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Back In Action!! Right, that's the new Tier syste

Back In Action!!

Right, that's the new Tier system back in place for this crazy pandemic which means we are back in action and ready to go! Sessions will be as normal from the 2nd December so if you are already booked in from there onwards then no need to do anything at all.

Moving forward, we are taking bookings as normal again now for 1-1 sessions as normal but there's a fair waiting list.

If you want to book in with Jay, his bookings are fully booked until March and if you want to book in with Adam, he is taking bookings from January onwards.

Super excited to get back doing what we love the most and getting outside with the dogs, in person, for real. I will always love the Academy but it's so important to get hands and eyes on in real life too.

So quick little update post today but we're back in biz and excited to help you all in the super near future!

Peace!
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Danielle and Marley!! Well today I thought it wa

Danielle and Marley!!

Well today I thought it was time to give Danielle a member shoutout because if anyone deserves it, it's her.

Danielle joined the Academy a while ago now with a reactive dog and nowhere near enough knowledge to sort it, but she came with an open mind, a great attitude to learn and bags of work ethic!

She immediately got stuck in, came for a 1-1 session here at the facility and got the work done so it's no shock to see that her reactivity is pretty much fully sorted now and she's moved onto the more advanced part of dog training, which for people like her is a whole load more fun.

She joined a 6 week Advanced Obedience course that we ran and absolutely smashed it out of the park. The first week, she looked like a normal pet owner with a pet dog and by the last week she looked completely different. Her dog looked much less pet dog, and much more fancy, fast, sharp.

After Operation Obedience she kept applying herself and continues to do so every single day, posting videos, getting stuck in and trying to move forwards.

On top of all of this, she's also one of the most active Academy Members in helping other people. When we made the Academy in the beginning it was designed to be a family, where everybody could help everybody else and Danielle is living proof of this. She's in the group every single day helping people, sharing her progress, making moves.

Massive well done Danielle. Keep doing exactly what you are doing and we will see you in Evo in the very near future!
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Dos and Don'ts of Early Training Whether you have

Your Attitude Will Kill Your Goals I've been get

Your Attitude Will Kill Your Goals

I've been getting increasingly wound up over this issue lately and it just seems to be getting worse which absolutely baffles the life out of me and I cannot for the life of me understand why.

We live in an entitled, instant gratification filled world in todays age and it's really effecting our dogs. Not everybody of course but a huge majority of people.

Almost every day I do a live video, and give people the chance to join the academy, for free, for a whole week where we will help them work through the issues they are having.... And everyday fifty people ask an advanced behavioural question and then when I answer it they say 'thanks' and never do anything about it again.

There are NO quick fixes in dog training, and the longer you spend searching for one, the longer your dog is going to be living with this behavioural issue. They do not exist. If supplements worked, do you not think it would be worldwide knowledge that they worked? If there were ten easy steps, do you not think we'd all give you them?

Dog training is about psychologically changing a dogs pattern of behaviour. It is intrinsically difficult.

The people who come on my live every day and do absolutely nothing to aid their progress are literally watching their dogs live in stress and CHOOSING to do absolutely nothing about it and I cannot for one minute wrap my head around it.

We are in an age where everyone is like 'Oh fur babies'... 'Oh my dogs are my children'. Then treat them as such if that's how you feel!! Would you let your child live in unnecessary stress because you are too bone idle to do anything about it!? Damn right you wouldn't and your dog should be no different.

Drop the instant gratification, drop the quick fixes and do the required work to help your dog.

Our dogs deserve so much more.
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You NEED To Listen So every single day, I get pe

You NEED To Listen

So every single day, I get people messaging me for help, whether that be though the Academy, through Evo, through the page, emails or calls. Now, of course, for the most part my Academy are doing much better than the people ringing me for the first time who have never got help, but there's a common theme I see.

This theme runs through all of dog training, and most likely through everything and not just within the dog world.

When you ask for help, you HAVE to listen. You have to trust what your trainer is saying and if you don't trust them, then you need to find a new trainer. I get people messaging me asking if what their trainer advised is correct. If you have that little trust in someone to do their job, why are you paying them?

