Paw Forward Dog Training

Paw Forward Dog Training I specialise in key areas such as loose lead walking, reliable recall, navigating adolescence, and setting puppies up for success.

🐶 Helping gundog breeds & teens thrive
🧨Teen Dog Club founder
🦖 Calm the chaos & build real-life skills
📚 Certified dog trainer & behaviour consultant
🙌 Welfare-focused, reward-based training

📍 Burbage / Stoke Golding & Online Hey, I'm Shannon! 👋
I'm a professional dog trainer based in Burbage, Leicestershire, offering in-person and online training services to help dog owners build better relatio

nships with their dogs. As a proud owner of two Labradors and a passionate gundog trainer, I understand the unique needs of working breeds like Labradors, Spaniels, Vizslas etc. My training philosophy is grounded in kindness, positive reinforcement, and ethical practices—ensuring a safe, harm-free approach to every dog I work with. When you train with me, you enter a judgement-free zone. Regardless of your past experiences or challenges, I’m here to guide and support you with patience and understanding. I'm committed not only to helping my clients grow, but also to continuously expanding my own knowledge to offer the best possible guidance. If you're looking for compassionate, expert help with your dog, you've come to the right place!

24/06/2026

Training isn’t the only way, or even the best way, to get through your dog’s adolescence.
If anything, it’s only a realllllyyy small part of the picture.

Three key things to remember if you’re struggling with your teenage dog are try to regulate your own emotions, have fun together/ develop your bond, and to reframe when your brain tells you that everything is ‘bad’.

It might feel like your dog has been a wild teenager forever but it isn’t true and it won’t last 🥹

Try to:
Take some time out for yourself
Prioritise play over obedience
Make a note of the good things

For a copy of my FREE teen dog survival guide (which includes a simple 3-day reset), comment ‘TEEN’ and I will send you the details 🫶🏼

22/06/2026

Your dog probablyyyyyy isn’t done developing by 18 months old! 🙅🏼‍♀️

Sure, breed does factor into how long your dog may be growing and maturing for but even then, there are no set rules on how long their development will take.

Even my boys are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum with my youngest being pretty chill at 2, yet my oldest still being wild despite having just turned 3 years old (and they’re full siblings).

While you might be comparing your dog to others and thinking you’re the one that is ‘doing everything wrong’, I promise you, you’re not!

You really have got this!

Things you DON’T have to teach your teenage dog👀 In reality, you don’t have to train your teenage dog at all 🫣Sure, ther...
20/06/2026

Things you DON’T have to teach your teenage dog👀

In reality, you don’t have to train your teenage dog at all 🫣

Sure, there are MASSIVE benefits to teaching your teenage dog a range of life skills but perfection should never be the goal, not even for adult dogs.

The more we expect from our teenage dogs, the more the frustration grows for them and for us.

So, teach your dog what you want to teach them and prioritise fun over obedience!🤪

If you want some easy-to-follow video tutorials, join us in the ✨Teen Dog Club ✨

1 space left on our upcoming Teen Dog Skills course 🐾🗓️Start date: Sunday 21st June⏰Time: 9am📍Location: Stoke GoldingIf ...
14/06/2026

1 space left on our upcoming Teen Dog Skills course 🐾

🗓️Start date: Sunday 21st June
⏰Time: 9am
📍Location: Stoke Golding

If you’re feeling guilty about secretly hating your teenage dog, you are absolutely not on your own —teenage dogs can be hard work! 🥲

Join us on our Teen Dog Skills course for 4 weeks of fun, informative dog training classes to give you the skills and confidence to navigate your dog’s adolescence 🙌🏼

Plus when you join, you get free membership to our Teen Dog Club, which has video tutorials for the exercise we cover in class (+ more) and a community of people in the same place as you with your teen dog!

If you’d like to book, check out our booking page bookwhen.com/pawforwarddogtraining or message me on 07407 782722

🔹Gundog Skills🔹Lots of fun in class today learning about retrieves! Absolutely blown away by how good all the pups were,...
11/06/2026

🔹Gundog Skills🔹

Lots of fun in class today learning about retrieves! Absolutely blown away by how good all the pups were, even those whose first try it was🤯

🔹Gundog Skills🔹After postponing last week’s class because of the heatwave, the pups were right back to it this evening. ...
04/06/2026

🔹Gundog Skills🔹

After postponing last week’s class because of the heatwave, the pups were right back to it this evening. We worked on our sit/stays and introduced a whistle for recall and they all had a fabulous time with their humans 😍

🔸Teen Dog Skills🔸Fabulous final lesson of our Teen Dog Skills course today 🥹My favourite part of today’s session has to ...
24/05/2026

🔸Teen Dog Skills🔸

Fabulous final lesson of our Teen Dog Skills course today 🥹

My favourite part of today’s session has to be watching the humans making some really brilliant, conscious choices like remembering to relax their leads and giving their dogs processing time before panicking (it really does make all of the difference)!

Just LOVEDDDD this amazing group!!😍

👉🏼 if you’d like to join a future course, check out our booking page! https://bookwhen.com/pawforwarddogtraining

3 things to know if you’re a first time puppy parent 🐶Dog parenting certainly can be an art form at times. Balancing eno...
23/05/2026

3 things to know if you’re a first time puppy parent 🐶

Dog parenting certainly can be an art form at times. Balancing enough rest with enough exercise with enough enrichment, it’s a lot.
Not to mention the absolutely shock that comes when your puppy hits adolescence😅

If you’ve never had a dog before, you might not know these things yet and it surely can be a ✨learning experience✨

So here are some things you need to know about your puppy/teengae dog☺️

🔹Gundog Skills🔹Our last Gundog Skills class with this lovely lot (I may have held everyone hostage until I’d taken pics ...
23/05/2026

🔹Gundog Skills🔹

Our last Gundog Skills class with this lovely lot (I may have held everyone hostage until I’d taken pics of all of them today😂)😍

Super proud of all of the progress everyone made throughout the course and mega impressed by everyone’s retrieves including in the long grass!! 🤯

👉🏼 if you’d like to join a future course, check out our booking page! https://bookwhen.com/pawforwarddogtraining

🔹Gundog Skills🔹Had a new course start this evening and I have to say we have some real superstars in class👏🏼Can’t wait t...
21/05/2026

🔹Gundog Skills🔹

Had a new course start this evening and I have to say we have some real superstars in class👏🏼

Can’t wait to see how they all get on over the next few weeks🥹

Check out our future Gundog Skills courses 👉🏼bookwhen.com/pawforwarddogtraining

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