Bee Happy Dog Training

The fun of autumn begins… now can I teach Bennie to pick up leaves🤔🙌🏻🍁🤣

Happy international dog day. Just back from a weekend of CPD. Great course in a beautiful location. Bennie enjoys is stay as much as I did 🥰

To brighten up this winter’s day, here’s a pic of yesterday at the cow and calf ☀️🥰

Happy 7th Birthday to Bennie. Living his best life being all things spaniel, running through the woods. Collecting balls and twigs oh and mud.. always mud 🤣🥰🥰🎂🎂

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Bennie had 2 homes before he came to us. He has now been with us longer than those other homes and I’m truly grateful for everything Bennie has taught me 🥰x

Let’s see all your amazing rescue and rehomed dogs!!

This isn’t just about the dog. We all have habits which become automatic. Think about driving a car. Once you have been driving years in the same car you’ll put the indicator on without even thinking. It’s when you move into another car and the indicator is on the other side and you put the windscreen wipers on instead, that you realise how automatic it has become.

We also have automatic behaviours with our dog training, which our dogs pick up on. Think about how often you say no even though the dog doesn’t really know what it means. Or putting your hand in your treat pouch before the dog has done the behaviour you are rewarding. It does take time to change habits. We need to give our dogs and ourselves more leniency… now where’s that glass of water I’m meant to be drinking rather than tea 🤣🥰

Very sound advice. Also think about nesting birds on the moors 🐑🐦‍⬛

SHEEP !! 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

🐾 My dogs ignore sheep and they are pretty well trained with an excellent recall and focus off lead.

However last week I took the dogs out on a long walk.
A significant part of the walk involved walking down a lane past (not through) fields of sheep with new born lambs.

So I put them on lead. Why?
Because I respect the farmer 👨‍🌾and the 🐑 sheep. I don't want the sheep to feel worried about their lambs. My dogs have zero need to be off lead here so they are not.

If your dog is a risk to sheep, keep it away or on lead, it doesn't have to physically make contact with sheep to cause them harm.

It's stressful for a prey animal to have a predator in its environment.

🐑 If you see Sheep, put it on a lead
🐑 If you hear Sheep, put it on a lead
🐑 If you think there might be Sheep, put it on a lead

🚜The Country Code say keep dogs on a lead near livestock!

When your grass needs cutting but you’ve decided it makes a perfect place for scatter feeding 🤣🤣

To all the dog trainers, dog walkers and dog owners… spring is coming.. no it really is ☀️

A great post, working with reactive dogs and their caregivers is something I’m passionate about. It feels me with joy when I see a person with a dog, give space to a person who is clearly trying to keep their dog under threshold. It means they care not just about their dog but about all dogs. As the post says, it doesn’t take much to be kind. 🐝😁🐶

Polite request: if you are out walking, whether by yourself or with your dog, and you can see someone else's dog reacting towards you, please do not continue to approach them: either wait til they have gone out of sight, or turn and walk another way - especially (!) If the dog's guardian has asked you to. On that note, if you see a dog guardian hide their dog up a driveway, or turn & walk/jog their dog away the moment they see you & yours, for f's sake dont follow them at a quick pace. Just pick a different route!

Yes, your dog may be non-reactive. Yes, you have every right to walk right up to/past the reactive dog. Yes, you may think it is the guardian's problem.

Knowingly & deliberately setting a reactive dog off & not giving them space means that dog (and guardian) will be in a state of high stress for days afterwards.

Kindness really does cost nothing.

With 3 reactive dogs myself, I have experienced the worst of the worst: people trying to approach & touch my reacting dog (why?!) and trying to chat to me, horse riders cantering directly at us (more than once) when we have nowhere to go, the dirty looks, the unkind comments, the 'but I/my dog/my horse is fine'. That's great, good on you (you do know its mostly luck that means you have a non-reactive dog rather than your own doing?) but forcing your horse/dog past mine that is reacting will stress your animal out too.

With my own dogs & when out with my clients, I will always ask people to pause (very nicely) & will also be very explicit if you do something really selfish & potentially harmful (you'll get a bollocking, & loudly) around them.

We are trying to protect you & our dogs, so please let us.

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Perfect mug for today. So glad I have my astro. The British weather doesn’t stop play 🥰🐶