Midlands Mutts Dog Training

21/12/2024

Special thank you to ‘Santa Paws’ for joining our Christmas Class this year, we had a blast!

A few of the best pictures (and funniest🤣) to wish you all a very Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

10/12/2024

05/12/2024

Our next puppy course will be starting on Sunday 12th January 2025 at 10AM, and will take place for 6 weeks.

We will be learning more than ever before, visiting 6 different locations to work on real life socialisation- alongside building a skillset for your puppy to set them up for life.

On your first week, you will also receive a puppy package to aid in the week by week training and continue your homework at home.

Week 1: Newstead Village: Importance of Relationship&Engagement - including becoming a source of dopamine to your puppy, building a trusting relationship, motivation and drive building, utilising freeshaping, and working through common puppy problems.

Week 2: Brierley Forest Park: Handling Skillset - including working through the basics of grooming, vet and health check handling, desensitising items such as brushes and stethoscopes, working on restraints, and using settle matts for introducing co-operative care skills.

Week 3: Wollaton Hall: Introduction to Essentials - building up basic obedience skills; inclusive of loose lead walking, recall foundations, and luring skills for positions.

Week 4: Giltbrook Shopping Centre: Confidence Building - including dealing with overarousal, working through manners in shops and cafes, utilising a settle matt for aiding in correct socialisation skills, introducing box feeding, and exploring the world to build confidence.

Week 5: Location TBC: Livestock Exposure - including water confidence, building engagement around livestock, real life thresholds, building on recall and neutrality skills, and using place to aid in decompression.

Week 6: Nottingham Town Centre: Novel Exposure - including lifts, building on position stays, and an option train journey.

This course will be £100 including the puppy pack, and is suitable for all puppies 9 months and under.

We welcome previous puppy class students back to build on their skillset too!

We have 4 spaces available, so please contact us to book in ASAP.

26/11/2024

FOR ENQUIRIES:

Please ensure you text or message us over call to arrange a phone call.

Unfortunately we are unable to answer calls throughout the day due to working with clients, so we require arranged phone calls.

Thank you for understanding!

05/11/2024

NEWBIE NOVEMBER PACKAGES:

All packages are open to new clients only.

Bronze: suitable for mild behavioural modification, foundational skillsets, or seeing if the training is correct for yourself and your dog.

Silver: suitable for behavioural modification, pushing for strong foundations and advancing further, and building on skillsets.

Gold: suited to more heavy behavioural modification cases, proofing and generalising foundational skillsets, and beginning tool training.

All Assessment&Foundation sessions will be roughly an hour and a half, and include putting together a plan suited to both the dog and owner to begin training.

We will then move onto Follow Up sessions to advance the training skills learnt, alongside building on the foundations established.

Classes and workshops included are to be used by the end of February 2025, however can be claimed throughout any point in your training journey.

Day Train session will be conducted by the trainer, and will include a handover for the owner. This can be arranged for any time throughout your training sessions.

01/11/2024

Happy November 🍂🍁

30/10/2024

Just a few of our recent Walk&Train clients smashing their training sessions in differing environments, alongside some of our Halloween Special class!

We have some exciting new things coming soon, including a weekly bootcamp suited to all levels.

28/10/2024

MIDLANDS MUTTS EVENTS LIST FOR NOVEMBER&DECEMBER:

All events require booking to confirm a space, and some may only be for current clientele.

Please contact us directly for further details on any events.

28/10/2024

Our new stuff from came today, including our growing puppy collar!

Emmi loves her collar and tug duo🥰

28/10/2024

This is becoming a welfare issue!

Im tired of hearing “the vet says there is no pain” by a guardian after they have taken their dog to the vet. It leaves me deflated and frustrated and feeling so sorry for the dog.

Myth Bust:

PAIN CANNOT BE RULED OUT IN ANY ANIMAL (dog, cat, horse or hamster), by anyone!

* A quick palpation - CANNOT RULE OUT PAIN

WHY?

The dog may shut down due to environmental factors or dislike of a strange human touching them, they keep still to get it over with ASAP!

The dog may be over aroused or overwhelmed by the clinical environment (excited/scared etc) to the point that adrenaline is so high it blocks pain!

