Can guarantee every day Riley does something to make me smile or giggle. Todays edition was him sitting like a person between us (chosen position), propped up against Nath, having his chest rubbed (this was insisted), while watching Grand Designs 🤣… a very sophisticated pupper. How did your dogs spend Sunday? 🐾🥰
There is of course a 5 min version of this vid, but I figured you got the point 6 seconds in 🤣🤣
When training for real life scenarios becomes reality 🤣
I have the privilege of training Beau once a week with a mix on gundog and scent work. With our gundog we are currently working through steadiness, quartering, delivery and sit to flush… With scent work, he can detect truffle scent and indicate when he’s found keys too (a very useful skill)… I’ve been working on setups in which I am casually walking, I drop the keys which he’s conditioned to the sound of and starts to warn me of my mistake- again very useful! I then walk on ignoring his prompts, then ‘realise’ I’ve dropped them and send him to search… here I have dropped my keys in a random location (Beau heard me drop them) , and stupidly proceeded to walk in circles randomly so I truly had not a clue as to where they actually were. This is where I hope our training with Beau is proofed enough else I’ll be on foot for the rest of the day 🤣🫢👀. What a super star Beau is, indicating at such a distance, and holding that indication until I’m right on top of my keys for his reward. I’m truly thrilled with his progress, and am so fortunate that yet again another of my pet working dogs has such awesome outlets for his incredible genetics, and he’s a happy boy for it. Love my little Beau Bear 🥰🐾
You guys have met the beautiful Ruby do, but I wanted to share a little snippet of our new years session. She is the most driven, sensitive, speedy and full of joy dog ever. Gundog is so her thing, and every week she shows up with 1000% effort and stamina and brings it.
This day, believe it or not, our training location was packed, loads of passers by, wind was crazy, bags of scent around… essentially a really challenging and chaotic environment for a young dog to keep their head, and succeed.
Here she’s doing a marked retrieve ( we haven’t done a lot of these as we are working on impulse control and calmness) but you can see how quiet she was, yet stealthily focussed on the job at hand, even with passing traffic. She beautifully awaited her release, even holding herself together when the long line relaxed. Hunted her heart out (she always does), responded amazingly to the hunt whistle, and returned with as much power as she left us!
I’m always so proud of Ruby and her amazing Jo, we have a giggle most sessions, talk through the trials and turbulents of adolescence and all the emotions that come with it, but I can just see how special this girl is, and how talented she is aswell- I love how her owner strives to meet her needs and give her so many outlets for her incredible genetics too.
We’ve worked through lots of whistle bits, calmness and focus around distraction and the use of gundog to help provide Ruby structure and she absolutely loves it.
Always a proud trainer with miss Ruby Do, and absolutely love our time together ❤️🐾
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Frankie for a short while, guiding her amazing family through puppyhood, and eventually some gundog training! This was one of her first times off the lead just before Christmas, and I couldn’t not share. So effortlessly engaged, confident and even showing off some of her auto sit/ stop at heel skills. Today we met and she was off the lead with confidence having had an ace time mooching around the local woods the last few weeks. She recalled from other dogs, we saw moments she was making choices about things happening in the distance and we massively celebrated all of her incredible decisions to check back with us in those moments. We also did emergency stops at distance, and started some work on leave it. So so proud of confident, happy girlie Frankie and her amazing owners. So excited to see her develop into the best girlie as she grows up ❤️🐾
Merry Christmas everyone!!! I’ve been so so pants on here, but I just wanted to do a general end of year post to say an absolutely MASSIVE thank you for all of your kindness and support this year ❤️🐾 I’m so lucky and thankful to spend my days with clients I can also call friends, and dogs and puppies who all have a blast learning, and developing their skills. Here’s an obligatory present opening video of Riley. Feel tree to post up your Christmas selfies/ photos of your dogs. See you all in 2024🥰🥳🐾 I’ll be posting some client videos later on in the week to see things through to new year, my resolution is to post up plenty more awesome videos and pictures next year for everyone to see how incredible you all are 🐾🥳 love to you all ###
