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We run family friendly pet dog training, based in Southampton. Available for 1-2-1 and behaviour sup

Armchair Dogs provides pet dog training in and around Southampton. We cater for all breeds and all ages, from puppies to pensioners. We take a relaxed, reward based approach to training and like to include all the family in the experience. If you would like to come along and watch one of our classes, just ask!

28/10/2026

It was all about the girls tonight! Meet Frankie the cocker, and Agnes the whippet, who both started their training this evening.
Both beautiful girls 🐾💖

28/10/2026

I got quite a few of these right 🤦🏼‍♀️🙄😂🙈 how about you?

19/10/2026

Horses, like dogs, are capable of so much more than most people think!

On a research farm in Norway, 23 horses learned to walk up to a white board and touch one of three symbols with their noses.

The question behind the study was a practical one, because owners routinely decide when a horse should wear a blanket based on their own sense of the weather, and nobody had ever asked the horse. The researchers designed a board with three symbols, one meaning put my blanket on, another meaning take it off, and a third meaning leave things as they are.

Training was short and gentle, with 10 to 15 minutes a day and small pieces of carrot as rewards. On average the horses reached the free-choice stage around the eleventh day, and every one of the 23 had mastered the task within 14 days.

Then the researchers tested them in different weather, and the horses' choices were plainly connected to the conditions rather than random. On cold, wet and windy days they were far more likely to ask for a blanket, while on pleasant days they generally preferred to go without one. A later study using the same board found the same pattern, with very few horses asking for a blanket once the temperature climbed above about 10°C.

The researchers described the board as a simple way for a horse to report on its own comfort, and in cold, driving rain the report from almost every horse was the same request for the blanket.

14/10/2026

The handsome Numpty started his puppy classes tonight, he is the 9th flat coat to be owned by his slaves, and has some big paws to follow in the path of. I get the feeling he will do just fine 🐾❤️🐾❤️

04/10/2026

Amazing!

16/09/2026

Who could resist that face? 🥰 meet Ada the beautiful lab who started her puppy training this evening.
She did brilliantly and should sleep well, for about 5 mins at least 😂🙈

Address

Kanes Hill
West End
S0196AJ

Telephone

+442380465429

Website

http://www.armchairdogs.co.uk/

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