Spot On Dog Training with Ally

14/08/2023

My newest little friend from puppy class.. Yogi 🐶

05/06/2023

‼️Exciting news‼️Adolescence classes will be resuming on Saturday the 1st of July! 🐶
Each course runs for four weeks and places will be limited. These classes cover refreshing the basics as well as recall, stay, loose lead walking, focus work around other dogs and people, leave-it, tricks, games and much more!
If you would like more information on these classes or to book in, please private message me your email address and I will send the information across to you 😁

03/06/2023

I’m backkkk! 😝
Puppy class Saturdays have returned after I’ve had a few months off to have my own little human 💓
Such a wonderful class to kick start my puppy classes again. Congratulations to all puppies and handlers from this delightful group, you have all done so well! 🎓🐶

Congratulations to Bea, Opal, Blake, Alfie, Honey, Charlie and Winnie 🤍

22/12/2022

That’s a wrap for me for 2022 🥳
Thank you to all of my wonderful clients, I have truly loved working with you all this year 🤍
I will be back at it towards the back end of 2023 after I take a short break to pop this baby out 🫣 Surely it’s similar to puppy raising right?! 🤣😂
Merry Christmas and I wish you all an incredible 2023 🎅🏼🎄

13/08/2022

Some recent adolescence class graduates 🎓🐶

02/08/2022

My new little friend Baloo who started puppy class with me tonight 😍

19/07/2022

Happy birthday to Roo! 🥳🎈
Swipe to see just how tiny she was!! 🥹 Roo was the littlest of the litter but probably the most determined and she has not changed a bit 😅
Happy birthday special girl 💕

22/04/2022

Love love LOVE this great advice 🙌🏼

Why take your dog on a Sniffari?

Sniffing is a dog’s primary means of collecting information about the world around them. Detecting and processing smells is enriching and energy-intensive. The ability to sniff freely and investigate the environment has been correlated with increased optimism and lowered pulse rates. We have discovered that dogs’ nostrils can wiggle independently, and that specific nostrils are used to investigate specific smells. Dogs have retained the ability to identify the scents of large predators even when they never have contact with those predators.

We have used sniff-related research to determine that dogs can identify the scent of a familiar person in their absence, and that the dog-human bond is strongly reinforced in dogs’ brains. Dogs can detect drugs, explosives, changes in emotions, and changes in human cell metabolism during illness like cancer and diabetes, and are currently being trained to see if they can identify Covid-19.

Rather than marching your dog along at a brisk pace on every walk, try some walks (or portions of walks) where you let your dog sniff freely. It can be enriching not only to them, but to you as well. Watch how your dog catches a scent in the air or on the ground, and the zany path they take following the scent. Watch to see what catches your dog’s attention enough to sniff deeply and intensely. See if you can notice your dog switching nostrils to sniff a specific smell, and if you can see their nostrils wiggle. Take a moment to ponder and appreciate the similarities and differences between the way we vision-focused humans perceive our world and the way smell-focused dogs do. At the end of the day, for both man and man’s best friend, a big breath in and a big exhale makes us all feel better 🐾

04/04/2022

EXCITING NEWS! 🗣
Adolescence classes are back!
The classes have been on hold for a while now due to Covid and location changes and are now finally scheduled to start from the end of April onwards. They are a 4 week course with a one hour lesson each week for the 4 consecutive weeks and are on Saturdays and Sundays. Ideal age for the dog to do this class is from 5 months to 15 months but I will make some exceptions.
If you would like more information or for the class schedule, please send me your email address and I will forward you all the information regarding these classes.
Looking forward to some super fun training with you all 😆

02/04/2022

Happy Saturday from gorgeous Cruiser at puppy class this morning 🖤

24/03/2022

Today marks 3 years since we adopted our beautiful Luka 🤍
The best decision we ever made 🙌🏼She is 13 years old this year and after a few medical mishaps recently, she is now doing better than ever.
She is an absolute angel of a dog, she has no problem with demanding pats from absolutely anyone, she can snore louder than a human, her tongue spends more time out of her mouth than in it (no teef) and she has zero concept of personal space or how big she is, but I wouldn’t change a thing about her. She has taught me so much as a dog mum and also as a dog trainer and I am forever grateful that she is ours 🤍
Happy gotcha day my beautiful girl 🤍

05/02/2022

In home session for beautiful Willa today to discuss all things adolescence. It was great to meet Willa in person as I had taught her and her lovely humans in zoom puppy classes a few months ago 🤗💻
Willa is a wonderful little lab and is very switched on, her parents have ticked every box with her but being an excitable, extroverted lab, she loses a lot of focus around other dogs which is extremely common especially around the ages of 4-12 months.
During the session, we discussed how we can keep her engaged with us when out and about, what to do when the excitement of another dog commences and how to ensure she finds her humans more exciting ongoing than she does other dogs.
She is so eager to please this little girl and extremely photogenic! 😍