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Training Spaniels Correctly: The Problem Isn’t the Dog — It’s the Lack of Breed Awareness Spaniels are not “too much.”They’re not stubborn.They’re not naughty. They are genetically programmed working dogs living in pet homes — and when we ignore that, behaviour...
Ethics, Trust & Relationship in Dog Training Why how we train matters just as much as what we teach Dog training is about far more than behaviours. It’s about relationships, responsibility, and the choices we make on behalf of an animal who relies entirely on us...
. Dog training rarely fails because dogs are “stubborn,” “dominant,” or “untrainable.”More often, progress stalls because of small, very human mistakes. The good news? Most of these are easy to fix once you know what to look for. Let’s break down the most common...
Start slow. Don't expect much. You need to condition the dog to want to put the muzzle on Use easy to eat soft treats if possible and do short sessions building up the duration for the muzzle to be on once the strap has been done up.
Maisie has only just started her scent work journey. We have done a little bit of work with the pot and just treats (as per my previous videos) She is quite an excitable dog so we are trying to discourage any paws involved in the learning process. She is slowly...
Just so you can see all dogs are different
Just a little video to show a bit of steadiness in retrieval work. Now Harry is by no means perfect in any way but I like to show real life stuff not just the perfect well behaved parts of my dogs. He can be very 'stubburn' when being asked to sit sometimes but as you...
Here I was teaching Sophie how to shorten the lead and Interact with Pepper properly. She has a tendency to just hold the handle and get mad at her when she stops to sniff. I am also trying to get Pepper to respond to Sophie better as she automatically looks at me for...
Watch my video on the things you will need first on my Facebook page.I couldn't trim it down to post on here.Choose a treat that your dog finds tasty and jet ne know how you get on 🙂 🐾🐾
Apologies about the cut off of my head. I had tried to film this about 50 times and got really annoyed with the app on my phone This was the best I could do untill I figure out what's going on. Start somewhere with the least distractions and have your dogs favourite...
Practicing all the time is what matters. The beach is usually Harry's nemesis in terms of listening to me. Today I chose to do 5 min pockets of training throughout our beach walk.Little and often builds up the repetitions but doesn't bombard the dog with too much...
This dog has some issues when it comes to any form of traffic. This video is half way through training and we made a huge breakthrough to not have her hyper focused on the road and moving vehicles!
I have been working on this little by little. From a dog that had minimal concentration out in our field to this 🫶🐾🐾
Keep things simple and don't over que to your dog. Let them think and figure it out.
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