🐾 DOG TRAINING 🐾
Whether you're looking for walk and train sessions or 1-1 training, we can help!
Here's a clip of 5 month old Odi, using his skills in the real world, with distractions and absolutely smashing it! 😍
I am a qualified dog trainer and fully insured! Please get in touch to discuss your dogs needs 🥰
Poppy had her first walk and train session with us this week - and she aced it!
She's such a quick learner and really enjoyed piecing together the last bits of loose lead walking!
We kept it super fun and engaging, allowing for those all important sniffs too 🥰
Please message to get your furry friend booked in!
🐶🐾 TRAINING 🐾🐶
I'm super excited to be finally putting my dog training qualification to use and to introduce a walk and train service! 🐶
What is that, I hear you ask!
We know that life can be busy! The dark evenings are here and there isn't enough time in the day! So we are offering this service to not only teach your doggo how to be the goodest boys and girls on walks, but to keep up with their training too.
What will we teach? To name a few:
🐾 Loose lead
🐾 Recall
🐾 Engagement and disengagement
🐾 Neutral behaviour around potential exciting triggers
🐾 Roadside manners
After each session, we will write up a report for you, to tell you how the session went and what we did 🐾
To roll this out, we are starting with an ✨introductory price✨ of £35 for an hours walk and train.
This price is valid for October 2024 🎃
Please message for more details!
✔️ DBS checked, fully insured and a qualified DTC dog trainer
13.10 🌈💔
Sleep tight our beautiful boy.. you are so incredibly loved 💔
Thank you all so much for your understanding yesterday 🙏 my Uncle Brad had the most beautiful send off and really was done proud 🖤
Back to work for us today, with a 5.30am start to beat that heat! I'll get back to everyone that messaged this evening 🌞🙏
We aren't being mean when we don't let your dog off lead! Until we have a solid relationship with your dog and know 100% that they are going to come back to us, we keep them on long lines. They still get to run around and explore, but safely 🥰💚
#dogsoftiktok #dogwalker #recall
Following on from last nights post, here's Henry's progress with learning "middle".
How did we do this? 🤔
First step: use their favourite tasty treat to lure them into position. Keep the snack in front of them and use it to walk them to where they need to be. Don't use a cue word at this point - just mark the behaviour - "yes", "ok", "good", a clicker... Anything that says that's what you want! Keep this the same each time.
Step two: when they're starting to understand what you're wanting, try to lure less of the movement (as seen in the first clip). If they struggle, back to step one!
Step three: When they understand what you're asking consistently, add a cue when they have done the behaviour. In this case, when Henry was between my legs and sat, I said "middle... Yes" and rewarded.
Step four: Once they've picked the cue up, try to lure much less, until you're just asking for the behaviour. If they struggle, make it easier - they will pick it up given time! Try not to keep repeating the cue without the behaviour being given. If they don't understand or give the behaviour, say nothing and lure into position, marking when they've done it.
Henry has been learning this for a few weeks and has only just progressed onto taking some steps forward. There isn't a rush! It's not a competition! Enjoy learning new things together! 🥰
That super happy feeling when a new group of friends goes exactly how you'd hoped! 🙌💚
What a fabulous little pupil Frankie was! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Just before Frankies mummy came home, we had a little game of "down". This little superstar picked it up so fast - no more than 10 minutes and I started adding the "down" cue 👌
As you may have seen, I recently qualified with the Dog Training College and became a certified dog trainer 🙏 I will be setting up a new page for this, as soon as the logo has been drawn up 👀
I think our lovely walker, Jess, sums up all of our feelings very well.... Why are we still in waterproofs and coats! ☔
What do we mean, when we say a "breed appropriate" walk? 🤔
Our favourite thing to do with our dogs is tap into what they naturally want to do. It's a fabulous way of engaging their brains and providing mental and physical enrichment!
Sulley is a beagle and Mable is a beagle x basset. Both of them are hardwired to sniff and follow scents - they are scent hounds after all! Ok, they aren't actively "working" dogs, but the breed needs are still there. So, what do we do? We go to the sniffiest of sniffy places and let them explore! Sometimes, we don't walk that far, as they are so keen on finding and following sniffs - and that's ok!
What traits do you notice in your dogs?
And how do you give them an outlet to express their natural behaviours? 🐾💚
