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The Doghouse - Fit Train Fun Not all dog training is obedience. I’m Vicki, a Reactivity Specialist using Freework and emotional-based training to help dogs feel safe, calm, and capable.

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This is a representation of Odin today 😂Odin joined me at TDU for his last session of his block of 4.Odin found a new ho...
03/06/2026

This is a representation of Odin today 😂

Odin joined me at TDU for his last session of his block of 4.

Odin found a new home with his guardian - his previous home he had some issues with a resident dog.

Odin’s guardian has worked hard to help Odin settle, learn about him and support him when needed.

My goodness this dog has come along way 🥰 and on Friday he’ll join his first social walk with 3 other dogs 🥰

Today’s agenda was to help Odin learn to settle his guardian just wants to sit down. His nervous system tells Odin “it’s not safe to stay still”. And apparently Odin has been especially busy today, so he really needed a good kip 😴

What did we do?
Well firstly we move items which could cause Odin to get a reaction from his guardian.
We brought a raised bed in.
We had toys available.
We had water available.

If Odin jumped up on his guardian, I just asked the guardian to stand up, give nothing away (just nice and casual) and wait for Odin to move away to sit back down.

If Odin came on to the bed, he was rewarded. If Odin stayed on the bed, he was rewarded further.

He was allowed to move off the bed. Odin didn’t want to 🤣 he fell asleep!!

And to be fair when he woke up, he mooched around the room, and then returned back to the bed to sleep!!

For me this is HUGE - to let your guard down and sleep in my unit says a lot.

We now just have to start off small at home, and build up.

Well done Odin 🥰

Can’t wait to see you Friday 🧡

Happy Wednesday 👋🏻

02/06/2026

Little Iggy Pup 🥹

What a delicious little Boston he is 🥰

Iggy is coming to see me for some lead walking help. So today we talked about how we build the layers of learning for this.

Today we started to introduce a cue word to say “good things are happening” - he needed some breaks, as he was learning something new, but this little video is towards the end, and just look at how calmly he walked 🥹 well done Iggy 🙌🏼

Happy Wednesday 👋🏻

OMG, how is it that 2 years ago today I said “yes please” to my little unit!!2️⃣ years! Where has that gone?! 😭It was a...
01/06/2026

OMG, how is it that 2 years ago today I said “yes please” to my little unit!!

2️⃣ years! Where has that gone?! 😭

It was a scary jump - finding that extra monthly payment, but I wanted a space which was mine. To move my classes to the unit. To have a space when the weather doesn’t matter! A safe space where dogs weren’t overlooked by people and the guardians had a safe space to talk.

I love my little unit 🥳 it may not be all singing and all dancing, but it’s my safe space 🥹

Thank you to everyone who supports The Doghouse ❤️

Happy Monday 👋🏻

I’m very proud of this little Potato 🥔 She had her very first Man Trailing session at the grand age of 14!!! 🥹When chatt...
31/05/2026

I’m very proud of this little Potato 🥔

She had her very first Man Trailing session at the grand age of 14!!! 🥹

When chatting with Jas What the Woof as to whether it would work she reassured me there’s a way!

What’s the issue?
1️⃣ she’s a pug (cross anyway!!) not necessarily known for their scent work skills 😂
2️⃣ she’s 14!!
3️⃣ she’s deaf 🧏‍♀️

Of course I didn’t need to worry as Jas knows exactly how to support us both 🥹🥳

First go - I popped a bandana on her to say “she’s working”. Let her sniff the item, gave her a gentle press on the back and stepped forward to mark “trail”.

We knew she would take her time. BUT she didn’t hang out behind my legs (where she normally walks 😅) and she didn’t keep looking up at me 😄

When she “found” the lost person, she was very hesitant and barked 😂 (I don’t know how good her eyesight is TBF!!) so Jas asked him to step out. You may be able to see in the video her hackles are up, but once she reached him and food is offered it’s like “oh ok” 😂

She had 2 goes in one before her break. Found her lost person both times.☺️

Second go - she did not want to sniff the article 😂 and gave Jas a look of “I know what I’m doing!!! 😏” 🤣

To be fair, she did find him 😂
If you watch the second video you can see that she spots him, looks at me - she could’ve taken the path to her right….

