Canine Buddies Dog Training The Mart, Loughrea 086 0375814

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05/07/2025

Welcome to Canine Buddies Dog Training The Mart, Loughrea 086 0375814 🙂🐶🐕🦮
Community Project helping Dogs and Owners🐶
We Offer ..
* Obedience Training
* Ring Craft for Dog Shows
* Agility
* Brain Games
* Socialisation
* Sent Work
* Canine Enrichment
Please Call 086 0375814 to chat about your Dog 🙂

Canine Buddies a place where we have committed ourselves to educate people and to bring awareness ab

18/06/2025

Here’s why this matters... scientifically, emotionally, biologically for you and your dog:

Both you and your dog are biologically wired to seek connection, not control.

From birth, mammals (including dogs) thrive through social bonds that regulate their nervous systems, influence brain development, and shape behavior. This is co-regulation, and it’s not optional.

This is how we survive, learn, and feel safe.

In humans and dogs alike, connection activates the social engagement system (Porges, 2011), quiets the amygdala (the brain’s fear center), and boosts oxytocin, the neurochemical of trust, love, and safety.

So, what happens when we lead with correction instead of connection?

Even well-meaning micromanagement or over-correction can tip dogs out of their window of tolerance, a concept grounded in neuroscience and trauma psychology (Siegel, 1999). In this state, the brain shifts from learning to surviving. The result? Less responsiveness, more stress, and a fragile bond.

But here's the key: Correction isn't inherently wrong. Boundaries are necessary. Safety matters. But corrections that come from a place of relationship and trust, rather than fear or frustration, are processed differently in the brain. A secure attachment and a foundation of empathy soften them.

Dogs thrive when they feel safe, not scrutinized. They learn best in environments where their autonomy is respected and their agency is honored.

A “connected teacher” fosters emotional resilience; a “corrective enforcer” can inadvertently build anxiety.

📣 If you’re ready to shift from managing your dog’s behavior to seeing sustainable and healthy changes that benefit your dog AND your mental health, follow along!

18/06/2025

When everything else seems to be against you or everything you do or say is questioned.
Sometimes we just need to look at our dogs and remember when looking for gratitude, that’s a good place to start.

18/06/2025

When we change our wording and think of the real need behind the behaviour. We can meet it with more purpose and calm.

01/06/2025

We our our dog’s everything, their best friend and first point of social contact. Their source of food and reinforcement. Their comfort, safety and home.
To them, we are the best thing in their whole world which is why they never get tired of waking up to us. How lucky we are to experience that. ❤️

01/06/2025

Sometimes the best moments come out of the worst.

29/05/2025

TEACH KIDS TO BE DOG FRIENDLY

I’m often asked - “How can I make my dog more child friendly?”

The question really should be - “How can I make my child more dog friendly?”

Children don’t come with an inborn ability to know how to interact with dogs. It’s up to us to teach them.

It’s surprising that there aren’t more dog bites considering how often children are seen treating dogs like stuffed toys.

If you think about it, dogs are actually amazingly tolerant and patient with us. They try their best to communicate with us, in the only way they know how, through using their body language.

A dogs attempt to show us they’re uncomfortable, scared, stressed or anxious is so often completely ignored or not understood.

As parents, I believe it should be a non-negotiable responsibility to teach our children about how to respect and behave around dogs to keep both of them safe.

Always supervise children and dogs, even if a dog seems relaxed and friendly.

Here are some links to free, on-line resources if you’re looking for more information on how to keep children and dogs safe together -

https://kidsarounddogs.co.uk/pages/free-resources

https://www.gooddoginabox.com/top-20-ways-keep-kids-and.../

https://www.familypaws.com/resources/

https://www.cooperandkids.com

https://poochparenting.net/blog/

29/05/2025

29/05/2025

WHEN YOU ADOPT AN ANIMAL IT BECOMES A BELOVED PART OF YOUR FAMILY.
And your dog or cat is certainly not something you just surrender out of convenience.
They are NOT disposable.
Yes, I know there are some circumstances that are simply unavoidable.
But the lame excuses I’ve heard for surrendering or dumping an animal that don’t cut the mustard are:
— I have a new livingroom set and the dog’s fur color clashes.
— My new significant other doesn’t like my cat.
— My dog has bad breath.
— I got the puppy for my children to thrill them at Christmas, but now that the dog is bigger we don’t want it anymore.
— I was lonely during the Covid pandemic and wanted company, but now I don’t need the cat anymore.
Really, these are some asinine excuses given at shelters.
Who are these horrible people?
Infuriating.
Owning an animal is a commitment.
If you can’t handle it, don’t get the animal.
No one forces you to get an animal.
Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue recently posted:
“We are in total crisis mode nationwide.
We ( alone ) are turning down hundreds of animals a week.
Owner surrenders are exponentially increasing the problem.
It is heartbreaking.”
Darn right it is.
LOVE YOUR ANIMALS AS MUCH AS THEY LOVE YOU.
***And, please spay and neuter them.