Positive Pooch Solutions

26/09/2026

🐾💜 Meet Rambo — our handsome rescue graduate! 💜🐾

Rambo’s story with his family began when they adopted him from the RSPCA at around 12 weeks of age. This gorgeous Staffy × Greyhound × Mastiff boy landed himself with experienced dog guardians who were committed to giving their new puppy the very best start. 🥰

Now heading into adolescence, Rambo is growing into a handsome young man — and with that combination of breeds, there may still be quite a bit of growing to come! 😂🐶

Throughout our Foundation Puppy Program, Rambo has shown some beautiful focus. He enjoys learning and has been a lovely puppy to work with, supported by guardians who are consistent, committed and understand the importance of continuing his training as he moves through adolescence.

Puppy graduation certainly isn’t the end of Rambo’s learning. The adolescent months bring a whole new stage of development, and those foundations his family have worked so hard to establish will give them plenty to build upon. 💜

Today, though, we get to celebrate just how far this once little 12-week-old rescue puppy has already come.

Congratulations, Rambo! 🎓🐾💜 #

Rescued. Loved. Learning. And a very bright future ahead. ✨

26/09/2026

Congratulations Champion 🧑‍🎓 Beautiful spring weather today for some pups graduating 🌷

26/09/2026

🐾💜 Meet Champion — one very clever graduate! 💜🐾

Champion is a gorgeous German Shepherd × Border Collie boy — which perhaps explains why he arrived at Puppy School ready to use that clever brain of his! 😂

He is an eager learner and has shown some beautiful focus during our classes. When it’s time to train, Champion is very switched on and keen to work with his family. 🐶✨

Champion is his family’s first dog, and they have been doing such a wonderful job with him. From the beginning, they have been very keen to learn themselves and make sure Champion receives the training and guidance he needs as he grows.

And that matters, because puppy training really is a team effort. Champion may be the student with four paws, but his humans are learning alongside him — and the commitment they are putting in now is building some wonderful foundations for their future together. 💜

With a smart, enthusiastic young dog like Champion, there will be plenty more learning ahead, but he has certainly made a terrific start.

Congratulations, Champion! 🎓🐾💜

Clever boy. Committed family. A wonderful team in the making. ✨

20/09/2026

Want a best friend you can take anywhere? 🐾💜

It starts with thoughtful breeding — and especially with the support and learning that begins from the day your puppy arrives in their forever home.

This is where I come in.

Book your puppy in before they arrive, and we can set everyone up for success from day one with a home visit, practical guidance, and enrolment in our Foundation Puppy Group Program.

Together we build:

🐾 Social skills and confidence
🐾 Cooperative care for grooming, vet visits and everyday handling
🐾 Foundation obedience
🐾 Calmness, focus and impulse control
🐾 Real-life skills for cafés, walks, visitors and adventures

Because the goal isn’t simply a trained puppy — it’s a happy, confident companion you can enjoy taking out into the world. ❤️

Training • Behaviour • Wellness

20/09/2026

Such a glorious spring day today. Went to Yarralumla with Suzie and Indy to the cafe and garden centre.

17/09/2026

this is real! 🤣
There are things you can try that I find works.

16/09/2026

I suggest not taking your dog to dog parks as well for many of the reasons listed in this post

I don’t like dog parks.
There. I said it.

It's not because every dog has a terrible time in one.
And not because every dog park is a rolling tumbleweed of fur and teeth.

I don’t like them because I see what they can do.

I see the dog who starts scrambling on the ground, crawling and scratching the footpath to get close to a dog.
And that dog could be 80 metres away.

There are dogs who have practised rushing over to others so many times that calmly walking near any dog is pretty impossible.

And there's more.

The dog who discovers that chasing a dog is the highest of highs.

How about a dog who's small “I’m uncomfortable” signals repeatedly achieve absolutely nothing.
Totally ignored.
And this dog has learned that creating distance now requires something much, much bigger now.

And then there’s the dog who has learned they are free to come and go around other dogs as they please.
Until we put a lead on.
Now they can see another dog.
But they can’t get to them.
And then we have frustration, pulling, fixation, lunging and huge reactions that people say "came from nowhere".
Except they didn’t .

That’s the bit I think gets missed in the dog park conversation.
We tend to judge the experience by what happens INSIDE the park.
Did they play?
Did they run?
Did they have fun?
Was there a fight?
Yes, yes, yes, no.
Great.

But I’m always seeing that link, of what that experience is teaching a dog to expect the next time they see another dog.
I wish those experiences stayed conveniently inside the fence.

I’m not saying every visit to a dog park creates reactivity.
Of course it doesn’t.

But when I’m working with reactivity, frustration around other dogs, inappropriate play, rushing, fixation or dogs who struggle enormously when access to another dog is prevented?
Dog parks are more often than not the way these dogs "get their energy out" and are "socialised".

And that is a very, very long road that family is now on.

So yeah.
I don’t like dog parks.

15/09/2026

Introducing Rafferty — currently in training for the Cavoodle Olympics! 🏅🐾

This clever little boy is already loving his beginner agility work. His family has built him a sweet little backyard course, and they are having so much fun learning together.

Agility-style activities can be wonderful enrichment when they are kept low, safe, positive and suited to the individual dog. Rafferty has certainly found a sport that gets his busy brain and bouncy little body involved! 💛