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Whippet Wonders - Dog Training & Behaviour 📌 Whippet Specialist
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Welcome to Whippet Wonders

Whippet Wonders uses modern, positive & effective training to help Whippets, Whippet Mixes, Iggie's , lurchers and sighthounds worldwide. 🌏

Using food, toys, play and praise effectively to create a strong relationship between dog and owner to solve problems. Whippet Wonders offers

🎓121 Training & Behavioural Consultations
Online tailored training or behaviour consult

ations for you and your Whippet. Working on problem solving, focus, separation anxiety etc. Get effective and unique insights into your dogs behaviour from the comfort of your own home, stress free. Specializing in reactivity, recall and confidence Building. https://www.whippetwonders.co.uk/trainingbehaviour

🎓Training Classes
Live zoom group courses are a great way to get access to specialist advice from anywhere in the world. These are ideal to train your dog from the comfort of your own home, no travel, no stress, just effective advice and skills trained LIVE. https://www.whippetwonders.co.uk/book-online

🎓Self Paced Courses Online
Looking for specific skills to train in your own time? Recall, lead walking and even puppy skills! Self Paced Courses to work on in your own time, login and learn anytime from £20 and up. https://www.whippetwonders.co.uk/courses-online

🎓School For Whippets
The only School of its kind! An online membership hub for training your whippet. Including every single course available at Whippet Wonders for a monthly fee of £25 per month. Updated regularly. Ideal to get your puppy started on the right paw or get your whippet on track again. https://www.whippetwonders.co.uk/the-school-for-whippets

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Like many young Whippets Roscoe is impulsive! He LOVES food! 😋 This makes training a bit more straightforward in many wa...
16/06/2025

Like many young Whippets Roscoe is impulsive!

He LOVES food! 😋

This makes training a bit more straightforward in many ways, but he's been a bit too *involved* when food is being prepped!

So Roscoe has lots of self control for his homework, teaching a reliable "leave it" cue as well as developing his natural self control!

Looking forward to our next session to see how he has progressed 🥳

Stop putting your hand in your dogs food dish! 🙅‍♂️⛔Once upon a time.. When dominance theory folk started to twist our p...
15/06/2025

Stop putting your hand in your dogs food dish! 🙅‍♂️⛔

Once upon a time..
When dominance theory folk started to twist our perceptions of training dogs..

It was advised to put your hand in your dogs food while they were eating.

Why? To show them who's boss?
To prevent guarding?

This was what was suggested. 🤯

However we now know that actually putting your hand in your dogs food can CREATE guarding.

Yep you read that correctly!

Think of it like this. 🤔

Your enjoying a meal, something you love.
And someone comes over and grabs your food.
They do this regularly.

Your going to start getting defensive surely?

You certainly won't enjoy their presence around your food!

If you put your hand in your dogs food you create MISTRUST.

Mistrust creates negative feelings.

If you want to prevent guarding, instead, try dropping treats into your dogs dish or nearby while they eat instead.

They'll anticipate your presence with positives around food, which will make any help much easier in an emergency!

July Classes released 🥳📢Live zoom classes from a whippet / Sighthound expert giving you practical solutions and support!...
14/06/2025

July Classes released 🥳📢

Live zoom classes from a whippet / Sighthound expert giving you practical solutions and support!

🏫 Rapid Recall Workshop
🗓️ Sunday July 13th
⌚ 5pm -6.30pm

Learn practical skills to enhance your dogs recall, games for attention, handling distractions and emergency Recall. Q&A time included.

🏫 Reactive To Responsive live course
🗓️ Tuesday July 8th
⌚ 7.30pm -8.30pm - 4 weeks long

Create calmer walks by learning practical skills to handle your dogs barking and reactivity on walks. Q&A time included.

⚡All sessions include recording of the session, recap emails and videos.

Spaces are limited on each session due to live feedback.

