Ripley LOVES to tug! The first thing that Ripley does when he gets up in the morning is to find something to pick up and carry around....

Stationing is where your dog gets on to a platform, mat or other defined area and stays there until asked to do something else. It has multiple uses in a variety of different situations. You’ve probably seen trainers doing demo videos with one dog, whilst their others wait patiently in the background. That’s station training. Your dog gets constantly under your feet whilst you’re preparing food in the kitchen? Station training can fix that. Station training on the road means

Play is a really important part of any training you do with your dog. Studies have shown that including play in our training sessions...

If I'm honest, I struggled a bit with the title of this one - what I might deem 'undesirable' or 'problem' behaviours, another guardian...

I recently wrote about the reasons to train scentwork , and how I came to train scentwork . Now I'm going to talk you a through a few...

Following on from yesterday's topic, 7 Reasons to Train Scentwork With Your Dog, I thought I would share the reasons that I train...

Scentwork is a growing area, and more and more dog owners are investigating this training for their dogs. Today I'm going to cover seven...

I am a member of an excellent Facebook group, Canine Conditioning and Body Awareness Exercises. The posts that appear in this group are...

For the third time since I got a second dog, I find myself in the position of trying to balance the needs of dogs with different exercise...

Like a lot of my friends, both real and virtual, I usually walk my dogs alone. Even pre-coronavirus I generally chose routes where we...

We go camping with a group of family and friends a couple of times a year usually. We’ve been doing this for a few years, and have been...

For those that don't know me all that well, I often describe myself as having a butterfly mind. I'll start something (a project, book,...

As Jo Parry will be joining me once a week to offer laser treatments, I thought it would be helpful to share a bit about what laser...

Betty is a westie x poodle, who first came to see me in July 2019. At the time she was just ten months old. Betty has a poorly formed...

I know that they are thought of as evil things, and that many people would like to see them banned, but I do think that flexi leads have...

Ripley joined us in May 2015. He's a working cocker spaniel; a breed that a friend had had when I got my first dog in 1995. I decided...

I thought I'd start out by introducing my dogs. My oldest dog is Vinnie - an eleven year old Springer Spaniel. I've had Vinnie since he...

I've decided to add a blog to my website - a chance for me to expand a bit on topics that interest me. Check back again soon for my...