Paw Inspiring

07/07/2024

Fun dog show at Meopham fete next Saturday, come along and see if you can win a rosette!

06/07/2024

I am running the dog show at this, a range of fun categories including best dressed doggy, £2 entry, please share!!!

11/06/2024

Puppies needed!!!! Puppy classes at Judsons Pavillion. 6 week course of Training, Advice and supervised off-lead Socialisation for pups under 6 months old run by a degree qualified trainer with over 20 years experience. £60 for the 6 week course of 1 hr sessions. Likely to be Tuesday or Wednesday evenings but get in touch anyway as can be changed to suit.

Classes for older dogs also available.

Please message on 07973 322108 if possible ad FB messages seem to get lost sometimes.

24/04/2024

Puppies needed!!!! Puppy classes starting soon at Judsons Pavillion. 6 week course of Training, Advice and supervised off-lead Socialisation for fully vaccinated pups under 6 months old run by a degree qualified trainer with over 20 years experience. £60 for the 6 week course of 1 hr sessions. Likely to be Mondays at 7:15pm, but get in touch anyway as can be changed to suit.

Classes for older dogs also available.

Please message on 07973 322108 if possible as social media messages seem to get lost sometimes.

12/04/2024

Puppies needed!!!! Puppy classes starting soon at Judsons Pavillion. 6 week course of Training, Advice and supervised off-lead Socialisation for fully vaccinated pups under 6 months old run by a degree qualified trainer with over 20 years experience. £60 for the 6 week course of 1 hr sessions. Likely to be Mondays at 7:15pm, but get in touch anyway as can be changed to suit.

Classes for older dogs also available.

Please message on 07973 322108 if possible as social media messages seem to get lost sometimes.

03/04/2023

Tonight saw 2 awesome pups and their brilliant owners graduate from Meopham puppy class!
Unfortunately the rest of their class couldn’t make it this week but Stitch and Nova still enjoyed good socialisation along with party games to bring their training to life in a fun way!

Well done super Pups! You’re little stars🤩
Hopefully see you at dog class soon too!

02/07/2022

My dogs know their place.

Every year, I hope the people spewing nonsense about being pack leader, about being the alpha, about how you need to show the dog who’s boss, will disappear. Every year I’m hopeful that they will pick up a book (that isn’t written in their little echo chamber), do a course worth its salt, or even just watch the most basic YouTube video explaining why they are wrong.

Every year I am hopeful that I won’t see any more dogs wearing prong collars, e-collars, being strung up on a slip lead, being yanked back, alpha rolled, pinned to the ground, shaken, prodded, hissed at, kicked. Dogs that are just babies, dogs that are traumatised, dogs with behavioural problems that, whenever they ask for help or reassurance, are punished. Dogs that are petrified of something scary, only to be told “Stop crying!” as the thing they’re phobic of is drawn closer and closer to them.

Every year, I’m disappointed.

It’s 2022. The basis of this training was debunked DECADES ago. Why do people still feel it’s acceptable to treat dogs this way? To lazily slap the word “dominant” or “stubborn” on their foreheads and take that as an excuse to now treat them however they like.

Do freaking better.

“Oh, but my dog is a German shepherd/ Rottweiler/ staffie and they need a strong hand”

No. If you are incapable of handling a powerful dog without beating the crap out of it and walking it with ligatures, sometimes spiked ligatures, constricting their throat, seriously consider getting a smaller breed. It doesn’t make you look like a tough man, walking an incapacitated large breed dog, it makes you look like a coward. Nothing screams “I’m an incompetent trainer” like somebody reliant on choking their dog just to get them to walk nicely.

One day, we will look back as a society on the people who treat their dogs like this, and be totally repulsed. We will think “how did they get away with it?” I hoped, by 2022, we would be at that point already. But clearly not.

Yeah, my dogs know their place. It’s right beside me.

TLDR: you’re not the alpha, you’re insecure.

15/03/2022

22/01/2022

24/11/2021

Awesome Meopham pups graduate. Great training and good friends made! Well done Lexi, Bramble, Percy, Colin and Bonnie. Hope to see you again at a dog class

14/11/2021

Our lovely Saturday class, working week on recalls from distraction this week. Chester, Boris, Carlton, Mcey, Dexter, Dolly, Rufus, Tess and Clarence

31/10/2021

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30/10/2021

Doggy Halloween party with Simba (Lion), Boris (zombie), Dolly (skeleton), Dexter (vampire), Hunter and Macey. Costumes, silly races and Apple [or treat or tennis ball!] bobbing, plus playtime which brought the sun out!! Thanks all, was good fun!

09/10/2021

Food for thought. And reason to stop bearing yourself and your dog. Though I know most people I meet wish for heel for their own physical health or being to share the dog with the whole family because they need their dog not to pull hard all the time. Maybe we should rephrase it a little.

In the spirit of October and all things spooky, I’m sending the concept of “heel” straight to hell.

Here’s why: It is a welfare issue.

Of the five freedoms of animal welfare most of us are aware of, it’s #4 that gets glossed over the most.

4️⃣ Freedom to Express Normal Behavior

Normal behavior for dogs looks like moving freely in nature. Sniffing. Investigating. Exploring.

The entire concept of dogs on a short leash walking right next to us looking straight ahead and not interacting with the environment is so, so wrong, and entirely a concept that WE have invented and normalized.

I am here to tell you that IT IS NOT NORMAL.

It is not only not normal—it is comprising our dogs’ welfare. Physically, mentally, and emotionally.

I am here to tell you that IT IS OK FOR YOUR DOG TO WALK OUT IN FRONT OF YOU.

Asking your dog to check in or to walk next to you briefly for safety reasons is one thing.

Ushering your dog around by the neck on a short, taut leash and expecting them to adapt and be “tired out” from that, is quite another.

I’ve seen maladaptive, frustrated behaviors present in dogs who have been yanked and pulled around time and time again. And after being introduced to a long-line and getting a taste of freedom TO BE A DOG—their entire world opens up and that frustration dissipates.

These ridiculous “obedience” ideas have permeated our culture so deeply that our expectations of both dogs and dog guardians are wildly unrealistic and psychologically damaging to all of us!

We forget about ethology and genetics.

Dogs are born with needs that we must meet.

The least we can do when we bring them into our human world is understand their origins and what they need to thrive.



ID: first slide: Letters over a photo of a skull and candles that say “To Hell With Heel”. Second slide: a video of a large brown dog walking on a long-line on the sidewalk.

14/07/2021

https://www.facebook.com/PJPawsDogWalkingandtraining/ Just met one of my old students who runs his own business in Dartford area if you know anyone that way needing walking

Welcome to PJ Paws Dog Walking & Training Service! We look forward to meeting you & your fur babies!

28/06/2021

Look at the concentration on ALL thise faces!

28/06/2021

Doggies in the sun at Nurstead

28/06/2021

Nurstead puppies graduate - in drizzle as they started! Really well done to Wilson Ozzie Rosie Boss Simba Ziggy Sky Bluebell, Peanut and Chilly! See lots of you next week for big dog classes!!

15/04/2021

Dog classes 're back in Cuxton. Saturday mornings. A few places available still.

15/04/2021

After about an 18 week long 6 week course Vigo puppies graduate! Well done Buddy (especially for being so brave this week), Paddy and Nero for being such good friends and love to Molly and Biscuit who we hope to see soon.