Last chance for live classes until September 🎓

🔗https://whippetwonders.co.uk/Whippet-zoom-class

Are you giving your dogs walks they enjoy? 🌳Trying to walk Womble around uphill Lincoln was a nightmare. He'd became hyp...
13/06/2025

Are you giving your dogs walks they enjoy? 🌳

Trying to walk Womble around uphill Lincoln was a nightmare.

He'd became hyper aware , over emotional and bark from being on a complete high.

I remember trying to work on this alot.

One day I realized, the problem wasn't Womble. 👎

It's that I wasn't giving him the right walks.

Walking womble out in the countryside, well his dog reactivity almost ceased to exist.

His busy brain was no longer fixed on every sight, sound and movement..

But sniffing, climbing, air scenting.

He had a busy mind and much preferred being a terrier.

Yes walks quieter places meant a change of routine.

But as an 8 yo rescue dog, expecting him to change completely was ridiculous.

By giving him nicer walks to suit him, not only did we both enjoy nicer walks together, noticing dogs.

But his day to day issues reduced.

He barked less at every sound .

Chewed his feet less.

Guarded from the other dogs less.

Womble was a jrt x corgi and SO much movement of a city walk was too much.

But our lovely peaceful walks made our lives so much better, which meant when we did deliberate reactivity training, it also went much much smoother!

*Although this is about womble , a jrt, this applies to whippets too. Choosing walks to suit YOUR dog will help both of your walks be more relaxing and less stressful.

Whippets can be sensitive during training, we can see that shut down behaviour during this sometimes. This is where you...
11/06/2025

Whippets can be sensitive during training, we can see that shut down behaviour during this sometimes.

This is where your whippet / Sighthound may suddenly look worried or opt out of training.

They may have happily been training with you when this suddenly happens. It can be very frustrating to deal with as sometimes it doesn't seem like there was any specific trigger for your whippet to suddenly shut down during training .

Reasons can include :

▪️ Training for too long
▪️ High pressure training
▪️ Confusing communication from us
▪️ Pain or discomfort
▪️ A general lack of clarity

Arkle can really struggle with high pressure training and having pain or discomfort. Sometimes during training he will be happily training. When suddenly he will stop look pained and run and hide. For him, we know this is likely from pain as he has multiple pain conditions. However, he can also demonstrate this when he feels that he is being asked a lot in a short period of time.

This can sometimes to be seen by some of you when you are on zooms where he looks a little less enthused than he does during the training videos I send you. It is unusual for him to have to concentrate for a longer period of time.

How do we handle shut down during training❓

The most simple answer is we we usually stop training the dog if the dog we are training is shutting down and is getting stressed. We don't want them to associate that with training. So what will you want to do is stop the training session and let them relax.

Then we need to consider what the reason was for them shutting down in that particular moment. Were they stressed? Did they not understand the exercise? Have we given them conflicting signals that have confused them? Did they not enjoy the experience of that training session?

By understanding why they shut down, we can prevent it from happening next time.

Arkle is a dog who can shut down regularly and it can be unpredictable due to pain. His pain is unpredictable and it does make training often a little bit difficult as it only takes a couple of sessions where he has shut down and he has got anxious for that to be his default when he thinks we are going to train.

With more sensitive dogs like arkle. We want to try and make sure training sessions are motivating and not always high pressure training.

What is high pressure training? High pressure training is where we may be asking them to do a certain outcome and are anticipating self-control or a specific behavior that they may struggle with.

For motivational games they are ones with non-specific outcomes so to speak. For example, Arkle likes ready Steady go as this is just a game of chasing a treat. He also likes funder where we throw a treat under our legs and he likes similar exercises where there is no pressure for him to do a specific exercise. He's just having fun with food and me.

I am finding I have to do these regularly with Arkle regularly as he can shut down regularly unfortunately, but since increasing these low pressure, simple, motivational games, he's enjoying the more high pressure exercises a lot more. 🥳

We don't want to force them to continue if they are struggling because this will make them mistrust us in training and find training more stressful and anxiety-inducing in future.

