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07/06/2024
If you fancy winning a free photo shoot of your dog and a run in the secure field, then get posting your worst dog photo..
Note - only pics posted on the original post will be entered .
***COMPETITION TIME!*** 🏆
Would you like to win the following awesome prizes?
• A free 1 hour professional photo shoot with your dog(s) (worth £100.00) with Dommett Young Photography
• Minimum 40 pictures taken, and you can choose 3 free downloads (with options to purchase others for a nominal fee)
• A free 50 min session at Fun4Paws, with a quick photo of you and your dog collecting your prize, then the rest of your time to enjoy the space with your dog(s).
All you have to do is send us the absolute worst picture you have ever taken of your dog! 😂
Photos must be put in the comments of this post to be judged.
Competition ends 12.00pm on Friday 14th June. Entries after that time will not be judged.
The winner will be announced on our page at around 2.00pm on Saturday 15th June.
Good luck everyone! And please feel free to share this post.
Here’s my starter for 10 (not to be judged 😂)
My worst ever photo of Teddy!
I was trying to get a picture of him doing ‘tic tac’ on the board at F4P, but it was a bit hard single handedly 😂
10/03/2024
Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful hu-mums who care for their fur-kids of any species. ### 💐🥰🐕🐈⬛🐓🐖🐑🐐🐄🫏🐇
27/02/2024
If you enjoy taking your dog to a secure field for some worry, free exercise, then you might be excited to hear that there’s a new field opening this week! 😁🐕
Designed by a very experienced dog trainer, it is set up for everything your dog needs for a fun and safe time off lead if they have a poor recall, or get too distracted by the outside environment. There are lots of activities to do and plenty of space to run around and a shelter so you can get out the rain!
You can also book sessions with the dog trainer if you want to do some more focused activities there.
Places are booking up quickly, so grab yours now and enjoy this new field!
21/01/2024
Genius! 😂
I think Lena would wear her 80's Lycra ready for a game 🎾 while Zen would be in her PJs! 🛌
What would your dog choose?? 👚👔👗
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/Z5V6iveMnQ5sWr1k/
25/12/2023
To all the wonderful clients and furry friends I’ve had the pleasure of working with this year and in the past, the fur-kids and I would like to wish you a very happy Christmas!
Nadolig Llawen! 🎄🎁🎅🏼🏴
16/12/2023
A bit of fun, but there is a lot of truth in this…
BEFORE YOU BUY A PUPPY PLEASE TAKE THIS TEST!!
Best taken in the autumn or mid winter.
1. Buy a lead and tie it to a big stone, carry it to the park and put it next to a lamppost. Wait 20 mins then carry it home.
2. Get up at 5am, go out in the pouring rain and walk up and down a muddy path, repeating good girl/boy, wee wees...poo poos, quickly please.
3. Stuff your pockets with plastic bags and pick up all the poo you can find, obviously not your dogs as you have not bought it yet
4. Start wearing your shoes indoors, especially during muddy times
5. Collect leaves off the ground and spread them on the floor
6. Carry sticks and branches indoors and chop them up on your carpet
7. Pour cold apple juice on the rug and floor....walk barefooted over it in the dark
8. Drop some chocolate pudding on your carpet in the morning and then try to clean it in the evening
9. Wear socks to which you have made holes using a blender
10. Jump out of your favourite chair just before the movie ends and run to open back door
11. Cover all your best clothes with dog hair, dark clothes with blond hairs and light clothes with dark hairs
12. Tip all just ironed clothes on the floor and sprinkle liberally with slime
13. Make little pin holes in all your furniture,
especially chair and table legs
14. When doing dishes, splash water all over the place and don't wipe it.
15. Spread toilet paper all over the house when you leave the house and tidy up when you get back home
16. Forget any impulse holidays and/or breaks
17. Always go home straight after work or school
18. Go walkies no matter what the weather, and inspect every dirty paper, chewing gum and dead fly you might find
19. Wake up at 3am. Place a correct size bag of flour on top of yourself and try to sleep, whilst wiping your face with a dishcloth, which you have left next your bed in a bowl last week.
If you can do these for 6 months then CONGRATULATIONS, you might be ready to get your puppy!
11/12/2023
For everyone who was asking about our holiday cottage... HERE IT IS!!
We can sleep up to 4 adults (sorry, no kids!) and allow unlimited dogs (provided you can manage them, you can bring 'em!). There is a private, secure garden with with 4ft fencing, away from our dogs, and you have access to a large field to give your dogs a good run in the morning and early evening.
If you are looking to book for next year and the dates aren't available, then please PM me and we can look to open the diary for you as we haven't released all the dates yet.
Hope you like it!! Please give it a like if you do for more events and updates. You can book training sessions with me while you're here too!
