Playful Paws: Training & Wellness

Playful Paws: Training & Wellness Bringing out the best in your best friend. Helping you to have an awesome family member that you are proud to take everywhere with you! More Places. More Often.

Megs Hopman, founder, has a work history in both the disability sector and human behaviour, as well as a complete understanding of dogs. She is university qualified to manage and deliver an exceptional service. This business is unique in that it focuses on dog training as well as empowering and educating dog parents. The business understands that everyone has an individual journey with their dog a

nd adapts their services accordingly. Playful Paws is the ‘go to’ for dog training and behaviour in East Gippsland, with people proud to say their dogs have been trained with them. The business has continued to adapt and evolve through consultation with the community which has contributed to rapid growth of the business. The bright green paw is forefront of everyone’s mind when they think of training with their dog. We offer a personalised services and our vision is to see More Dogs.

Sleepy Sunday💕Lexi taking a nap in the sunshine during her recent Puppy Kinder day🐾Puppy Kinder- Manners Matter Most 📸Le...
31/08/2025

Sleepy Sunday💕

Lexi taking a nap in the sunshine during her recent Puppy Kinder day🐾

Puppy Kinder- Manners Matter Most

📸Lexi

Birthday Fun this week! Happy Birthday Luca & Molly 🥳We hope you had a lovely day celebrating with your friends 💚Manners...
30/08/2025

Birthday Fun this week!

Happy Birthday Luca & Molly 🥳

We hope you had a lovely day celebrating with your friends 💚

Manners Matter Most

📸Luca & Molly

Fun Friday! Willow is learning a new trick… can you think of what it might be? 🙈Bringing out the best in your best frien...
29/08/2025

Fun Friday!

Willow is learning a new trick… can you think of what it might be? 🙈

Bringing out the best in your best friend

📸Willow

Woohoo! We can’t wait! Come and visit our therapy dogs 💕🐾
29/08/2025

Woohoo! We can’t wait! Come and visit our therapy dogs 💕🐾

Socialisation in Kinder this week!Socialisation is being confident and relaxed with all sorts of things in any environme...
28/08/2025

Socialisation in Kinder this week!

Socialisation is being confident and relaxed with all sorts of things in any environment. Other dogs, places, sounds, objects, smells, surfaces and much more!

This week consisted of new objects and new environments 💚

More Dogs. More Places. More Often.

📸Franklin, Bruno, Boots & Fintan

Who is it Wednesday 💕Bringing out the best in your best friend.📸Pocket
27/08/2025

Who is it Wednesday 💕

Bringing out the best in your best friend.

📸Pocket

We’re not just dog trainers around here! Megs, Corey, Hayley and Carrie fixing one of our shade structures threatening t...
27/08/2025

We’re not just dog trainers around here!

Megs, Corey, Hayley and Carrie fixing one of our shade structures threatening to blow away in the storm!

Jack of all trades!

Tips Tuesday 🤩🐾More Dogs. More Place. More Often.📸Lucy
26/08/2025

Tips Tuesday 🤩🐾

More Dogs. More Place. More Often.

📸Lucy

25/08/2025

Happy International Dog Day!

Share a photo of your best friend below 💕🐾

Happy Monday! Does your pup need some extra entertainment whilst you are at work? We’ve got you covered.🙈Dogs often thri...
25/08/2025

Happy Monday!

Does your pup need some extra entertainment whilst you are at work?
We’ve got you covered.🙈

Dogs often thrive with social interactions with other furry friends. Through play and companionship, your dog (no matter its age) learns how to behave and interact appropriately with other dogs.

We provide a lively and engaging environment to help your dog become a happy and social canine. Each dog that visits our daycare is carefully supervised by our friendly and affectionate team members, ensuring a fun and stimulating experience every day.💚

Our daycare is so much more than just a daycare. Our daycare which we call Puppy Kinder focuses on teaching skills to kickstart your dogs training journey.

Puppy Kinder- Manners Matter Most

📸Ross, Wish & Willow

Lola getting some loving whilst having a short break in her 1:1 private training session during her Puppy Kinder day wit...
24/08/2025

Lola getting some loving whilst having a short break in her 1:1 private training session during her Puppy Kinder day with us 💕

We can’t wait to see you all back this week ready for more learning and fun!

Puppy Kinder- Manners Matter Most

📸Simone & Lola

Congratulations to our beautiful teams for kickstarting their training to create a calm and responsive dog in real life ...
24/08/2025

Congratulations to our beautiful teams for kickstarting their training to create a calm and responsive dog in real life situations! All finished one of our two workshops today

✅ Un-Chase! - emergency behaviours for real life situations
Or
✅ Un-Chase! - Regain control of your dogs chasing instincts

We had a great time learning all about
🚨 Emergency Recall
🛑 Emergency Stop
🚪 Boundary Wait
🛌 Settle calmly on a bed
🥎 Look calmly at chase triggers
🐶 How to focus with distraction of other dogs

Super excited to continue to watch the journey as these teams become superstars at being calm in the presence of chase triggers and being able to be focussed in real life situations!

Thank you all for attending 💕🐾

Comment below if you would like to learn about our next workshops

Address

6 Macleod Street
Bairnsdale, VIC
3875

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm

Telephone

+61421641138

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We provide different fun options for training your best friend.

Dream of having a dog that you can take anywhere, meet visitors nicely and settle at a cafe? We can teach you to teach your dog these skills in different classes. Or we help kickstart their training with our Puppy Kinder and Funday options.

Megs is an accredited dog trainer with over 15 years experience, with this knowledge she brings a passion of bringing out the best in your best friend, and helping you to connect with your dog. Her team work closely with Megs to provide a personal, family-friendly and a community vibe service.

Our passion is to see More Dogs. More Places. More Often.