Pups Academy

14/08/2025

11/08/2025

The most wonderful bunch of ladies who do nothing short of their best everyday to look after our pets 🩵🧡

Zero tolerance for rude or abusive behaviour 🚫

Mental health in the veterinary industry is something we care about deeply. Sadly, our profession has one of the highest su***de rates, and the way our teams are treated can have a huge impact on their wellbeing.

Organisations like .legacy work tirelessly to raise awareness about the challenges faced by veterinary professionals and advocate for kindness, respect, and change. We proudly stand behind this message.

Lately, we’ve experienced a few interactions that have been unpleasant for our team. While we understand vet visits can be stressful, our staff are here to help you and your pets — not to be spoken to disrespectfully.

We will always treat you with kindness, patience, and professionalism, and we expect the same in return.
Let’s work together to make every visit a positive and respectful one ❤️🐾

’sLegacy

30/07/2025

Congratulations Mortimer, Millie, Lenny & Kovu for graduating puppy preschool last night!

The cutest bunch of graduates we ever did see 🥹🎓 Huge confidence shifts for all of these four and some great social skills were built over our few weeks together!

22/07/2025

Buster joined us for weekly Fulfilment Walks whilst his parents were away on holidays to maintain the training he started with us in his 1 on 1 sessions and to continue his reactivity training 🐾

Over our 4 sessions together Buster was able to build a bond with me as somewhat of a stranger taking him out for play, enrichment and training; began to understand what is and isn’t acceptable on his neighbourhood walks (i.e. screaming at other dogs across the road is a no go) and learnt to respond to different forms of communication in a busy park environment to lessen his dog reactivity. We had such a blast with Buster and enjoyed furthering him in his reactivity rehab!

We can’t wait to catch his family up on his progress and transfer his new learnings to their day to day with this little firecracker 💙

We get asked quite a lot about our fulfilment walks — this service is available to anyone with a dog under 6 months of age and dogs who are currently or have recently finished training with us through 1 on 1 sessions. This is to ensure all our students get the most out of training and there is consistency between what we work on in session and what you do at home.

&train

04/07/2025

You’ve all seen the no pull harnesses and maybe even the drama around them but truthfully no tool - not a single one, is going to train your dog for you.

AI hasn’t come that far yet as far as we’re aware..

The training is your job and the training tools are an assist. We have trained enough dogs to know very well that as clever as dogs are - their opportunistic nature and strong ability to recognise patterns allows them to work around practically any training tool if not used with the correct technique & consistency.

This is not to say you have to pay a trainer to help you - if you can educate yourself sufficiently to train your dog in the best way possible you should absolutely do this. As trainers our main job is to train you so you can take on the role of your dogs ‘trainer’ for life. After all every minute you spend with or without your dog, they are learning! With a range of tools and skills on hand your trainer should be helping you find the right training gear and methods to best suit your dog’s age, breed, personality and specific behaviour issues.

So please don’t desensitise your dog to their collar or any training tool but continuing ahead if you don’t know what to do - reach out a reputable local trainer and allow them to support you & your dog through your training journey.

Need help in Sydney, NSW?
☎️ Call or text your details to 0466800347

04/07/2025

25/06/2025

Congratulations to our Scentwork Juniors for graduating tonight! We can’t believe this lot are ready for trial prep already but have no doubt these dogs could all smash through a Novice Scentwork trial tomorrow if they wanted to 😍 We ran a mock trial set up today and not a single dog went over 2.5 mins most searches cleared in 5-40 seconds even with distractions!

Well done teams for the hard work you’ve put in - we can’t wait to see you back for trial prep!!

17/06/2025

Two more spots remaining for Puppy PreSchool at West Blacktown veterinary clinic starting tonight at 6:30pm!

Call West Blacktown Veterinary clinic on (02) 9621 4984 they will be able to get you booked in and set to join us tonight! 🐾

14/06/2025

When the belly rubs are just too good 😌🐾

Winnie had her first session of her 5 Week Fundamentals with us today to set her up as best as possible with her brand new family 🥰

08/06/2025

We have two classes with limited spots available starting this week and next!

Intro to Scentwork - Starting Friday 13th at 7pm (Located indoors, 5 mins from Bungarribee dog park just off Great Western Hwy)
- Suitable for all breeds & is a great enrichment activity for rainy days at home
- Great way to build your bond and communication system with your dog
- This class is foundation learning for ANKC scentwork, meaning you can work up to competing with your dog for official titles
- The concepts taught within this class will allow you to prep for competition OR teach your dog to find your phone/keys/wallet etc.
- 20 minutes of sniffing equates to an hour, structured walk; what better way to be effective with your dogs enrichment activities!

Book one of our remaining Intro to Scentwork spots: https://pupsacademy.as.me/schedule/573f0c12/?appointmentTypeIds[]=78971903

Puppy PreSchool at West Blacktown Veterinary Clinic
Tuesday 17th June at 6:30pm (Weeks 2-5 run at 6pm)
See flyers below for more details or contact us!

02/06/2025

𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗖 𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 "𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗥"....

Pay for a reputable trainer to help YOU learn to train your dog, and bring your attention to tweaks you need in your relationship and training.

What the general public does not understand when they watch social media 'fix it now trainers' is the mess they make of the dog because all they serve to do is shut the dog down and intimidate it into compliance. Whilst this might work in that moment, it's not a long-term solution and is likely to create more issues than what you started with.

Long-term solutions involve cleaning up the human-dog relationship and training the human how to interact with and manage the dog - these things take time and patience, and lots of practice.

Humans are a "let's see results now" kinda race; they often do not want to show the patience to see how their hard work pays off, but our dogs deserve that, do they not?

The other thing pet parents need to understand is the misinformation commonly shared on social media about balanced trainers vs positive trainers, and that is that balanced trainers are all about compulsion and punishment and positive trainers are all about cookies.

What you might be surprised to learn is that a balanced trainer uses the four quadrants of training i.e., Positive Reinforcement, Positive Punishment, Negative Reinforcement, and Negative Punishment, and typically uses mostly positive training methods but is open the the 4 Q's when it is appropriate.

There are extremists in the positive & balanced world and everything in between and outside of those - the key is to recognising them.

Not everything online is real or fact.