18/06/2025
When we have dogs in for residential training it’s often because their owners are finding them difficult to manage.
Their beloved dog, who wants for nothing and is adored, is not coming when called, is over excitable, and in general, tiresome to manage. Making the whole dog owning deal exhausting and frustrating for both dog and owner!
So how do we start to fix this….?
First we create a bond with the dog through play.
Then we implement basic manners and behaviours that make the dogs easier to live with, and to keep them safe.
Then we give them the opportunity to be dogs, through structured games, training plans and exercise regimes that tick their genetically driven behaviours.
We see dogs that relax into a routine, dogs that know where they stand, dogs enjoying other dogs company and dogs being dogs!
What we seem to have forgotten is that loving our dogs means giving them what they actually need. Not what we think they need.
Three B’s…
Bond, Boundaries and then Boundless FUN!
Here are the two latest recruits. One scared of other dogs… the other too full on. 👌 Both arrived on Sunday last week. Baby steps, but when unravelling months of reinforcement remember Rome wasn’t built in a day!