Once we got to where he was stood, ironically she didn’t go up to him, she sniffed the other side of the where he was, then once she felt comfortable, she went in and enjoyed her treat.

I went in with low expectations, not in a bad way 😅 just a “let’s see what she thinks…” and she blew me away 🥹

It may not have been as enthusiastic as the young folk 🥲 but she managed to do it 🥰

Thanks Jas for giving us a go - I think we may have found a nice gentle activity for Moosh 🥲🥰

Happy Sunday 👋🏻

30/05/2026

Ok I know, this is a long video, but there was just too many good bits to not share 😅

Friday night was week 5 for Barti, Stormi and Nala 🤗

Like seriously, their lead skills, puppy greeting and recalls are just brilliant 🥹🥳🥳🥳 how could I not share them!?!

This morning I has four dogs come and play some agility games 🤗

Izzy had her first session for agility, where we discovered that toy play won the day - she was jumping and running through that tunnel to grab her toy 🥳🥳 from unsure 🫤 to hell yeah 🙌🏼

Stella - seriously, I want to have a bottle of Stella daily 😂 because she is just a beaming ball of happiness 🥰 We worked her brain hard, and she managed to smash this little course out 🤩

Neil - Neil, is Neil and takes life in a YOLO state of mind. Just run at it and see what happens 😂 the only thing we had to adjust for him was the bigger curve on the tunnel. Once we had made it manageable, no questions asked! His little ears flapped him round that course 💥

Last of the day, Merlin. I haven’t seen Merlin for a while, and when I say his guardians have put in a life time of work into Merlin, it bloody shows!! What a joy it is to see such a focused, boy ❤️ genuinely blown away by how different he is. Once he had a 💩 he was on 🔥!!!! 😅

What a brilliant start to the weekend!!

If you would like to book an agility session, use this link 👉🏼 https://koalendar.com/e/agility-session

Happy Saturday 👋🏻

Ok, hands up 🙌🏼 who’s a little happier that the weather is somewhat cooler 😅 Don’t get me wrong, I like the sunshine, bu...
29/05/2026

Ok, hands up 🙌🏼 who’s a little happier that the weather is somewhat cooler 😅

Don’t get me wrong, I like the sunshine, but when to comes to working with animals, heatwaves don’t make for great work conditions 🙄😂

Anyway - puppy class and Canine champions last night.

The pups are on week 2 where we’ve started to look at those positions, lead walking and handling.

My juniors had a new edition with Hallie joint and both Dave & Nellie were happy to welcome her to the group 🥰 regulation was the aim of last nights session - and all absolutely smashed it 🥳

This morning it was social walks, where little 14 week old Bailey joined her very first walk with Gus, Milo. Izzy and Paisley.

They were all just amazing 🥹 it was such a calm walk today 🥲 couldn’t believe just how peaceful it was 🥰

Amazing!!🤩

If you would like to join social walks, pop me an email to [email protected]

Puppy classes - find your course here 👉🏼 https://rb.gy/bj5ey8
Junior course (there will be a weeks break between week 1 & week 2) 👉🏼 https://koalendar.com/e/Canine-champion-July

Happy Friday 👋🏻

Another early start to get our dogs out, and then it was an early start to head to the fabulous Dogwise Training School ...
27/05/2026

Another early start to get our dogs out, and then it was an early start to head to the fabulous Dogwise Training School 🐾

Thank you to Faye & Tina for inviting me back, where we had 4 fabulous dogs; Rosie, Daphne, Harriet and Elmo.

It’s been a fascinating morning, with some things guardians can work on, and some lovely “ah ha” moments.

