One To One Weekly Behavioural Support For You And Your Dog
Non-residential rehabilitation training is available for owners living in most parts of Devon, Dorset, and Somerset. Our non-residential option can be carried out in your own home/area, or we can arrange a secure dog field to work in. Our two dog field sites are Wiggle Tails in Charmouth (on the Dorset/Devon Border) and Kate’s Walking field in Badgworth, Somerset. In these sessions we focus on assessing your dog and equipping you with the skills to bond with your dog and work on their issues using our force free methods.
Every dog is different, and their personalities are determined by breed, genetics, their upbringing, their experiences, and their environment. Helping owners understand their dogs and their issues and how to work with them, empowers them to move forward and help their dogs with confidence.
Normal sessions would be an hour weekly, but bespoke packages are also available. Please use the contact form to get in touch for a free telephone consultation so that we can establish if this option works for your dog and for you. Having a dog with issues can be confusing, frustrating, heart-breaking, and frightening, we can help you get to the root cause and help you to understand and move forward. A call to us can be the first step towards a better life for you, your family, AND your dog.
Working with Misty
In May we worked with Misty and her family and these are her diaries.
WEEK 1:
One to One, session 1 with Misty ? Misty and her mum started one to one sessions with us to help with her high level motion, sound and environmental stress, as well as her dog and stranger reactivity. This week we all ventured into the village and worked on Misty’s various triggers. We traffic and people watched, and followed people and dogs at distance, taking frequent breaks in a nice quiet grassy area to let Misty shake it off and switch off. We put all our lessons into practice being out and about and Misty’s mum called on her newly acquired skills to support her. We selected and worked from specific areas in the village and these ‘viewing points’ give misty a shelter and safe place to observe without pressure way behind her threshold. Misty and her mum will be using these same points over the next month to keep practising the desensitisation work and also using micro signal reading. Over the weeks Misty’s thresholds will improve as she continues to desensitise and relax further, and in the meantime we will be working remotely together each week until we meet up again later in the summer. It’s been fantastic being a part of their journey and a pleasure to have met Misty and her family ?
WEEK 2:
One to one, session 2 with Misty and gate crasher Bruce the cat ? Misty has been working hard with her mum on focus work, toy trading and sound desensitisation as misty is environmentally triggered especially by noise. Today we worked on door knocking, outdoor sounds and more command work with items and laying foundations to help Misty relax and to find the world less triggering. Bruce the cat is not issued but his handler focus work is excellent ? aka Misty’s chicken pieces more like! ?
WEEK 3:
One to one, session 3 with Misty ? Misty is a very busy collie who easily gets over stimulated by audibles. This week we continued to work on sound desensitisation and focus work at distance from audibles with her snuffle mat and she is coming along nicely ? Next week we are off into the village to help and support her and her mum to put their new skills into practice. Minster joined us this week and has excellent focus skills.
WEEK 4:
One to one, session 4 with Misty ? Misty and her mum started one to one sessions with us to help with her high level motion, sound and environmental stress, as well as her dog and stranger reactivity. This week we all ventured into the village and worked on Misty’s various triggers. We traffic and people watched, and followed people and dogs at distance, taking frequent breaks in a nice quiet grassy area to let Misty shake it off and switch off. We put all our lessons into practice being out and about and Misty’s mum called on her newly acquired skills to support her. We selected and worked from specific areas in the village and these ‘viewing points’ give misty a shelter and safe place to observe without pressure way behind her threshold. Misty and her mum will be using these same points over the next month to keep practising the desensitisation work and also using micro signal reading. Over the weeks Misty’s thresholds will improve as she continues to desensitise and relax further, and in the meantime we will be working remotely together each week until we meet up again later in the summer. It’s been fantastic being a part of their journey and a pleasure to have met Misty and her family ?
