PWP Dog Training

31/03/2026

How you reward your dog should really be the dog’s choice. I’ve used a TONNE of food for rewarding Pickle over the years but over the weekend we went to a new park with him. I called him to front to check his ears were working - I knew he was super keen to get back to exploring so instead of giving him a food reward, I released him back to doing what he wanted. I had food with me too but the fact he trotted off when I said “free” shows that he didn’t want food in that situation.

23/09/2025

Planning? Pregnant? Got a baby?
Here’s the number 1 thing I’d work on.

16/07/2025

On the weekend, I packed up a toddler and 9 week old baby to go to trial.
I hadn’t planned on trialling Pickle but about 2 weeks before, I thought I’d give it a shot and see how we go. Here’s our leash communication section which went about 100 times better than I expected 😂
What did we need to do?
1. Greet 3 people without pulling, jumping or being an idiot.
2. Walk around 2 items in a figure 8 three times while a person is trying to distract Pickle. Again, no pulling or tension on the leash. All done on a plain flat collar.
He nailed it.

19/02/2025

Often when we get our cute little puppies, we treat them like babies. Which is right and wrong. They are babies so we need to make sure we have realistic expectations for them in terms of toilet training, attention span etc. But often we let these little babies have too much freedom too soon and we struggle later with what we see as “problem behaviours”. Things that could have been avoided with correct management in those early days. Management, play and relationship are key for success with training once your puppy matures a bit.

23/01/2025