17/08/2024
Ohhh yes! She’s done it again! IMDT Grade 3 for this little beauty 😍🐾
Belvoir Paws and Claws
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Dog Training service based in Colston Bassett. Qualified Dog Trainer (IMDT), Approved Hi, I'm Aura, an experienced, professional and Accredited Dog Trainer.
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My love of dogs (and my spaniel Griffin) is what inspired me to initially set up Belvoir Paws and Claws. I now have two gorgeous rescues, Cloro (a Brittany from Spain) and Hazel, a working cocker spaniel. My passion for positive dog training and understanding the behaviour of our canine 'best friends' led me to increase my knowledge and study extensively within this area. I am an Accredited Dog Tr
ainer with the IMDT and OCN Accredited Principles of Dog Training and Behaviour. I am currently studying Canine Behaviour to Level 6 (degree equivalent). The IMDT is the leading education provider for Dog Trainers and Behaviourists. We actively provide and promote force-free training methods using science based, proven dog training principles to a high, professional standard. I hold the following certifications;
OCN (Ofqual regulated) Principles of Dog Training and Behaviour
IMDT (Institute of Modern Dog Trainers) Career as Dog Trainer
IMDT Practical Instructor
IMDT Perfect Puppy
IMDT Canine Aggression and Rehabilitation
IMDT Separation Anxiety
IMDT The Exercises - Foundation to Advanced
IMDT Breed and Predatory Motor Patterns
IMDT The Canine Brain
IMDT Learning Theory
IMDT Red Flag Behaviours - Canine Emotional Health
The School of Canine Science- Puppy Lab
SIRIUS Dog Trainer 4 day Academy
DoGenius Functional Behaviour Analysis
DoGenius Canine Body Language
Centre of Excellence Dog Training
Centre of Excellence Canine Behaviour Training
Centre of Excellence Canine Nutrition
I also hold a Canine First Aid certificate, am fully insured and DBS checked. Belvoir Paws and Claws is a member of the UK Dog Behaviour and Training Charter. The UK Dog Behaviour and Training Charter provides assurance to the public and other professional bodies that the practitioner that they employ has been checked, supported and monitored by a reputable accrediting member organisation. I understand that what our dogs eat is important. Just like humans, the quality of our diet has an impact on our overall health and behaviour. I am an ambassador for Butternut Box, which prepares fresh, tasty and nutritionally balanced meals for your dog. to receive 50% off your first two orders just enter this link
http://www.butternutbox.com/BelvoirPaws50
Belvoir Paws & Claws is a registered Tug-E-Nuff Partner (makers of incredibly motivating, durable toys that will help increase your bond with your canine pal and assist in training goals such as recall). For 10% off your purchase please visit www.tug-e-nuff.co.uk and enter code BELVOIR
1-2-1 TRAINING - Online or in person. Please see website for further details. PUPPY PACKAGE (4 x 1hr private home visits)
Getting a puppy? This is the package for you! Covering crate training, toileting, socialisation, confidence building, biting/chewing and foundation behaviours such as sit, stay, recall and loose lead walking. RESCUE & REHABILITATION PACKAGE (4 x 1hr private sessions)
PET GUNDOG PACKAGE (4 x 1hr private sessions)
GROUP CLASSES FOR PUPPIES, JUNIORS, ADULTS, PET GUNDOGS & SCENTWORK
Aura 07966 793625
[email protected]
16/08/2024
What does your dog find distracting? Other dogs?, people? birds? hares? 💩🤢🤣
13/08/2024
08/08/2024
06/08/2024
⭐️⭐️ One place has become available on our Loose Lead Intermediate workshop tomorrow - 7.30pm - Colston Bassett- £18 ⭐️⭐️ This workshop is the second in our series and therefore is only available to clients who have trained with us previously. https://bookwhen.com/belvoir
06/08/2024
⭐️⭐️ One place has become available on our Loose Lead Intermediate workshop tomorrow - 7.30pm - Colston Bassett - £18 ⭐️⭐️
This workshop is the second in our series and therefore is only available to clients who have trained with us previously.
