Puppy and You Dog Training

13/10/2025

Let’s all try this! Let me know how you get on 😂 It’s the only way to help some people understand.

Advocate for your dog everyone 🐾 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14LmR3w5R4V/?mibextid=wwXIfr

11/10/2025

Two Goldie puppies living their best life at Puppy Class this morning ❤️🐾

Want your puppy to join them? Get in touch today 🐾

05/10/2025

05/10/2025

Places on the course are limited so get in touch today! 🐾

04/10/2025

What a beautiful girl ❤️ Junie is only
7 months old and needs some help with typical adolescent behaviours like manners around food, jumping up, lead walking, calmness at ‘zoomie’ time etc.

Being a retrieving breed, we also discussed breed specific outlets for channeling some of her energy, together with other mental and physical enrichment.

She is a quick learner and a real pleasure to work with 🐾

If you need help with your adolescent dog, get in touch. I am waiting to hear from you!

01/10/2025

Absolutely this, I totally agree!

We are seeing a lot of 'successful' dog training videos online at the moment.

Often men and often forcing a dog into being quiet and moving quietly around other dogs or through busy areas.

To the untrained eye this can look impressive, especially if you are desperate for change with a highly aroused dog.

Comments like, "my dog behaves better than ever after being trained by beardy bloke"

"Baldy bloke is the only person who could stop my dog doing this and that"

"Muscly man is the best dog trainer in the world ever"

To the trained eye though, it's not impressive, it's horrible.

Training without considering how the dog feels is dismissive of the dog as a sentient being, of their emotional state and their needs.

Training without empathy is dismissive of a dog's need to feel safe, heard and considered. And we all need that don't we?

It's evidence of a dog being pushed around and not listened to by a stranger.

It's someone fuelling their own ego by bullying a helpless animal.

Being pushed around causes stress, trauma, anxiety and depression, in people it's classed as abuse.

To the trained eye we see a worried and suppressed dog who is being forced into submission by a bully who calls themself a dog trainer.

I can't bear it.

I can't bear this influx of silly, uneducated men calling themselves dog trainers (I'm sure there are women too but all I'm seeing is the men at the moment)

Forcing their will on poor dogs who simply can't escape them.

Dogs who look scared, stressed, cowed and suppressed.

I can see how a dog feels in a split second. That's what education does, it teaches you to see reality. The facts.

I wonder, can these people see what they are doing to dogs they claim to be training?

There are one of two possibilities:

They recognise the looks, the licks, the head dips and carry on anyway because they don't care how the dog feels.

They don't recognise the creeping, the half moon eye, the dropped tail because they don't educate themself because they don't care how the dog feels.

If you don't care about how the dog feels - why do you call yourself a dog trainer?

That's fraud.

01/10/2025

The next six week Puppy Course starts on 11th October at 10am.

Contact me now to book 🐾

30/09/2025

Meet Bonnie ❤️ she is a Sh*tzu x Poodle who is nearly seven and she has been reactive towards other dogs on walks for a long time now. She is an absolute sweetheart at home but like many dogs, she struggles when out on walks.

Dogs like Bonnie are often lacking in confidence so we discussed ways to help her with this which will have a positive effect in all areas of her life. I also introduced a protocol to help her and her owners when encountering dogs on walks.

So many of my clients have dogs like Bonnie so if this resonates with you, please get in touch 🐾

puppandyoudogtraining.co.uk

29/09/2025

The little vertical line under your dog’s nose isn’t just a random feature — it’s called the philtrum, and it plays a fascinating role in their incredible sense of smell. Each time a dog licks its lips, tiny amounts of saliva gather in that groove. Through capillary action, the moisture is drawn upward to the surface of the nose, helping to keep it damp. Why does that matter? Because a moist nose is far better at capturing and holding onto scent particles from the air. This added layer of moisture enhances a dog’s already powerful olfactory system, giving them the ability to detect odors at levels humans can’t even imagine. Veterinarians and animal physiology experts confirm that the philtrum is an important part of the finely tuned system that allows dogs to track scents, locate food, recognize individuals, and even detect illnesses.

19/09/2025

Please help with research to better understand dogs with noise sensitivity.
PPG member Jenni Pfafman is conducting research on thunderstorm and fireworks-related noise sensitivity in dogs.
The study is for her master’s thesis and will hopefully help us better understand dogs with noise sensitivity.

16/09/2025

This course is taught on a 1-2-1 basis and each of the four sessions are tailored specifically to the needs of you and your dog.

I look forward to working with you 🐾

10/09/2025

5th November Bonfire Night is not far away. Let’s help our animals to try and cope as best we can. It’s not only dogs and cats but small animals and horses etc too that sometimes suffer.

It might be almost Halloween but we all know for many of us the biggest “fright night” comes very shortly after: fireworks

November 5th is traditionally the evening associated with fireworks displays and bonfires although on more recent times it has become common for individuals and events to let off fireworks more frequently any time in the week leading up to and the week after November 5th (and, to be honest, quite randomly at many other times across the year)

It’s not just dogs who are affected. Many cats, small animals like rabbits, horses, cattle and wildlife (and people!) are often negatively affected.

If you have an animal you share your life with, who is affected by firework noises, it’s a good idea to start preparing now.

*if your pet is particularly fearful, call your vets for advice on fear reducing medicine NOW. It’s not long to go and you re likely to need to have your pet vet checked and weighed and decisions on the best medication made tailored specifically to your pet (there are several fear reducing medicines which work in different ways each with various pros and potential negatives that need considering)

*start drawing your curtains earlier, putting on background music (see below) and associating this with something calm and fun for your pet to do. Perhaps it’s a delicious paste on a washable mat, or an indoor calm treat search, or maybe it’s a massage and groom in the presence of a calming odour.

*consider background noises. These can help because they help everyone stay calmer - the radio station Classic FM for pets is back for November 2024. Link below. But you may prefer some other rhythmic calming tracks played through speakers. It can be helpful to have calming music on in the room you ll be spending the evening and have white noise and rhythmic sounds like drumming sounds, by a window or in the periphery of the main room.
Start playing them quietly now and associate them going on with calm, social activities and then you can gradually increase the volume over a number of days / evenings

*bring feeding and toilet opportunities earlier, days in advance. Make sure your dog is always wearing a collar with up to date tag information and that your microchip details for all your animals are up to date. Check the clips on your leads and buckles on harnesses and collars are safe and secure and if relevant to you, have your dog on a long line for every toilet opportunity from around 3pm. You may want to increase the number of litter trays you have for your cats and start shutting them in for several hours from mid afternoon each day. Don’t forget to consider bringing any small pets into more sound proofed areas too.

We ll share some more tips over the next week too
We hope you can all stay safe x

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/pet-classics-2024-fireworks-season/