The Dog Spot

25/07/2024

Thea with her besties! 🐶👶🏼🐶

19/07/2024

19/07/2024

PUPPY CLASS

Hi everyone! Owner of the The Dog Spot

New puppy classes starting in August!! 🐶

FORGEWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE
TUESDAY EVENINGS

You do not want to miss out! You will start your journey with your pups obidence and creating a balanced and confident dog 🐾

During the 5 weeks we will cover: loose lead walking & heel, sit, down, leave it, recall & a place command.

We will Teach your pup to be balanced and calm around distractions with their attention on YOU 🐾

There is no doubt that you will be leaving with a clear understanding of training and a much stronger and growing relationship with your pup! 🐶

Please get in touch to book your place or for more details and questions ⭐️

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20/06/2024

Follow up session with Thanos and his owners 🐾

He has just turnt 1!

We went over his place command to keep him calm and neutral in public places around distractions! His place command will also be used when the family are over and they just need him to calm down and chill out 🐾

11/06/2024

Hi everyone!

Meet Hank, his owners came to me as he is very dog reactive and also fixates on people, bikes etc.

He Was a big puller on the lead which made him extremely frustrated which is also part of the reason he was reacting to everything!

So firstly had to sort loose lead walking to remove any lead frustration from him pulling which allows Hank and especially his owners to be calmer in situations and to have much more control over him.

We introduced a clicker to clearly mark good behaviours and choices. As Hank would react to a dog from the other side of the field we had to change the way he saw other dogs and improve his engagement with his owners so they could guide him to make the correct choices. Therefore from a safe distance, as soon as Hank saw a trigger we marked it with the clicker and his attention came back to his owners instead of fixating on the trigger.

In the second video is Hank gets a little correction for fixating on the dog and his attention comes back to me. Then Hank has another look and makes the correct choice by breaking his focus which we reward 👏🏽 I never want a dog to avoid their triggers as they won’t learn what we need them to do in those scenarios, he made the wrong decision firstly then the correct one second time around this is when he will learn🐾

More to come from Hank and his owners as he has made big progress in a matter of weeks! We are continuing to progress with his engagement with his owners and improving his threshold to allows us to get closer to his triggers 😁

More to come!!

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04/12/2023

Mary! In an earlier post you see this beautiful girl in one of my puppy classes! 🐶 been doing some walking and bit of extra training with their owners as she is becoming a giant 😂🐾🐾

22/11/2023

Hey everyone!

Meet Thanos! A cool name right!!👏🏽 I have done a few session with this 4month old boy🌟 starting off his training with the basics; sit, down, stay, loose lead walking, going in and out of doorways, recall, release command, making sure he is engaging with his owners and more. Also, getting him used to distractions as he is going to be a bigggg boy 🐾so he needs to be calm around other dogs & people! Ensuring he has a solid foundation to build from will be important! He is still very young so his training has only just begun 😁🐶🐾

11/09/2023

Loose lead walking!

Benji walks very nicely now but thought I’d show part of the process to getting your dog to walk nicely🐾

Once you teach your dog what the lead means you can start adding in Left & right turns!
If you feel like your dog is about to go in front of you, throw in a turn! This will help keep your dog engaged with you! 🐶

If you want to learn this and get your dog walking nicely get in touch! It’s very simple once you know the steps! 😁

Drop me a message! 🐾

24/07/2023

Hi Everyone!

Meet Henry 🐶 this cute little boy started his training journey a couple weeks ago!

Started introducing some obedience training to Henry and his owners! Started inside the house, learning sit, down, stay & leave it & then combining them together in different scenarios 👏🏽 Both Henry and his owners picking stuff up really quickly so stay tuned to see his progress and to see some videos! 🐶

The Dog Spot 🐾🐾

16/07/2023

Ralph and Arla!!

Can’t have frenchie’s and not expect a bit of craziness on walks 🤣🤣🤣

I always let them have there crazy moments, but being able to switch it off & control it is important! Throwing some training commands after I’ve told them enough craziness just makes sure I regain their focus and engagement on me😁🐶

Get in touch for training!!

09/04/2023

Hi Everyone!

Welcome Ruby & Reggie! 🐶🐾 Keep at look out for stories on them 😁!