Auntie Daxies Pawsome Adventures

21/11/2023

Happy 1st birthday Monty Moo, I love you more than you will ever know❤️ Forever thankful you came into our lives and became our big baby and Dobbys best friend 🥰❤️ Today we celebrate not only your 1st ever birthday but your 1st birthday of many with us full of love, cuddles, kisses, treats and presents and the 1st family birthday in our new home!!🏡😍❤️

05/11/2023

Sausage sitting Sundays 🐾🥰

I’ve been super quiet the last couple of weeks as life has been so crazy!! We are in the process of moving house, along with studying and working, so unfortunately the social media drew the short straw when it came to time!

Whilst it is important for me to be able to show you what I do here at Auntie Daxies, the actual job itself is more important than posting on social media, therefore sometimes you’ll get daily posts and other times there won’t be many!

My posts are more to give you tips and advice, to show my clients photos of their doggies, and of course the platform is used to promote my business. I will be writing more blog posts on my website soon as well!

This week I have the delight of looking after Phoebe and Theo. Theo has grade 1/2 IVDD so I feel very honoured to be trusted to care for him. He is doing amazing and on week 4 of crate rest, we have been going for 5 minute wees and he isn’t very wobbly which is great, it just goes to show how much crate resting your dog can help massively with their recovery!!

Fingers crossed for Theo that all gets better from here! Pheobe is just such a flirt, full of kisses, cuddles and tummy tickles! We have had lots of fun playing with our snuffle mats, other games and Phoebe had a run around the field this morning!🐾💜

26/10/2023

Zoomie mode: Activated🚀🦹🏻‍♂️

Always time for zoomies on our walks so the doggies have lots of fun getting all that extra energy out. My walks are more than just a walk they are interactive and fun! We sniff lots, practice training, play games and I take toys and treats too. If you ever see me out and about you’ll often see me having a chat with a dog!

As the colder and darker days are approaching, visit my website for details about walks, pop ins and pet sitting!!🥰🐾💜

26/10/2023

Everyone has good and bad days and sometimes our animals are a great help, other times they are not!

Auntie daxie is here to help support you on the good and the bad days, please feel free to reach out for support whether it's mental health related, childcare related (I have a degree in Early Years) or doggie related. I'm more than just a service but a friend, someone to talk to and support you through whatever it is you're going though. Together we have got this, noone is ever alone💪🏼❤️

The world is a little chaotic and heavy at the moment 💙
I hope you are doing ok.
We all feel it.
You are not alone.
Keep it simple.
Switch off the news.
Grab a book.
Ground yourself in nature.
Breathe.
It's ok to slow down and "just be".
Lay quietly with your pet.
Breathe again.

Loves and hugs,
Chrissy x🩷x

25/10/2023

24/10/2023

Landry the distinguished gentleman🎩😌

Always lots of fun having walkies with the big saus! He is such a poser😂 I promise most of the photos I get of him, he stands there looking at me like “take my photo then?!” 🤣

Also with fireworks night fast approaching I wanted to give some of you a tip if you’re worried about how your dogs will be on bonfire night (and the surrounding weeks).

✨ Desensitising to firework sounds can be done gradually, it would be a good idea to start now if you haven’t already. Play fireworks on a continuous YouTube video at a very low volume so that your dog doesn’t react and gradually increase the sound, you can give them treats for listening! Notice what they are doing, most of us know when our dog is about to bark, instead of waiting for the bark and telling them quiet, quickly throw a treat during the build up and the bark won’t happen. Why? Because you’ve given them food. Keep this up and they will learn, “oh ok so when I hear these sounds it means good things, I may get food? But it’s nothing to be scared of because I remember something good happens when I hear this sound, so I know I don’t need to bark.”

Eventually your dog will become more used to the sound. This does not mean your dog won’t react to the real thing, some may not, and some will. It may help to play the sounds of fireworks during the night so your dog may think it’s just the continuous noise from your phone and a load of low calorie treats, this is great if your dog is a veggie!!🥕

The colder, winter weather is definitely making its appearance now and I’m so excited for frosty mornings ❄️

23/10/2023

Weekend woodland walkies 🐾🥰💜

So sorry for how quiet I’ve been the last few days. I have been working a lot on my canine anxiety course, completed 4 out of 12 modules now with a 90+% grade in each module, exciting stuff and super interesting!!🤩

I love learning, that may seem weird, but I love learning more about things that interest me, I’ll read and research and seek advice from professionals and put things into practice and write about things because it’s not that I want, but I NEED to know more😂

I’m hoping to start my own research study (soon) regarding Dachshunds, asking some questions and using the answers I get to correlate with my studies and my own practice, stay tuned for this as I’ll be calling all daxie owners for their help!!😆

In life you don’t get anywhere unless you do it yourself and the reality is that you can do anything you want to in life, so what’s stopping you?🤔

Horses and dogs (especially daxies) are my passion in life, the thing that makes me happiest and putting all my time and effort into volunteer work, studying and working is tough! But it’s definitely possible if it’s something you’re passionate about!🥰

