“Always trade up!” My youngest, home bred girl, has always had a great retrieve. Her first retrieve to hand was completed at 6 weeks old, clicker trained and to her just another game to play. Bearing this in mind, her retrieve is by now very ingrained. When she finds things or steals something her instinct […]
“Please give me time” I was recently on a training course and was inspired to write this blog. This blog explains just how one of the most important training tools you can give to your dog(s) is time! I do not mean time as in taking the time to actually training them, I am talking about how that
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There were a couple of things I saw this week that prompted me to type this up. The first was a question in a dog training group, just a general one about some gundog retrieves and some answers received, and the second was feedback from a student of mine. Firstly the online question. The question
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Training for confidence I recently had a client join me for 121’s, she happened to choose Scentwork as her dog already loved to play ‘find it’ games at home so it seemed a natural progression. Her dog had recently had a traumatic experience and this had caused a loss of confidence in the dog and owner
Dare I say you may even be enjoying your new position and feeling quite proud of yourself and how well you are coping with the whole situation, its a whole new feeling and its positive! Now return to dogs, is it really fair that we expect different of them? Changing a dogs emotions will change
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Happy New Year! As you well know we work on our anti Fenton training all the time. Well we back in New Forest and this time I had no issue in popping him on the lead when I felt his prey drive to high and the others when off lead had 100% success using the
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Met Nina last night, she was very warm and welcoming, answered all my questions for making my good boy an even better good boy! Hopefully with the training she has given us will work a treat (excuse the pun) I will keep you updated! Thank you again Nina for taking the time to come help
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Just a quick update regarding Simba’s paw phobia…I have been working on de-sensitising him most days and this morning I managed to use the dremel to file down his claws! I didn’t think I would ever be able to that! I’m going to continue with his training to get him more comfortable with his paws
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Thank you for our brilliant 1-2-1 training session. We all got so much out of our time spent with you. We appreciate not only the specific training advice that we sought but all the other bits in between. We certainly have a lot to keep our clever WCS busy which is exactly what we all
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I am very much looking forward to meeting a certain little puppy next week. His new owners are having some trouble settling him down for alone time and crate time. There are lots of different hints and tips to be shared and various methods that can help your pup cope with alone time and learn
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With fireworks night fast approaching, for those who have pets that do not cope it’s a time of dread. Below are short bullet points to consider at this time of year: Firstly remain calm yourself. Consider contacting a dog trainer or behaviourist for specialist advice/help. Please note all my contact details are at the bottom
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So, you have your lovely new puppy at home and it’s time for that first visit for a check up and perhaps their first vaccination dose so what should you be thinking about before you go? Well firstly the car journey, depending on how your car journey home with your new puppy went, you might
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What is wrong with this? LINK TO FB VIDEO There is nothing in this video to be laughed at. Had the dog wished to bite the child, in this given situation it could have and would have but it chose not too however that is not the point. I could merely share this video as
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