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Come Back! Teaching Your Dog to Come When Called
Why the classroom 'recall' doesn't always work in the park

Clare Russell
May 23 min read
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Cues - How to Create Clear Communication between You and Your Dog
It is highly rewarding when you feel your dog understands you, and that you can communicate with each other.

Clare Russell
Jan 16, 20244 min read
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Is your dog dominant or depressed?
Conversation about dog’s suffering with mental health issues such as stress, anxiety or depression.

Clare Russell
Feb 6, 20233 min read
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Using the Learning Cycle to build confidence in your anxious dog
Using the Learning Cycle to build confidence in your anxious dog

Clare Russell
Dec 15, 20223 min read
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Do you need more than one session?
Which issues when resolved will make the biggest difference to your life. Which changes will be most beneficial to your dog?

Clare Russell
Dec 13, 20223 min read
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Teaching your Dog to be Calm
How to go about teaching your dog to be calm

Clare Russell
Nov 22, 20225 min read
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Transferable Skills - Confidence Building for Sensitive Dogs
Teaching sensitive and reactive dogs the skills they need to cope away from the stressors

Clare Russell
Nov 14, 20224 min read
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Is It Play or Hunting Practice?
When we use the term play to describe the herding behaviour of collies it prevents us from acknowledging what is happening.

Clare Russell
Oct 1, 20223 min read
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Confidence
Confident dogs and Confident people can create magic together, confidence is the spark for the relationship we dreamed of with our dog.

Clare Russell
Sep 23, 20223 min read
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Why Adding Structure to a Training Session helps your Reactive Dog
These are all key skills that dogs need to be able to walk on a lead without pulling, barking, spinning or biting, making life easy and safe

Clare Russell
Sep 20, 20223 min read
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Familiarisation or Socialisation? Which does your dog need?
Assessment periods in a young dog are moments of learning, be quiet, let the dog learn

Clare Russell
Aug 26, 20224 min read
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Thank your dog for growling - why growling is a safe form of canine communication
Growling is information that the environment needs to change

Clare Russell
Aug 12, 20224 min read
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Can Pheromones Influence Dog Behaviour?
The presence of appeasing pheromones may decrease the effects of a dog's anxiety.

Clare Russell
Aug 4, 20222 min read
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Struggling with Recall or Lead Pulling?
Dogs naturally seek connection. Knowing how to enhance the communication can improve your lead walking and recall

Clare Russell
Apr 15, 20224 min read
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Excuse Me..... please
From my experience once dogs learn that you understand these subtle signs, they become more co-operative, less reactive, quicker to approach

Clare Russell
Nov 12, 20213 min read
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Subtle Signals of a Sensitive Soul
Communicating with a Sensitive Dog. A conversation of a few whispers is how it felt...

Lisa Wilson
Oct 28, 20212 min read
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Will 'watch me' really benefit your dog?
The bulk of my work is with dogs that are showing behaviours known as reactive or aggressive. Often these dogs are anxious and sensitive....

Clare Russell
Sep 10, 20213 min read
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Your Dog's Brain, Fear and Stress
Why your reactive dog often has no choice over their behaviour

Clare Russell
Aug 19, 20216 min read
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Ditch the Perfectionism
Trying to get training just right is understandable, but can lead to procrastination. It is ok to take the messy first step and get started.

Clare Russell
May 30, 20214 min read
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