If you DO trust your trainer, then follow the steps they are saying. The two main reasons that people don't listen are as follows:

1 - They think they know better. If you actually know better, then you don't need the help in the first place. Don't spend your hard earned money to get advice off someone just to then ignore it.

2 - Rushing. This is the most common one I see from my members and it crucifies your training. People try and rush ahead all the time. They are trying to do step 9 before they've even managed step 1 and it's the sure fire, fastest way to slow your training down.

So how do you know who to trust and who to listen to? Well, for me the most poignant thing to look at is results. Look at results with their own dogs, look at results with other peoples dogs. The results will speak for themselves.

Anyone can come on here, to social media and tell you how amazing they are but it's why I say every single time on a live that my Members will tell you what the Academy is like. I'm a dog trainer, not a salesman. Let the clients speak, let the dogs speak, let the results speak.

The results will come if you listen to those who already have them.
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Do You Train Small Dogs? I get this question pret

Do You Train Small Dogs?

I get this question pretty much everyday in one way or another and the immediate answer is absolutely yes... Of course I train small dogs. I own one!

See, despite what some of the amazing marketing dog trainers out there will tell you, there's not really any such thing as a breed specialist.

'Do you train X?' - I train any dog with any issue.

Of course there's differences in genetic predisposition between dogs, but the fundamentals behind all training is adjustment of behaviour and whether that behaviour is coming from a small dog or a huge dog makes no difference.

Take two dogs, one is a tiny one, one is huge. They are both barking and lunging at other dogs. They both have reactivity, they both need addressing but the problem is the big dog probably will go see a trainer because the sheer strength in his behaviour makes him far more difficult to handle.

There are many, many small dogs out there at the moment with severe psychological behavioural issues that will remain untreated because it doesn't cause their owner that much issue. This in itself is cruel. Just because it doesn't inconvenience you doesn't mean that your dog should have to spend the next ten years of his life stressed.

The other issue with small dogs is that many tend to baby them and that's just doing them a disservice. They put them in handbags and dress them up. Your small dog, is just that... A small DOG. A dog just like the Rottweiler is. They need to be performing dog behaviours. Enrichment, physical exercise, the same as all the other dogs.

Of course there's adjustments made in lifestyle and training of small dogs, but overall its much the same!
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Well Done Adam! Today Adam got his first promotio

Well Done Adam!

Today Adam got his first promotion under the new Eco Grading scale!

We created this scale to stop people being squashed into a single area of sport work and allow them to be open to more training methods and focus more on community and family.

When someone earns a collar under the EVO Grading system it represents not only their training, but their attitude, their ethics, their ethos, their bond and a tonne of other things.

Adam has come a long way with Panzer and showed that higher level work is possible even without the most perfect dog.

Panzer had no work ethic, no drive and she had to be taught bitework with s slipper attached to a lead because she wouldn’t play with anything else.

Fast forward almost a year to her receiving her white collar and she has the foundations of protection, obedience and tracking.

To get through the next three white stripes and into her blue collar we want to see her moving out of the behaviours she already knows and diversifying further and getting a more solid and consistent idea across the board!

Well done Adam and Panzer!
(ps - EVO Guys... there’s two more white collars on order so one of them could be yours)
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Do Some Research! So I have no idea if it’s bec

Do Some Research!

So I have no idea if it’s because of lockdown, or for some other reason but I’m getting a tonne of messages lately that just scream ‘I didn’t do any research before I bought a puppy’

‘My 8 week old dog is weeing in the house what do I do?’

‘My Malinois puppy is full of energy and I can’t tire him out’

‘My 10 week old German Shepherd is biting me how can I stop it?’

Before you even THINK about getting a dog you need to do your research and you need to do it well!

Puppies are going to pee in the house, and chew stuff and bite your hands. It’s just what they do. It’s like buying a fish and being shocked when it swims round the tank you put it in.

You need to not only research general puppy life but also WHAT kind of dog suits you. Too many people are buying dogs based on looks rather than compatibility. In fact someone messaged me last time I posted a picture of Kodiak and said ‘I want a dog just like this what breed is it?’

If you don’t know what the breed is and what the breed is like then do not buy it! You have to do some research.

Once you’ve done your research, decided on a breed of puppy or rescue... GET HELP.

