Becky's Walkies, Training & Behaviour

07/06/2026

Anyone looking for a dog walker and is in the area Jamie Burns covers, then I highly recommend getting in touch. 😊

04/06/2026

🐾 Exciting News! 🐾

I'm incredibly proud to share that I've become a Pure Pet Food Ambassador alongside my English Bull Terrier, Honey. ❤️

This partnership means a lot to me because it's not something I've chosen lightly.

Many of you will know that I previously lost two of my own dogs to cancer. During some incredibly difficult times, Pure Pet Food made a real difference to their quality of life.

My English Bull Terrier, Bella, had started losing weight rapidly despite trying all sorts of different foods. It was a worrying time, but Pure Pet Food helped her maintain her condition, gain weight, and provided support when she needed it most. I'll always be grateful for that.

So when the opportunity came to work with a company whose products had genuinely helped my own dogs, it felt like the right fit.

Today we've received our first ambassador delivery, including Heron and Salmon recipes, some tasty Beef Treats, and a new ball (which has already gone down well!)

If you've been thinking about trying Pure Pet Food for your dog, you can use my ambassador link and receive:

✨ 30% OFF your first box ✨ FREE treats for life.

Use my link below:

https://purepetfood.com/s/BECKYSWALKIES

As always, I only recommend products that I genuinely trust and would happily feed my own dogs.

I'd love to know if any of you already feed Pure Pet Food or if you're thinking about making the switch! 🐶

04/06/2026

🐾 Exciting News! 🐾

I'm incredibly proud to share that I've become a Pure Pet Food Ambassador alongside my English Bull Terrier! ❤️

This partnership means a lot to me because it's not something I've chosen lightly.

Many of you will know that I previously lost two of my own dogs to cancer. During some incredibly difficult times, Pure Pet Food made a real difference to their quality of life.

My English Bull Terrier, Bella, had started losing weight rapidly despite trying all sorts of different foods. It was a worrying time, but Pure Pet Food helped her maintain her condition, gain weight, and provided support when she needed it most. I'll always be grateful for that.

So when the opportunity came to work with a company whose products had genuinely helped my own dogs, it felt like the right fit.

Today we've received our first ambassador delivery, including Heron and Salmon recipes, some tasty Beef Treats, and a new ball (which has already gone down well!)

If you've been thinking about trying Pure Pet Food for your dog, you can use my ambassador link and receive:

✨ 30% OFF your first box ✨ FREE treats for life.

Use my link below:

https://purepetfood.com/s/BECKYSWALKIES

As always, I only recommend products that I genuinely trust and would happily feed my own dogs.

I'd love to know if any of you already feed Pure Pet Food or if you're thinking about making the switch! 🐶

03/06/2026

"𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮."

It's a phrase that can make many professionals feel a little uncomfortable these days.

Not because the principle is wrong, but because it has often been used to justify the use of punishment, aversive tools, and force.

However, when I talk about working with the dog in front of you, I'm talking about understanding the individual in front of you and adapting your support to meet their needs.

This does not mean, changing your ethics, changing your commitment to welfare and reaching for harsher methods because progress isn't happening quickly enough.

Just recognising that every dog is different.

🐾 A fearful Romanian rescue may need much more distance from people than a confident Labrador.

🐾 A dog reacting because they are frightened may need a completely different approach to a dog reacting because they are frustrated and desperately want to interact.

🐾 A puppy struggling with confidence may need gentle exposure and opportunities to explore at their own pace.

🐾 An elderly dog with arthritis may need environmental changes and adapted enrichment rather than more training.

🐾 A dog who finds vet visits overwhelming may need months of preparation and confidence-building before they're comfortable being handled.

The principles remain the same.

We use positive reinforcement, we build trust, we listen to what the dog is telling us and we move at a pace the dog can cope with.

What changes is how we apply those principles to the individual in front of us.

For example, I recently worked with a dog whose reactivity was driven by frustration. He wasn't trying to make other dogs go away. In fact, his biggest struggle was when they left!

If I'd treated him like a fearful dog who needed more and more distance, I wouldn't have been addressing the real emotion behind the behaviour.
Instead, we focused on helping him cope with dogs moving away and building emotional regulation around that frustration.

Same force-free principles, just a different plan for a different dog.

That's what working with the dog in front of you means to me. Not changing the method or changing the route.

Because ethical, force-free training isn't about making the dog fit the plan.

It's about making the plan fit the dog. ❤️

22/05/2026

Living with a puppy, planning on getting a puppy or know someone with a puppy??

