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Natures Companions: Dog Behaviour Solutions, Grimsby. Gemma offers safe, kind, effective & professional services for dog behaviour & training. Gemma offers safe & professional services for dog training & behaviour.
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1-2-1 Private Dog behaviour consultations if you feel lost, frustrated, concerned or confused by your dog/ puppies behaviour changes, fears or outbursts? Group Puppy/Dog Training Classes for practical group sessions for your dog/ puppies general training? Specialised dog training classes & courses/ Private Coaching for mentoring on specific main key core areas with your dog

/ puppy? Online learning if you feel it is a struggle to fit in class or private sessions or live to far away,?Then you can learn the same content in the comfort of your own home, at your own pace & time. Gemma offers a wide range of services to support you to remedy & resolve these specific areas whilst also helping you to identify & understand the problem fully, to ensure longevity of the solutions applied. Gemma is owner & head clinical animal behaviourist & trainer for Natures Companions. Gemma has been working with dog behaviour & training since 2008, she has worked clinically with dog behaviour since 2011 and has run classes since 2012.
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She has a BSc Hons in Animal Behaviour & Welfare from the University of Chester and an National Diploma in Animal Care and management from the Grimsby Institute. Gemma is a professionally assessed full member of the Associations of Pet behaviour Councillors and is listed on the Animal Behaviour and Training Council register as a Clinical Animal Behaviourist & Animal Training Instructor. Gemma is a member of the Pet Professional Network and is an approved instructor via The Dog Training College. She is also a level 1 Dognostics Scent Games instructor.
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Gemma's methods are safe, practical, kind, up to date, ethical and evidence based. Gemma also works on vet refferal from a variety of vets across the country and she has worked with many dog resuces in aiding rehabilitation of their rehomed dogs. She specialises in all dog behaviour cases including everything from general behaviour issues & annoyances all the way to extremem trauma & aggression based cases. Gemma works with families and their dogs holistically to ensure they recieve the best support and coaching to improve their companionship and wellbeing.
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Gemma has vast history & experiance of working with animals since she was 16 in zoological settings to include Banham Zoo, Chester Zoo and Steve Irwins Australia Zoo. Gemma shares her life with her two sons Kobi & Neo and her dogs Drake (Labrador) & Milo (Cockerspaniel cross).

✨️more graduates ✨️Congratulations to our new level 1 and level 2 graduates of our relax don't react groups today! These...
16/11/2024

✨️more graduates ✨️
Congratulations to our new level 1 and level 2 graduates of our relax don't react groups today!
These groups we run as a collective with Natalie Quality Canines and all the dogs in these groups are reactive with other dogs and some of them people aswell.
You can see from the pictures how beneficial these courses are for them and how they have really helped these individuals progress.
Such proud faces!! We are both equally as proud of you all and braving the rain for this today 💪 huge well done 🥰✨️🙏

So rewarding to see such lovely review and how a scared dog starts to show his true playful colours and personality now ...
16/11/2024

So rewarding to see such lovely review and how a scared dog starts to show his true playful colours and personality now he's feeling safer! Thank you for the kind words 🙏✨️🥰

14/11/2024

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If you have sent any enquires in the past 3-4 days can you re email them to [email protected] instead thank you!
Please share this to anyone that you are aware contacted me recently but is struggling to get hold of me or haven't recieved a reply yet. I will reply to all emails as soon as possible

Apologies for any inconvenience it was only brought to my attention yesterday!

The affects of fireworks can continue up to a few weeks post events stopping. Here is some advice I wrote a few years ag...
06/11/2024

The affects of fireworks can continue up to a few weeks post events stopping. Here is some advice I wrote a few years ago that is still very relevant and shared to date. The calm after the storm graphic may help those post events know what to expect and how they can help their dogs post bombfire night.

New reliability Graduates for our adolescent and adult class!This group have worked really hard around distracting situa...
06/11/2024

New reliability Graduates for our adolescent and adult class!
This group have worked really hard around distracting situations and their care givers have also been working really hard on their handling skills, communication and timings to their dogs so that they are better equipped at guiding their dogs around distractions and learning and also getting the best results out of them.
Amazing bunch of characters so proud!
Well done all! ✨️🙏💓😁

Thank you for your kind words it's been a pleasure to be involved in your journey 😊
31/10/2024

Thank you for your kind words it's been a pleasure to be involved in your journey 😊

