All Things Dog Training & Behaviour

31/08/2026

She's such a clever girl. She has a system for pulling lost toys from the bottom of the pond.

Locate with her paws, drag to shallower water, dive, retrieve 👌

27/08/2026

🎉 IT'S OFFICIAL 🎉

The next All Things Dog Charity Fun Dog Show is in the diary! So mark Sunday June 6th on your calendars 👌

Lots of classes, stalls, food & drink, prizes, rosettes....the lot 🐾

I'll be reaching out for sponsors and stalls after Christmas (yeah I said it....CHRISTMAS 😂).

Super excited about this as it is something I really enjoyed doing with one of my own dogs and it has also been a little while since our last ATD show!

Have a great day all 🐾

24/08/2026

**TRAINERS BE AWARE**

Scam email. I thought it looked weird, had a look and found some info saying that apparently they book, delibrately pay way over the amount "by accident", ask you to refund the difference, and then pull the original payment back too.

Apparently they have done it with air bnb's too and could easily do it with dog sitters/boarders too I guess.

Email came from [email protected]

24/08/2026

TKMaxx are providing a public service with these hair clips 👌😂

Rottweiler's next please! 🥰😂

18/08/2026

Spot on 👌👏

Your dog is never “fully trained” 🐶

A little reminder from Shrimp this morning that training doesn’t have an end date… and that even dog trainers occasionally find themselves thinking what the actual hell has happened to my dog?! 😂

I took the boys to the beach this morning and decided to take Shrimp with us. She’s brilliant off lead, has great recall, is super engaged with me and I thought she’d have a lovely time.

At the last minute I decided to put her harness and flexi lead on, purely because keeping an eye on two toddlers AND a dog felt like it might be a bit much initially.

THANK GOD I DID 🤦‍♀️😂

The second her little feet touched the sand…

FERAL.

Instant zoomies. Absolutely beside herself. Approximately 3% of her brain remained available for communication with me 😂

And the zoomies didn't really stop.

For nearly TWO HOURS.

This dog, who has never shown the slightest interest in birds in her entire life, also apparently discovered seagulls today.

And it turns out she has some VERY strong feelings about them 🙈😂

It wasn't until I was driving home that I realised something…

I don't think I've ever actually taken her to the beach before 🤦‍♀️

And there was my answer.

Shrimp hasn't suddenly forgotten all her training. She was in a completely new environment, with new smells, new sensations, huge open spaces, waves, sand, screaming seagulls, a handler who only had half her brain on her and approximately 472 exciting things happening at once.

Skills don't always automatically transfer perfectly into every environment.

A dog who has an amazing recall in the woods might struggle on the beach.

A dog who can settle beautifully at home might find a busy café incredibly difficult.

A dog who can focus perfectly in training might walk into a competition environment and suddenly look like they've never heard their name before.

Training is lifelong.

We build skills, then we practise those skills in different environments, around different distractions and at different levels of excitement.

And sometimes an environment shows us a massive hole in our training that we didn't even know existed 🙈

Apparently mine is called THE BEACH 😂🌊

So Shrimp and I will be going back.

Without the children.

And with a training plan 😂

16/08/2026

For all dog lovers....and especially Dachshund lovers, this is currently being sold in T.KMaxx for less than a fiver! And the money goes to charity 👍

It's a big bag too, ideal for shopping. I just used mine as a picnic bag 👌

But just one thing before you go and buy....please wait till I can go back this week and get myself a couple more first 😉😂

04/08/2026

WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?

No seriously....like in a nice way 😉 What do you need help with? And whatever it is, I will try and get it done before the weather finally turns and we can all start moaning about it being cold and wet again 😂 I'm open to suggestions, but some we have previously done....

🐾 Lead pulling workshop

🐾 Recall workshop

🐾 "So you want to be a dog trainer" Q&A

01/08/2026

Well don't that just make me feel all warm and fuzzy 😏
I've been so busy lately that I hadn't even realised that the page now has over 2000 followers 🎉

And I honestly appreciate every single one of them 🧡

Have an amazing weekend all 🐾

31/07/2026

It's here...... "Keeping Up Pups!"

The love child of puppy classes and our very own ATD Obedience Club. The filler to keep you and your dog on track should you wish to join club once your pup is old enough.

A similar ethos on training, lots of fun and laughs, whilst also getting the work in to make sure you and you pup are always on the same page.

KUPs is available to anyone who has already completed one of our puppy courses, but their pup is still too young to join our Obedience Club.

For more details on the taster day, and KUPs in general, pop us a message or email.

Have a lovely weekend all 🐾

28/07/2026

Guilty post 🙋🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Just some of the beautiful clients who's session posts I never got around to. So before I lose them to the black hole that is my photo albums, I cannot let their absolute undeniable photogenic...ism (is that a word?!), go to waste 👍 So here's your fill of cute puppers for a random Tuesday afternoon 😉 Stunners the lot of them 😍 And all good boys and girls (never mind what their parents say 😉😂).