Happy Dog Company Redditch

Happy Dog Company Redditch Walking services, Gundog training & human training

04/08/2026

Heel work is the dream work…apparently!…🐾 so many people struggle with it…go back to basics…

How you get the dog ready for the walk is important…a rushed exit and lots of talking doesn’t help.🐾

Sitting the dog to have the lead on is a great start.🐾

Think calm and quiet…pause…and don’t forget to breathe. Make sure the first step is yours, sit the dog and place your foot forwards…if he moves or pulls replace it back down.

Say heel as you move off, and slowly build the time the dog is walking by your side.

Yes it can be a slow process at first, but our dear friends time and patience will pay their part.

You only fail if you give in…the time is going to pass anyway. Good job little springy ding 👍🏻🐾🤎

It will be jumper season at some point….🐾🤎
03/08/2026

It will be jumper season at some point….🐾🤎

31/07/2026

Recall…however you do it, ensure the dog stops what it is doing and comes back to you immediately.

I use an Acme whistle and sometimes my voice. Dogs can pick up emotions in our voice if we are rushing, tired or excited…so my preference is a whistle. The dog may decide it doesn’t like the tone and may ignore you! (I have seen it) 🤣

Distractions, here other dogs should be ignored too. Well done Miss Labrador. 👍🏻🐾

30/07/2026

Following on from previous stop video…. Once the dog has stopped and the whistle has been blown…pause…just for a moment….

Then throw the ball at the dog (not hard 🤣) and recall dog back in..no matter if the dog doesn’t catch the ball….the aim is to get a sharp stop as the whistle is blown. 👍🏻🐾

To finish, instead of allowing the dog to jump and run when the retrieve is completed, I ask for another sit…so calm at the end…

Tails never lie!…end of game. 🤎

29/07/2026

⛔️ Stop ⛔️

The sit whistle can become a stop whistle…There are a few ways to train it…this is one of them.

I have a tennis ball, and pretend to throw it to the dog, he comes to a natural stop when he realises the ball hasn’t been thrown. 🎾

What you can’t see is my hand in the air with the ball already (which looks look my arm position for the stop) and blow the whistle. Boom we get a stop and sit immediately.

Why bother training the stop whistle? I work this little boy so need a level of control…for pets…you may need to stop your dog going to a situation (kids / ball / food / broken glass / another dog)

Then you can go put them on the lead and take them safely away. Yes it looks impressive, but when you train for it and come to expect it…it’s becomes the norm.

Well done little brown Mouse 🤎

28/07/2026

Quartering - what’s that?

When a dog covers the ground going left to right at close quarters in front of you. The aim is to flush quarry when working in the field. Historically, Cockers were used to flush Eurasian Woodcock, hence the name.

But in the park with no cover you can see what the turning whistle does. Turning, starts in puppyhood when they can go out, all our pups are off lead (in the park) from walk one.

As pups are in follow mode, I walk, changing direction and 2 peeps on the whistle….lots of times…and also on road walks.

Along with teaching the dog to hunt and then putting the turning and hunting together…all this doesn’t happen over night but over time.

I work this lad and he is a pleasure to be with. 🐾👍🏻

🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎It’s Friday ! And I am so lucky I get to walk (and train) this gorgeous chocolate boy. He sits, he walks...
24/07/2026

🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

It’s Friday ! And I am so lucky I get to walk (and train) this gorgeous chocolate boy. He sits, he walks like a dream, he recalls, he holds and carries stuff for me.

On our walks he is not self employed and I have him doing Gundog based training, including steadiness too. Yes he gets to sniff and do his business, but not by dragging me into the hedge. He may get the odd head massage too!

His humans are the real success as they have transformed themselves with knowledge, and experience in training him. 🐾🤎 and that’s why I love my job. (He’s also very cute)

Where did 4 years go? Happy birthday to these little ones…🎂🐾 They are lots of fun and love their walks and working.
23/07/2026

Where did 4 years go? Happy birthday to these little ones…🎂🐾 They are lots of fun and love their walks and working.

22/07/2026

We don’t train all the time…far from it…! It’s good for them to sniff, play in some water mooch.

All this hot weather means training has been reduced. They have have plenty to sniff about, food scattered, frozen fruit, plastic bottles with food in to figure out.

The dogs still have to sit for their food. They don’t and can’t pound the streets but there’s till plenty to keep them busy. 🤎👍🏻

Happy Monday - thankfully cooler over the weekend…so these boys were out for some training. Why an orange dummy? 🧡👘🧶🦊☄️🍑...
20/07/2026

Happy Monday - thankfully cooler over the weekend…so these boys were out for some training.

Why an orange dummy? 🧡👘🧶🦊☄️🍑🍊 because they can’t really see it! The have to use their noses more than their eyes.

We did some retrieves, blind and seen…sitting and waiting to be sent for the dummy. Fun was had, minds were engaged, sleep and happy dogs after🐾

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