You definitely do not want to miss out on our amazing new Puppy Explorer course happening Sensory Dogs.

🐾 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐬… 🐾

Introducing Puppy Explorer 🗺️🐶

A first-of-its-kind 6-week puppy adventure experience designed to help puppies build confidence, curiosity and resilience through exploration.

And honestly, we are SO excited about this one ❤️

Puppies don’t just need training.

They need experiences.

They need opportunities to problem solve.

They need confidence.

They need to learn that the world is safe.

Over 6 weeks your puppy will become an official Explorer, collecting badges as they complete exciting weekly adventures inside our sensory centre:

🏅 Trusty Beginnings
🏅 Balance & Paws
🏅 Tunnel Adventures
🏅 Sniffer Sleuths
🏅 Textured Trekkers
🏅 Explorer Champs

Think:
✨ Sensory adventures
✨ Tunnels & discovery dens
✨ Scent work & treasure hunts
✨ Confidence building activities
✨ Problem solving challenges
✨ Exploration at their own pace

Every puppy receives:

🗺️ Their own Explorer Map
🏅 Weekly collectible badges
📸 Photo moments
🎓 Graduation certificate

And at the end…

Your puppy officially becomes a Puppy Explorer Graduate 🐶🎓

📍 Sensory Dogs
💷 £150
⏰ 6 x weekly 45-minute sessions
🐶 Puppies up to 6 months

We genuinely cannot wait to welcome our first explorers ❤️🐾

Who’s joining the adventure?

Book below 👇

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/catalog.php?owner=38461140

19/05/2026

24/04/2026

✨ FLASH OFFER – THIS WEEKEND ONLY ✨

We’ve decided to do something a little special…

For a limited time, you can get 15% OFF your Sensory Dogs booking 🐾

Use code: FLASH15 at checkout

Valid until midnight Sunday 26th April.

If your dog:

🐶 Finds the outside world overwhelming.
🐶 Struggles with busy environments or other dogs.
🐶 Needs a calm, safe space to decompress.
🐶 Or simply LOVES to sniff, explore and engage their senses.

This space was created for them ❤️.

Our enrichment room is designed to support dogs in a gentle, pressure-free way, allowing them to explore at their own pace, build confidence, and truly relax.

Whether it’s your first visit or you’ve been before, this is the perfect opportunity to book in and give your dog that time they need.

Limited availability this weekend – once it’s gone, it’s gone!

Book now and use code FLASH15

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17/04/2026

𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫:

🐕 Growl when you go near their food, toys, or chews?

🐕 Tense up or freeze when you approach them?

🐕 Run away with items and refuse to give them back?

🐕 React when another dog or pet comes near something they have?

🐕 Cause tension or scuffles in the home over food, toys, or space?

You’re not alone and if this is something you live with then you definitely want to read on.

This in-person workshop is designed to help you understand what’s really going on when your dog feels the need to hold onto something tightly whether that’s food, toys, resting spaces, or even you.

𝐖𝐞’𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞:

🐶 Why dogs feel the need to protect things (from people and other animals).

🐶The early warning signs most people miss.

🐶 How tension between dogs or pets can build over time.

🐶 How our actions can accidentally make it worse.

🐶 Safe, positive ways to build trust and reduce conflict.

🐶 Practical strategies for managing multi-dog or multi-pet households.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫?

This workshop is perfect if your dog:

🐩 Growls, stiffens, or snaps around food or items.

🐩 Reacts when other dogs or pets come near something valuable.

🐩 Avoids you or others when they have something.

Or even if you’re thinking “Something feels a bit off between my pets and I don’t want it to escalate.”

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩.

Not only have I helped support many families over the years with this struggle, I’ve spent many years living in a multi-dog household, working through these exact behaviours with the rescue dogs I’ve brought into my home.

So I don’t just understand this from a professional point of view, I understand what it’s like to live it day to day.

This workshop will take place in Plympton and is dog free, so you can fully focus, learn, and ask questions without pressure.

📅 Date: Saturday 9th May @ 6pm
⏰ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Location: Sensory Dogs, Unit 6 Strode Business Centre, Plympton, PL7 4AY

🎟️ Limited to 10 spaces only

Cost £25 per person.

Booking link is in the comments.

13/04/2026

As a way to celebrate the opening of Sensory Dogs we are doing a competition. Be sure to interact with the actual post to be in with a chance to win. 🥰

09/04/2026

Check out Sensory Dogs’s video.