Sunday (yesterday) is my hydrotherapy day where I get to go and shadow at the Animal Rehab Centre. I am learning so much here and it’s giving me lots of ideas about facilities I can provide for you and your daxies in the future🤩💜

I can’t thank the people supporting me enough, and also the ones that don’t! It just pushes me to do better! Take the negatives and make them positive for you💪🏼

This weekend we enjoyed a walk in the woods on Saturday and yesterday we had a chill day!🍂

It doesn’t hurt now and then to give your dogs a day off from walkies! Sometimes it may be just what they need. Humans need a break now and then right? So do our doggies!☺️

Hope you all had a lovely weekend, we are ready for the new week🤩

20/10/2023

Rescues need our help more than ever! Every little helps 🥰💜

Dachshund Rescue UK - Emergency Fostering Rehoming Adoption, Permanent homes for Dachshunds whose owners can no longer keep them.

18/10/2023

The sausage that taught me the most 🥰💜

Landry for me was like my “dummy” when it came to learning more about canine behaviour and training! A task that I found extremely difficult but I dread to think what Landry thought. Some things I trialed really didn’t work, he probably thought “wtf is she trying to do? I have no idea goodbye!” And he was right to think that!

Not listening to me was also frustrating! But then it clicked, why on earth would he want to come back to me anyways when I’m virtually screaming at him now red in the face? The key is to remain calm and confident, walks should still be fun for you both otherwise they won’t listen and will run the opposite way where fun probably is, or isn’t, but who knows? Where they are right now isn’t fun, the person they are with is screaming their name and not looking very happy at all, your dog thinks “I don’t like it so I’m gonna keep going.”

This is essentially you trying to be the ‘alpha’ - an outdated theory. I will keep saying working with your dog as a team reaps much better rewards than trying to control them through their fear.

Landry is probably the only daxie in the world I completely trust. I have worked extremely hard with him, his recall and behaviour on walks. Now I never have him on a lead, he comes back to “here, Landry, come on then, this way” and sometimes all I have to do is whistle and he comes running straight back. If we see other dogs on their leads he goes back on his, if he is off lead and other dogs are off lead, then this is a scenario when I don’t put him back on a lead as I know he feel much safer when he’s able to go around them. He feels much more uncomfortable in this situation if he is on a lead and he can’t get away. He is always watching me and listening to me so I know he won’t run away from me, but he may keep a distance or play with the other dogs - it just depends how he & they feel!

I’ll upload a video of my superstar Landry and his excellent recall just to show you all it is most definitely possible to train your dog and it can be so easy!

Now I can enjoy listening to podcasts without the stress of worrying where Landry is and when/if he will come back!🐾🥰💜

17/10/2023

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16/10/2023

Too many times we have had off lead dogs coming over to us, especially recently! They may be super friendly but we use yellow leads with nervous written on them for a reason!! We are in training and take super quiet routes so when we do come across other dogs we always try our best to move out of the way so my little ones don’t become flooded.

Your dog may be super friendly and 9x out of 10 they are I can see it in their faces and their body language! But mine however are terrified and it’s not fair for them to become more scared due to being put in a situation they can’t escape from. Imagine you’re sat on the floor minding your own business and some huge person comes running over directly to the spot your sat in, would that make you comfortable? Then to have said person towering over you whilst your sat helplessly on the floor not knowing what’s coming next?

It’s the same for our dogs!

✨ A YELLOW lead is used commonly for nervous dogs. If you see someone else walking their dog with a yellow lead and yours is off of theirs and may be so friendly it wants to go say hi to that dog, then please pop it back on the lead just until you’ve gone past, I promise you the other owner is extremely grateful even if they don’t say so.

When I am training my dogs, I will shout at you what I want you to do with your dog if I feel you’re not in control or paying attention, this is not because I am trying to be an annoying or argumentative person, this is to protect my dogs ONLY so please please listen!

✨ Flooding your dog is forcing them to do something they are not comfortable with that triggers fear and anxiety, my dogs are not comfortable enough yet to have other dogs bounding over to them, they find it much less worrying when they see the other dog is on a lead. This then enables us to move our dogs safely out of the way, both puppies I currently have are rescues one of which I am fostering (failing) they are both reactive, it is a breed trait the barking anyways but they never had a chance to have positive interactions in their young lives.

Please to all those friendly off lead dog owners, would you allow us to help our dogs to build the trust and confidence in other people and other dogs by just putting your dog on its lead.

You may never know which dog your going past, how it feels, what it’s been through etc, it’s just the same in people. Humans wouldn’t like other people running up to their faces to say hi really excitedly so why is it okay for dogs?

Also if your dog is still bounding over to mine when they are very clearly warning them not too, it clearly isn’t picking up the “leave me alone” behaviour and it just takes them to run over to one dog that has a tendency to actually bite and then your dog could be in trouble, this could also then cause your dog to become frightened and reactive on walks so please be careful!!

Putting your dog on a lead to go past others is just common courtesy and this should definitely be information wider known.