We managed to enjoy the shade and some breeze.

If you would like to see how Freework can benefit you, why not book online here - https://koalendar.com/e/freework-clinic-TDU

Happy Wednesday 👋🏻

26/05/2026

As the weather is too warm for outside stuff, a bit of indoor brain training!! 🧠

Don’t worry, Bella had plenty to do in the kitchen 😂

Stop whistles are something Chip and myself have been working on! So we’ve been tasked with our homework - so what better day to practice 😅

He did good, if I don’t step in he won’t stop so I just need to slowly keep building on the cue - small and steady ☺️

But a little practice goes a long way 🥳❤️

Excuse the slippers 😂

Sooo, who joined the “5am” walkers this morning 👋🏻 To be honest, it wasn’t that hard as I was already awake at 3.45am 😂 ...
26/05/2026

Sooo, who joined the “5am” walkers this morning 👋🏻

To be honest, it wasn’t that hard as I was already awake at 3.45am 😂 and couldn’t get back to sleep!!

I did have to wake Bella up though 😂 and she was most upset that I had woken her for a walk and NOT breakfast!!

But there’s something quite pleasant about being up and at ‘em.

Quiet walk, the whole field to ourselves, quiet roads…. It’s very peaceful at 5am!!

By 6.30am, we had breakfast, I’d made a chilli for later in the crock pot 🤣🤣 hoovered, washed up and popped to screwfix (to try and solve a leak but I bought the wrong size washer (all though it fit!!!) and couldn’t understand why the toilet wasn’t filling 🤦🏼‍♀️- I did more steps going up and down the stairs to turn the damn stop tap off and on 🤦🏼‍♀️😆)

Not much happening today as it’s too hot for dogs outside!!!

I do have a session at the unit, but it’ll be very low key, fan on, and practicing some very simple exercises.

Happy Tuesday, stay cool everyone 😎 👋🏻

The Springer Spaniel 🐾 If someone had told me about 20 years ago I’d end up with this creature in my life, I’d have laug...
25/05/2026

The Springer Spaniel 🐾

If someone had told me about 20 years ago I’d end up with this creature in my life, I’d have laughed at you!!

Look who’s laughing now 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

I mean, they are intelligent but then they do things which make you go 🤷‍♀️ 🙄

Today we took the dogs to Ninesprings, before it got too hot and there’s plenty of water available.

Mr DH said “shall we take his toy and see if he’ll swim…” so we did!!

First throw, he managed to clock the toy landing, swam to it (Chip isn’t a dog who belly flops 😂 he needs to be able to feel the floor under his paws) and retrieved!

Second throw, completely missed it! Trying to encourage him to “find it” he absolutely had no clue what he was finding 🤦🏼‍♀️ then started to panic because he didn’t know what he was doing 😂

In his panic, he found himself into deeper water, and swam UNDER a TINY bridge.
His panic then further pushed him into thinking “I’m stuck…” - which he wasn’t - had he just turned round, swam back under the tiny bridge 😅 and he would’ve been able to just walk out. Instead his panic told him to just try and scale the walls 🤦🏼‍♀️ and he was trying to scale them where we couldn’t get to him!! 😩😣

I tried to call him to turn around, but his panic was making him deaf! Thankfully Mr DH was able to grab his collar and pull him out 😮‍💨😆 and with the ball mostly sunken with just the handle poking out, we abandoned the situation and continued with our walk 😂

Walking round, Chip was fascinated by a little Spaniel belly flopping and a Lab doing the same 😂 yet not brave enough to join them for a dunk.

Anyway, we made our way back, and I said to Mr DH “let’s just go back and see if the ball is still there…” which it was, and low and behold, Chip ran in to the water, spotted it and retrieved it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 like WTF 😂

Bella wasn’t impressed by the amount of wet dogs passing her 😒

I do hope you all managed to stay 🆒 🧊

Happy Monday 👋🏻

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