Fancy a few nights away before Christmas to enjoy the cosy early nights in front of a log burner?
We've just reduced the prices of the available spaces before Christmas to just £75 per night, so you can do some shopping in the wonderful stores around Lampeter and Aberaeron, enjoy a walk along the coast with your dog (just 25 mins away), walk the Brecons or just chill out in front of the fire, without breaking the bank.
Booking link in the comments 👇👇
10/12/2023
We were back in Swindon this weekend for Les’ black belt grading in kickboxing. Of course she smashed it and was awarded her 1st Dan belt for all her hard work.
Congratulations Les, so proud of you!
Today was a special day at our gym as Lesley traveled all the way from Wales to grade with us this weekend. Normally, we take a few weeks to mark results before awarding black belts, but Lesley's dedication and journey couldn't wait. Congratulations, Lesley, on your well-deserved achievement! 🌟
28/11/2023
For all our lovely Swindon friends, here are the details of our holiday cottage which is dog friendly with no limit on the number of dogs you can bring (provided you can manage them!)
As weve only just taken over, there is lots of availability in the diary, so if you’d like to visit Wales 🏴 and get some training sessions in while you’re here, then please message us!
Direct bookings don’t pay the AirBNB fees 😁
Hope to see you soon!
05/11/2023
To all our clients for both dog walking and training over the past 6 years, we want to say a massive THANK YOU!! We've now finished all our walks and training in Swindon, and move to Wales on Friday!
We have truly loved working with every single one of your dogs, and we are going to miss them terribly. We've had a good blub or two this week as we've said goodbye to each member of our extended furry family, and we thank you wholeheartedly for your trust in us and and allowing us to care for and train your doglets.
We'll still be offering training albeit a little further away but you are very welcome to come and visit our pretty holiday cottage and enjoy some training while you're with us if you fancy it!
We'll share the details as soon as we are in, but for now we're just so grateful for all your kind words and best wishes for our next adventure. Thank you, and we'll miss you!! 🙏👋😢
04/11/2023
Lots of bangs and whistles outside and our doglets are very stressed as you can see.
Hope your furbabies are coping ok?
01/11/2023
Sadly that was my last Wednesday training session in Swindon and we had 4 seasons in one session with Merlin. Rain, hail, sun, wind and a double rainbow! 🌧️🌨️☀️💨🌈🌈
Is it a sign?
29/10/2023
If you enjoyed your training with us, we would REALLY appreciate it if you could take the time to leave us a review on Facebook as it will help new clients find us when we move to Wales.
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Thank you 🙏 so much xx
(link in the comments below ⬇️⬇️)
27/10/2023
Playing catch with Lena and I just had to get some slo-mo shots as she looked so funny!
25/10/2023
Don't see keeping your dog on a lead as a punishment.
If your dog runs off for 1/2 a mile once they get off the lead and doesn't come back when asked, then you need to keep them on a lead or long line until they can demonstrate a reliable recall. It's not punishment, it's management and your dog will never understand what to do unless you set some boundaries for them to follow.
The environment is simply too rewarding for some dogs and so we have to look after them in this way to keep them safe xx
21/10/2023
It’s a bit wet by the gate today at Stanton, but to be honest, I was expecting much worse!
19/10/2023
In case you haven't heard, we're moving!
We will be stopping our dog walking and training work in Swindon on 4 November, and relocating to a smallholding in west Wales 🏴 on 10 November (all being well!).
Sadly that means we'll have to say goodbye (for now) to everyone soon, but we'll have a holiday cottage, campsite (each pitch will have a secure one-acre field to itself) and the opportunity to come and do some training sessions with us while you stay, so we'd love for you to come and visit us!
In the meantime, we are busy learning Welsh, and we are so grateful to Tomi's mum for gifting us this brilliant 'Teach your dog Welsh' book - I think it'll come in very handy!
17/10/2023
Does your dog struggle with the loud bangs on fireworks night?
If so, you may not be aware but there are specific medications your vet can prescribe that help take away the majority of the fear, and these meds are specifically designed to help with noise sensitivity.
If you think your dog would benefit, please speak to your vet NOW - don't leave it until the week of the fireworks!
With Diwali and Bonfire night approaching, we have some TOP TIPS for keeping your pet safe this firework season.
Dogs:https://www.apbc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Fireworks-Series-Behaviour.pdf
Cats:https://www.apbc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/APBC-How-to-prepare-your-cat-for-fireworks.pdf
14/10/2023
Lovey progress made by everyone today. Here's Jenson showing us some cracking recall work, and being the sprocker at the end of the rainbow ! 🌈
11/10/2023
Doris had a few chases of the tennis ball🎾 then it was a case of you threw it, you get it😀
27/09/2023
This one picture pretty much sums up the way I train fun gundog work… connection, not control!
