🚀 A lot of undesirable puppy behaviours can sometimes be attributed to lack of sleep; they look manic, bitey, can’t settle, zoom around etc. and so we think they need more stimulation, more exercise, more enrichment, more attention, when actually they just need a good decent sleep!
💤 Puppies need up to 18-20 hours of sleep per day!
💤 Once 6months old, this only decreases slightly to 16ish hours of sleep per day
💤 Train yourself to recognise overtired behaviours in your puppy
💤 Crates and playpens can be useful to help your puppy switch off, giving them “permission” to stop
💤If you don’t have a crate or playpen, you will have to actively show your puppy what you want, and teach them to settle and relax in their bed or a cosy spot, don’t assume they will be able to switch off on their own at first
💤Be careful playtime doesn’t build emotional arousal before a nap (repetitive fetch games!)
💤Try to avoid high energy walks before a nap, go for investigative walks; looking at new things and discovering new smells. End the walk with lots of sniffing and get that clever nose working
💤 Check nutrition and the amount of nutrients provided in your pup’s food www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk can be good for this or talk to a dog nutritionist
💤 Keep a log of sleep via spreadsheets or apps!
💤 Capture calmness and practice settle
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💥 We’ve used African drumming music during firework season to mask the pops/whizzes and bangs, which can be very effective.
However it’s really important to make sure you expose your animals to the music randomly and at a volume they can cope with at random times WELL IN ADVANCE of fireworks season. If you only play this music when the scary stuff is happening, you can actually make it even scarier as they could associate the music with the scary sounds.
We try and do this randomly in the background when everyone is chill and relaxing throughout the year. 😎
Hope that helps! 🧨
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So many times I see guardians recalling their dogs from something really fun, and then they’ll ask the dog to sit and then give them one bit of kibble.
Firstly, you’re rewarding the sit here more than the actual recall itself, and secondly a bit of boring old kibble in a sitting position, probably isn’t overly rewarding or that fun for your dog.
✨ YOUR RECALL IS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE CONSEQUENCES IT DELIVERS ✨
I really encourage you to have fun with your dog when they come back to you. Get silly, play around, make them and you feel good!
✨ Reward with treat scatters onto the floor, a few treats one after the other
✨ Roll treats away from you for your dog to find, they’ll then orient back to you for another go
✨ Teach them to catch and throw some treats in quick succession into their mouths
✨ Have a fun game of tuggy!
✨ Play around together and celebrate
Forget the sit and have fun, it’ll build your bond, your relationship and consequently - your recall!
How do you like to reward your dogs for choosing you over something else?
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You guys know we love a pub trip, and so does Banjo. He really has honed the skill of settling in places and it makes it so easy to take him out with us.
He’s put some tips together for you and he hopes they are useful 😂
⚠️ Just a note on this though; pub and settle trips aren’t for every dog and some dogs will absolutely prefer to be left at home. Byron was definitely that dog.
If you want help with your dog settling, get in touch via DM or email, we are taking bookings for November now ❤️
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Learn our favourite functional trick “middle” with Banjo and I 😃
Happy training!
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As most of you know, since Byron died, Banjo’s tolerance to being alone in the house has plummeted.
Thanks to the Furbo we realised he started howling at around the 90min mark. Previously he was very content being “alone” with Byron for 4hours plus so this was absolutely heartbreaking to see and it’s just one of the ways his grief is manifesting itself.
He just didn’t ever learn to be alone away from Byron for longer than 90mins or so.
We have got to work to help build his confidence here and he’s doing absolutely amazing so far. We can now leave him for around 4 hours without any distress which is perfect.
- After we found out his threshold was about 90mins we decided to work on this most days with him.
- Firstly we pledged to not leave him alone for longer than 90mins as this is where he would become stressed and howl!
-We have been doing (every other day) absences where we ping pong between easy durations, very quick ones and slightly harder longer ones just past the 90min mark, ie 91mins.
- We recorded what durations we had managed on a spreadsheet so we could track our progress.
- We were able to build this pretty fast and I’m so proud of him ❤️
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☀️ If we’re too hot, we can become irritable and grumpy and the same goes for our dogs.
Over the next few days as the temperature rises bare this in mind, and be particularly careful of interactions with children, strangers and other dogs!
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#dogsanity #enrichment idea: the head of an iceberg lettuce to SHRED 🥬 Great for dogs who can’t have paper and cardboard because they ingest it.
And yes, it went everywhere 😆
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A chin rest is such a lovely and versatile thing to teach your dog, I’m mainly building this up with Banjo in preparation for his vaccinations as part of his cooperative care, but it can also lower arousal and be useful in grooming too. I’ll do another video about how I’m using it to prep him for his injections.
Hope it helps!
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✨ Stage one of teaching “drop it” with a toy and food lure. I’ll do a video on stage 2; fading the lure and phase 3; fading the hand signal too ✌🏻
I find some dogs go into their “food brain” with this and won’t go back to playing, so it’s tricky to get enough reps in, so i’ll also do a video on how to train this without a food lure too.
Happy training! 🤓
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There are sooo many reasons why a dog might stall on lead. We want to work out the WHY first.
- A vet check is a good place to start, to ensure there is no pain present, making it uncomfortable to walk.
- With rescues and puppies it can often be due to feeling unsafe and being scared of loud traffic noises and seeing cars, lots of people, children etc. Here we’d want to gently build confidence.
- Recently I’ve seen a lot of dogs who have learnt to stop because their guardian will then reach for the food/treat pouch in a bid to get them moving again.
The dog has learnt STOP- HUMAN REACHES FOR FOOD - I EAT IT - STOP AGAIN. Here we’d want to really analyse at which point we are reaching for treats! Dogs are super observant and so making sure we reach for treats and then delivering the food only when the dog is moving and in forward movement is key to changing this behaviour chain!
Anyway, just a few things to think about for this conundrum. There is always a reason, and it’s not because they are being stubborn!
Hope it helps!
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✨ Just something I’ve been seeing a lot lately with my clients who are potty training. This is for all dogs, puppies, rescues etc!
Hope it helps!
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