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Another morning, another park and a parking ticket 🙈Flo is not so keen on traffic, and pigeons (random, but true 🤣). The...
18/07/2025

Another morning, another park and a parking ticket 🙈
Flo is not so keen on traffic, and pigeons (random, but true 🤣). There are a lot of wood pigeons in the trees near my house. Knocking twigs down to make nests and they make a right bloody racket 🤷‍♀️
So we went to flixton park, as its on a pretty busy road, but we can create lots of space and stand well back from the traffic, mooch and play games 👌
And £50! Just what i need when we're working at a reduced capacity 🙈🤷‍♀️ (i thought it was free now in the main bit, but it was 50p. Now £50. What a wally I am! Gutted 😭)
And Flo met a toddler covered in raspberry yoghurt, which she thoroughly enjoyed 🤣

Helping 'mum' make soup! Quick Flo, we'd better tidy up before Mr 'why are there bloody carrots all over the floor?' com...
17/07/2025

Helping 'mum' make soup! Quick Flo, we'd better tidy up before Mr 'why are there bloody carrots all over the floor?' comes home! 👌😋🐾

Unintentional back chaining! 🙈 What is it? Back chaining is a dog training practice where the last part of a behavioural...
17/07/2025

Unintentional back chaining! 🙈 What is it?
Back chaining is a dog training practice where the last part of a behavioural sequence is taught first and then earlier steps added! Unintentional is the same process, only you didn't mean to, and it's a bloody scourge 👌🤣
I see this, with people with pups *and adult dogs, all the time. which is why management and prevention of 'undesirable' behaviour is so key! 👌
Examples would be, when repeated frequently:
Visitor arrives - puppy jumps up - puppy asked to sit - pup sits - reward given! (jumping is now part of the sequence 🙈)
Puppy bites your clothes - you pull out their favourite toy for a good old game of tug - (biting your favourite hoodie is now part of the sequence 🙈)
Puppy barks out of window / bites your gorgeous venetian plastering (nope not Flo, never, ever 🙄🤣) - puppy is called away - puppy is given cheese (biting your lovely venetian plastering is now part of the sequence 🙈)
Puppy pulls at end of lead - puppy is called back into position - eats cheese - puppy naffs off back to end of the lead (pulling is now part of the sequence 🙈)
So, beware of unintentional back chaining 👌
It's pretty difficult to completely avoid - the question I always ask myself is "what is my puppy learning right now?"
Tomorrow I'll do a long and probably boring post about how to avoid back chaining in examples above!
Good luck, and hold onto your hats puppy people 🤣👌
Feel free to share any behaviours you've back chained, either on purpose or by accident 🐾

Luna and Nana 🐾
17/07/2025

Luna and Nana 🐾

Socialisation! Some advice I see, feels like a box ticking exercise (and dont even get me started on letting your pup me...
17/07/2025

Socialisation! Some advice I see, feels like a box ticking exercise (and dont even get me started on letting your pup meet every person and dog they see 🙈🙄).
Flo is not keen on leaving the house. She's just a baby at 12 weeks old 🐾 We've tried before food, and after, different weather, different directions, different times of day, different mixes of ric, I and the boys 🤷‍♀️ we've sat on the drive, and played games on the drive.
She loves being out, it's just the getting out. Sometimes we carry her a bit of the way. Today i drove her to a park.
She had a great time, watched traffic from a comfortable distance, met a lovely man, ran up and down the ramps, and explored lots of new stuff 🧐 She also saw someone on a mobility scooter, and a helicopter 😊
Socialisation is a marathon, not a sprint 👌

We've another shoe laces fan 👌🤣
17/07/2025

We've another shoe laces fan 👌🤣

I'm going to be honest. Today has been a REAL challenge 🤷‍♀️🤣🙈. Flo has tested every single strand of my patience! And t...
16/07/2025

I'm going to be honest. Today has been a REAL challenge 🤷‍♀️🤣🙈. Flo has tested every single strand of my patience! And then some!
I'm very conscious that puppy raising is hard work and lots of lovely new puppy people follow this page. I don't want them to feel like it's all easy here, so they must be doing something wrong. So, here's your dose of reality, she's been a massive pain in the arse pretty much all day 👌🤣 And now she is snoozing on me, and all is forgiven. Kind of 👌

Out and about 🐾
16/07/2025

Out and about 🐾

Bruno and Buddy 🐾
16/07/2025

Bruno and Buddy 🐾

Update - meeting Flo's needs, before my wants. A story in pictures 🙄🤷‍♀️🤣 I feel like I've put the batteries in and lost...
16/07/2025

Update - meeting Flo's needs, before my wants.
A story in pictures 🙄🤷‍♀️🤣 I feel like I've put the batteries in and lost the remote 👌
(and yes, she has dragged the cat tree halfway across the kitchen 🙈)

'You have to give your dog what they need, before you can have the dog you want' 👌Powerful and so very true 👌In reality ...
16/07/2025

'You have to give your dog what they need, before you can have the dog you want' 👌
Powerful and so very true 👌
In reality what Flo, and all pups and dogs need most in my view is security and feelings of safety. Kindly set boundaries, structure and a whole heap of fun 🐾
They need food, water, shelter and to be have their health needs met. Oh, and sleep, loads of that 🤣😴👌
One of the things I want, is to head out with Flo early in the morning. Flo is not up for early 🙈. In fact, Flo is not a morning kinda girl. Flo wants to eat pretty much as soon as she gets up, which means we can't walk till much later than I'd like, due to trying to minimise her risk of bloat. I've tried various strategies this last week and quite simply, she is not in the best frame of mind until she's eaten.
So, I'm having to shift my expectations, and how i like to 'do' mornings, fairly significantly,
She has to have what she needs - food - before
I can have what I want 👌

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