Blue Dog Canine Services

04/03/2025

Proud to be recognised by ThreeBestRated.co.uk for the services we offer 🐶💙

03/03/2025

Did you know that your attitude plays a significant role in how your dog perceives and responds to you during training and everyday interactions? 😀

Your attitude plays a significant role in how your dog perceives and responds to you during training and everyday interactions…

02/03/2025

26/02/2025

Moving house is a big change for both you and your dog, and they can pick up on subtle shifts in your routine and stress-levels long before the actual move happens. You can minimise stress and anxiety, with a bit of advanced planning and preparation...here's how...

Moving house is a big change for both you and your dog…you can minimise stress, with a bit of advanced planning and preparation.

19/06/2024

Do your dog a favour - leave the ball thrower at home

While playing fetch with your dog is a wonderful way to bond and have fun together, using a ball thrower has many hidden dangers.

14/01/2024

“If your dog was trained, you could just tell them to sit and be quiet!”

This is not how reactivity works. It’s a fundamental misconception that a well-trained dog is not a reactive dog … or that a reactive dog is not well-trained.

Whether or not a dog is reactive tells you nothing about the amount of skill training they have received. A dog can *both* be able to perform challenging and complex behaviors … and have intense responses towards certain triggers.

Skill training cannot always overwrite a dog’s emotional state. A dog may be able to “sit and be quiet” with food distractions, while you’re throwing a toy or even in the presence of wildlife … but not be able to do this at all in close proximity to a trigger.
This is really important to understand for both owners of reactive and non-reactive dogs:
If you own a reactive dog, your dog is not missing “obedience training”, as reactivity is not a lack of obedience … it’s a surplus of stress.
If you do not own a reactive dog and think that reactive dog owners just don’t know how to train their dogs to behave … that is also not true. The dogs are *not* poorly *trained*. The dogs are *feeling* poorly near triggers.
Reactivity (or lack thereof) and skills (or lack thereof) are not inherently linked.
There are …
💙 Reactive and very well-trained dogs
🩵 Non-reactive and very well-trained dogs
💚 Non-reactive and poorly trained dogs
💛 Reactive and poorly trained dogs

Don’t discount a reactive dog as one who just didn’t get trained … the topic is much more complex than this.

12/01/2024

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11/01/2024

🥳 Amazing news! Thanks to our incredible supporters, over 106,000 people have signed our petition urging the Government to on vet services, including medicines, and pet food during the cost of living crisis.

These measures would make an enormous difference to dog owners around the country, helping make sure that more dogs can stay with their families where they belong 💛

We have now handed in the petition to Government, so will keep you updated when we receive a response!

Image description: A scruffy cream coloured dog is sat outside 11 Downing Street next to a sign that reads '106,361 people say '

25/12/2023

We hope you have a pawsome day 🐶 a very Merry Christmas from Karen, Phil, Pickle and Pablo 💙

Pickle wasn’t in the mood for a Christmas photo and left it to Pablo this year 🤣