Despite Candy (my van) dying at the start of the weekend, which meant I had to shift my Friday, I have had a very good weekend. Thankfully it was only a flat battery!

I had some huge breakthroughs with some of my clients over the weekend, with the stand-out dog being Leo the Australian Shepherd and how he BOSSED a reactive dog play date with another reactive dog I am working with called Fen. They've both still got work to do, but I am very hopeful that they will get to a point where they both know how to deal with anything that life throws at them.

Another highlight from the week was Charlie the bulldog... he really struggles to settle outside of his crate and the kitchen, but this weekend we built control and "rules" into his tug games and he SMASHED it. I then got sent a message and photo from his owners of him fast asleep in the living room! A HUGE win for Mr. Cheeky Charlie.

With regards to me and how I'm feeling though, I feel very focused again but the struggle is always maintaining that focus and not getting into a slump when/if things don't go exactly as planned.

I feel like I am getting better with this though and definitely am taking a lot more things in my stride both in my personal and professional life.

I've recently begun really thinking about developing a framework that covers the main things that I think contribute towards behavioural issues, and I'm very excited to announce The 6 Levels of "Buffing" Behaviour.

Before I go into what these 6 levels are though, I think it's important for me to note that the term buffing is a gaming term and is normally used to describe something that gets better e.g. "That character got a huge buff - their skills are so much better now"

I think you get the message.

So these 6 levels are as follows (in no particular order):

Health 
Nutrition
Enrichment
Relationship
Regulation
Reinforcement

And I think these are the six things that should ALWAYS be considered when working with a behavioural case. I'll be touching more on these in an upcoming podcast episode... Oooh did I just drop a teaser? I think I did so for now you'll just have to wait to hear more!

​I am SO excited to finally bring you guys my first PROPER webinar!

I've been meaning to do a webinar for a loooooong time now, but I didn't have anything HIT ME in the sense of "YES. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT." until now...

Continually throwing a ball for a dog is SO bad for their bodies, but also for their minds... The "ball obsessed" dog is not one to be proud of. A "ball obsessed" dog is not too dissimilar from a drug addict needing their chosen drug of choice.

Thus, I bring you "Fetch: The Good, The Bad & The Downright Ugly!" 

In this webinar, I will be talking about why fetch can be bad for your dog AND I may even be dropping an exclusive webinar-only teaser on something SUPER exciting coming up related to this very same issue. There will also be a 30-min Q&A at the end of the webinar for you to ask any burning questions!

Did I hear you wanted to control AND harness your dog's ball-obsession? Oops. Have I said too much? Guess you'll just have to join the webinar and find out!

For those of you who cannot make the LIVE date, the webinar will be available to watch in the "Basic Lobby" so don't fret!

See you there!