EXEmplar Dogs

28/10/2026

Does your dog like to use their nose? Here are this month’s scent dogs having a blast searching the room 🐶

Next week we start searching luggage 🎉

If you think your dog would love this, come and join us for our next course starting 25th November 🐶

19/10/2026

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m sure many of us can relate - not only applicable to Hungarian Viszla’s 🙈

🚨 FOR SALE. FREE TO A GOOD HOME. POSSIBLY WILLING TO PAY YOU. 🚨
Anyone interested in an 8 month old, allegedly Hungarian Vizsla?
Breed identification currently pending.
Colour: Predominantly red, although approximately 45% is now a rather fetching shade of dark brown. Not entirely sure whether this is mud, fox poo or something that was once alive.
Fragrance: Eau de Fox Arse. Quite pungent. Lingers beautifully. 🤢
Hearing: Selective. Possibly profoundly deaf. Can hear a crisp packet being opened three counties away but apparently cannot hear me shouting his name from six feet.
Recall: More of a suggestion than an actual trained behaviour. Occasionally acknowledges my existence before continuing with whatever criminal activity he’s involved in.
Intelligence: Currently sharing one brain cell with the rest of the Vizsla population. Unfortunately, it’s not his week to have it.
Personality: Somewhere between a feral woodland creature, a caffeinated toddler and a Victorian street urchin with absolutely no moral compass.
General behaviour: Feral. Completely and utterly feral. If chaos wore a fur coat, this would be it.
I have spent over 30 years training dogs. I have qualifications, degrees, accreditations and a fairly respectable understanding of canine behaviour.
And yet here I am, standing in a field, covered in mud, negotiating with what appears to be a ginger wheelie bin full of bad decisions.
I am questioning my career, my life choices and whether I should have taken up something considerably less stressful. Like crocodile wrestling.
THANK GOD FOR SCENT DETECTION.
Because apparently, when there’s something to sniff out, the little git transforms into a focused, intelligent, highly motivated working dog.
The brain cell clocks in. The lights come on. Someone is actually home.
The minute we finish?
Brain cell clocks out. Gone fishing. Back to being a complete and utter swamp donkey.

I love him dearly. Obviously.
But if anyone sees me wandering around Northamptonshire muttering to myself, please don’t be alarmed.
I’m just a professional dog trainer being professionally humbled by an eight month old ginger idiot.
Peanut. You absolute weapon. ❤️🐾
No puppies will actually be rehomed. Although offers of w**e, sympathy and industrial strength dog shampoo will be gratefully received.

18/10/2026

Rusty, Kobi, Carlo and Leo have all done a fab job with their Scent Course and had sooo much fun 🐶

Here they are searching luggage and declaring when the search area is clear and with their certificates 👏👏👏

16/10/2026

Elsie and Otis learning how to not go through doors until their human tells them it’s safe 👏👏👏

We missed Hector and Skye but will look forward to seeing them for their last session 🐶

16/10/2026

This week the puppies were getting the hang of walking without pulling - a tricky one to teach them but with the right skills they will learn to master it . Well done Ollie, Flash, Ozzy and Ned 👏👏👏

If you have a puppy (or are getting one soon) and would like to join us we only have ONE space remaining on our next course starting 2nd November

11/10/2026

🎉 🎉🎉🎉PUPPY COURSE 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Do you have (or are you getting) a puppy? Would you like to teach them to listen well? Do you have an older puppy and would like to go back to basics to help them listen better? This course is for puppies whose humans would like to teach them the basics in an environment with controlled distractions. Your dog MUST be happy around other dogs and people.

We have TWO spaces on a course running Mondays 6.00pm - 7.00pm, starting 2nd November 🎉

Would you like to teach your puppy useful behaviours such as:

✔️Attention to name (the start of all training!)
✔️Sit (impulse control)
✔️Down (impulse control)
✔️Stay (impulse control)
✔️Coming when called (could save their lives)
✔️How to settle (if you want to take your dog to the pub/cafes)
✔️Loose lead walking (so your arm isn’t pulled out of the socket!)
✔️How to leave it (could save their lives)
✔️Controlled greetings (to teach them how to interact appropriately with dogs)
✔️Positive reward based training
✔️MAXIMUM OF 5 dogs

Plus a lot of other exercises which are useful in real life.

Please contact us for more information or to book a space.

07/10/2026

Our adolescent dogs getting even better at impulse control 👏👏👏

Here are Elsie, Otis, Skye and Hector all mastering their stay cue and also leaving food on the floor 🐶

06/10/2026

This months puppies, Flash, Ollie, Monty, Ned and Ozzy, all showing us how it’s done with recall.

Recall being one of the most important things we can teach our puppies as it could save their life 🐶

We teach puppies to want to come back to their humans - like everything, during adolescence this can go - but there are always ways to retrain it 🎉

If you’d like help with recall with and older dog, please let get in touch 🐶

05/10/2026

Carlo, Leo and Kobi did a fab job during their latest scent session 👏👏👏

We missed Rusty but will look forward to seeing him next time 🐶