These two love sniffing out treats in the long grass 🌾💚
Little Ada’s had a sore eye so she couldn’t see her boyfriend Cooper today so we took the opportunity to practise her whistle recall while we had a solo walk 💨
My favourite little sweet potato piglet 🐷
Coco and Honey 🥹
Bunny ASMR 🐰🥬
Little me would be happy with how I spend my days 🍃🐶
A little bit of brain work this morning ❤️
A little bit of brain work this morning 🧐🌭❤️
The buns having their tea on their evening visit last night 🐰🌿🌼
Loving starting my mornings with the buns 🥹🐰
Place training with Bear
Settling/Place training with Bear 🖤
Settling down in a pub/restaurant isn’t something that comes naturally to dogs, you can’t expect to take them in for the first time and have them lie down and go to sleep while you have your food and drinks, there’s a lot of stimuli that can be overwhelming to dogs if they haven’t had the socialisation/training to be able to do so (don’t get me wrong, some may never like these environments and may never be a “pub dog” but that’s another story)
Not only does Bear’s Mam enjoying taking him to these places with her, he absolutely ADORES going to pubs/cafes/restaurants, but that doesn’t mean he can settle straight away in every new place he goes, just because he can settle in one pub, the next might be a completely different environment and place/settling training sessions need to be done again, so every now and then me and Bear take a trip to the pub during our walk, I grab a drink and we do some place training 😊
Bear has been to many a pub and cafe with his Mam and his old walker/trainer when he lived in London so for the most part, he knows what to expect and how to settle himself, but going back to basics and rewarding his calm behaviour and his down positions can only aid his socialisation and reaffirm his positive associations with these environments 🥰
It may not be the most physically tiring exercise, but it’s very mentally tiring for them, and I’m very thankful Bear’s Mam is more than happy for me to do these things with him, just look at how unfazed he is by the child he can hear in the bar not far from him, I think next time we’ll try for some settling around dogs as this is something he can struggle with but the more we do it in a controlled sessions, the easier he’ll find it 🫶🏼
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