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25/03/2024

A beautiful shot caught from one of last weeks sessions with Miss Kiya 💜

The energy that this lady brings to each of her walk & trains is something else, always ready and eager to go, with one of the happiest faces.

Its been wonderful being part of her journey so far, helping her owner prepare for vet trips, making her more reliable for off lead freedom, and teaching her some alternative behaviours.

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25/01/2024

The first month of the year is almost over, Crazy!!!

I know quite a few of us like to set ourselves goals for the year and whilst the the first week or two we can be full of motivation, it's hard to keep up that momentum sometimes. So to keep you going, keep track of and plan all of your doggy goals we have a quick weekend sale on all of our downloadable planners & trackers.

Use code ✨ Motivation50 ✨ at checkout to get your discount.

This will be available until Sunday, so get it today to work on it across the weekend ready to take Monday on with a clear and more motivated mind.

13/01/2024

Possibly my favourite of our trackers & planners, the: Proofing Pyramid.

Training a dog shouldn't be overly complicated, BUT trying to remember all the environments, distractions, locations and so on you have worked on your dog's behaviour around isn't easy!

The proofing pyramid helps to plan and keep track. Slowly guiding you to proof the command and level up the environments and distractions, whilst still being able to go at your dog's pace. Also giving you prompts and ideas, as we all know its easy to get stuck with the same location 😅

11/01/2024

A handy little gimmick to remember is ABC. These 3 things can work wonders in many aspects when it comes to your owning a dog.

🐾 Access - Access comes through you. Whether it's a threshold, whether it's a toy, whether it's food, whether it's greeting another dog or person, and so on. By putting in the effort that your dog gains access to these things, especially good rewarding things, you will start to notice that more frequently they look to you for guidance and access. Rather than rushing out the gate, rather than rushing to pick up food you've dropped, rushing another dog leaving you trailing behind trying to catch them.
🐾 Bonding - Bonding with your dog is always a focus. Whether it's through play, training, grooming, hiking, problem solving. Continuously building on your bond can reap rewards in so many ways, from their want to work and train with you, to trusting you when they feel uncertain.
🐾 Confidence Building - Building your dog's confidence not only helps strengthen your bond, but it can help your dog lead a happier life. Being able to take them to more places, and sharing more of your world with them.

07/01/2024

Even when you've been having a continuous chain of success it can take one 'bad' episode to quickly bring you to feeling low.

Whether it's a bad day, a couple of days, a week or more it's important to reach out to your support network, rather than letting it bottle up.

05/01/2024

When your dog starts displaying reactive behaviour your first point of call wants to be getting help, reaching out to a trainer and behaviourist.

But these are 3 areas you can start looking at yourself;

✨ Safety - safety should always be considered with any dog, but when you start to notice reactive behaviour this needs to be at the forefront of your mind. Ensuring your gear is safe, with no wear and tear and not likely to break. Muzzle training. Place Training. Ensuring you have appropriate awareness gear, and gear to advocate for your dog.
✨ I cannot express this enough. looking at building your relationship, bonding, building trust, building confidence together. Dogs have an amazing ability to read us as owners (and humans). Playing, exploring new walks, training, trying a new activity, tapping into breed fulfilment. not only will this help your dog, but it will help you.
✨ It's so easy to want to hide when your dog displays reactive behaviour, and whilst taking a step back to focus on the basics, and to gather yourself is a good thing, getting out there and exposing your dog, to all different aspects of the world can do wonders in building their confidence.

03/01/2024

So a lot of us shared our training goals for 2024.

Our training set is perfect for helping you tackle those training goals.

13/12/2023

We have had a few new followers recently so I wanted to say hi 👋 and also let you know why I started My Dog Is.

I have a large breed dog, and when we bought him home, at 8 weeks, he was already bigger than the majority of the dogs in our village. Although obvious to most that he was a puppy, to some they thought he was older than he was purely down to his size, resulting in a lot of inappropriate and unwanted greeting and meetings.

We put a lot of time into his training, and in all honesty, we were so fed up with the people coming up and disturbing him (without consent) or allowing their dogs to rush us and him. So we wanted to find some training awareness gear. The products we found didn't offer much visibility, he could only wear them during certain parts of the year, the quality wasn't very good, and the actual awareness/information was minimal.

With that I thought about what we actually needed and came up with the idea of My Dog Is, only having the courage to start it a year or so later.

11/12/2023

Until you have a reliable recall with a dog the safest and kindest thing you can do is have them on a long-line.

Whilst there are some training methods for recall or building pack mentality that involve being off lead, you can always use a dropped lead instead, to ensure you keep your dog safe, and respect those around you.

08/12/2023

I hate conflict, not only that but I'm such a huge people pleaser, and I like to ensure people are happy and everything is okay!

But the reality is sometimes I have to do things that make me feel uncomfortable to make my dog feel comfortable. I need to advocate for him, whether that's by blocking a dog, wearing bright colours, shouting at another owner to put their dog on lead, or simply putting my hand up at someone to stop them from petting my dog.

It shouldn't result in conflict, but sometimes it does, but.... those 5 minutes of me feeling uncomfortable because i have said 'no' to someone is worth it in order for my dog to feel okay.

01/12/2023

As an individual I know I am a worrier, however, in some aspects, I don't think that is a bad thing.

When it comes to my dog's safety I see it as one of, if not the, most important aspects of having him and caring for him.

His happiness is key, but if his safety is compromised through something that is bringing him joy, I will evaluate how I can bring that happy 'thing' into his life safely.

If he thrives off lead but has no recall, I would hire secure fields until I we have a solid recall.

29/11/2023

I don't know who needs to hear this but.... 💁

The amount of people who say they get abuse when they ask another owner to recall their dog, or get their dog away from theirs is crazy!

Some owners seem to get incredibly defensive of this, and it's something I can't quite get my head around. A dog does not need to say hello to every other dog, nor is there any benefit from them doing so!

If someone asks you to recall your dog, to get your dog away from theirs, or is even just making it abundantly clear in any shape or form that they do not want to interact with your dog, the only thing you should be doing is keeping your dog away from them. You don't need to know why, you just need to do it.

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