Paws ‘n’ Claws Training

04/06/2026

One space left on Junes play workshop 🐾🩷

04/06/2026

Gotta love the scottish summer

Everything going wrong as usual x

31/05/2026

By now you all know my love for a French Bulldog!

Frankie was here the other month for a board and train and, as you can see by the reel, he had no lead manners whatsoever when he got to me.

Fast forward 4 weeks and look at him now. Fast forward 4 weeks and he’s a different dog. Calm, switched on, and actually choosing to stay with me.

Heel work on and off lead looking 👌🏼
Wish I could of kept him to be honest, but I do feel that with every dog that comes to stay 💖

30/05/2026

Playbedience

Our take on obedience/group training classes!

This one is for the dogs who need help learning how to use their motivation in training, whether that’s food, play, or a mixture of both.

Once your dog understands the game, we can start using that motivation to build obedience, engagement, impulse control and clearer communication around distractions.

We’ll be looking at things like markers, motivation, food rewards, toy play, luring, shaping and training concepts, as well as how to reward properly so your dog can still think, listen and work with you when there’s other stuff going on.

It’s also a brilliant way to get your dog training around other dogs in a controlled environment, learning how to coexist, stay neutral, stick with you and build the skill of working together around distractions.

This is open to all dogs, including puppies :)

Upcoming Playbedience dates:

Saturday 27th June 10am

Link in bio for booking 🐾

29/05/2026

Give Jenny’s new page a follow 🙏🏼🐾

Welcome to all new followers, on this page I will be posting lots of information on everything surrounding your Dogs Health and diets. I will also be showing how your dogs diet can have a huge impact on their behaviour including aggression and other health conditions.

I also will be starting up a weekly Questions & Answers time where you can ask me questions that may be worrying you about your dog.

As I am a Holistic Therapist I will be showing how natural remedies can help will all sorts of physical and mental health conditions.

So welcome and please feel free to ask questions and this is a safe place to gather more knowledge on your Dogs Health physically as well as mentally.

28/05/2026

Somewhere along the line, we stopped treating small dogs like… dogs.

They often don’t get taught recall properly because “they’re small” and won’t cause much trouble. They get picked up instead of worked through things. And when behaviours start showing up that we don’t like, they just end up on lead, kept away from the world.

But small dogs still need the same things… structure, training, and freedom. They deserve to be off lead, to explore, to move, to actually be dogs… not just managed.

When we skip the training and rely on the lead, that’s when the lead itself starts becoming part of the problem.

Give them the same standards, and you get the same freedom 🐾

Both of these small dogs were here on board and train, and this is what that looks like… flying around the beach, off lead with friends, doing exactly what they should be doing. Their owners wanted more for them, your small dog deserves more too 🩷

25/05/2026

Dixie making some stunning choices on the beach 💖

Dixie is in for residential training at the moment and, as you can see, she’s absolutely smashing it.

A big part of my residential training is giving the dogs the opportunity to make good choices on their own, then testing that in lots of different environments.

The goal isn’t to have to helicopter parent them forever, constantly managing every move or micromanaging every decision, instead it’s about increasing the communication so they understand what’s expected, what’s right, what’s wrong, and how to exist in the world without us needing to constantly step in.

Once dogs are at this stage, pack walks are THE BEST way to maintain the training in a structured environment, around other dogs and real life distractions, making everyday life so much easier ✨

24/05/2026

Kitchen training with baby Shiel 🐾

Training shouldn’t take up loads of your time, in this 2 minute session alone we’ve covered so much with a puppy. Little and often is key to building good habits and topping up the relationship bank with your dogs.

Just a few important things to note in this session
- building our markers, both direct & indirect
- focusing on me with another dog in the background
- sprinkling in impulse control around food
- beginning to teach source focus which will be used for handling drills
- building that pushy food lure for obedience

Little exercises like this are great to keep your dogs brain working away and take next to no time out of your day, all the little bits add up 🐾

18/05/2026

Play is something I think gets massively overlooked. We expect dogs to just know how to tug, chase, retrieve, share and engage with toys, but that isn’t always the case. Sometimes we have to teach the dog how to play and pull that out of them a bit.

The Play Workshop is purely about developing the play itself.

What toys does your dog actually enjoy? Are they playing keep away because they don’t know how to share yet? Do they understand that you can be part of the game too?

We had such a mix of breeds this weekend, all playing in completely different ways, and that’s exactly why these workshops are so useful.

We look at toy preference, prey cycles, play style, sharing, confidence, and how to make play something both you and your dog can properly enjoy, without pressure, frustration or conflict.

Because when you can harness your dog’s internal drives through play, it becomes more than just toys. It becomes a shared interest.

Next Play Workshop:

Sunday 21st June
10am - 12pm
£45

Link in bio and comments - hope to see you there.

14/05/2026

conversations with my malinois

back at the focused heel, doing all we can to keep it calm

we don’t often train with food