Lead The Field Dog Training

31/10/2025

Raven says - Happy Halloween 🎃🐶

Halloween Dog Training Tips! 🐾👻

Halloween can be a tricky night for our furry friends — lots of noise, costumes, and sweets everywhere!

Here are a few quick tips to keep your pup safe and happy:

🎭 Desensitize Early – Let your dog see costumes and hear doorbells in advance so they stay calm. Pair us with good stuff - people in costumes = tasty (dog safe) food rewards! You could even do some training whilst wearing your costume!

🚪 Manage the Door – Use a lead or baby gate so they don’t dash out when trick-or-treaters arrive. Or pop in a room away from the chaos with some enrichment such as a Kong or natural chew ☺️

🍫 Keep sweets & chocolate Out of Reach – Chocolate and xylitol are toxic to dogs!

🐕 Give Them a Quiet Space – A comfy room with their favorite toys and some enrichment can help reduce stress.

🧡 I’m not a fan of dressing dogs up - but if you do, ensure they are happy with wearing it. Watch their body language, ears back, tails tucked underneath them - signs that they aren’t happy, if they show any of these signs I’d suggest removing the item.
Even things like bandanas can be stressful to some dogs! A Halloween collar might be a better option! 🥰

🚶 Avoid walking after dark 🌚

Let’s make Halloween fun and safe for everyone — tails included! 🎃🐾

📸 Bonus: Share your dog’s Halloween 🎃 pics in the comments! 👇

31/10/2025

Thanks to everyone who came to my “tricks & treats” workshop last night 🎃

They were all super 🌟

We looked at the foundations of lots of different tricks - “play dead”, zombie 🧟 crawl, middle, leg weaves & more!

We then had a little look at the Tropic products 🍃 and a look at all the lovely gift sets 😍 As you can see they’re beautiful!

I’m a little behind due to being poorly this week ( TWICE 😣)

I’ll be playing catch up over the next few days and will be back on admin on Monday to get some rescheduled classes into the diary! 🤞🤞

Thank you for being patient 🙏🏻

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27/10/2025

TOMORROW 🎃 👻

A few spaces left on the “tricks & treats” workshop!

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25/10/2025

I recently had a message saying I was “too expensive” 😬

When you book 1:1 sessions with me, you’re not just getting 1 hour of my time…

Let’s break it down 👇

- 1 hour of training & advice (minimum, I often run over to ensure I give as much as I can)
- Time spent sending emails/booking forms, sending extra advice via email/WhatsApp support 📧
- Travel time - sometimes I travel over 30 minutes each way!
- Fuel 🚙
- Notes/training plan - these take a good 20 minutes if not longer, they are tailored to each individual and written for you and your dog!
- CPD - I try my best to regularly complete CPD to keep adding to my current knowledge and to ensure you get the best training outcomes! 🐾
- Insurance
- Memberships - My memberships alone are nearly £40 a month!
- The list goes on!

So when I say the session is X amount of 💰that is NOT my hourly rate! Now work out my hourly rate off of the above… doesn’t sound so great does it? 😅

Plus I haven’t put my prices up for well over 3 years 🤯

So when you tell someone that they’re “too expensive” please think about all what goes into their business.

Think about qualifications, CPD, insurance & EXPERIENCE! (Anyone can call themselves a trainer or behaviourist without ANY of this!) 🤯All of it matters in my opinion.

Jo Bloggs down the road, may be half the price - but are they insured, what qualifications do they have, how experienced are they?

Equally, we all have to start somewhere!

What I will say is, I have no idea that when people get a puppy or even a rescue, why are we not factoring in the price of training that said dog?

Most people are happy spending £1000 plus on a puppy, but spending a few hundred on a good 4 week training plan seems to be a lot?

I really think we should be investing in our dogs so much more, at the end of the day - they are a massive part of our lives and will be for a good 15 years 🤞🐾

Food for thought 🤔

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25/10/2025

Good Citizen Classes 🥉

Just a reminder for those completing good citz/wanting to continue, most classes are on bookwhen ready to book.

If you don’t think you can make it/don’t want to attend this time around, please let me know so I can advertise the spaces 🙏🏻

Thank you!

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For anyone interested these are the days/times that may have spaces;

Tuesday 6-7pm
Wednesday 10.30-11.30am
Thursday 6.15-7.15pm

Suitable for puppies/dogs 6 months + or those that have previously attended my puppy classes 🐾

Comment below if you want to be added to the waiting list 🥰

19/10/2025

Not dog related 🙈
But a fab gig at the Cricket Inn, Beesands today! 🥰
My other love outside of dog training 🐾

18/10/2025

Such a fantastic time this morning on our waggy walk with the at Little Dartmouth 📍 🚶‍♀️ 🐶

Massive thanks to Jess from NT for being an ace guide!

And for the super goodie bags 🐾

It was a great opportunity to meet like minded dog people whilst being given an opportunity to learn more about the work the National Trust do, talk about how our training and guardianship can really impact the work they do as well as how training & management can help keep us, our dogs & livestock wildlife safe on their sites & on all of our walks☺️

Really hope we can do more of these soon! 🤞

Thanks to all that came, great company both humans and dogs 🤩

Want to join the fun? Comment 👇 to be the first to know about the next one 🤩🤞

12/10/2025

Puppy Classes

ONLY 2 SPACES LEFT ‼️

📍 Sherford Village Hall

Starts next week…

To book follow the link below 👇

https://bookwhen.com/leadthefielddogtraining =ev-se0n-20251015180000

12/10/2025

🎃🐾 Howl-o-ween Paws & Pamper Event! 🧴✨
📅 28th October | ⏰ 6.30-8pm | 📍 Sherford Village Hall | 💰 FREE

As some of you know, I’m now a tropic skincare ambassador, thought it would be nice to hold an event combing my love of dogs and skincare… Let’s just face it, us dog people don’t often pamper ourselves! 😅

OPEN TO CURRENT CLIENTS ONLY ‼️
Will happily do another if there’s enough interest I’ll do another 🥰

👻 For the Pups:
Join our Halloween Dog Trick Training Session!
We will be teaching the dogs some spooky-cute new tricks — from “Creepy Crawl” to “Boo-sit-ful Poses.”

💆‍♀️ For the Humans:
After your pup learns, enjoy a Well-Being Skincare Experience!
Relax with:
✨ A chance to try Tropic Products 🍃
🌿 Find out what products are best for your skin type 🥰
🧡 Come for the tricks, stay for the treats — for both ends of the lead!

📅 Reserve your spot today!

10 SPACES AVAILABLE

👉 Comment below 👇

10/10/2025

Hoopers Class tomorrow ‼️

ONLY 2 spaces LEFT ❗️

Perfect for those wanting a taster session to see what it’s like ☺️
It’s not often I do these…

Here’s the link to book;

https://leadthefielddogtraining.bookwhen.com/schedules/ub50skik9l3f

10/10/2025

There are 3 spaces left ‼️

Join us on a walk in beautiful countryside, meeting new like-minded people and chatting all things dogs & nature 🐶 🍃

It’s absolutely FREE 😍🥰

Really excited to be teaming up with the National Trust to be offering a social walk at Little Dartmouth 🚶 🐕

Join us to meet new people, socialise, talk about training & wildlife 🦅 🦋 🐍

This is a FREE event! Limited to 10 dogs.

Please comment below if you’re interested, I’ll then comment when it goes live on the booking system 🤩🤩

05/10/2025

A lovely mantrailing social today! Tilly’s first time and she nailed it 😍

If you want to join us on the next one, it’s great fun! 🤩 comment below 👇