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My Dugs 🏠 Just my dogs (Henry counts here even if he’s temporary) because it’s very rare that I only have my lot. When I...
02/04/2026

My Dugs 🏠

Just my dogs (Henry counts here even if he’s temporary) because it’s very rare that I only have my lot. When I do I make the most of finding new walk locations, going places with sheep or busier roads and the last few days we’ve found some really nice walk locations 🥰

Our first NNA Trial - Foundation 🐽 I entered Raven into her first NNA Trial, which I had been avoiding because I avoid t...
29/03/2026

Our first NNA Trial - Foundation 🐽

I entered Raven into her first NNA Trial, which I had been avoiding because I avoid trying new competitive things.

Raven did really well, considering I took us to the wrong location and we were then late and flustered.

She came away with her Exterior and Selection Badges, as well as a Reserve (2nd) Medal 🥈

Looks like another hobby to take the remainder of our pennies 🤣

Thanks to and for a great trial. In an awesome new location thanks to

29/03/2026

HENRY 🧡🤪

Henry is looking for a new home! He needs confident owners who are active every day.

Henry is an 18 month old neutered, male Hungarian Vizsla.

He is:
🔸confidently independent when off exploring but has excellent recall
🔸busy and loves to run so would suit someone who is also really active day to day
🔸friendly towards dogs and has lived with dogs of varying ages, sizes and reactivity
🔸crate trained and sleeps well throughout the day and night
🔸great recall and safe to explore the hills - he’s done munros with me ⛰️
🔸 very affectionate but was a bit rude and pushy before so would need someone who will put boundaries in place and continue his training

Henry is looking for a home without cats or children 🧡

He is looking to be rehomed through

Message me if you want to know more about Hens 🥰

25/03/2026

Stranger Danger and Touch 🤚

We can stop people from touching our dogs, until we can’t. We can wear yellow leads and nervous collars to prevent people from interacting with our dogs, until a child wants to touch the fluffy dog. We can educate and educate but people feel they are different and that surely the dog will love them.

So let’s help change the dog’s pessimistic outlook towards touch from strangers and help them learn there are other choices and we will help support them!

Let’s build trust, motivation, partnership, relationship, resilience and optimism 🧡

Why has resource guarding become so normalised?We hear things like,“I’d be angry if someone took my food too.”“He resour...
24/03/2026

Why has resource guarding become so normalised?

We hear things like,
“I’d be angry if someone took my food too.”
“He resource guards, obviously.”
“She’s protective.”
“We just leave him alone when he has something.”

It makes the resource guarding behaviour seem reasonable and expected, therefore normal.

Dogs live in a human world and we have to teach them to share with others, to share with us, to have optimism towards the sharing of food, toys, space, their body, their owners or anything they deem valuable.

Avoiding the situation might prevent conflict in the moment, but it doesn’t change how the dog feels. Often leading to something happening “out of the blue”.

Resource guarding isn’t something you just have to accept and with our help we can change your dog’s outlook on people, dogs and resources.

If this is something you’re dealing with, don’t leave it to get worse. Book a free call and we can talk through your situation.

My Vinnie boy won his Level 4 SWUK Trial on Saturday evening. I had little to no expectations of him, we’ve not been on ...
16/03/2026

My Vinnie boy won his Level 4 SWUK Trial on Saturday evening.

I had little to no expectations of him, we’ve not been on it with practicing recently and I was feeling like crap with this cold and flu. I didn’t think we would do very well to the point I almost didn’t even enter the trial.

But he was just on it, he was quick and he was accurate. And those two things combined made him a wee winner 🥇

Proud of him ❤️

Thanks for another brilliant and well organised trial 🤩

10/03/2026

One of my most important cues - “Sour”

Sour started out as my cue during play, it was taught to Raven since she was a tiny puppy that to drop the toy means the play continues or she’d be heavily rewarded for giving the toy up. It was a really important cue that I’m now super proud of - she’ll drop anything from a chew to a dead rabbit.

This cue isn’t just isolated to play sessions but is crucial for so many aspects of day to day life ie picking up things I don’t want her to have, finding body parts of animals, eating rubbish etc.

Dogs are opportunistic, for her safety I need to be able to get her to drop things even she finds valuable quickly!

How quickly can your dog drop it’s treasures?

07/03/2026

Picco 🦊

Picco the Shiba is here to stay with me for two weeks and he’s all the way from London.

He’s a smart little fox who has big feelings about people and dogs but he’s also learned what gets him space from things he does not want to be involved in. And he’s here for me to help put some initial foundations in place that his owner can go away and continue to build on.

He’s such an interesting guy and I can’t wait to see what his board and train experience can help him achieve 👀

02/03/2026

Off Lead Heel - smashing it 🌟

Trying Something New 🌟 Anyone who knows me well knows I’m very critical of myself and my success, I’m a negative Nancy a...
05/12/2025

Trying Something New 🌟

Anyone who knows me well knows I’m very critical of myself and my success, I’m a negative Nancy about my own progress and achievements.

I’ve noticed it’s made me reluctant to try new things or give it my all because you have to go through that phase of trying to work it all out and pick yourself up when things feel like they aren’t going right or you are getting frustrated with progress.

I’ve been putting off doing NNA with my dogs because it was different, different rules to learn, different trials, different expectations. And I know that what comes with that for me is perfectionism, my harsh inner critic and frustration. Which can lead to avoidance, not attempting to try or giving up.

I don’t expect this from others, in fact Sean pointed out how considerate I am to others and encourage people who work with me to think positively about their dogs and their progress. But not myself.

So I did a new(ish) thing - it’s still scentwork after all, gave myself a little grace and trained for our Odour Recognition Test so they can compete at a National Nose Work trial. My dogs both passed their Foundation ORT so can now trial which is the start of an exciting new chapter of our journey with Scentwork!

Be kind to yourself, learning is messy but that’s what it’s all about - we don’t just learn from success but failures, frustration, highs, lows and everything in between ♥️

Chester 🧡The one and only, if you know - you know 🥰
03/12/2025

Chester 🧡

The one and only, if you know - you know 🥰

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