After 4 years of door dashing and jumping all over visitors, Willow and her parents are smashing doorway training!
This video was taken the day after our training session! It’s what a new routine and more focus can do. 😍😍😍🎉🎉🎉
ONLY 2️⃣ SPACES LEFT!!
ONLY 2️⃣ SPACES LEFT!!
Bookings for our Canine Life Skills Class are still open! We’ll be kicking off at the start of June, on the brand new Linmere development in Houghton Regis. 🐕🦮🐩🐕🦺
Join a local, friendly and professional trainer/behaviourist for 6 weeks of fun to enrich your dog’s life and teach key skills to set the whole family up for a successful future. Absolutely no experience required!
📍 The Farmstead, Houghton Regis.
🚙 Free parking.
🐶 Dogs between 6 months and 2 years old.
📆 Fridays at 18:00, starting 7th June for 6 weeks.
📚 Focus, loose lead walking, socialisation, recall, “leave it”, safety skills and much more.
✅ Only positive reinforcement and force-free natural behaviour understanding.
📩 Email [email protected] to book.
💰 £25.00 per week (flexible payment plans welcomed).
➕ Continued support, meet new people and earn your furry friend a celebratory certificate!
Any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Can’t wait to see you there! 💚
Lex is super strong and hyper stimulated… so naturally walks are hard for him and his parents!
So we’ve gone right back to basics, starting every walk in the garden. Look at this progress! 🤩 The aim is to teach Lex what to do and give him loose lead practice, but also for Mum and Dad to gain some confidence.
Training is as important for owners as it is for dogs. Uniting family life for a successful future. 🙌🏼💚
Some wonderful before and after progress! 😍⭐️
Spent the morning with lovely Luna and her parents to help with behaviour on walks. We can’t just ask a dog to “stop pulling”, but we can replace the need to pull with more engagement, communication, direction and teamwork! 🐾🐾🐾
Great way to kick off a Sunday. 💚
We met Milo earlier this year to help with his stress around other dogs on walks. He’s come on leaps and bounds recently with a new puppy roommate! 🐾💚
He’s teaching little Ruby about her new home and even showing her how to play. What a little star! ⭐️
Look at this amazing video Daisy’s Mum took! The canine nose is a fascinating thing! Think about this next time you find your little one sniffing something:
1️⃣ Dogs have around 250 million scent receptions, while we have around 5 million! So they explore the world with their nose in the same way we rely on sight and touch. 😧
2️⃣ A dog’s nose is 40 times more powerful than a human’s. So they could literally detect one rotten apple amongst 2 million! 🤯
3️⃣ They can smell up to 12 miles away. But if a scent gets lost, they’ll replace it with something associated with the original. 🤩
4️⃣ A dog can sense changes in our health, hormones and neurotransmitters. 😮
5️⃣ Sniffing is enriching and actually calms a dog, naturally lowering body tension, stress levels, heart rate and breathing. 😱
6️⃣ Smell memories last for LIFE! 💚
We met beautiful Flo at the weekend to help with calmness on walks, and her parents saw some results there and then! But that wasn’t the best bit…
Feast your eyes on her catch skills! 😍😍😍 Nothing in life compares to watching a dog do what they love to do. 💚
Time for a little starstruck moment throwback! 😍
It’s been about a year since I joined a Facebook live with the one and only Victoria Stilwell - international canine behaviour expert and star of “It’s Me or the Dog”. Not only did she notice my comment, but for years this lady has inspired my entire ethos towards training and behavioural modification. There’s a murky ocean of questionable advice and training techniques out there, but Victoria’s work does so much good for our world. 💜
After pulling his owners from pillar to post, just look at Ozzie’s wonderful loose lead walking here. It’s the start of a long journey but all progress is good progress. Perfect manners on both ends of the lead! 💚
Remember Rodney from a previous post? Remember he didn’t know how to greet or walk past other dogs? Well look at him now! 💚💚💚
Just watch how he walks past me and our superstar stooge dog Harry! 😍 After a few sessions we’ve been able to condition more calmness, focus and positive emotional responses. And even better, he’s relaxing, learning to disengage, freely checking in with his parents and sniffing the ground (essentially, choosing an alternative behaviour as opposed to fixating or triggering). He’s having calmer experiences and learning what to do in the presence of stimuli he previously found stressful.
