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18/07/2025

We had to continue James’ 18th birthday celebrations today too! If you can’t have a week long celebration for your 18th when can you!?

17/07/2025

A big Happy 18th birthday to my amazing assistant James! And another big 10th birthday to my girl Missy too!!!!
They celebrated at class earlier this week with lots of cake for humans and dogs!
Now we wait and see how hungover James is at class tomorrow 😆

20/06/2025

Congratulations to our recent beginners group on completion of their course!!!
Mickey, Maggie, Arthur, Coco and Cosmo!!
All superstars!!!!! 🤩

18/06/2025

2 spaces remaining on the next beginners course starting 7th July 6-7pm!
6 week course covering foundation obedience, socialisation and bond building starting you off on the right foot!
Click below to book your space:

https://www.petiquettedogtraining.co.uk/beginners-class

01/06/2025

The day we knew was coming but it hit like a brick! Cody!! My first ever client a whole 12 years ago and has seen me through thick and thin ever since! She was there when I brought Maizey home and since was there for Missy, Ernie and Masai too. To say she became family would be an understatement and will be so sorely missed by many! A very very loved dog with the best of owners that gave her the happiest of lives! You’re always with us Cody, we’ll miss you very much!!!! Rest in peace Angel! 💔🪽

14/05/2025

Beginners dog training group classes now bookable!
Next course is starting 23rd June 6-7pm at Eaton community hall for 6 weeks.
Limited spaces available!!!
Click below to book your space:

https://www.petiquettedogtraining.co.uk/beginners-class

08/05/2025

🐾 Mental health 🐾
For some people dog ownership is hard work! When faced with challenges it can make life fairly limiting. Most of us get a dog to be able to go out on good walks, have company and they expand our lives but not for all. Having a dog with anxiety can limit where you walk, when you walk and who you talk to. Dealing with reactivity can be socially isolating and frustrating. Having a dog with separation anxiety can make it hard to leave the house to socialise yourself and see friends and family. It is super important for those of you facing challenges to look after your own mental health too! In many cases our own mental health can affect your dogs, they are so attuned to us that an off day for us can very easily mean an off day for them too.
Originally before getting into dog training I did a lot of work with people’s mental health, with my degree being human psychology. It’s easy for me to see a connection between the dogs that are struggling mentally but also the humans that are struggling too. Sometimes it’s a case of ‘which came first the chicken or the egg’- is the dog affecting the owner, or owner affecting the dog. The two go hand in hand!

13/02/2025

Who could resist these cuties!!!
Another wonderful beginners class with these guys and well done for working super hard throughout!
Congratulations to Nancy, Norman, Perci, Ronan and Guinness! 🎉

05/02/2025

Last few spaces remaining on our beginners course starting 17th Feb 6pm!

6 week course focusing on foundation obedience exercises using reward based methods.
🐾 Loose lead walking
🐾 Recall
🐾 Stay
🐾 Leave it
🐾 Handling
And more!!!

Click the link to book your place:

https://www.petiquettedogtraining.co.uk/beginners-class

03/02/2025

🐾 How to choose a dog trainer 🐾

The dog training industry is an unregulated 1. This means you do not have to qualify and literally anyone can call themselves a trainer.

Why is this dangerous?
You could be taking your dog to someone with no formal training, they do not know the science, proper techniques or how to deal with some of the bigger problem areas. Owning dogs all your life and training your own simply doesn’t prepare you for some of the reactivity cases, separation cases, under/over socialised cases and more that you will come across as a trainer, including many health problems that can effect behaviours. Every dog is different and you need to be taught how to handle that effectively and also ethically. But mostly, as a trainer it’s actually extremely rare that we are handling the dog. We are actually human trainers. Our job is to train YOU how to train your dog and this takes people skills too. So even if you’ve done a great job training your own personal dogs it doesn’t prepare you for teaching someone else how to do it in all different scenarios.

Do I believe qualifications are a must?
Not necessarily. I have them and continuously work on myself and keep up to date with science. I could do that without officially qualifying. To me it’s mostly important that the person claiming to be a trainer is doing just that. Attending courses, webinars etc and trying out different things to keep up to date and bettering themselves- after all no1 knows absolutely everything!
If your dog trainer isn’t doing this- run!

Puppy play dates:
Whilst trainers certainly aren’t opposed to dogs having their friends and playtimes (they absolutely need it!) they are often run incorrectly with a free for all type play. This can result in rude and unwanted behaviours, over socialisation and later problems with recall, poor play styles and even reactivity. Most training sessions will encourage dogs to be working with their owners in the presence of other dogs to learn how to keep focused in distracting places but also how amazing and important you are as the owner.

So what are you looking for/asking for?
🐾Qualifications? If none what CPD (continued professional development) do they do?
🐾 What are their ethics? Do they align with yours?
🐾 How are their group sessions run? Is the focus on you and your bond/training?

Here’s mine:
I’m qualified with IMDT (institute of modern dog trainers). I am a member of UK Sniffer dogs and also Kids around Dogs (both have to take courses and qualify for). I also am a member of the school of canine science’s high performers where we do challenges/tasks and development weekly in all different areas. I attend monthly webinars for Kids around dogs to keep up to date with them too. As well as these I will often do singular seminars/webinars that pop up throughout the year and I take my own dogs to other trainers courses on scent work, agility and mantrailing (it takes a village to give everything sometimes!)

Photo is 1 of my own dogs in competition taken by Coalcroft photography!

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