Boots and Paws Dog training and behaviour specialist

04/08/2025

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‼️ Desperate plea for help ‼️

Good morning to all our supporters we really do need a kind experienced person to step up and help us urgently with one of our dogs 🫣🫣

The situation is this

We helped with four dogs who had recently lost their owner their home and everything they had ever known

We agreed to take three of the dogs another rescue agreed to take the fourth but wasn't able to take the dog (Roxy) immediately

We didn't want to leave a dog already traumatized by recent events alone in the dead owner home so our foster agreed to hold Roxy very temporarily

Roxy has been no trouble at our fosters who has other dogs and children including a baby

Roxy wasn't keen on the other dogs in kennels either side so she has been sleeping in a crate in the house

Roxy has been perfect out on walks if she reacts slightly to anything a correction on her check chain and given the command" leave it ' Roxy totally ignores the distraction

I witnessed that first hand at my paddock on Saturday when I also received lots of cuddles and kisses from Roxy

We moved Roxy yesterday this has been a complete disaster poor Roxy seems to have completely lost her head and is trying to attack everything anywhere near her including livestock poultry other dogs etc

So Roxy will be coming back to us today when we will officially become the rescue taking responsibility for her🫣

Roxy has been gentle and loving with all humans coming into contact with her

We desperately need a foster home for Roxy ( foster to adopt would be even better) who can dedicate the time Roxy needs to help her overcome her recent experiences .... basically her whole life as she knew it has gone

I've met Roxy and I can honestly say she is a lovely dog she's stunningly beautiful and excellent example of the breed both temperament and looks wise

Roxy is gentle affectionate and loving ( bit clingy at the moment) obedient well mannered and well trained

Our hearts are absolutely broken for this poor girl who just doesn't understand her recent losses

Please if you might be able to help us help Roxy pm me Julie Nevett urgently

03/08/2025

Little Bronson has had a busy day, lol 😆
Training at Wacky Woofers and then a play with Blue
Then, a play date with Pippa 🥰

03/08/2025

Beautiful boy needs a new home

02/08/2025

Announcement 🥰

Boots and paws is now offering assistance dog training, under the name of Crazy k9 assistance dog training.

Same contact details and the email address is
[email protected]

Crazy k9 Assistance dog training

Looking for an Active dog trainer in Nottinghamshire? Stop in to Boots and Paws Dog Training. We have a variety of pet sitting and animal care services.

01/08/2025

Little Bronsons training walk to Langold Park. He loved the attention, loved all the smells, and everything that was going on around him. Super confident pup who is going to be awesome when he's older.
He even met my old girls Lexie and Pippa.
Pip was muzzled as she can, on occasions, get grumpy, but she was perfect with him, and Bronson absolutely behaved and didn't overstep the mark and read her perfectly. He certainly loves his owner ❤️

29/07/2025

16/07/2025

This little guy is one smart cookie, and like the majority of young adolescent high drive pups, he likes to test his owners. He does have some reactivity and frustration.
Like most owners, they seek advice from social media and the Internet, from positive only to aversive methods. Which doesn't just confuse and fruste the owners, but it can confuse the dog.

Trust your gut and do what's right for you, not what's right for the social media expert.

Do my dogs go on the sofa? Yes, they do. Do my dogs sleep upstairs? Yes, they sleep on the bed.
Do I use treats to train my dogs? Nope, I use their food! Why? Because it's expensive to buy treats this day and age, lol, and I'm tight, 😄🤣😂.

16/07/2025

Puppies puppies puppies
These guys are just smashing their training. And their owners are an amazing bunch of people.

The pups learnt to leave it (food), and they learnt to leave an item like a sock or a toy. They also learnt to stay.

12/07/2025

Copied from Horse and hound

***I am a 21st century dog.***
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.

-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for fighting bears.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.

-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.

-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.

-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.

-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.

-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.

-I am a border collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.

I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.

I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.

Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.

I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.

You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!

If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.

I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.

So think **very** carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.