Aimee Gardiner MSc - Pawfectly Behaved

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Aimee Gardiner MSc - Pawfectly Behaved

Animal Behaviourist and Trainer in the South Birmingham area

Specialising in Assistance Dog Training and Neurodivergent Friendly Dog Training!

Assistance Dog and Disability Advocacy

Dog and Cat Behaviour Consultations

28/10/2025

At this time of year the longer nights, bad weather and ceaseless fireworks may affect your dogs behaviour.

Particularly if you are working through a training or behaviour plan, you may find yourselves going backwards.

Rest assured this can be normal and it doesn't necessarily mean you are failing or your training isn't working. Behaviour is affected by many things and the autumn certainly brings its own challenges.

It is a good idea to check in with your trainer if you are concerned though!

As always, if you are struggling with your dogs behaviour send a DM and get booked in

[A black retriever drinks from a stream surrounded by autumn leaves. The text reads 'something to think about']

27/10/2025

Greeting people is a tough skill to learn, especially when you are a friendly flatcoat.

Here Bracken is learning to be released to say hello, to sit in front of the person instead of jumping and then is cued to disengage from the person and return to his handler.

It's the very first stages of him learning so he's doing well.

Muted because of conversations

Like to applaud Brackens hard work

[A black flatcoat comes and sits in front of the camera then disengages and returns to his handler]

21/10/2025

I love when the dogs I train graduate to training in Birmingham and all the skills we have been learning come together ❤️.

The city is such a different environment and they need to step into their roles a bit more. Knowing when they are ready can be tricky but we got it spot on with Max. He smashed it!

Max is amazing. Like this post for Max appreciation.

[A person using a wheelchair and a golden retriever head down a shopping centre corridor, passing construction work behind a shop board and various people]

14/10/2025

This is not a well thought out post. I'm just posting from the heart.

But I just wanted to come and give you complete, full, unequivocal permission to love your dogs

You loving your dogs too much will not cause behaviour problems

You can buy them things

You can fuss and stroke them

They can sleep on your bed

You can greet them when you come home

You can absolutely love them with every fibre of your being

This thought that loving your dogs too much causes them to get problem behaviours is absolutely ridiculous.

My dogs are spoiled beyond recognition. I love them so much. This is absolutely ok. It's why I brought them home.

Any content you see to the contrary, anyone who tells you otherwise, anyone who makes you feel bad for loving your dog is simply wrong.

You brought them home to shower them with love. That's what they are for. Never feel like you can't.

[A liver and white spaniel is walking in the woods]

06/10/2025

One question you should ask a trainer before working with them.

What happens when a dog gets something wrong when training...

In our case, Nothing!

Well not nothing, we reset and try again

Maybe we change the exercise slightly

Maybe we help the dog understand with our reinforcement

Maybe we make the exercise easier to understand.

It's ok if training goes a bit wrong sometimes.

Just reset and try again.

Like this to support this young handler who is amazing at training her dog!

[A young girl puts her small, white dog in a stay and runs off. The dog breaks the stay and the girl fusses her and says she's naughty in a happy tone before bringing the dog back to the start]

14/09/2025

Test your knowledge!

Tug edition

Here are two clips, both showing dogs tugging on an item

What do you think?

Are these clips showing the same behaviour?

Are both of these games friendly?

Are the motivations the same?

Tell me why you think that! What can you see in the clips?

Comment and leave your thoughts below 👇

(There are no stupid guesses so have a go! Let me know your thoughts. I love different interpretations. I will share mine)

[There are two clips showing tug. One is of two dogs pulling a string on a beach. The other is two dogs tugging a rope. A more detailed breakdown will be uploaded showing what's going on. There is no audio as people were talking over it and I didn't want music to influence your guesses!]

31/07/2025

The biggest and best Happy First Birthday to my beautiful, mischievous, destructive little shadow

One whole year old! May you have many, many more ❤️

[A black retriever sits in front of a plum tree with a colourful rosette on saying happy birthday]

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Tuesday	10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday	10:00 - 18:00
Thursday	10:00 - 18:00
Friday	10:00 - 18:00

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http://www.pawfectlybehaved.co.uk/

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