Nutley Dogs Training and Behaviour

26/05/2026

A fabulous day on Sunday learning about Canine First Aid.
A great teacher Amanda from .
So many great nuggets for good practice, loads of practical experience and a fabulous booklet to take away to remind us all of good practice.
First Aid kit stocked up with some extra bits and bobs.
Thankyou everyone for contrubuting to a great day and also working as a team putting the hall furniture back at the end of the day
We are now covered for 3 years.

23/05/2026

New term for Scentwork
Foundation Beginners class.
Date: Thursday 11th July 2026
4 lessons
Time: 6 30 pm
Venue: Nutley Training Paddock

A great opportunity to build your partnership.
Have fun together
Buold confidence
Balance arousal and motivation

22/05/2026

New term details
Foundation Fun Gun Dog at Nutley
Please email or message me for booking details.
Both classes 50% full
Email: [email protected]
Or Whats app Tel 07717 893087

21/05/2026

I am on a new journey of study around Adolescence and whilst doing some background reading this quote from "Wildhood" really resonated with me.

13/05/2026

First time as a family of 3 in our dogs favourite place- 6.25 acres of doggy sniffing fun.
Sylvie and Brawdie absolutely love it here -and Orla says its a "yes" from her too.

To share with you our care for the youngster in such a large environment.
Orla had 2 x 3 minutes off lead when with the family and then some off short off lead time with her big Sister. Brawdie with Dad in sensory garden.
Reasons:
♡ Supporting her settling in to a new environment which was causing great excitement to the rest of the family.
♡ Promoting a group calm pattern avoiding over arousal and dive bombing ears and tails
♡avoiding her trying to over reach on her running to keep up with the big dogs ( Thankyou to Roz Davies for her teaching here earlier this year)

We practiced:
❤️ calm food sniffing yup back to those calming signals ( Turid Rugas)
💚 2 small recalls with the best jackpot party ever to come back to
💜 a couple of sit check ins
💛 and being a 🐕 dog

The weather was a bit mixed but cool, damp and wet so ideal for these 3 😁

12/05/2026

Many of you wonderful folks will be aware that Teenage dogs/ Adolescence is one of my absolute interests.
The message below is really important as we progress and grow our understanding about adolescence/ our canine teenagers.

Background

I wanted to share Holly's quote with you. Our growing knowledge bank regarding Adolescence is proving so incredibly wonderful in not just sharing information about this developmental period but how we support it.
However, I appreciate context is everything and some people who read this have had situations in the past including me where chemical castration/ castration has been needed in their male dog.
Guilt has always been attached to that action for me because of the risk of impacting on the maturation process. However, the guilt emotion is because I/we care and love my/our boy so much.
Others of you wonderful folks will have rehomed dogs or brought dogs into your families who are not entire males or females and then we provide love, support and care for those wonderful family members - maturation may be slower/ delayed/ altered because of this. ( Actually loads more complex than that - would be typing a long time for full picture).
We do our best with the knowledge we had at that time to help.

We are at the beginning of our Adolescence journey with our girlie Orla - so hoping to step together on our journey - hopefully supporting you too.More to head your way

09/05/2026

08/05/2026

Arousal and how outside space increases arousal with our 6 months girlie.The current approach- we are using which will always need adjusting as change/ development occurs.

07/05/2026

Foundation Nosework Course - Block of 4.
Starting Thursday June 4th
1 place left.
Booking information: What's app 07717 893087 or email [email protected]

06/05/2026

Moments of being together and doing nothing.
Not the prettiest of photos as our garden is a bit of a pickle at present.
However, the point of the picture is two fold- "choice and quiet"
Choice- the dogs are out in the garden being where they want to be
Quiet- we are not doing anything in particular apart from being together and the dogs being dogs.
I truely believe the quiet moments together are as important as the doing moments.
Because- well I suppose this is my thinking that I hope my dogs enjoy peace and calm as much as doing.
●That they can be with me/us without asking to do all the time eg perhaps you hear a Bark to do sometimes called ' action prompting.
●They can mentally enjoy the off moments as well as the on moments
●They can turn the off switch on as well as the on switch
●They can be companionable together not always playing, walking etc
Funnily enough- this is training but not training- I am not using a settle or stay or cue- but I am providing environmental social learning for the family so it becomes part of the way of our life.

Hope have given you some thoughts to think on.
I am just sharing here what we do