Thank you for your lovely review ✨️🙏😊
31/10/2024

Thank you for your lovely review ✨️🙏😊

🐶Puppy Graduates 🐶What a beautiful group of amazing characters. All puppies smashed the course and picked up everything ...
24/10/2024

🐶Puppy Graduates 🐶
What a beautiful group of amazing characters. All puppies smashed the course and picked up everything really quickly!
So proud! Well done to all puppies and caregivers!!
You worked really hard both in class and in your own time!
Congratulations to Betty, Freddy, Winnie, Sid and Maze!
It's been a pleasure to be included in your puppy journey with you all! ✨️🙏🐶☺️

Is your dog worried/ scared/ reactive around fireworks?Even though training for firework season needs to usually start m...
07/10/2024

Is your dog worried/ scared/ reactive around fireworks?
Even though training for firework season needs to usually start much earlier in the year usually before summer.
However It is never to late to start doing something now!
I've also written a great article in detail about what you can do to help your dog during this time for the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors, which you can download yourself and read right herehttps://www.apbc.org.uk/.../Fireworks-Series-Behaviour.pdf
For now if your dog needs extra help with fireworks have a look through the information and start making actions to prepare now if you can.🙂

Little teefs 🥹😴😴😴
23/09/2024

Little teefs 🥹😴😴😴

Always worth being vigilant about. We see a lot of behaviour cases where pain or discomfort/ irritation show exacerbated...
21/09/2024

Always worth being vigilant about. We see a lot of behaviour cases where pain or discomfort/ irritation show exacerbated behavioural presentations. This is why we see people on vet referral as many times the behaviour presentations could have underlying health discomforts that are driving some behaviour or the intensity of the behaviour. A vet check is always important if you feel your dogs behaviour has changed or if you feel you dogs behaviour has intensified.

I have recently swapped Milo over to pure pet food and I have to say he is doing amazing on it! Milo can be funny with t...
12/09/2024

I have recently swapped Milo over to pure pet food and I have to say he is doing amazing on it! Milo can be funny with texture and fussy but he loves this and I've not seen him so excited for meal times. He also suffers with dry itchy skin and in a couple of weeks his itching reduced and his skin smooth and coat is even more shiny.

If you want to give it a try here's a link
http://www.purepetfood.com/s/GEMMA74884/c

23/08/2024

🐶NEXT CLASS AVAILABILITY🐶
Both september classes Puppy and reliability for 7month+ are now at full capacity the next classes are due to run November (potentially end of oct dtc) and puppy class for then has already only has 2 spaces left please book on to avoid disappointment.
These will be the last classes of the year for 2024. The ones after this will run jan/feb 2025

Real life stories🐶Even though we are professionals in clinical animals behaviour and work with countless clients each we...
22/08/2024

Real life stories🐶

Even though we are professionals in clinical animals behaviour and work with countless clients each week. We are also dog owners ourselves and face the same challenging training hurdles and milestones that all dog owners do and to say that we in the industry have also often have been known to be the ones to rehome and foster those challenging cases ourselves at times.

Even so this means whether we as dog owners welcome a puppy or rehome a dog I to our worlds or even with our existing furry residents, changes happen that we cannot control, foresee or even those we can plan changes sneak in to our lives. Regardless, when those changes do happen our dogs behaviours can alter and vary depending on that change. This means what we advise and council you to do as professionals helping you, we too also have to at times implement ourselves on our own dogs. So we know what it feels like doing these tasks that the we ask clients to do and we get to feel what our clients feel and this makes us even more empathetic and safe and understanding of your situations.

I have myself recently just moved house and had to habituate my pets into knowing the new home is home. This understandably resulted in changes in my dog and cats behaviours as we made this transition. Not only that my pets have gone through two huge changes this year.....loosing drake who they all were deeply bonded with and all suffered grief from his loss and now a house move!

We worked through and I supported their grief of loosing drake and withing 3 weeks my animals were back to themselves.

Now I spring I move of home on them 🙈
The changes we saw:
Drax (cat) more cross and vocal that he couldn't go outside for 2weeks and so we managed his frustration with calming supplements and good food and lots of scratching areas and hiding places. He's settled now. Luckily the house is bigger so lots of exploring in home for him that he was happy with so the more i gave him access to house areas the better he was.

Lulu (cat) was quiet and hid upstairs for a lot of the 2 weeks so she needed the opposite of Drax. She needed security less space and every few days given a little more house to explore in her time. She settled really quickly.

