Fun n focus dog training

22/08/2024

Absolutely 💯❤️

YOU are the only person who can train your dog for every day situations unless you want a ‘live in’ dog trainer. 😜

Getting angry with our dogs for ‘misbehaving’ when we have never trained them how to behave is extremely unfair. How would we feel if we were never taught how to do our job, yet shouted at daily because we kept getting it wrong?

If we want our dogs to respond when we really need them to, then we have to train hundreds of repetitions of that behaviour before we need it so that they know exactly how to respond to that request, just as instantly as we respond to touching the breaks when the traffic lights turn red.

Training things like ‘settle’ or ‘go to mat’ means we have control when visitors come. It also means we can communicate with them that play time is over and we are busy for the next hour, so it’s time to relax for a bit.

If we dont want them to dart out the door the moment it’s open, shouting at them when we HAVE to open the door will never change a thing, we must train hundreds of repetitions when no one is at the door so that they know how to behave at the door as automatically as we lock it every day.

We put in hours a week to help our young children learn, be it speaking, social conduct or homework. We do it becuse its the ONLY way to help them understand the world, gain the necessary skills, be able to communicate with them and teach them to behave accordingly in a social environment, yet we train our puppies to merely sit, give a paw and then wonder why our adult dogs are so ‘naughty’ and don’t ‘listen’ when we need them to, but how can they possibly respond If they don’t even know what to ‘listen’ out for? If we don’t teach them what to do, then it’s quite simply our fault, it’s a lack of parenting on our part. Repeatedly telling them what not to do isn’t training, nor is it a language they understand.

If we genuinely want the best for our dogs then we seek help and educate ourselves so that in turn we can help and educate them. If not, then we cannot possibly blame them for simply being clueless as to what they’re supposed to do.

30/06/2024

30/06/2024

A big thank you to Millennium Signs for doing such a fab job. 🙏🙏

09/05/2024

Fun training session with his Lordship. Was very impressed how focused he remained despite the very loud noises from the sirens. Not perfect from me but the boy did fab 💙🐾🐾🐾👌

09/05/2024

Morning zoomies🤪🤪🐾🐾🐾

05/05/2024

💕L o v e💕

05/05/2024

Exploring new routes on a beautiful morning ❤️🐾🐾🐾

02/05/2024

Love this❤️🐾🐾🐾

One of my favourite things to see is when people give their dogs as much time as they want to sniff. Smell is the primary sense our dogs use to navigate, interpret, and make sense of their world. They can tell who has passed by and how long ago, and update themselves on their canine version of social media picking up the messages left by other dogs who have been there earlier.

The part of the dog's brain that is dedicated to analysing scent information is a huge proportion of their brain compared to ours (around 40 times the size), and they have up to 300 million scent receptors while humans have around 6 million. These facts alone highlight the importance of olfactory information and sniffing for our dogs.

Sniffing is one of the most instinctive and natural behaviours our dogs possess and giving them time to sniff is a free and incredibly easy way to add enrichment into their lives. Sniffing is also great brainwork as they hunt out and interpret the differents scents they encounter.

A 20 minute period spent out of the house sniffing and interpreting the scents they discover (a sniffy walk or 'sniffari') can often tire a dog out as much as an hour's 'normal' walk, and is also really good for younger dogs (post-vaccination or in safe areas where dogs of unknown vaccination and health status don't go) and senior dogs who aren't quite as mobile and fit as they used to be.

The more time I spend watching my dogs investigating and interpreting their world through their noses the more fascinated I become by observing them, and the more clearly I can see how much enjoyment and pleasure they get from having time to carry out this most doggy of behaviours.

So let them sniff - they will appreciate you even more for giving them the time and opportunity.

You can help tell the world about the importance of sniffing with some of the designs available at the GG store 😊 Find it here: https://good-guardianship.teemill.com/

28/04/2024

Lovely weather for a tea time stroll 🐾🐾🐾❤️

14/04/2024

Busy afternoon batch cooking for the king & Princess Peg 🐾🐾🐾🥰❤️

31/03/2024

Fab day for a riverside stroll with my best buddy ❤️🐾🐾🐾🦮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

31/03/2024

Llyn Crafnant Love this place ❤️🐾🐾🐾🐾