If every one of my clients joined my academy before they got their dog, I’d never do a 1-1 session again because the difficult problems would never surface.

Do your research, be logical, get help.

Peace!
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You Can't Train Your Way Happy As a professional

You Can't Train Your Way Happy

As a professional trainer and someone absolutely obsessed with how our four legged friends learn, behaviour and develop people seem to assume,e that I think training is the be all and end all... and it's just not.

And the fact its Saturday night now and I am writing a post is just a little note that triggered this. I am sat in my studio with my two dogs, just enjoying them. Just enjoying having my dogs with me. We're not training anything, we're not training FOR anything, we're just existing as three beings under the same roof.

Of course it's ultra important to have training goals and training is a huge, huge part of my life. I train for fun, I train for work, I train to compete and that will never change. It's important that you train. It's your building block of communication between you and your dog.

But it's also important you do other stuff. It's important that you spend time existing together, laughing with your dog, enjoying your life, going for a run, playing in the lake... Whatever it is that you and your dog like doing.

See without relationship you have absolutely nothing. Relationship is the foundation to build on and with weak foundations come weak buildings so sort your relationship out. I spend hundreds and hundreds of hours with my dogs NOT training... Just having fun and that's so important.

There's no chance in this world can you train your way to a perfect dog. Training alone won't cut it. Training is just a piece of the puzzle.
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The Evo Grading System Explained So as many of yo

The Evo Grading System Explained

So as many of you will know, last month we opened Obsidian Evo which is the sport corner of the Academy, aimed solely at sport behaviours rather than pet behaviours and alongside this we released the Evo Grading System.

We created the Evo Grading system with inspiration from the martial arts world and their ethos around progression and training. Within the dog world we are generally focused on individual days with a single competition instead of looking at the entire journey and what people go through.

With the Evo Grading system we are judging on the entirety of the journey, the discipline of the owner, attitude, ethos, kindness, relationship... The lot. This is not a game of one day at one trial.

Each graded member will receive a collar for their dog, and a hoodie of the same colour. The collar marks the level of the dog and the hoodie the level of the trainer.

White - The dog and handler have a basic foundational knowledge of all three phases of sport work. The dog doesn't need to be high level but should show a basic understanding even if it needs help.

Blue - The dog and handler have a complete basic understanding of all three phases. The dog shows good understanding in some behaviours and is improving regularly.

Purple - The dog and handler have a solid understanding across all three phases and need less help than a blue dog. This is the level where dogs will start to be judged more critically on refinement.

Yellow - The dog and handler have a complete understanding across all three phases. This is the refinement level where the dog only needs small tweaks before the final level.

Black - The dog is proficient and compete across all three phases and for all intents and purposes 'done'.

Red - Reserved for extremely special dogs that are one in a million and stand out even among other black level dogs.

Remember this is NOT a test or a trial, this is about the journey and the attitude of handlers so everything will be taken into account.

Right now, Flak and Khaleesi have both been granted Blue by Adam and will be working towards purple.

Who will be the first white collar!?

The Day I Knew Was Coming Well today marks a sad

The Day I Knew Was Coming

Well today marks a sad day for me but one still filled with plenty of hope so don’t feel sorry for me.

Last night I was playing tug with Khaleesi and she showed signs of pain again. She’s had two dental surgeries, titanium teeth put in in Germany, had Ankylosis of the hock and had a couple of syncopic episodes last year.

Today marks the day that Khaleesi will officially retire from protection work. No more bite work, no more protection competitions. I’m not willing to put her through anymore surgeries or rehabilitations, she’s nearly six and it’s not worth it. Before she’s a competition dog, she’s my dog and that matters more.

So what does this mean for Khaleesi? Well she will keep training in obedience and nose work. She will do heelwork, and hurdles and blind searches. She’ll still track and search. She’ll still sit on my chair and lay on my sofa. Really nothing will change.

The only thing that changes now is that we’ve gotta get sharper in those areas for the Evo Grading System because with a phase missing she’s gotta make up that work somewhere.

Khaleesi always has been and always will be my heart dog. She’s been through AVD Bronze and Silver, Fright Night, Lorockmor. She’s won trophies and worked real jobs on the street and you bet your bottom dollar she’ll be here with me till her last breath.