What better way to come back from a little time away from Facebook and posting, than with this emergency recall exercise we practiced with Cody today. What an awesome dog he is, proofing our ‘emergency recall’ with recalling from a thrown ball. That ball in reality could be a bird, dog, squirrel, scent or anything worthy of a chase, especially useful in this season where it’s darker out and more wildlife and scent about.. Cody is showing ability here to peel himself away from the chase when he hears that trill of the whistle and comes charging back to his dad . Super work today, so proud of team Cody🥰🥳🐾
Happy Sunday! My Sunday? Started with admin, then breakfast, then an afternoon in the garden with a Riley dog who’s recovering from a dodgy tummy… I love being a part of his ‘play’, and the cover photo is the result of his zoomies- tired 8 year old puppy clearly finding a comfy slot good enough for a snoozy head! How has your Sunday been? Please comment photos/ videos below? 🥰❤️🐾
I have been so so slack on socials lately, life in reality has been a little intense so massive apologies!! I thought I’d come back with a bang, introducing you to my sweet boy Tars, we started our journey together with 1:1’s supporting his amazing owners with some breed specific, adolescent and arousal based behaviours, figuring out a good routine and how to navigate and help him process his emotions, as he can find life a little bit overwhelming and struggle to process his emotions. Now we do mostly walks together, with the odd catch up 1:1 too. So far, alongside the important bits mentioned above (helping build a good routine, read body language and help keep things calm and structured for him), we have also introduced him to being a gundog which he absolutely loves and gives him some amazing breed specific outlets, he’s learning all about different whistle cues (stop, hunt, recall and emergency recall), and can also find truffle scent too 🥰🐾🥳. In this video we were at a location with tonnes of birds and big open space, he has never been to before, he went to chase a bird but responded to emergency stop whistle- I was totally unprepared for this hence my recall after 🤣… we’ve done drills where he stops after being sent for dummy which I’ll post below, but never in real life have we needed it- so proud of him for nailing this real life situation!! His owners laid a fantastic foundation for him, and have been so so consistent and communicative with me from the start to build Tars a really great community around him! So proud of team Tars, adore them all and so thankful to be a part of his life ❤️🐾
This is the part of spaniels people don’t usually realise exists when they meet them on walks… I have been clamped here for a good hour, luckily made a cup of tea before we settled down for the afternoon 🤣🙏🥰 How are you spending your afternoon? Photos please!! I’ve got some time to kill 🤣🥹. I’m not complaining though ❤️🤭
Sweet girl Pip
I’d love to introduce you to my little Pip puppy, aka Pippy…
She’s a new welcome to the CC crew, and she’s bringing all the puppy joy with her. As she’s a springer like all of our pet gundogs, she’s got bags of drive and excitement for life and fizz… here we are in session 3, showing her that we can create fun in this wonderful open space. We’ve also spoken about routine, sleep, socialising her, and some fun gundog activities.
For me with puppies relationship building is absolutely key, showing her we will keep her safe, enjoy the world with her, and engage that nose too is paramount. Bond comes first though 🥹🐾🥰..
Look at this superstar showing some great engagement with her owners, and such amazing body language from the owners encouraging that check in 😎🥳
So excited to watch team Pip learn grow and be awesome x
Superstar Ted🥰
Gorgeous boy Ted doing incredibly with proofing his ‘heel behaviour. Here we’re showing him some delicious food being thrown, and seeing if we can ask him to heel away off lead, to them potentially get sent back for the prize!
This is a technique called premack principle 😎
Teddy has an awesome family who are so dedicated, and his future is so bright and exciting 🤩! Learning with this exercise helps with impulse control, proofing of engagement and focus 🥰
So much love for team Teddy, and can’t wait to watch him flourish🐾
Scent work with a difference
Would you dare ‘dropping’ your keys in an empty field in the name of dog training?
Fear not, my scent buddy Beau has me covered!!
Such an awesome dog! Never know when this might come in handy 🤣🤣🔑
