Shape Your Dog

02/10/2025

Testimonial Thursday

Ted has bern a delightful puppy to work with and his owners have been great fun! 🤩

28/09/2025

Preparing Dogs for Firework Season ✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️
FREE Mini webinar attached.

Please SHARE to help as many dogs as possible over this difficult time of year 🥰📣📣📣📣📣

26/09/2025

Wow!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
There were hugs and a few tears last night, as Jack finished his training programme with me. Jenny is the most gorgeous lady with a huge heart ♥️ and she’s given Jack a chance of having a lovely life as a normal pet dog.

Thank you Jenny 🥰

23/09/2025

I don’t know about you but, it upsets me so much to see animals suffer?

That’s why I’m putting together this FREE mini webinar on how to support our family pets through firework season.

Keep you eyes peeled, as I’ll be sharing by the end of the week.

Give me a thumbs 👍 in the comments if you think this will be useful? 👇👇👇👇

18/09/2025

TOP 3 places to train your dog!

Well that was a first!! I met Willow and her lovely owners in their local cemetery today. Lots of quiet open green patches for some low distraction outdoor training to DRILL a recall and get the reps in. Away from the ‘places of rest’. I’m hoping we gave the local residents some joy for an hour watching us 🥰

What are your top 3 places to get some low distraction training done? Comment below 👇

18/09/2025

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15/09/2025

Testimonial Tuesday 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

15/09/2025

Reactivity Roadmap - Journey to calmer and stress free walks

If you want to know more then comment ROADMAP below and I’ll send you a Reactivity e-book to start you on your journey.

11/09/2025

Attending the Canine Business Academy conference in Birmingham and look what I found! Been working with Jo & Vicky for 12 months now and it’s got my business ship shape and so much easier to run.

That means I can support my clients and their dogs even better.

Inspirational speakers and lots of energy in the room 🤩

10/09/2025

Finding the BEST breeders and WHY it’s so important 👇

Catrin James (KC name Surechanz) breeds, grooms and looks after the welfare of our wonderful Miniature Schnauzer breed in Warrington. What she doesn’t know about this breed isn’t worth knowing to be honest.

I’m giving her a shout out because of the work she does behind the scenes. Here’s a quick round up:

✴️ Health testing on any dogs she are intends to breed from to ensure puppies are healthy

✴️ Caring for mums with pups as any stress in the gestation period can cause behaviour problems in pups

✴️ Habituating, desensitising, socialising and confidence building from 0 to 8 weeks, whilst in her care

✴️ Carefully choosing the right homes and guiding new owners to the pup that has the energy levels and temperament to suit that new home (every pup is different)

✴️ Her ongoing care and her additional grooming and nutrition advice service supports owners on an ongoing basis.

✴️ Both Catrin and myself have recognised health issues in dogs, even when vets have not and through our diligence and a second opinion vet, diagnosis have been made. There are more of these cases than we would wish for, to be Frank.

All in all, most people have no idea of the work good breeders put into their selection and their pups generally. I haven’t even listened it all!

If you are thinking about getting a new puppy, really think about WHERE they have come from. Puppy farms are rife, they sell online, through places that ‘look like’ nice homes.

Do your homework or you may regret it and end up with a load of health or behaviour struggles you didn’t bargain for.

Share your thoughts or experiences in the comments below 👇

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Yesterday the whole gang went to see the BVA eye vet for their annual eye tests. They’re screened for Congenital Hereditary Cataracts, Hereditary Cataracts and Progressive Retinol Atrophy.

This test is essential for our breed prior to breeding.

Below is Brooklyn , who is going to be a daddy again end of July 🫶🏻.

09/09/2025

This is WAY better than training a recall 👇

Build VALUE in staying close to you. It’s easier and more effective than recall training.

If you want easy off lead freedom walks then get it touch.

06/09/2025

Behind the Scenes - What people DON’T see about dog trainers.

On Friday I spent a whole day with a lovely bunch of dog trainers and behaviourists, taking part in a business development day, with the wonderful Nathan who runs Software for Dog Trainers.

My website runs on this software and it needs regular tinkering and adjusting and Nathan does his best to help us understand how to do it all. I’m not the most tech savvy person in the world, so I find this part of my job quite tricky at times 🫣 Give me a dog to train any day! 😀

Then I have to remember 🤔 that I am often asking people to do things that they might find technically difficult with their dogs. The handling, the management and the training itself.

What do you find most challenging about training your dog?
Comment below 👇 👇👇👇👇