sporting stylish drying coats - do they make them for humans? If so, sign me up! Our beautiful black shepherd has the equally beautiful nickname of Blossom, she's also unofficially known as the Enforcer. What with her and Skywalker, I have all the deputies I need!

Curly crew and the collie crew have been on fine form this week, what fun we've had! 🐾🌧️☔🐩🐕🐾

01/03/2024

Happy March everyone following the muddiest wettest Winter and Spring ever!

Sunshine finally caught up with us having been up to our necks in mud and water for what seems like forever ... luckily the dogs and I are all waterproof and we've gambolled on through!

Here are some of our best photos from February, spot the best puddle pic, some excellent dog jumpers, a Yorkshire pudding action shot and some fabulous groups including the curly crew! 🥰❤️🐕🐩🌞

13/01/2024

Happy New Year! So pleased to see these guys and that we are finally getting some beautiful winter sun 🌞 rather than nonstop gales. Have I mentioned recently how much I love my job and these wonderful dogs and cats? ❤️😸🥰🐾

26/12/2023

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you all had a fabulously festive time and are now happily dozing in the post Christmas feast coma. Bee sends a special thank you to her lagotto friend Panda for the chicken feet, she says they are absolutely delicious!

Many many thanks for everyone who remembered me and Chris this year. We have the absolute privilege of spending time with your lovely dogs and that's all we need but thank you so much for your appreciation and the wonderful cards ❤️

15/12/2023

We think Gables Dogs & Cats Home do fabulous work and so our Waggers saved up their pawket money for Christmas gifts of toys and treats! Merry Christmas to all the dogs and cats at Gables ❤️🐕🐈‍⬛

A huge thank you to Katie Green and the Wag Pack Cornwall for these very kind donations for the animals in our care. You are all pawsome 💕

10/12/2023

My lovely old boy Mr Curly celebrated his 14th birthday recently, spot him flying along with the teenagers on the beach! I want whatever he's having ...

Our darling Moet (mini champagne shepherd rommie rescue) is leaving us to go across the water, we will miss you immensely funny girl and hope you enjoy the moors and beaches with your mum.

And finally we have both a new golden and a new shepherd friends, both loving their time out with the Wags and proving to their folks that we don't do pavement walks! To all our Wag Pack family, we do apologise for the swamp like conditions at the moment! 😂🦛🦆☔💦🌀 ❤️

22/11/2023

Gorgeous boys and girls! These are just a few of our darling Wags in the last few weeks ... we mostly are getting photos of blurry furry muddy soggy doggies! 🐕🐶🐾☔🌨️🥰

10/11/2023

Update: Reunited with owner ❤️❤️❤️

Lost dog alert! Beautiful friendly and cooperative male shih tzu (young but not a puppy/adolescent) found near Carbeile Wharf wandering. No collar and microchip might be out of date but in good health and well groomed. Safely with Luxstowe vets Torpoint for the moment. Someone will be missing him 🐾

08/11/2023

We love playtime at Wag HQ and for some dogs it's their favourite thing in the world. How can you tell whether the play is fun and appropriate though?

Dogs tend to play better with just one friend - it's much easier to get overwhelmed or overstimulated in a group and it's one of the reasons that dog fights can happen. If a dog is over threshold even just with wild excitement, it doesn't take much for them to take it too far and that can lead to bad experiences and fear of other dogs in the long run. This can particularly be problematic if you have a puppy or adolescent as they can have trouble in managing their own excitement and knowing when to take a break.

So what should you look for?

Turn taking in play particularly when racey chaseying and if wrestling. Dogs with good manners will literally throw themselves on the floor so smaller dogs can have a go or deliberately run slower so they be caught. If in a group everyone should get a chance to chase or be chased!

Body language is exaggeratedly loose and bouncy, using lots of energy and looking relaxed.

Your dogs should naturally take a break to sniff and chill - you may notice them have a good shake - sometimes synchronised 😂. This is a way of getting rid of tension, stress or excitement and I always reward this with verbal praise and a treat.

Any signs of anxiety in any of the dogs such as tail tucking, lip licking or puppy appeasement behaviours such as licking the other dog's face are grounds to call a break. Equally if they have signs of being overexcited like piloerection (fancy word for hair raising, look at their hackles or base of the tail) or being overly physical - call a break.

Make sure you give your permission to play - it's a great opportunity to reward your dog with something they really like for a good sit or paying attention to you.

If your dog is overexcited and won't recall or take a break, it's a sign the play is too intense and/or your recall isn't strong enough! Time for a longline so you can control the play and more training on your recall work! You are the gateway to all the fun stuff - not the killjoy who stops all the fun 😂 (yes - sometimes I'm totally the killjoy ...).

03/11/2023

Thank you Antony Unleashed! Reading all the weather updates we had cancelled most walks already but for the remainder we had a play session in the secure field as things were starting to calm down. It worked really well and there were no trees, exposed coastline or flying roof tiles to worry about. Additionally, dogs can find high winds both stimulating (all those smells coming so fast!) and worrying so it's easier to be over threshold. Much more relaxing to just be our regular friends without strange dogs approaching 😊🐕🐾

31/10/2023

Happy Howlaween all! May your long leggedy and short leggedy hairy beasties behave themselves tonight and ghostly beings stay quiet aaaawwwwwwoooooo! ⚰️🎃👻🏚️🐾🕸️🙀🧛‍♂️🧟‍♂️🐈‍⬛

12/10/2023

So ... funny story from today. I turn up at my final dog walk to greet my friend and neighbour who instantly says "would you like a wet wipe?". She invites me in to look in her mirror and I have Ramboesque mud marks across both cheeks and look properly grubby 😂. Serves me right for accepting whiffles and kisses from the dog who had just had a muddy dust bath ...

Prizes to whoever can guess the culprit - double prizes to whoever can guess the naughty roller of the day ... (both pictured below)

🐾🤣😹🤦🐬🐕

07/10/2023

Don't forget to sniff! We had a gorgeous relaxed afternoon walk on Thursday and despite the fact that it was Wobbly Dog Club Band, one of our youngsters joined in. These walks are not based on mileage and we do a lot of stopping and starting, having a sit down, doing little bits of enrichment games, find it in the long grass and yes, having a cuddle! Panda's mum duly reported back how tired she was and I was so pleased! A perfect example of how using your dog's nose and taking your time on a sniffari can chill them out and satisfy their brain leaving you with a calm tired dog who can switch off!

Do you have a dog who will just take more and more exercise? Come home and still be hyped? Try a slower sniffy walk, ditch the ball chucker and have a think about what your dog was bred to do and get them using their brain! 💪🧠🐕🐾

06/09/2023

Waggers alert! And especially a wiener hot dog Mr Sausage alert - a new brother for MacQueen and a sweeter natured pup I've yet to see. Another great example of why rescue dogs rule! You'll also see the Gentleman has returned - we knew you'd be back, the South West has an amazing 🧲 pull ... I'm tempted to change his nickname to the Boss dog though even though he's the smallest dog we walk 😂🐕🐾☀️🌭

04/09/2023

Warning no Waggers here! Just some whinnies and sunbathers who all conveniently love attention (and cuddles!) and have had visits while their families enjoyed their summer holidays 🐎🦎🥰❤️

18/08/2023

Happy Waggers, happy walkers! Loving our gang out and about and they've been brilliant despite the extra dogs, sunbathers, pasty eaters and small children wandering around at toddler snogging level! We've not been too sad about the lack of heatwave as we get to have much more fun when it's cool 😎 🐕🐾