* Blood Tests - CANNOT RULE OUT PAIN

There is currently NO blood test that can detect pain.

* Diagnostic imaging - CANNOT RULE OUT PAIN

Yes they can pick up a variety of conditions, but even the GOLD standard MRI doesn’t pick up everything, but NONE of them can detect PAIN.

Just because a source cannot be found doesn’t mean there is no pain.

PAIN is subjective, it is whatever that being (human or animal) perceives it to be!

Pain can come in many different forms, it is extremely complex, and can effect the individual in many different ways. A dog may get injured, the injury may have healed, but the pain remains … this is known as maladaptive pain.

Behaviour can be a HUGE indicator for PAIN:

* There could be a change of behaviour that has been directly caused by PAIN.

* There could be a worsening of behaviour due to an increase or new presence of PAIN.

* There could be a lack of “normal” behaviour due to PAIN.

* There could be behaviours that are present but that the guardian/owner don’t deem to be problematic that are indicators of PAIN.

* The dog may have ALWAYS displayed behaviours that are indicators of PAIN, but they have been ignored and put down to “just the way they are”.

* There may be NO problematic behaviours at all …. And the dog might still be in PAIN!

* The dog might be energetic, always on the go … and still be in PAIN.

* The dog might be lazy … and still be in PAIN.

* The dog may zoom up and down stairs … and still be in PAIN.

Diagnosing PAIN is not simple and can be difficult to get on top of.

A PAIN relief trail can be great! But often only one type of analgesic is tried and sometimes this doesn’t get results leading to the ASSUMPTION that there is no PAIN!

Here’s why:

* The drug was only trialed for 2 weeks - when living with chronic pain it can take longer to relieve. 2 weeks is not enough.

* The drug used wasn’t targeted to the type of pain the animal is feeling; soft tissue, bone, nerve or a combination of all.

It might take a number of different medications or a combination OVER TIME to see a difference.

ALWAYS keep in mind, NO ONE can rule out another being’s PAIN.

NO ONE. Not me. Not you. Not a Doctor. Not a Vet.

26/10/2024

REMINDER:

Today’s classes are our Halloween special, so make sure you bring along a costume for your dog (and one for you too if you fancy it!) to be in with a chance of winning a prize.

10AM at Newstead Village
1PM at Bingham

16/10/2024

Some of our recent walks, including our Adventure Walk&Train.

Next months Adventure Walk&Train will be hosted 19th November- and will take place at Mam Tor, Derbyshire.

Collections will begin at 10AM, and we have 8 spaces available. All dogs must be neutral to other dogs and capable of walking on a loose lead.

12/10/2024

We’re so excited to get started with our new and improved puppy course tomorrow, and meet the latest Midlands Mutts recruits!

11/10/2024

UPDATE: Time has run out 👇

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08/10/2024

THIS WEEK CLASS SUBJECTS:

10AM at Newstead Village:
• Vet Care Training Skills
• ‘Hold’
• Position (sit/down/stand) stays, with the distraction of recalled dogs
• Starting a Focused Heel
• Pivot Work (backend awareness)
• Box Feeding
• Lifeskills & Neutrality
• Place Decompression

1PM at Bingham:
• Building on Position Stays
• Making Recall Non-Negotiable
• Introducing an Emergency Stop
• Engagement Games
• Place Training
• Heel Work
• Lifeskills & Neutrality
• Decompression

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26/09/2024

Introducing Emmi, the latest member of the Midlands Mutts family.

Emmi is my PSA prospect, bred by the fantastic . She’s full of drive (especially for food), fantastically funny, and loves biting toes.

We’re currently working on bare basics with her- positive socialisation to as much as possible, building a clear marker system, and pushing out her drive further ready for bitework!

I’m so excited to showcase what these amazing dogs are capable of, and convince more people the poodle is not a fluffy sofa pet 🐩

15/09/2024

REMINDER:

We are away 18th-26th September.

There will be no walks, classes or sessions within this time.

All messages will be answered as soon as we return due to long working hours for the last week.

Thank you for your patience 🐾

05/09/2024

We’re off this weekend (6th-8th) to make a very special trip.

Reminder that there will be no services this Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

Enjoy the weekend 🐾