Fetch Club

Fetch Club Actively helping you and your dog. We offer dog training and dog walking services in Bedford.

Structured Pack Walks now open 📣 For the first time in years, we are opening a limited number of spaces to new dogs!Thes...
04/05/2026

Structured Pack Walks now open 📣
For the first time in years, we are opening a limited number of spaces to new dogs!

These are not your average dog walks.

As a training led business, our walks reinforce calm behaviour, social skills and obedience so that your dog comes home settled, not overstimulated.

Our walks focus on:
• calm socialisation
• lead manners and recall
• structured pack behaviour
• consistency with your training at home

We do not promote chaos, we build dogs you actually enjoy living with.

All of our pack walk dogs travel in our fully kitted vans, are cleaned or brushed when necessary and you’ll get a report card after each walk.

Spaces are limited and allocated by area and suitability.

Walks are 1 hour, £18 per session and you can book anywhere between 1-5 regular walks a week.

Want your dog to join the packs? Send us a DM!

23/03/2026

With his meals, I’m pairing the sound of Gecko’s name (which at this age he doesn’t know or understand) with something he likes (food).
What this will do with repetitions, is mean he gets excited and pays attention when he hears his name.

When I teach behaviours, especially when I’m using classical conditioning (ie pairing 2 things together, like name + food), I think of it like bank account. I want to deposit as much as I can!
Every time I say his name and he gets food, the behavioural response gets richer 💰
Every time I say his name and nothing good happens, I’m effectively withdrawing money from the bank account, and the behaviour gets less reliable 🏦

In households where the puppy’s name is repeated and repeated with no rewarding outcome (this happens a lot in houses with young children especially), the puppy will learn to ignore the sound of their name, and all the money will be taken out of the bank. This can make things like listening skills, focus and even recall quite tricky.

To counter overuse of a word or name, it’s important to remember to pay money into that bank account!

20/03/2026

As trainers we often talk about choosing the right trainer for your dog.

But there’s another side to it; we are not always the right fit for every client.

A good trainer factors this into the assessment process. Because the last thing we want is for someone to spend hundreds, sometimes thousands of pounds and leave feeling disappointed. That’s a poor outcome for everyone, regardless of skill level or experience.

People learn in different ways. The way we train will feel clear and effective for some, and completely misaligned for others.

Recognising that early, and handling it with honesty and professionalism, isn’t always comfortable, but it’s far better than taking a booking just for the sake of it.

19/03/2026

Welcome home Gecko the Dutch Herder 🦎
Here’s everything I did with him on his first day with me to set him up for success. He came home in the afternoon after a morning with his littermates, then a 1 hour drive. He’s 8 weeks old, and these are all the things I started with.

When a dog trainer loses their dog, a part of them goes too. Red was the reason I became a dog trainer, Red was the reas...
10/03/2026

When a dog trainer loses their dog, a part of them goes too. Red was the reason I became a dog trainer, Red was the reason I started this business, and Red was the reason I know my way around how to train complex behaviours. He taught me more than any dog, any course, any research, any seminar. He helped me learn how to help other people and other dogs.
There is not a single thing in my life that exists without him being the reason it’s there. Not one. Not any of my friends, not my lifestyle, not my other dogs, not even the vehicle I drive, none of it.
So when a dog trainer loses their dog, yes they lose their pet, but they also lose the reason for absolutely everything they do.
Working with dogs is all in. There’s no half in. It’s just in, or out. It becomes all consuming. With everything you do, there is always a dog. There is always a dog to think about, to include, to consider. It’s not a 9-5, it’s not something you can clock out of. Even when you do other activities, you have to think about what the dogs are up to when you do. Working with dogs is basically agreeing to never having a day off, because even if you get a little break from working with client dogs, your own dogs are still there, waiting to be exercised, loved, trained, played with. And it’s a 24 hour job.
So when one of them goes, especially the one who basically made you create this all-in lifestyle, it can feel like everything is turned upside down.
A dog trainer losing their dog feels equivalent to them losing a chunk of their heart. It just feels harder for my heart to beat steadily now.

This week, my 7 year old heart dog Red will be put to sleep after a recent diagnosis of a very aggressive bone cancer.I’...
03/03/2026

This week, my 7 year old heart dog Red will be put to sleep after a recent diagnosis of a very aggressive bone cancer.
I’ve had less than 2 weeks to spend with him since I found out, and I think my heart will hurt forever.
Here’s to my Red. The dog that started it all.

19/02/2026

Ryu goes home 🏠
A huge behavioural shift for this guy! We’ve recently covered a bucket load of proofing to see him up as much as possible for his return home.
As with all our board and trains, now we work in conjunction with Ryu’s owner to ensure his smooth transition back home. We cannot be there for the remainder of time, so our job is to teach Ryu’s owner as much as possible about how to train and maintain his behaviour, and support her through that learning process. Doing it with a dog who already knows how to do the thing is a lot easier, but this stage is really crucial for long term success. So we’ll be following up with Ryu in a couple of weeks, and stay in pretty much constant comms for any questions that his owner may have for us.
I miss my little buddy already!

04/02/2026

Lilibet’s story is one I hear so often when people have a path that runs along their fence line, or even neighbouring dogs separated by a fence.
With zero recall and an anxious dog, this can turn into unpredictable chaos.
This chaos most often the makes an appearance on the walk as well, meaning the loving family dog that she is misses out on days out and becomes a source of stress instead of the wonderful addition to the household I know she can be.
Lilibet is a sweet natured dog who simply needs to learn to enjoy the outdoors in a safe, less frustrating and more harmonious way.

02/02/2026

Ryu part 4!
Something feels like it’s really clicked for Ryu as he seems so much more confident, calmer and clearer.
I want to push through more, as I think he’s capable of being in busy environments and having loads of success. But here we are at the week 3.5 mark. Been taking things pretty slow because I’m keen to go at his pace, but I don’t think we’re far off of our end goals 😃

27/01/2026

The biggest deciding factor in a Board and Train’s long term success is the client. If the client does the homework and carries on the training when the dog returns, the success keeps on going.
To complete our Board and Trains, we do full handovers to explain the training and educate our clients, we set homework and we follow up. But ultimately, the best training in the world will still come undone without the owner doing their bit.
So to answer the question, yep Board and Trains are a great way to train a dog for long term behaviour goals, as long as the owner remains invested in the process when the dog returns.
Our clients are lovely, committed and hardworking, so we typically don’t have a problem with this, and they’re such a pleasure to work with 💕

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Tuesday 8am - 5pm
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