Booking:- https://bookwhen.com/belvoir
27/07/2024
Gundog training is not just for working dogs! This Pet Gundog Course is aimed at pet dogs. It teaches general obedience such as loose lead walking, heelwork, ignoring distractions and focus on handler when outdoors. We do also cover retrieves and the use of a whistle. This course is taught in a fun, positive and force-free style. There is no pressure on you, and no pressure on your dog. It’s more about building your relationship with your dog in an outdoor, distracting environment.
https://bookwhen.com/belvoir
24/07/2024
Last couple of places left on our Scent Detection course commencing Sunday 4th August.
This course is suitable for all breeds and age of dogs. Perfect if your dog is on restricted exercise, is recovering from illness or injury (or even if you are!), if it’s too hot for their normal walk, or if you are short on time.
Sniffing and searching for scent is both mentally and physically tiring for dogs. It releases “happy” hormones which makes them feel good. It is also incredibly easy for us to engage in this activity with our dogs. You don’t need a lot of time ……and you don’t need a lot of space!
Book now! https://bookwhen.com/belvoir
19/07/2024
Belvoir Paws & Claws will be at Colston Bassett Summer Market tomorrow, judging the dog show. You could be in with a chance of winning the top prize of a free private dog training session (donated by ourselves 😀) and a canine massage session involving the manipulation of soft tissue to alleviate chronic muscular pain (kindly donated by Katy Conway, professional canine massage therapist and WEBB practitioner of Time For Pooch - www.timeforpooch.co.uk).
There will also be lots of other stalls, cream tea, Pimms/Prosecco and a barbeque. You’ll find us near the pimms and prosecco tent 😉
04/07/2024
Two more IMDT Grade 1 graduate pups last night 🤩. These two did absolutely amazing 🤩
04/07/2024
KEEP YOUR DOGS SAFE! The summer brings with it some additional risks for our pets such as blue-green algae, grass seeds, heatstroke, ingestion of poisons such as some plants/bulbs, fertilisers and pesticides. Would you know what to do or who to call? Do you have the poison helpline number in addition to your veterinary clinic’s number in your phone for easy and quick access? And how about is your pet went missing? Would you know what to do? Drone To Home offer the most amazing and dedicated service for finding your pet. Keep their number handy! You hopefully will never need it - but if you do, it could just save you some very valuable time in reuniting your precious pet and returning them back home safely.
04/07/2024
What an absolutely fantastic job Drone to Home do. This dog belongs to friends of mine. The dedication and commitment the team put in to finding your dog is incredible. They were still out in the middle of the night searching in the dark and very thick cover. Just absolutely amazing people! Thank goodness she’s home.
28/06/2024
27/06/2024
Congratulations to Buddy and his super mum on passing their UK Sniffer Dogs Progression Grade 1. Buddy is a super star sniffer with a fantastic systematic search pattern. 🎓Fabulous work team Buddy 🎉🎓
25/06/2024
Why gundog training isn’t just for dogs that will work in the shooting field.
You might have bought your pet Labrador, Golden Retriever, Spaniel, or Vizsla with the expectation that they will simply fit into your everyday life like any other breed of dog.
Before they arrived, you might have imagined them sleeping next to you while you work from home, having a leisurely stroll on your daily dog walk, or inviting them to accompany you on trips to the local dog-friendly pub and days out to the beach.
What you’ve got instead is a ball of chaos and energy that struggles to settle anywhere, let alone somewhere exciting like a busy pub.
A hunting machine that pulls you from scent to scent on what has now become known as the daily drag.
A dog you don’t trust off-lead in the local park or countryside because you’re never sure if they will come back when you call them.
Indeed, owners who are uninitiated to a gundog’s way of thinking and naive to their hunting prowess do struggle to teach reliable recall and loose lead walking or heelwork in the presence of distractions such as wildlife and scent.
We all remember the desperate cries of Fenton’s owner as his Labrador failed to recall, choosing to chase deer through Richmond Park instead.
But on top of that, with no outlet for their innate desires to hunt, chase, and retrieve, pet gundogs are more susceptible to developing lasting and damaging behavioural problems.
Sadly, I have seen it all: resource guarding, constant frustration barking, obsessive shadow or tail chasing, destructive chewing, and general over-arousal and over-excitement.
