Clever Pets Ireland

16/12/2024

Clever boy Bród showing off his ‘stay’ skills on his bed after our first training session the other day 👏

His family are due a new human in the New Year and as a rambunctious 8mth old Bernese Mountain Dog Bród needs a little help with his training in preparation!

16/12/2024

I met the beautiful 😍 Holly last week for the first of 3 sessions in a puppy training package. This smart girl is a 13week old Red Setter and absolutely smashed her training exercises 👏

13/12/2024

Seeing lots of fenced in Christmas trees at the moment for new puppy owners!! 😂 But cats are a different story…

03/12/2024

He wants to be page boi 😂❤️

26/11/2024

A Dogs Life are offering subsidised schemes to help with the costs of compliance relating to the recent XL Bully related legislation. Please share to help keep dogs in their homes. Email them for more info.

If you, or anyone you know, are affected by this legislation and may have concerns about their dog’s behaviour, please contact us at AniEd for non-judgemental guidance.

Let’s keep more dogs in their homes!

25/11/2024

Queen Legend Brian May..

16/11/2024

URGENT

This scared girl has gone missing from the shelter after escaping a run while cleaning in the Newcastle area/lyons Road. Staff have been looking for hours and there Have been no sightings. She could possibly have crossed over to Kildare. Please any sightings contact us at the shelter straight away. Her chip is registered to the shelter if anyone picks her up, please share!!

03/11/2024

I had this lovely update from Yvonne who I worked with a year ago.
Yvonne contacted me as walks had become stressful with Murray barking and lunging at passing people & dogs. As Yvonne was quite a distance away we actually never met in person & instead had 2 zoom sessions & some video clip assessment & feedback of Murray’s training and then Yvonne was happy to continue working away on her own.
It was lovely to get this update & hear how well things have been going since we worked together.

16/10/2024

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15/10/2024

Looking for a cute pic of your pooch for Christmas? A previous client of mine is offering Christmas mini photoshoot sessions:

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14/10/2024

My first ever dog as a child was called Snoopy ❤️

Oh Snoopy. 74 years ago Charlie found his dog

30/09/2024

From midnight, the import, breeding, sale, and re-homing of XL Bully dogs will be prohibited in the Republic of Ireland. Additionally, as of 1 February 2025, owning an XL Bully will be illegal without a certificate of exemption.

To all the incredible guardians facing this monumental change, we want to share our heartfelt thoughts…

We are genuinely heartbroken for anyone who shares their life with an XL bully type. We know how deeply you love your dog, and we sincerely hope that everything we strive to accomplish at The Muzzle Movement demonstrates that a muzzle should never be seen as a "life sentence." Many dogs can and do lead happy and fulfilling lives while wearing muzzles.

Lastly, don’t let the negativity and prejudice get to you - keep your heads held high because you are doing brilliantly. 💕

Our hearts go out to the Irish XL Bully community… we stand with you every step of the way! 🤍

26/09/2024

I was asked to discuss the incoming XL Bully Ban on Ireland AM this morning.

23/09/2024

An open letter to Minister Humphreys, as well as all TDs and politicians in Ireland.

Dear Minister Humphreys and all politicians in Ireland,

Yes. We’ll take your dogs. Again. As we’ve done before. When your dog pounds overflowed after Covid. In January (of every year) when the Christmas puppies are left in cardboard boxes on the doorsteps of every Irish rescue, they call on us to help.

We’ve taken your discarded dogs for nearly twenty years now. We have loved them, healed them, and found them happy ever afters. We rehome more than 700 Irish dogs annually. Since 2005 we’ve rehomed an estimated 11 000 unwanted Irish dogs to loving homes in Sweden and Finland.

We’ll keep helping Irish dogs, but this time you’ve not given us enough time. Instead of fixing the problem at the source you’ve implemented a useless, populistic, indiscriminate ban on a whole group of innocent individuals that will fix nothing. It will not deter your backyard breeders, your puppy farms or your irresponsible puppy buyers. Just like that law on mandatory microchipping and registration you passed in 2016 has done very little to stem the constant flow of abandoned and straying dogs coming into the pounds, never to be reclaimed.