Today marks the end of one chapter but the start of another.

With every cloud, comes a silver lining.
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The First Step In Dog Training When you’re firs

Don't Train Everyday Seems a bit of a weird thin

Don't Train Everyday

Seems a bit of a weird thing to hear from a dog trainer, right? I am a massive fan of not training every single day not only for your dogs wellbeing but yours as well.

See, dog training can be difficult, and tiring and it can feel like a never ending tunnel. I get it, I've been there too. I once knew absolutely nothing and felt like everyday was the steepest learning curve and impossible to keep up with. None of us were born knowing how to train a dog.

So sometimes it's just important to take a day off. Take a day off learning yourself, don't watch any training videos, watch a bit of Netflix, spend time with loved ones, go to the gym, do whatever you enjoy. Dog training should never become a chore because you've then lost the very essence of why you got a dog in the first place.

We all have dogs to share our lives with, to spend time with, to enjoy and if you are slaving away three hundred and sixty five days a year then that's just gonna make you miserable.

Your dog needs the time off too - Sometimes it's important to just let them be dogs. Today is that very day for us. Kodiak did a tiny bit of really easy training earlier because he was being hyper annoying and then we went in the soaking wet field and played flirt pole till his little heart was content.

Flak and Khaleesi, as I write this are laid in my office with the heater on frantically attacking their longs stuffed with dog peanut butter and kibble and they won't train anything at all today.

Taking a day off doesn't mean you are wasting a day. You can't refill anybody else's cup if yours is empty.
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Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable It can be ve

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

It can be very tempting in dog training to only work on the things that you are good at and the things that you find easy whilst ignoring the things that are difficult, or feel a bit demoralising.

Wherever your dog training is the most difficult is the place that you really need to double down on and work. That's where your biggest short falls are. It's super easy to work on the stuff you are good at, but it's super difficult to work on the things that make you uncomfortable.

If your dog behaves perfectly in the house but then you go outside into the park and he barks at every single thing that moves, then THAT is where you need to spend your time working. If you just keep working inside, doing the easy stuff, the other stuff isn't going to progress.

You've gotta learn to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. Having hard days in training is what it's all about, it's normal. It's called training for a reason and there's no reason for results to be immediately perfect! Get it wrong, do the stuff that makes you uncomfortable and you'll be a better trainer for it.

Khaleesi has a huge hole in her tracking ability compared to her protection and obedience so today I'm spending a good few hours on my field laying tracks, asking questions, watching her behaviour, improving the game.

If I just ignored the tracking principles and kept working on what she was good at, then in another year, we'd be no better than we are today.

Work on your short falls, improve the game.
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Magic Wands Everyday I speak to a load of people

Magic Wands

Everyday I speak to a load of people about their dogs, about their behaviour, about training goals, about a tonne of different things that they are struggling with and some people absolutely nail it but others are way off.

When you are thinking about goals make sure you are realistic about how you set them. If you've had a dog that's severely aggressive for seven years then there's absolutely no chance you are going to have that fully fixed before Christmas.

Another example that we see a lot this time of year is people asking for help desensitising to fireworks. You have no chance now, bonfire night is tomorrow. The work needs to start now ready for NEXT year.

The problem is that so many other trainers are advertising magic wands for dog behaviour and they become more and more ridiculous. From different dog beds, to stupid supplements that are blatantly not going to do anything. This causes people to have unrealistic expectations and then feel defeated when it doesn't work.

I will forever pride myself in preaching that there are no quick fixes in dog training. There are no supplements, there are no tips, there are no magic wands. That will no doubt lose me a tonne of clients because we are in a world of instant gratification, but I don't care.

Do the work - There's no magic wand in behaviour adjustment.
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Trust The Process Today we had Indy in for her fi

Trust The Process

Today we had Indy in for her first session at the facility and it was a bit of a strange one. Indy and her owner had been to see a couple of trainers but not really got the results they were looking for and then they joined the Academy.

She used to be fairly reactive to dogs and her owner was told this stemmed from nerve which is definitely not true. Indy just has barrier frustration which easy to deal with. We got all five of our dogs out here and she was great and there was really only some refining.