26/09/2023
Binky was showing me how much she enjoyed being back on walks today, with a massive smile in the garden afterwards.😀
17/09/2023
Yesterday’s fun gundog training sessions at Stanton were FABULOUS!
Some recall skills that are developing really well and result in these brilliant’ incoming’ photos!
Lots of focus despite distractions including dogs and sheep, and some great skill building games like hand target and catch the treat to increase the fun factor of the training!
Awesome job folks!
13/09/2023
Today was our first block of sessions at our new venue in Stanton Park and it went REALLY well!
I love this place - there is lots of space for us to work (and dodge the sheep!) and a few low grade distractions to help with our training. Hettie here did some lovely recalls in the presence of other dogs.
Mostly today, Hettie was working on her self-control around the dummy. She gets very excited about it, and starts jumping around like a loon trying to grab it, so before we can do more retrieve work, we need to teach her that it's calmness and self-control that get her what she wants, so we were working hard on desensitising the appearance of the dummy (without squashing her drive to retrieve it), and creating some automatic 'polite' behaviours as an alternative to jumping and grabbing.
As you can see, she did really well (as did John 😃) and I'm sure they'll both have fun over the coming weeks practicing this as we build a solid retrieve and develop it into more advanced skills!
Looking forward to seeing lots more dogs here for training on Saturday!
09/09/2023
I just love it when clients come into their sessions and tell me all the wonderful ways that their dog responded positively to them and their training, but this email made me grin like the Cheshire Cat! 😁
Sarah came to fun gundog session to help improve Duke's recall. She felt he couldn't be trusted off lead (unless in a secure area) so we've done lots of training on different types of recall for different situations. Yesterday the 'emergency recall' 🚨came into it's own and Duke ran home after 'escaping' the garden.
With continued practice and generalisation (use it or lose it!), I'm sure Sarah and Duke's recall will continue to go from strength to strength!
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Librela - an undocumented side effect This is my dog Zen who is 10 years old and has a bit of arthritis, and has had 2 episodes of back spasms in the last 8 months. In April she was given her first Librela injection - a monoclonal antibody targeting nerve growth factor - which is a relatively new drug used for the alleviation of pain associated with osteoarthritis in dogs. While it works brilliantly for some dogs, giving them a new lease of life and freedom of movement when all hope seemed lost, for others it does nothing. The study that enabled it to be licenced for use only gave the drug to 141 dogs out of the 287 in the trial group, with the rest getting a placebo, so the test group was very limited and few side effects, however there were some cases that weren't permitted to be part of the group (that had IVDD), and some who developed "neurological deficits of the pelvic quarters". This is what we have recently seen in Zen within 2 weeks of starting her on Librela, and what you can see the in the video. She can be seen staggering around, falling over and generally having poor control of her hind limbs, often knuckling over or losing control and falling. She doesn't appear to be in any discomfort however. This isn't to scaremonger or put you off using Librela if all other avenues such as NSAIDs have failed to benefit your dog, however I would highly recommend reading the study first as the prescribing information for this drug makes no mention of IVDD or hind limb neurological issues, so this is worth bearing in mind as it could have a detrimental effect on your dog if they already have something going on. I will put a link to the study in the notes. I'm pleased to report that since I raised this with the vet and withdrawn the Librela treatment, her symptoms have improved dramatically (now 2 months after the last jab) and she is much more in control of her legs!
Man and dog working together in perfect harmony! 😍 Rudi the Springador has lots of spaniel–like traits and is really energetic with the strongest work ethic of any dog I’ve ever known. He is really enjoying the quartering activity we have been working on recently, where he gets guided onto caches of treats, toys balls and Gundog dummies, which we have squirrelled around for him to find. Chris’s challenge is to try and target Rudi onto those treats and toys, so it’s fun for everyone! . As you can see by the crazy tail, he loves it! . . #gundogtraining #fungundog #gundogtraining #swindondogtrainer #positivegundogtrainer #fungundogtraining #spanielsofinsta #spanielsofinstagram #springerspaniel #springerspanielsofinstagram
On Saturday I introduced Bruno and Milo to seen retrieves in longer cover. Here they are showing us some lovely self-control, waiting until released to seek out the dummy, having to work a bit harder now it's not clearly visible, as it would be in shorter grass, which is what they are used to. Some dogs enjoy the thrill of the chase, while others enjoy the effort of the search, and you can clearly see the difference between the two here, but both dogs are learning some new skills and having great fun, and that's what fun gundog is all about! #fungundog #fungundogtraining #gundogtraining #positivegundogtrainer #PositiveDogTraining #swindondogtrainer #positivegundogtraining #fungundogswindon #fungundogtrainer #workingcockerspaniel #workingcockers #workingcockerspaniels #sprocker #sprockers #sprockerspaniel #sprockerspaniels #sprockersofinstagram
Love trying to video the dogs doing a slo-mo shake after a dip in the paddling pool! Would love to see a slo-mo video of yours too!
