A&S Dog Walking & Pet Visits

23/05/2026

One to one puppy classes (foundation!

The social puppy club

I offer one to one puppy classes so you can learn how to teach your puppy valuable life skills. All positive reinforcement training. Book a course of 4 or 6 sessions. Great if you need flexibility with support training your pup. Up to 6 months of age.

The puppy social walk club is a weekly walk where you can meet with myself and other puppy owners and learn all things puppy.

This is a small group of up to 4 guardians and their one puppy. We can discuss the how to’s of training, some might be how to focus on you, coming back to you, being calm, not jumping up, teething, & crate training. £20 for an hours walk & talk

21/05/2026

12/05/2026

I wanted to share that our beautiful, quirky sweet Hend has very sadly been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer which is no longer curative just palliative.

It’s been a really tough 5 months with various vet visits with inconclusive results from his first fine needle aspirate. We decided to have further CT imaging & another biopsy where it was confirmed he has salivary gland cancer and it’s sadly spread to his lung. Salivary gland cancer is extremely rare in dogs. Hend you always dared to be different!

There are surgical & medical options available but we feel these are invasive & could create more issues in a 13 year old dog.

It feels an out of control place we have been placed in right now but we will always have Hends welfare at the forefront of any decision making.

Right now he is a happy boy enjoying his walks & food like he always has but we do understand his time is now very limited and decisions will soon need to be made.

We are seeking options from the holistic sector with the hope we may be able to keep the tumours stable for a little while longer. It’s a dreadfully sad time right now for us. The thought of losing him feels very overwhelming.

05/05/2026

One to one puppy classes

One to one puppy classes are perfect if you have a busy work schedule and can’t fit in a group class at the same time weekly. They also benefit owners that prefer a one to one approach for many reasons.

Choose from a one off problem solving session or a course of 4 or 6 weeks to learn the basic foundation behaviours. These foundation behaviours will start the process of teaching you the understanding of how to train your puppy using positive reinforcement training. We use rewards such as food, toys and environmental rewards to teach life skills over obedience.

Some of the skills we can teach are recall, leave, drop, wait, down, middle, touch.

We also teach how to crate train, settle train, handling and how to deal with puppy biting & what to expect when you bring your puppy home.

We can also teach these life skills to adult dogs.

Also starting soon - The puppy Social walk club. A weekly puppy walk meet up for all puppies from their first vaccination up to 6 months of age.

Here we can discuss all things puppy, including training, sleep, teething, and the ‘what to do’s’ to give guidance & advice when you most need support.
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19/04/2026

A busy few weeks of solo dog walks, training one to ones and puppy classes.

The training one to ones were providing support with building confidence which would then support being able to relax & focus.

Some of the other areas we looked at were excessive barking, over arousal & worry.

The puppy social walk club is still trying to gain new members. This will take some time to get going, but I feel this will be beneficial to many puppy owners who want to go out in a small group of up to 4 guardians and their one puppy once a week and learn about being out and about with your puppy & how to deal with issues that may arise. The age group for this walk is from 8 weeks to 6 months.

The socially distanced dog walk club met at Quarrendon last week & this week we went to Pitstone Hill. Both were wonderful walks with a mix of dog breeds & ages.

12/04/2026

Sunday Social Walk - Quarrendon/Buckingham Park

A lovely chilled walk today at Buckingham Park area. There were 7 of us today and we did see quite a lot of dogs. The difference was everyone had their dogs on leads or under control. This makes such a difference when we are walking as a group with worried dogs or puppies learning to walk with other groups of dogs.

Next week we are at Pitstone Hill.

10/04/2026

Starting late Spring - The Puppy Social Walk Club

I am starting a weekly social puppy walk club for up to 4 guardians and their one puppy to come together in a public place and learn essential puppy social skills in a safe and welcoming environment.

The club will be open to anyone who has a puppy who is fully vaccinated up to the age of 6 months.

I have found that many of the guardians I have been supporting through puppy one to ones would love to have continued support with walks, so this is why I have decided to start the group. At present some of the older puppies attend the Socially Distanced Dog Walk Club and as this has gone so well I have decided to try this with just puppies.

This will be a 60 minute group but of course we won't be walking for an hour due to the puppies age. The walk will consist of discussing puppy issues that come up, meeting others experiencing similar issues networking with other puppy owners and exploring how walks for a puppy can be overwhelming and how to manage some of these issues that arise.

Subjects we will most likely cover

Toilet training
Crate training
Equipment to buy
Dog walking etiquette
Socialisation
Building confidence
How to introduce your puppy safely to other dogs
Basic foundation skills whilst out and about

The cost for the walk is £20 and payment will be required up front. This walk will be a great addition to any other puppy training you are doing with either myself, another puppy school provider or even if you have decided to train your puppy yourself.

Days and times to be agreed, but it will most likely be a week day evening somewhere between 6.30 - 7.00pm start. Locations may vary but will include Stoke Mandeville & Bierton. I will share a private closed group nearer the time for anyone interested.

If you are interested please message me here or email me at [email protected]

07/04/2026

This review from Dawn was so heart felt. The incredible patience Dawn & her family have shown Elvis throughout his puppy hood and now adolescence has been incredible to be part of.