Try and make training sessions fun. Short and clear with what you're training them to create less chance of shutdown behaviors. 😀

It was great to catch up with Joy and hear how well she's been getting on! 🥳Joys been responding really well to the tech...
11/06/2025

It was great to catch up with Joy and hear how well she's been getting on! 🥳

Joys been responding really well to the techniques we've been using for Reactivity.

In her second session we discussed plans to help with closer contact situations and creating an ability to listen when more emotional. 🙌

With 29 likes and the most votes this photo is the winner and the new cover photo for the page ! Thanks for entering and...
10/06/2025

With 29 likes and the most votes this photo is the winner and the new cover photo for the page !

Thanks for entering and liking everyone! 🥳

💫Weekly Roundup 💫Another fab week of working with incredible Whippets! 📌 Working with a teen whippet to reduce his count...
09/06/2025

💫Weekly Roundup 💫

Another fab week of working with incredible Whippets!

📌 Working with a teen whippet to reduce his counter surfing and scavenging

📌 Catching up with Reactive to Responsive Packages

📌 Rounding up Reactive To Responsive live courses

📌 Meeting 2 new pups for their puppy packages

📌 Starting up with a new reactivity client

Tora the Whippet Puppy enjoying her walk 😍 What a view!

Arkle contemplating life.. 🤔💭He saw the comments on his prey drive post... 50% of people say he's not prey driven enough...
07/06/2025

Arkle contemplating life.. 🤔💭

He saw the comments on his prey drive post...

50% of people say he's not prey driven enough..
50% of people say hes so prey driven he'd run off instantly if not on the longline...

With several agreeing with the opposite sentiment 😵‍💫

He doesn't know which he is anymore 😭
Highly prey driven or the prey drive of a goldfish😂😭

Few of the commenters actually read the text on the post!

We love the internet 😂🌎
*now he shouldn't wear a coat in the rain 😂☔

Train Your Whippet from the comfort of your own home with the Whippet Wonders- School For Whippets. 🏫Train your whippet...
07/06/2025

Train Your Whippet from the comfort of your own home with the Whippet Wonders- School For Whippets. 🏫

Train your whippet create new habits to solve your everyday problems or get your puppy started on the right tracks.

With simple and fun training games to help your dog learn with you!

So if your struggling with:

➡️Pulling on lead
➡️Reactive Behaviour
➡️Puppy Problems
➡️Testing Teens
➡️Recall issues

Then this may just be for you! Foundational life skills available, confidence building, creating calmness and more advanced training.

This includes the following courses:

🎓 Guide To Whippets
🎓 Puppy Power Library
🎓 Rapid Recall
🎓 Reactive To Responsive
🎓 Awesome Enrichment
🎓 Brain Games and Tricks Hub
🎓 Puppy Nipping
🎓 Loose Lead Walking
🎓 Scent Skills hub

Login and learn to suit you and your whippet.
All for just £25 a month. You can cancel anytime.

Now is your chance to level up your whippets learning! 📚

Whippet Wonders only uses positive and modern training techniques to help ensure your Whippet is set up for success.

Teach your whippet from anywhere in the world 🌎

Suitable for whippets, whippet mixes, lurchers or sighthounds.

🔗https://whippetwonders.co.uk/Whippet-School
📩 [email protected]

Tora the Whippet Puppy looking comfy! Tora started her puppy package recently, looking at creating confidence with being...
06/06/2025

Tora the Whippet Puppy looking comfy!

Tora started her puppy package recently, looking at creating confidence with being alone as well as calm play with her daxie sister.

Looking forward to seeing how Tora progresses through the sessions! 🐾🤩

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Welcome to Wagging Wonders

Dog behaviour services suited to any breed, any age of dog. Using positive reinforcement to change their behaviour and teach them to be happier, calmer and more confident companions . I am a member of the Pet Professional Guild. As well as having worked to obtain the following qualifications: Canine Behaviour & Training Diploma from the Centre of Excellence. Canine Behaviour Diploma from the International School of Canine Psychology (ISCP) All training is tailored to dog and owner and works on increasing the relationship between the two. Offering a range of classes we also offer 121, private training for those dogs that may find classes too stressful.