Feel Good Dog Training

09/09/2025

A couple of spaces left on puppy training classes in Darley Dale 🐶🐾

03/09/2025

Reggie had a brilliant session today working on “leave it” and not barking at dogs 🙌

29/08/2025

🐾 Puppy Training – but not the standard kind!

Looking for more than your average puppy class?

Friendly real-life puppy training designed with you and your puppy in mind.

Over 6 weeks, we’ll explore:

• Safe, confidence-building socialisation
• Focus & engagement with you
• Chewing & biting
• Lead walking
• Recall
• Jumping up
• and more

🧡 But here’s what makes this class different:
You get a say. These sessions are shaped by what matters most to you. With very small group sizes, you’ll get personalised support, the chance to ask loads of questions, and a chance to connect with other local puppy owners.

🐶 For puppies from 2nd vaccination up to approx. 5 months
🌳 Held in the beautiful Whitworth Park, Darley Dale
👥 WhatsApp group for videos, learning & support between sessions
📚 Weekly take-home tasks to make progress feel easy and manageable

✨ This is for you if:
• You want a small, welcoming group
• You want real-life training that works
• You want safe socialisation and puppy confidence
• You want tools that will help after the course ends

Starts Tuesday 16th September at 12pm –

Whitworth Park, Darley Dale

Let’s get your pup off to the best start 🐕

📩 Message Sally 07828 123051 or visit:

https://www.feelgooddogtraining.co.uk/puppy-school

28/08/2025

Monty stated working with me afew weeks ago for afew things including barking and lunging at dogs, barking with visitors, general anxiety. He is doing so well and is becoming much calmer and more resilient. He had a great session in the park today. There’s still some work to do but he’s progressing so well 😊

19/08/2025

So cute 💙
Today Gus has learnt some new calming techniques so he doesn’t nip his family 🤩

11/08/2025

07/08/2025

Here's something interesting that I stumbled across today.

In a 2024 study, researchers exposed dogs to scents from stressed vs. relaxed humans while testing their optimism levels.

Dogs smelling stress odours became more pessimistic, expecting disappointment rather than rewards.

This only happened with stress scents, not relaxed ones.

This shows us that stress can be airborne.

The saying "stress travels down the lead" is only half true, our dogs actually smell chemical signals when we are stressed.

In the test, stressed human scents made dogs less confident about approaching new situations, potentially impacting their learning.

Therefore self care is dog care.

It would be much better to sit and do a 10 minute self reflection, calming our own nervous system than it would be to push on through the day, when we are disregulated.

Managing our own stress directly helps our dog's emotional state and ability to learn.

When we are relaxed, we're creating a better training environment.

We must consider not only what our dogs can see and hear, but also what they can smell.

Stress is part of life, but now we know that we not only need to take care of ourselves for our own sake, but also for the sake of our beautiful dogs.

I explained this in much more detail in my reader support group, you can join that by purchasing from my bookstore.

05/08/2025

Rosie is nervous and reactive to dogs on walks 🥲

After our first session her owners say she is:

⭐️listening and responding on walks

⭐️Can stop staring at dogs

⭐️More dog like and confident to sniff more

Walks are walks rather than patrolling and checking what’s coming

We have 2 more sessions to carry on working on this.

Don’t get me wrong, things don’t always work this fast but Rosie is doing so well so far 🤩

29/07/2025

Are you expecting a new puppy?

Get the best start for your pup.

🐾Feel Good Foundations Puppy Classes🐾

Darley Dale & Chesterfield

From September

From second vaccination to around 5 months of age.

DM or see https://www.feelgooddogtraining.co.uk/puppy-school