Gundog training (even for fun) is actually a pretty small skillset, but done to a high standard. In our training we focus on: ☺️ Steadiness (calmness around a dummy, sit stay/wait, heelwork) 👃Searching (marking or scenting out a dummy) 🔁 Retrieve (going out to get a dummy, and bringing it back/recall) Without exception, all of these activities translate to benefits in your everyday life with your dog. Calmness around toys and food, loose lead walking and a good 'stay' help create a calm and low-stress environment. Scentwork helps stimulate your dog and really tires them out (so you can get some peace and quiet!) and a good recall is probably the number 1 thing people want from their dog, so it's an essential as far as I'm concerned! Last week I went to the beach with Lena and she had lots of fun off-lead time because she is well behaved. She can recall away from other dogs, and can ignore them if asked which means she gets lots of play time without fearing that she won't come back, or that she'll be off causing trouble somewhere! Here she is on the beach practising a seen retrieve. As you can see, Lena is a Rottweiler, and not your typical gundog. There are lots of other dogs and surfers around (although this shot makes it look quite quiet!), and she is calm, focused and works well and best of all HAVING FUN! If you think your dog would benefit from this work, then provided they have a bit of a work ethic and don't just want to snooze on the sofa all day, then maybe gundog training is for you? #fungundog #fungundogs #fungundoggames #fungundogclasses #fungundogtraining
Happy Christmas! Lena and Zen have had a busy day of walks, toys, extra turkey lunch and lots of playtime. Now they are settling down as we watch Strictly and Lena is fighting REALLY hard to stay awake but is losing! Hope you’ve had a great day!
Extra one for a walk today🤣
I’m sure the girls are having fun, but I’m slightly regretting buying these… (volume up!)
Swimming
Our girls wait (somewhat) patiently for their turn to dive off and fetch the toy. 😍😍 They love swimming!
Morning!
Molly showing off her fabulous recall today.
Ava is in season at the moment, so although she can’t go out for midday walks, we still visit her to break her day up and have some fun. Today she did lots of treat searches in the house and garden and played some self-control training games. If you get to the end of the video you’ll see the effect of all that hard work!!
I thing these toys were the girls favourites of their Christmas haul. They go nuts when we get them out and love trying to ‘kill’ them. What’s given your dogs the most entertainment this Christmas? Post your pics ⬇️⬇️⬇️
If you listen carefully, you can hear the jingles😀
Rottweiler rolling
When you’ve had a busy day learning man-trailing and you need to let off some steam!
Does your dog love a paddle too? Lena really likes splashing around in a stream or paddling pool!
Lena picks blackberries
Lena loves blackberries, so much so that she forages for them straight off the bush! What does your dog love to eat?
3 years! Thank you 🙏🏼
Naughty puppy OR clever puppy? Lena came in from the garden looking very pleased with herself, having been rolling around on the lawn with something. On closer inspection she's 'obtained' a stem and a few leaves of one of my geranium plants. Has she been 'naughty' and destroyed a plant in my garden for no reason? I think not... here's why... Lena is 8 months old and is likely to have her first season very soon. Geranium essential oil is used to help balance female hormones in aromatherapy, so of course the same chemicals are present in the plant (although in less concentrated amounts). Maybe she's just feeling a bit hormonal today and needed something to help her get back into balance, and she chose geranium from the range of herbs and flowers I grow in the garden for this exact purpose as part of my zoopharmacognosy (herbal self-medication) practice. If we give our dogs the freedom of choice, they can help themselves back into balance. Clever girl! 💜😍
Does your dog go out for a walk every day? Do they actually want to? In our house we offer the dogs a walk if they want one, but give them the freedom of choice to say no. Yesterday Zen was super keen to go out, but today she'd much rather stay on her bed and have a rest. Her walk, her choice. Try asking your dog and see what they say!
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Help your dog be their best, naturally
As pet parents, we try to do the very best by our dogs, but our actions are driven by what WE think they need, not what they actually think.
My passion is to listen to your dog’s needs, and offer them freedom of choice in their care, helping them express their changing needs to you, their guardians. I love to educate and empower pet parents to support their dogs naturally, helping them achieve a happy state of physical and emotional balance.
What would your dog ask for help with?
If you’d like to know you can message me and we’ll find out together.
With love, Lesley x