This is what steady and gradual behavioural modification can do - positive conditioning, happier dogs and happier owners! Results like this make everything worthwhile. 🥰
Look at darling Holly’s new breakfast routine… a wobbly Kong! 😍
While traditional bowl feeding isn’t a bad thing, sometimes finding creative ways to feed your dog is the first step to addressing general behaviour problems. Think about it… most dogs eat twice a day, so why not capitalise on those two potential opportunities to routinely enrich their lives and stimulate their minds with positive mental challenges?!
Ditching the bowl prevents digestion problems (usually when they eat too fast), keeps them motivated, encourages calmness, prevents boredom (as well as destructive behaviours) and channels energy positively. Remember, getting a dog thinking and problem solving switches off any potential for negative or impulsive behaviour.
Get thinking about ways to get them thinking! 💚
Sometimes the hardest part of this job is saying goodbye to clients and their dogs. But it’s also a really good thing because it means our job is done! 🎉
Trixxie was a nervous little dog who wasn’t too fond of people because she hadn’t had the best start in life. With some desensitisation, communication and counter-conditioning, she’s well on her way to a happier future and growing in confidence with visitors! 🥰 While we can’t cure problems like fears, phobias or anxiety, we can alter a dog’s perception of an experience and in doing so condition positive emotional responses. Patience, trust, respect, understanding and consistency is the name of the game! 💚
Look at little George smashing “reflex to name” and recall training! 🥰🎉
Sometimes all it takes is a magic word and an understanding of what really motivates your dog. 💚 Dogs are at their optimal level of learning when they’re motivated, so why not turn training into an activity and a behaviour they gain from, as well as a teaching opportunity for us?! Mutual exclusivity! 🙏🏼 Motivation = natural encouragement for repeated behaviours (sometimes when you don’t even ask for it - massively important for recall). Win win!
Would you believe that 15 minutes of mentally stimulating activities burn as much energy as a 1 hour walk! 😳🤯
Reggie and Ronnie are loving their snuffle mat here! Activities like these target problem solving skills, sensory intelligence and breed instincts - especially for dogs with scent-led prey drive. It keeps them mentally enriched and instinctively satisfied. Win win! Plus, for these guys, it channels all their puppy energy positively and encourages shared calm experiences.
Great stuff. Can’t wait to see these guys again! 💚
Just look at this before and after progress! 💚
Rodney was finding walks stressful because he fixates on movement, especially if there’s another dog in sight. In the first clip he’s progressing through the stages of predation (the slow stalk, ears alert, heckles raised and eventually lunging). Aggression? ABSOLUTELY NOT. What you’re seeing is full body tension and instinctive breed behaviour. He’s not lunging because he’s frustrated or angry, but because he just doesn’t know what to do.
After a few one-to-one sessions to work on focus, reinforcement and a new lead, results speak for themselves! In the second clip he’s consciously choosing to make eye contact with us, his ears are nice and floppy, he’s disengaging with oncoming movement, exploring the environment and displaying “shake offs” - this is how dogs naturally release body tension and relieve excess stress. Less tension = more focus, more relaxation and more enjoyment. More enjoyment = happy owners!
This is behavioural modification at work, not “training”. Although there’s still more to be done, every bit of progress makes everything worthwhile. So so so pleased! 😍
Cuteness overload! 🥰
The lovely Amy got in touch a few weeks ago to book an online preparation session before her puppy’s arrival. We spoke through the importance of breed awareness, mental enrichment, positive reinforcement, communication, trust, exercise, play, socialisation/habituation, toileting, routine, calmness and preventing common issues.
Say hello to Ponyo, a gorgeous 10-week-old Fox Terrier! 😍 Amy is already teaching him “life skills” with perfect timing and confidence, both to teach little Ponyo and encourage calmness - so so so important for young dogs! Love seeing owners and puppies getting off on the right “paw”. Blimmin’ brilliant! 💚
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