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Little Halli is an absolute bundle of joy! 🐾 She’s been having so much fun and is smashing her recall training like a superstar ⭐️. During her walk, we bumped into Juno at the park, and both pups were thrilled to have a play together! 🐶. Tip of the Week: When training recall, a long line is an invaluable tool! It gives your dog freedom to explore while keeping them safe and under control. Use it to practice calling them back in different environments, gradually building their confidence and reliability off-lead. 🎾

Sweet Sasha the German Shepherd is such a superstar! 🌟 We’ve been helping her work on her reactivity to cars, and she’s making great progress. She absolutely loves to play, but nothing beats a good butt scratch as a reward for being such a good girl! 🐾💖. Did you know? German Shepherds were originally bred as herding dogs, which is why they’re so intelligent, loyal, and quick to pick up new tasks ✨

Zeus smashed his first canicross taster session and had the time of his life! 🐾 Canicross is a brilliant way to keep your dog fit, stimulated, and happy while building an even stronger bond. It’s perfect for burning off energy and boosting their confidence— Zeus absolutely loved it and picked it up like a pro! 💪. Keep an eye on our page for an update on new weekly canicross slots—coming soon! 🏃‍♂️🐕 #CanicrossAdventures

Hi, Becky here! 🙋‍♀️ It’s been a busy few weeks to start the New Year at EDS, full of play dates and working hard pups 🐾. Here’s a few clips from some recent outings!

The rather dazzling Chocs showing of he’s skills during our last training session 😎 Amazing stay & recall to the whistle and he’s first session on a distance sit stay which he’s already smashing 👏🏼 A massive shoutout to Choccy’s owner Adam for being the most incredible owner for Chocs, the amount of time and effort that he spends training Chocs is 10/10 🌟 it’s been an absolute pleasure watching how much this wonderful dog has learnt over the past year thanks to Adams enthusiasm to learn and work Chocs just like a spaniel should be 🙇🏼‍♀️ 👏🏼 It’s a great pleasure to work with them both 🐾 Well done guys! 🥳 🥂

Pablo Post ✉️! Today we introduced a box to work on some pivots, rewarding Pablo anytime he touched the box and even better then he put he’s paws on it! He quickly understood the assignment 🤓 We got a few steps towards a pivot as we continued, baby steps lead to the big steps! Keeping it fun and positive for your dogs makes it a great experience! I have no doubt Pablo will ace this in no time, you have to start somewhere! I love this because I builds coordination skills for the dogs and you can use so many different things for it! Like an upside down food bowl, buckets, tub like I’m using (we’ll use something much lower to the ground down the line) or even a couple of bricks! Whatever you have lying about! You’ll be surprised what you already own that you can use for training 😃! Some other little clips from the rest of todays session with Pablo too 🕵🏻‍♀️ he’s PJs are just the cutest 🥹

Peggy enjoying this mornings agility session 🐾

We had the loving Halli and Minnie in for walks this week both dogs react to passing dogs in different ways. Halli gets over excited / overall friendly / sub misses (Cockerpoo) Minnie is showing signs of frustration / fear / herding (border collie) We used this opportunity to work them on passing each other, looking for more focus on the walkers and remaining in a heel position - this pole work is done to get the dogs thinking and working out how to get their reward. As always I forgot to film the start of this where they both react much more than they are here! We get to excited to get to work! 🐾 They both smashed the session and we loved every second 🐾 Editor: Meg 🐾

My Dad working Peg in the warm up pen 🐑 He’s never done this before, he done really well! And most of all enjoyed it 👏🏼 🐑 The stick is used as an ‘arm’ extension to help push Peg in the right direction.

Our lovely Becky met the lovely Sasha today 🐾 We done some heel work with Sasha alongside a busy road at distance as Sasha is car reactive and has the tendency to pull on the leash, look at that lovely loose lead walking going on! We think Sasha is going to have so much fun with Becky 😇🥰 🐾 Have a great evening guys! Meg 🐾

Hunting the dummies with my Pal Wilson 🕵🏻‍♀️ There’s something about a spaniel flying in and out of the bushes that just brings me soooo much joy! I think it’s fair to say WE had sooo much fun on our adventures today! Go Wilson ✌🏼 😍 🐾

🐾 impulse games for Pablo ✔️