With all due respect, we’re tired, and heartbroken… and quite frankly broke, from trying to save just one more neglected, hurting Irish dog from the unnecessary suffering put upon them by the lack of breeding restrictions and resources to enforce the animal welfare laws you currently do have in place.

As a dog welfare organisation we’re all for breeding regulations, enforcing responsible dog ownership laws, and even phasing out breeds that potentially can cause issues. But what is happening in Ireland right now, and what has happened in several other countries where irrational breed bans have been put in place in an ill thought out panicked attempt at scoring quick political points, is nothing short of inhumane and cruel.

We apologise if we may sound exasperated, but as we write this the clock is ticking. We’re 29 days away from 1 October. A hard set deadline when rescues and pounds will be stuck with hundreds of abandoned dogs that they can’t rehome. We can’t save them all. There just isn’t time. It’ll be up to them to clean up the mess you’ve created. They will have no choice but to euthanize sweet, friendly dogs who’ve never hurt anybody, only because they look a certain way – because that is how humans bred them.

And speaking of breeding. With 29 days left to live, XL-bully bi***es all over Ireland are still giving birth to puppies they never asked for. Puppies that will not be old enough to leave their mothers in 29 days, thus barring them from the safe haven we could have provided. We assume, Minister Humphreys, that you won’t be at a pound or rescue facility on 1 October to personally witness the carnage of this ban you’ve enforced?

Had you just given us more time. Starting with a breeding ban on XL-bullies, and imposing restrictive laws on breeding of ALL dogs in Ireland. Put a reasonable cap on the number of breeding bi***es a breeder can utilize, put a cap on the number of litters each bitch can produce, and put a cap on the number of litters a male can sire. Dog breeding should never be a high-volume business to ensure all dogs used for breeding are mentally sound and physically healthy. Do something that will make a difference in the statistics. Then enforce a license of responsible dog ownership for restricted breeds.

We want to help you. We’ve been working closely alongside approximately twenty Irish rescues, pounds, and animal welfare organizations for many years, and we want nothing more than to help Ireland get control of the overbreeding, abandoned, and neglected dogs that must be costing Irish taxpayers millions every year. With responsible breeding and responsible dog ownership laws, tragic incidents like the ones seen in Ireland lately could be prevented. Because banning the XL-bullies won’t. Which breed is next to be banned?

We’ll be here.

Sincerely,
Hundar Utan Hem

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Hundar Utan Hem is a renowned Swedish rescue and dog welfare organisation that rescues and rehomes over 1000 dogs annually from Ireland, Poland, and Sweden. They provided neglected and abandoned dogs with veterinary care for €440K in 2023.

Read more at hundarutanhem.se/help

21/09/2024

And another great initiative from Last Hope Animal Charity ❤️

21/09/2024

Beautiful routine of ‘doggy dancing’ on America’s Got Talent 😍❤️

I think it’s funny that one of the judges mentioned the lack of clickers in the performance 😂 - likely most/all of the individual components of this routine were trained with clickers or another reward marker.

19/09/2024

Lovely 9yr old Dusty is a well travelled dog!

Dusty’s family took her from the street as a 4week old puppy where she’d been discarded to be left for the hyenas that came through the town each night and she’s lived in Ethiopia & South Africa with her family before they all moved home to Ireland. Little brother 4 yr old Benji also wanted in on the photo action!

Over the years Dusty has become more unsure of walks after being attacked by dogs while out walking so we’re working on building Dusty’s confidence with going on walks and seeing dogs & people out & about.

It’s lovely to work with older dogs for a change as many of my clients dogs are adolescents, and the seniors are just a bit more mellow about life!! 😂

17/09/2024

The emotional rollercoaster of puppies 😂