In fact, she was that mild, that I told Adam that he could definitely fix this through the Academy alone and that I didn't want to charge him for today because he didn't need much input from me at all. We cut the session short and we're gonna save his session for later down the line.

Adam has been doing everything right whilst in the Academy and the results are just around the corner for him so he just needs to trust the process and keep moving.

Saying that, he has a great dog and now he needs to decide what he wants to do with her moving forward because she has a tonne of drive to work and gets bored fast so he is going to go and join the sister to the Academy, Obsidian Evo and we will keep working with him in there.

Stay tuned for when we re-do his session in February and start working on the more fun, more advanced, sport behaviours.

Well done guys!
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Should You Walk Your Dog? So this is a bit of a c

Should You Walk Your Dog?

So this is a bit of a controversial subject and one that tends to annoy a lot of people so before you jump on the band wagon, read the whole post and then form an opinion.

We live in a society where it's completely normal to come home from work, get a jacket on and walk behind the dog around the block but is it really that useful or necessary? Of course there will be exceptions to this rule, but on the whole, it's not that great to be honest.

We spend an hour walking the footpath where the dog has very little to do, aimlessly wandering on a lead in an artificial environment and then we wonder why behavioural issues sprout up from seemingly nowhere.

Dogs are complex beings that need enrichment in their lives and honestly this exercise can do them a real disservice.

What about if you spend that hour every night doing exciting things with your dog? Train scent work, train tracking, train obedience, play flirt pole, teach them to do a new trick. There are so many amazing things you can do with your dog to not only enrich your lives, but theirs as well.

Now, of course if you love nothing more than going for a walk with your dog then absolutely do that and enjoy it but remember that for the dog it really isn't that exciting. Khaleesi, in the picture would be bored out of her mind if all I did everyday was take her for a walk down the streets.

Many dogs have behavioural issues because their brains are not being appropriately stimulated, and it's not something that's talked about enough in the world of behaviour. If you work your dogs brain, as they want it working, you will have a much happier, much more peaceful dog and far fewer headaches to live with too.
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Lockdown Returns!! Well, Covid restrictions are b

Lockdown Returns!!

Well, Covid restrictions are back in full force as of Thursday until the 2nd December so it is with regret that we can’t run any 1-1 sessions in this time!

As with last lockdown we will give everyone the opportunity to re-book after the lockdown or swap their session for a full year in the academy!

During this time we’re gonna upgrade and improve the academy, work hard on moving EVO forwards and running Skype sessions to keep people training during this difficult time!

Would hugely appreciate it if everyone could help spread the message for us!!

It’s a rubbish time, but we’ll do our best to keep great dog training content flowing so everyone can keep some sanity and we can all keep progressing as we move forward!!
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Tiggy and Miriam! Today we've had Miriam - one of

Tiggy and Miriam!

Today we've had Miriam - one of our keenest Academy members, in for a full day of training, chatting, and everything else dog.

After initially joining the Academy to work on reactivity issues with her Labradoodle Tiggy, she's really worked hard and has learned as much as possible along the way. Tiggy is no longer reactive and has many solid fundamentals in place as a result of using the content available to her and really applying herself to the process.

Because Miriam has spent a great deal of time working on Tiggy's reactivity, she'd really just fallen into the trap that many others have and continues to view her dogs behaviour through the lens of reactivity, rather than typical and expected dog behaviour and communication. Now the emotion that was initially driving the reactivity has been addressed, it's important to not label the dogs behaviour as something that it isn't anymore. We need to be looking at the behaviour for what it is, not what it once was.

We spent the rest of the day enjoying training for what it ultimately should be - quality time spent with our dogs doing something fun yet challenging. We worked on heelwork and enthusiasm, recall around distraction and other dogs, how to build on play, teaching grips and possession, tracking and scent squares, emergency downs, sendaways and more!

Most people have convinced themselves that training is either something you only do when you're having issues with their dogs, or that it needs to be militant, clinical and strict, when the reality really just couldn't be further from the truth.

All in all today was a really great day of training and it's awesome to work with people who want to be the very best they can be for their dogs. Nice work mate and keep up with the good work, it's paying off!
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