Autumn Rose Dog Training

15/11/2025

☀️🍁DAY TRAINING🍁☀️

Such a beneficial service for your dog AND you!

I’m running a “THANKFUL” special until Nov 18th!

$120 for a package of 4 day training sessions (usually $180)‼️

✨Why Out-and-About Day Training is perfect for your dog✨

• Real-life training at parks, stores, and dog-friendly cafés.
• Great for reactive or shy dogs who need controlled exposure.
• Builds confidence with new sights, sounds, and environments.
• Teaches leash manners, focus, and calm behavior around distractions.
• Trainer manages triggers and keeps sessions safe and positive.
• Prevents undesirable behaviors, and teaches better behaviors in their place.
• Dogs get mental + physical enrichment, making them calmer at home.
•While you’re busy working, running errands, or needing some time for yourself, your dog is getting activity & training

14/11/2025

Happy or hyped?
Why do we need to know the difference?
Excitement can spill over into over arousal.
➡️Over arousal can lead to reactive outbursts, nips, lunges and they will likely start ignoring you.

They just cannot calm down easily, or quickly.

For some dogs, over arousal starts to creep in and shows often.
Every day situations can start to feel more "intense".
Your dogs stress levels may be high, even when "nothing" is happening.
They are at "that level" more and more.
Walking becomes harder.
Barking at the slightest noise.
Launching themselves at visitors.
Frustration can show.
These can all be signs your dog is struggling to cope, yet it is seen as excitement by many people.

The thing is with excitement, it lowers. It fades when the fun ends.

Over arousal tends to "hang around" much longer and then it can start to compound.
It can stack up day after day.

They don’t calm between even simple events.
Now you may have a dog who looks joyful, smiling, panting, bursting with energy but they're actually running on stress.

Over aroused dogs struggle to make good choices.
Impulse control disappears.

Is your dog truly excited or showing signs of over arousal?

Two very different states that can (and often do) look surprisingly alike.

14/11/2025

It's World Kindness Day. And that's a perfect reminder that a little empathy goes a long way with your dog.

If your dog destroyed your new couch, if the neighbors are fed up with nonstop barking, or if you are facing another vet bill because your dog hurt himself trying to escape, I see you.

It might feel like your dog is being bad, but the truth is that they are panicking. Chewing the couch is an outlet for overwhelming anxiety. Barking all day is their way of screaming for help. Hurting themselves to get out is because, in their mind, survival depends on it.

They do not need better manners. They need support and relief from their anxiety.

I can help. I offer one-on-one training as well as my DIY, self-paced Separation Anxiety Foundations Training course.

14/11/2025

I can’t believe it’s only been two months of caring for Rogue! I thought it had been longer.

We are now starting to take some novel adventures, and getting familiar with some of my favorite hang outs and walking spots.

She really is starting to become more and more of a companion dog every day. I will be posting a reel of her first play date here soon ❤️

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

💛”It was all yellow”💛

I had a great serotonin boost during my day training session with Greta visiting ☕️

During our walk to the coffee shop, we stumbled upon this gorgeous, large, vibrant pile of yellow leaves.

Greta did FANTASTIC during our training session, as she’s learning how to calmly people watch and settle in public environments. She’s so friendly and exuberant, that petting sends her over the edge. We are finally getting to the point people can talk to her without her going over threshold! 🫶🏻

12/11/2025

Do you see your dog’s name?

What are the top dog names in the U.S.? We dug into Rover's database of 1M+ pets to find out. 🐶

Follow this link to see which names are trending in the U.S. in 2025: https://www.rover.com/blog/dog-names/

12/11/2025

"They trust me, they took the food"!
Food really must be used carefully and respectfully or it can cause big problems.
For a dog it can create a desire to be closer without being emotionally ready to be that close.

This is often seen with dogs in a new home or when meeting new people.
It isn't a "they've taken food, now they're good" sign.
It means they are torn between two emotions.
They can be drawn to, but fearful at the exact same time.

Can food help?
Yes, of course, but with an anxious dog it needs to be introduced with thought and care.
Feeling safe needs to come first or we can prolong a dogs worry and discomfort.

Conflicted dogs are sometimes difficult to spot.
They may appear confident.
They may approach and then back off (with or without food).
They may want to be near or close to a human but we can miss the low head and those "slicked" back ears that tell us they're uncomfortable.

These dogs are well and truly torn between a want and a worry.
Their safety and comfort needs to be the priority here.
Not food.

12/11/2025

"Wow! Is that what it means?"😮
Oh that word!

Socialisation is a word that conjures up visions of cute puppies playing with other dogs and pups. Socialisation "means" interacting with others doesn't it?
Yes and no.

It's not a great word to describe what should be a priority.
Acclimation is a far better term we should all start to use.
Acclimation to wet surfaces, stairs, wind, even standing in the rain.
Yes, it absolutely includes other animals too.

The trap is when people make other dogs or pups the main focus during that very important developmental time in a young puppies life.
We may forget that they haven't seen or heard a bus before.
Crowds of people aren't thought of.
A wheelchair or a scooter can be very unsettling for a young dog if they haven't come across one earlier in life.

Of course we do want our young puppies to interact and play with others.
There's a fine balance here too.
They shouldn't play with all others they come across, they shouldn't meet all others either.
Those experiences with others need well thought out and supervised.
Why?
Acclimation is still the goal. We want them to feel part of the world, but not develop such a strong emotional pull that they must greet and insist on playing with every dog.
Or they can start to physically pull you towards them.
Every dog they see.
Every walk.

If we allow puppies to meet and play with all others, that can be a very short path to a young dog that "insists" they must interact with all others.
That is what they learned when they were younger.

Choose your play partners wisely.

Think of everything this world has to offer and what you encounter everyday.

How can we expose them positively and carefully?
That's the goal.

Not "socialisation".

11/11/2025

YUM‼️ if you know me, you know two things I love the most in life is good coffee, and supporting shelters/rescues!☕️🐶

And I am LOVINGGG Henry’s Sweet Potato Latte 🍠, it’s absolutely delicious. Gotta give applause to the collaboration between The Hive Coffee & Bakehouse & The Henry and Clark Foundation, coming together to create some delicious drinks that also benefit BRAWA- Barren River Animal Welfare Association ❤️

This is what community is all about! Peep the comments down below for some supplies that BRAWA is in need of, and the other tasty drink that is available ⬇️