Through the Dog's Eyes - Training and Behaviour

21/08/2025

It's German Shepherd central here at TTDE headquarters, with lots of them coming to train with us. This certainly makes Sarah very happy as they are a breed that have captured her heart ❤️

German shepherds are an often misunderstood breed and, like any breed, there are certain traits and needs specific to this breed. If you have a German shepherd it is worth taking the time to understand them so that you can get the best out of your dog and ensure that they live a fulfilled life. We can help you with that.

Here are 4 of our current GSD clients: Lexi, who has been having training walks for a while to work on her reactivity towards traffic and general lead manners, Sam and Athena who have both started training walks this week to work on walking without pulling on the lead, and Storm who attends classes and is soon going to be embarking on training walks 🐶

20/08/2025

🐶 This is why we see 'reactive' dogs continuing with their behaviour, they've learned what to do to get some relief. 🐕 To support a dog behaving this way means that many factors need to be considered to understand their personal triggers, we simply can't help a dog unless we understand this. ℹ️ Our 121 behaviour packages are designed to find out exactly what's going on. This isn't a quick process and can take a few hours. We look at every aspect of a dogs life and create a personalised plan for each dog. 💓 It's what we believe every dog deserves.

Fear ➡️Reactivity➡️ More Fear… the cycle continues.

That person walked away or backed off after the bark.
Excellent result....for your dog.
It "worked".
Those barks and lunges "made" that threat back off or move on.

It can also work in a different way.
When we remove them.
When a dog is barking or lunging (oh that word always looks so wrong written down)...but when we remove them, the same connections can be made.

The reaction got the desired result.
Why wouldn't they repeat it !

It was reinforced.
They got the distance from something they were very unsure of.

What is reinforced will be repeated.

18/08/2025

👌 So proud of our client and her dog Mabel.

🐕 We've been supporting our client with some issues over the last couple of months and she has been working really hard with Mabel putting in some time and effort with the training we've prescribed.

👇 This is Mabel below who looks like she's just having a snooze BUT she's not doing that all.

➡️ She has been taught to lie still like this on cue.

ℹ️ Last week she needed to have an xray which is normally really tricky as a dog needs to be still so they need to be sedated however because Mabel has now been trained to do this she needed no sedation and was able to lie still for the duration of the xray.

🐕 Our client is a veterinary nurse so Mabel is used to a veterinary setting however this should not detract from how impressive this is.

17/08/2025

🐶🐕 A few more photos 😉 from yesterday's fun at The Inkwell at Lichfield

17/08/2025

🐾🐾 A very pleasant surprise this morning when all the TTDE dogs and had an impromptu meeting and walk over Gentleshaw. They all had a great time together 💜

16/08/2025

🐕🐶 We spent a wonderful few hours running the dog show today at The Inkwell at Lichfield. Thank you to everyone who came along, we met some wonderful people and their dogs and the classes were very hard to judge. We were spoiled for choice.

🐶🐕 We hope everyone enjoyed themselves and enjoyed showing off their lovely dogs.

🌥 The weather was really kind and the sun stayed away, keeping the temperature lower than forecast.

🐾🐾 Congratulations to all the winners in the classes 👏

16/08/2025

🐶🐶 Class times today, just a couple of minutes until Cutest puppy! 🐶🐶

14/08/2025

🐕 A big Through The Dog's Eyes welcome to our new starters and their rather lovely pupsters 🐕

🐶 We love watching how they progress through the weeks and how that all important bond grows 💕

✅️ New classes starting in September in Aldridge, Stonnall and Burntwood

12/08/2025

🐶 Got any plans this Saturday? 🐶

🐾 The Inkwell in Lichfield are super dog friendly so to show their love for all things 'dog' they are hosting a doggy event this coming Saturday.

🐕 There will be stalls set up in the beer garden selling lots of dog goodies and we will be supporting the pub by running the fun dog show, there's plenty of categories to enter from cutest puppy to golden oldie, best biscuit catcher to waggiest tail and everything in between (£2 per entry). It promises to be a fun few hours for everyone.

🍻🥂🍕🍲 Plenty of food and drink available on the day 😋

1️⃣st prize - Marstons have very kindly provided £20 vouchers off food/ drink for all 1st prize winners 🍺🍷🥗

🐶🐕🐩 See you there The Inkwell at Lichfield 🐶🐕🐩

11/08/2025

4️⃣th attempt at this post as fb didn't want to play last night or earlier.

🐶 Yesterday, after training classes, we held a Kennel Club Good Citizens Bronze test along with a sneaky Silver one too.

🐕 We saw some amazing work and everyone who attended should be really proud of themselves and their dogs who coped really well in the warm weather. Fortunately, it was lovely and cool in the hall.

🥉 Congratulations on achieving the Bronze award go to:-

Brittney and Enzo
Kay and Willow
Coco and Morris

🥈Congratulations on achieving the Silver award go to:-

Anita and Daisy

Well done to everyone 👏

09/08/2025

🐶 Exciting times - we're delighted to announce that we're coming home! 🐶

🐕 As a Burntwood based business, we've been patiently waiting for a local venue where we can run our dog training classes.

ℹ️ Earlier this year, we found out that the old Methodist Church in Princess Street was being converted to a community space. The renovation has taken some time, but the building was officially declared open yesterday, and we were asked to go along to the opening as one of the businesses who will be using the building.

🐕 One of the TTDE dogs came along to the opening. Ruby (the Schmoobs) is still young but did exceptionally well in a busy and noisy environment. This would not have been possible 6 months ago, so all credit to Sarah for working hard to support Ruby to become the dog we knew she could be. She got to meet some wonderful people, including the amazing Sheila, who is 101 years young, she looks fabulous

We'll be posting more about Ruby's journey as it's important that we're transparent about the issues we've faced with our own dogs and how we've overcome them.

‼️ Watch this space for more information about the start date for our Burntwood dog training classes ‼️

05/08/2025

🐶 A big belated happy 2nd birthday to Sydney who still came to classes on Sunday despite being his birthday 🎂

🐕 We know he was still spoilt rotten and had lots of pressies before classes. #ʙɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏʙᴏʏ