Happy Go Puppy

09/07/2025

It was great to see little Bertie again yesterday! His owner wanted to work on some challenges that had cropped up now that he is in the adolescent phase. If your older puppy seems to be regressing in any of these areas, you may need to re-think your routine and adjust training according to this new stage in development. Are you seeing any of the following regressions in your older puppy?

🐾 Being left alone
🐾 Toilet training
🐾 Recall not as good as it was before
🐾 Becoming anxious around things not previously worried about OR being too over the top or over confident
🐾 More sensitive
🐾 More dysregulated

…. And many more things that can relate to adolescence!

Click our link in the bio for more info and a 121 Booking link.

20/06/2025

Great advice from our friends at Houghton's Hounds - Dog Training and Puppy Classes!!
Stay cool! 😎

☀️ Scorchio weather incoming! ☀️

My annual posting of this brilliant table from which I refer to myself all the time. The key point to note is the other factors on the right. If your dog is particularly young or old, a brachy type (meaning short-nosed, so Frenchies, pugs etc), or obese, they are going to find the heat more difficult and you need to take more care with them.

What can you do to keep your walks safe:

🌭 Test how hot the pavement before you go out. Don't over complicated this, just stand on it with bare feet or hold your bare hands on it for a bit, and if it's too hot for you, it's too hot for paws.

🌭 Walk at the start or very end of the day.

🌭 Pick walks in cooler areas, like in the woods or where there is a body of water.

🌭 Avoid excessive running. Leave the ball lobber at home 😉

🌭 Do an indoor activity instead. No walk is better than an overheated pup.

SAVE THIS POST to refer to if you're unsure whether to take that walk.

15/05/2025

🐾 W I N N I E 🐾

Beautiful soul Winnie the was struggling with feeling stressed in a variety of ways in her every day life and her lovely owners were worried about her happiness!

She’s an extremely bright but sensitive soul so we got to work on creating walks that focus on mental and physical stimulation whilst meeting her need to sniff and explore. Recall was finely tuned.

Alongside this, we also set up a process for reducing vocalisation when visitors came to their home and set about creating a desensitisation and management plan for foxes and animals on the tv!

All I can say is that it has been amazing working with Winnie’s hoomans and I know she is going to have the most loving and fulfilled doggy life going from strength to strength.

GO TEAM WINNIE 🐶 💪 🙌

See the link in our bio to book any of our 121 services. In-person in South East London or online sessions are available too.

07/05/2025

🐾 C A S S I E 🐾

Cassie the gorgeous little needed some help with her big reactions to people. She was also very sensitive to some sounds!

Over the course of 4 x in-person sessions and a 30min virtual session we worked on various aspects of training and desensitisation and came up with a plan that was workable for her owners and one that she could cope with.

Well done Cassie!!! 👏 👏 … and to her hoomans, keep going with all the fantastic work you’ve been doing with her!!

I couldn’t decide which was my fave photo of her, so I added 3 😃

29/04/2025

🐾 L U N A - B E L L E 🐾

It was a pleasure to meet this gorgeous pup last week for an Early Days Puppy Session.

We discussed routine, crate training, play biting, toys and a whole lot more!!

Looking forward to seeing this family again for in June and I have no doubt little Luna-Belle will be the source of endless joy for them!!

Contact us through the link in the bio if you are in South London and are welcoming a puppy into your life!

16/04/2025

Did you know that when you sign up to Puppy School, you get the Puppy School manual posted straight to you at no extra cost!

The Puppy School manual is your step-by-step guide to everything you need to know about Puppy School. It contains a week-by-week recap of everything covered in class (so you don't have to worry about making notes while you're trying to listen to your instructor), alongside advice on socialisation, puppy play, nutrition, and loads more. Not only that, but it's written by bestselling author and Clinical Animal Behaviourist Gwen Bailey, so you know that all the information in there is reliable, trustworthy, and founded in the latest canine behavioural science.

Get yours today by signing up your puppy to our accredited, proven, puppy classes. Find your nearest tutor here: https://www.puppyschool.co.uk/find-a-class 🐾

15/04/2025

🐾 L E O 🐾

This super cute and highly energetic needed some help with over excitability and excessive vocalisation around people, especially when they come to the front door!!

Here at Happy Go Puppy, we take a holistic approach to supporting you and your furry best friend. This means looking at all the different ways that can be affecting these excessive behaviours.

We looked at both physical and mental exercise to be included into his daily life. He knew the basics pretty well but his owners weren’t sure what the next stages were so that’s where we can really help!! Most of the time it’s not enough to just give “a longer walk” and “do a few more minutes of training at home”, there are more effective ways of implementing these things.

Get in touch or book one of our 121 services if you’d like some holistic help with your doggo!
https://www.happygopuppy.co.uk/121-sessions

03/04/2025

🐾 B E R T I E 🐾

Beautiful Bertie the needed some help to progress from his basic training, which he is absolutely smashing!! ⭐️

Quite often clients find it challenging to bridge training cues from the basic foundations to “real life” situations or in a more practical or useful way. It can be hard to know how to take that step without diluting or poisoning the training that has been worked so hard on up to that point.

The short answer is lots and lots of gradual steps to reach the end goal. Patience and knowledge about which steps your puppy/dog can cope with and how to break things down appropriately is essential. Otherwise you may stay at the basic level for a very long (possibly permanently) time!

Environment, distraction, mood, reinforcement are just some of the things you can think about to set your puppy/dog up for success or indeed failure.

Get in touch if you’d like some help in elevating your puppy or dog’s training!

03/04/2025

🐾 F R A N K 🐾

This gorgeous had a session recently to help with being calmer around other dogs whilst on lead. His owners had been putting lots of consistent effort in with him over the past few months and wanted some tips on how to progress things further.

We went out for a walk to test a few ideas and they now have a plan for next steps.

121 Sessions are a great way to elevate training to the next level if you are feeling a bit stuck! Link in bio if you’d like to book with us.

12/03/2025

🐾 K I M I 🐾

This adorable miniature was a joy to spend time with today.

Kimi is such a friendly little ball of fur and really loves people and she’s very much still taking in all her surroundings.

This 121 session gave Kimi’s owner a chance to ask all sorts of questions about her behaviour and development and we covered quite a lot in this extended session, including:

✔️ Toilet training
✔️ Play biting management
✔️ Toys and toy play
✔️ Building a recall foundation
✔️ Lead walking - keeping her moving!
✔️ A wee bit on socialisation

Overall, this perfect pup is settling into her home life amazingly. 👍

If you’d like to get some puppy advice from a registered Animal Training Instructor then contact us or use the link in the bio. 🐶