Sarahs Dog Training & Behaviour

29/09/2025

28/09/2025

Small but mighty indication of Olive in scent class. 🐽🥰

28/09/2025

Riot walking with Dean. 😀 Consistency across the family is a must, so we are making sure everyone knows the drill regarding lead walking techniques, engagement training and decompression.

27/09/2025

Me and Pablito!

27/09/2025

27/09/2025

Lead training session yesterday with this beauty! ❤️

27/09/2025

During my first stooge assessment session observing this trio of dogs (Coco, Romeo and Bodie) around Rosie, it turns out the issue isn’t other dogs but an enormous amount of lead frustration and overstimulation, particularly when they’re all together.

It’s about stripping it all back to basics, working with each individual dog, using good management to buy yourself some sanity and control and sloooowing it all down so the adrenaline lowers and the dogs enter a learning state.

What can feel really complicated is actually quite simple when you look at the lifestyle and foundations.

27/09/2025

Dogs like Enzo, a high drive dog, need a lot more spice and fun added to their training when they’re young to increase engagement, build positive associations and reduce frustration.

If you have a high drive dog that struggles to focus, raise your energy. Get them moving and incorporate play into your training, rewarding often and giving them an outlet such as tug play as their main reward. Work on impulse control and obedience interspersed with fun movement based reward.

Just because some dogs can focus for longer with less frustration doesn’t mean every dog can. It also doesn’t mean they’re a bad dog. It’s just their personality, so adapt to it. I had to do it with Pablo, and he’s thriving. 🥰

27/09/2025

Little friends 🥰

27/09/2025

Laura and Rosie sharing a cuddle between classes. 🥰

27/09/2025

Some lovely pups in the current class. 🥰

Today we taught hand touch, recall to hand touch, the foundations of Stay and also Leave It. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

25/09/2025

When Sam met Rosie. ❤️😍