South Yorkshire Dog Training

07/10/2025

07/10/2025

Harvey the Bordeaux bossin it with my meta glasses on! 🐶🕶️

05/10/2025

🐾 "From Fear to Freedom: Bru's Inspiring Transformation!" 🐾

🌟 Exciting news! Bru, our golden retriever and German Shepherd mix, is finally heading home after completing his board and train program! 🏡❤️ When he first arrived, Bru battled extreme fear that led to aggression, but with patience and commitment, he's now as calm as can be.

✨ Just look at him, he never used to play or accept treats, but now he's truly loving life! This short video captures just a glimpse of his incredible journey during our proofing sessions around Doncaster.

Let's celebrate Bru's newfound happiness and confidence! 🎉🐕

04/10/2025

Proof that you don't have to be worthy to hold the power of Thor... you just have to be an extremely persistent Belgian Malinois. My head is just a convenient stabiliser for her favourite chew toy. Send help (and maybe a squeaky hammer). 🤣
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10/09/2025

🏡🐾 Penny the Doberman is Looking for Her Forever Home! 🐾🏡

Meet Penny – a stunning 2.5-year-old female Doberman with a heart as big as her paws! ❤️

Penny is:
✔️ Great with other dogs
✔️ Gentle around children
✔️ Crate trained
✔️ Has recall and basic obedience

She's a smart and affectionate girl who thrives on companionship and structure. Penny would do best with someone who has experience with Dobermans or large breeds, and who has the time and commitment to continue her training and give her the enriching life she deserves.

She’s ready to be your loyal adventure buddy, cuddle partner, and best friend!

📍If you think you can offer Penny a loving, active, and committed home, please get in touch!

Let’s find this lovely girl the forever home she deserves. 💛

19/08/2025

That's a really good video, and it shows how important contact is with e-collars. Things like the right contact points, positioning, or even a bungee collar can make a big difference.
A lot of people mess these things up or cause issues, so definitely get help from a trainer who knows their stuff.
If you've got any questions about e-collars, just ask.
We're taking bookings for e-collar courses, and we're Dogtra UK Master Trainers 🇬🇧🙌

06/08/2025

We Love This ❤️

Just Margot and I, chilling on a field 🌾🧘‍♀️

It doesn’t look exciting, because it isn’t!

I haven’t asked for her to do anything, she hasn’t been commanded to hold a down (she isn’t tethered) - I just took her out of my van and I sat down on the grass!

There are dogs, people, vehicles coming and going in the car park, and children in the park 20 meters away

Relaxing isn’t exciting, it’s a moment, a chance to take in the environment, process our surroundings, switch off temporarily, share the same space and bond 🐾

How often do you incorporate this into your dogs training journey?

This didn’t start off as ‘easy’ for Margot (impulse control was never her strong point 🥴)

We trained for this on rinse and repeat 🔁

Find a bench, a quiet spot, a patch of grass, a chair in your front garden - and just ‘sit’

04/08/2025

🧩Problem solving🧩

This is an issue that I witness a lot (during initial behavioural assessments) Whether I’m working with an 8 week old puppy, or an 8 year old dog 🐕 The picture usually looks the same 🖼️

As a mother of three (all under five at one point) I have spent A LOT of time over the years chasing around after toddlers! Having to have eyes in the back of my head! 👀

However, at some points in time, my kids were too quick and they did ‘the thing’ This usually resulted in tears, an ‘ouchie’ a couple of bruises or a mess made (eye twitching for my OCD 🥴)

If ‘the thing’ generated a consequence which wasn’t desirable enough for them to seek it out again (my eldest grabbing a handful of nettles springs to mind) - then they wouldn’t! ❌

But…… if the consequence to ‘THEIR’ actions, only resulted in ‘ME’ feeling uncomfortable and not them (a 4 litre bottle of milk all over the kitchen floor because she absolutely HAD to carry it) then there may still be a desire for them to repeat ‘the thing’ again - because I cleaned it up⚠️

If you’re a dog owner and you constantly feel the need to assist your dog, during all times which would otherwise require for them to think - you may well be removing their ability / capacity to problem solve 🧩

Therefore, the benefit of consequence (yes - it can be beneficial) is lost, due to it being absorbed by you!

If it is safe and common sense is being applied (by the humans) - LET THEM WORK IT OUT 🐾🐕

It builds confidence, motivation, engagement and most importantly, TRUST in your human / canine relationship 🤎🖤🤍

(Photo of Moose because he’s so handsome)

04/08/2025

🌟🐶 We had the pleasure of looking after the wonderful Dogue de Bordeaux, Monty, while his owners were away! 😄 What a fantastic pup! 🐕❤️
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