To find out why it is so important for non-working, pet gundog-breeds to do some gundog training head to
https://clickergundog.co.uk/blogs/news/what-is-the-point-of-doing-gundog-training-with-my-pet-dog-if-i-don-t-want-to-take-them-on-a-shoot
If you know someone who has a pet dog that would benefit from participating in gundog training, even if they will never go on a shoot, please consider sharing this post or blog link with them.
📸 Alice Loder Photography
19/06/2024
We have a couple of spaces left on our beginners loose lead workshop on Sunday. To book: https://bookwhen.com/belvoir
17/06/2024
Dates available for our LOOSE LEAD AND HEELWORK series.
https://bookwhen.com/belvoir
16/06/2024
Congratulations to these two super bright dogs and their lovely owners on passing their UK Sniffer Dogs Bronze Progression Level 1
16/06/2024
1Belvoir Paws & Claws will be at the Colston Bassett Summer Market judging the dog show. 6 categories;
1. Most beautiful female
2. Most handsome male
3. Best trick
4. Waggiest tail
5. Best treat detector.
6. Egg and spoon race - owners compete with their dogs on lead (testing lead walking skills)
£1 to enter each class. A rosette for the winner of each class.
All winners go forward to “dog the judge would most like to take home” - who will receive a prize,
14/06/2024
Want to improve on lead walking skills? We have some mini loose lead walking workshops coming up.
This workshop will take you back to basics, looking at handler mechanics, focus on handler and fun games to assist with lead walking.
Already completed this workshop or previously trained with us? Then we have the LOOSE LEAD INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP. This will cover advancing your skills and building on the 3D’s (duration, distance and distractions). We will also look at heelwork. The intermediate workshops are on;
7th July
7th August
Fantastic value at £18 each
Bookings;
https://bookwhen.com/belvoir
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| Monday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 09:00 - 17:30 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 - 17:30 |
| Friday | 09:00 - 17:00 |
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Remote Stop - one of the things we teach on our Pet Gundog course.
Need help training your dog? I still have a space left on the puppy course and pet gundog course. This video is of my cocker spaniel - the star of Steve Mann’s book - Easy Peasy cocker spaniel. Contact me for more information [email protected] www.belvoirpawsandclaws.co.uk 07966 793625
My girl ❤️
Playing around gundog training with my 2. My girl, the working cocker, who’s 16 months is super keen on retrieving. My boy, the brittany, who’s 2 enjoys retrieving but his real passion is searching, so he’s great at scentwork and is super motivated by searching for scent articles that I have hidden. What’s really important here is that they both have fun. I don’t care about perfection or them being super obedient. I have an incredibly strong bond with both of them, they are my best friends and their happiness is what’s most important to me. Dogs are incredible! If you are privileged to share your life with a dog, be kind, patient and loving. They are not robots. Cherish every moment, because every single moment you spend with them is special.
Heelwork! Who would believe that at the start of our training this cute as a button cocker spaniel would pull like a train and jump up and down and chew her lead? Just look at her now! What a transformation! Fabulous off lead heelwork and great focus! Her wonderful owner has been committed to her training and the results are a joy to see. Well done team Lili 🐕🐾
The stop whistle. Also known as an emergency stop or remote sit. This is my 15 month girl giving you a lovely demonstration 😍 I love to teach this one! It forms part of gundog training and has several uses such as; 🐾 Stopping your dog in an emergency 🐾 Stopping a chase such as running after a rabbit (for some dogs this is far easier for them to perform than being recalled away from the object of their desire) 🐾 To stop and redirect your dog at a distance (such as when they are sent to retrieve a blind in gundog work) If you would like some help in training your dog on the stop whistle please contact me 🐾 www.belvoirpawsandclaws.co.uk
It’s raining ☔️ dinner 🥘 😋🐾
A cheeky little exercise here - teaches impulse control and calling away from distractions. To get what he really wants (the food) he learns that he has to recall to me first. In the training world we refer to this as the Premack Principle. It’s where a more probable behaviour reinforces a less probable behaviour. Think of when you were a child and your were told “if you eat your carrots you can have some pudding”. We can use Premack in lots of different situations, such as your dog giving you eye contact before being released to play with other dogs. Think of “if you do this, you can have this”.
Breakfast!
Blackberry detector!
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