Milo (dog): Is usually quiet as a mouse when left and can handle a decent time he just sleeps however in the new home he struggled to start with being left and was howling and barking one reporting to be almost 40mins to 1hrs long vocalising 🙈. So naturally I immediately sprung into action! Set my my camera and we worked on everything from stationing and settling , moving to out of sight and independent stationing and settling away from me and behind closed doors while i was still in, getting used to responding to my voice from behind closed doors preparing for if I needed to talk to him through my camera so he didnt freak out and instead i could calm him if he did get upset and i could be confident that hed listen to me (we did lots of this foundation training). Building his time up of being left slowly. Setting the environment up lots of things to chew and lick at available. Small walks before being left to help him relax. I even wrote letters to my neighbours explaining and letting them know the plan and to bare with us in this first few weeks.
I did provide calming supplements for the first week. We had people coming in and doggy sitting with him and walking him for me in the first 2 weeks to reduce his time left. In two weeks he is doing so well and no more vocalising I have some video clips of his progress.

The first is a image to show time.
I will add the videos in this post comments to see the time stamps (they have posted with the end first). Yes the volume and mic is up maximum and that silence is true silence (it is very hot for him at the mo so big fluffy beds taken down and vet bed left as he likes to lay on the cool floor a lot in preferance)
He's doing very well as you can see! 😊😁✨️🐶 I am very proud of his progress in such a short time!

Remember you are not alone and we know how you feel and we are here to help you as a collective.🙏✨️

Next PUPPY CLASS Approx first monday of Nov (date still tbc could be last mon of oct)People already booking onto this co...
19/08/2024

Next PUPPY CLASS Approx first monday of Nov (date still tbc could be last mon of oct)
People already booking onto this course! So only 2 places left already! Please let me know if you want to be added to the list asap. Dogs must be non reactive.

**If your dog is 7months up to any age we have 1 space still available on the reliability class proofing around distractions for dogs that are non reactive. starts 2nd sept for 9 weeks.**

Pop me over a private message for bookings.

💛🐶Graduates for our older group💛🐶Many apologies for my delay uploading everything I've been very unwell and didn't get a...
18/08/2024

💛🐶Graduates for our older group💛🐶

Many apologies for my delay uploading everything I've been very unwell and didn't get around to uploading everything.
Congratulations to our improving reliability group who did amazingly at working hard over 9weeks improving and proofing their skills around a variety of distracting situations we practiced within. Those going through adolescent teenager stages improved their skills hugely and those who just needed to practise their skill around distractions and other dogs did incredible and got amazing results! They all did so well and put in so much effort!

Congratulations to Winnie, Boris, Mila and Gilbert and of course your hard working people! Keep up the good work!

Thank you so much for your kind words and letting me apart of your puppy journey. Gary and you guys are doing amazing! ✨...
16/08/2024

Thank you so much for your kind words and letting me apart of your puppy journey. Gary and you guys are doing amazing! ✨️😊🙏

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Important update. Services, classes and bookings will be running as normal I have decided not to alter those already booked in as it helps me to keep busy. Seeing dogs helps everything. However I did unfortunately loose my 14yr old labrador Drake this weekend as you will see below. I am sure those who knew him will also be heartbroken. If you know me you know.my dogs are a huge part of my training life and if you work with me you will know all their stories and even if you haven't met him you will know him from all my training videos that provides your homework. A special boy he was. However if I am not quite my energetic self or there is a long delay in my reply to enquiries or correspondence. I Just want to let you know below what has happened. So please bare with me. I have decided to keep services that are booked and classes running as normal as it does help me alot seeing all your dogs. It just may take me longer to answer enquiries or reply to people at the moment. Thank you for understanding 💖🙏 💔💔💔 Drake Jan 2010- Jan 2024. I feel sick to my stomach to write this, my heart has shattered in ways I never knew possible. We are beyond heartbroken to say after a sudden unforseen series of events over the past 48hrs..... our beloved old chestnut Drake has grown his real angel wings and crossed the rainbow bridge. We are devastated and heartbroken. 14 precious years of memories 14 amazing years of loving you. I will forever treasure them alongside those of Poppy. I hope Poppy came for you as we both held you in our arms and I whispered to you telling you "it's ok baby, its all going to get better now, its ok, you can sleep now, we love you so much.... what a good boy you are", as you peacefully slipped into your final sleep. We love you so much, i love you so much. What a perfect boy you was and for us. You was our beginning 💛 You were the first baby we ever brought home to our family. The best big brother to your human brothers. You were

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