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Pawsitive K9 Behaviour Most dog training focuses on commands. We focus on connection. Darwin-based. Australia-wide online. Est. 2015.
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Pawsitive K9 Behaviour helps families across Australia understand their dogs — and actually enjoy living with them. Pawsitive K9 Behaviour offers training in your home with you and your "Best Mate". We will share our knowledge for all stages of your dogs life. We offer Behaviour modification for all problems like;
Excessive Barking
Destructive Behaviour
Whining / Crying
Pulling Washing off the line
Dominance and Aggression
Digging
Jumping on People
Mouthing / Biting
Mounting
Toilet Training
Chronic Attention Seeking
as well as Obedience Training such as basic commands and pulling on the leash just to name a few...

Hannah is a Government accredited Dog Trainer, certified with the National Dog Trainer Federation. Her passion is Behaviour modification and puppy training. She is also a qualified obedience Instructor and can also teach dogs complex skills and assisting roles.

15/10/2026

This is Blossom. 🤍

We lost her this year, and I’ve been going through old videos. This one stopped me.

Just an ordinary walk with Blossom, Nelson and Wilma. Nothing planned.

Then Blossom’s nose went down, her whole body changed, and she found it.

An egg, hidden where none of us expected one.

Wilma watched from the sidelines, as Wilma does.

Nelson tried to claim it, as Nelson does.

But Blossom found it first.
I don’t remember how far we walked that day.

I’ll never forget that moment, because it was completely her.

Curious, clever, and so happy doing exactly what a dog is made to do.

That’s the thing nobody tells you. The memories you keep aren’t the long walks or the perfect training sessions.

They’re the small moments when your dog got to be fully themselves, and you were there to see it.

Our dogs don’t get long enough with us.

So let’s make the time they have interesting.

That’s why I created my easy, fun 5 day enrichment challenge.

Five days of small moments like this one.

If you’d like to join us, comment CHALLENGE and I’ll send you the details 🐾

For Blossom. ❤️

14/10/2026

I didn’t want a second dog. So I ended up with a group of dogs. 🐶

Back in 2011, in Brisbane, I had one dog and one problem.

I didn’t want the responsibility of a second dog. But I also didn’t want mine sitting home alone all day, waiting for me to walk back through the door.

So I came up with what I thought was a clever little loophole.

I’d look after other people’s dogs.

My dog got company. I got to borrow a second dog without keeping one. Everybody wins.

What I didn’t expect was how much those dogs would teach me.

Every dog that came through my door arrived with a story from home. “He’s naughty.” “She never settles.” “He chews everything.”

And then they’d spend a few days with us. Same couch. New routine. Things to sniff, places to explore, other dogs to hang out with.

And most of them just... relaxed. Like the dogs in this video.

That’s when it clicked for me. A lot of those dogs weren’t badly behaved. They were bored, under stimulated, and trying to tell someone.

I started dog minding to avoid a second dog.

I ended up finding my life’s work instead.

Fifteen years later, that’s still what I teach. Dogs don’t live in training sessions. They live in the world we build for them.

If you want to make your dog’s world a little more interesting, my easy, fun 5 day enrichment challenge is coming soon. Comment CHALLENGE and I’ll send you the details 🐾

13/10/2026

He’s ignoring everyone. On purpose. 👀

This is Maple, and he’s doing the one thing his brain was built for. Searching with his nose.

Off-leash in a park. People walking past. He doesn’t care, because he has a job to do.

Your dog’s nose is extraordinary. They have hundreds of millions of scent receptors to our few million, and a huge part of their brain is dedicated to making sense of smells. Sniffing isn’t a distraction for a dog. It’s how they understand the world.

That’s why nose work is one of the best forms of enrichment there is:

🐾 It works the brain, not just the legs
🐾 It builds focus, even in busy places
🐾 Every find is a confidence boost they earned themselves
🐾 Slow, steady sniffing helps a busy mind settle
🐾 Any dog can do it, no equipment needed

Most people think a calm dog in public is a well-trained dog.

Often, it’s just a dog who knows how to use his nose.

Nose work is a big part of my easy, fun 5-day enrichment challenge. Comment CHALLENGE, and I’ll send you the details 🐾

And SHARE this with a dog lover who needs to see it.

A tired dog isn’t a fulfilled dog.We’ve been taught that the answer is always more. Longer walks, more running, one more...
12/10/2026

A tired dog isn’t a fulfilled dog.

We’ve been taught that the answer is always more. Longer walks, more running, one more throw of the ball. And for a while it works. They flop on the couch, and we think the job is done.

But a tired body isn’t the same as a need that’s been met.

Enrichment works the mind. It gives your dog the chance to sniff, explore, make choices and simply be a dog. And the result is a dog who settles on their own, calm rather than wired.

Slide 4 has five ideas you can try this week in five minutes. Pick one, try it today, and save this for later.

I’m thinking about running an easy, fun 5-day enrichment challenge.

Would you join in with your dog? 💬 Comment CHALLENGE, and I’ll send you the details 🐾

And please SHARE this with every dog lover you know, so together we can have more calm, fulfilled dogs out there.

20/09/2026

We’ve been taught to tire our dogs out.

Longer walks.

More running.

Bicycling.

More exercise.

Throw the ball.

Throw the toy.

Again.

And again.

Until eventually…

they’re exhausted.

But I think we need to ask ourselves:

Are we only exercising our animals… or are we enriching their lives?

Because look at what’s happening with something as simple as this box.

No running.

No kilometres walked.

Nobody throwing anything.

Yet both the dog AND the cat are busy.

Sniffing.

Investigating.

Searching.

Moving things around.

Making choices.

Problem-solving.

Using their senses.

And satisfying something incredibly important:

curiosity.

And enrichment isn’t just for dogs.

Our cats benefit from opportunities to search, explore, climb, investigate, hunt, problem-solve and make choices too.

It doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.

A cardboard box filled with safe objects.

Hidden food.

Different textures.

Paper to rummage through.

A scent trail.

Something new to safely investigate.

The magic isn’t really in the box.

It’s in what the box allows the animal to do.

Think.

Explore.

Choose.

Discover.

And every time an animal approaches something unfamiliar, investigates it and works something out for themselves, we’re giving curiosity and confidence an opportunity to grow.

Physical exercise matters.

Absolutely.

But a fulfilled animal needs more than a tired body.

They need opportunities to use the brain and senses they were born with.

So perhaps we should stop asking:

“How can I tire them out today?”

And start asking:

“How can I make their world more interesting today?”

Because exhaustion isn’t enrichment.

A tired animal isn’t necessarily a fulfilled animal.

That’s the difference.

What’s the simplest enrichment activity your dog OR cat absolutely loves?

15/09/2026

Don’t Bite, Be Polite! 🐶

City of Darwin’s Don’t Bite, Be Polite FREE animal behaviour workshop, delivered in partnership with Pawsitive K9 Behaviour, is here to help dog owners struggling with behavioural issues.

Understand how to deal with and correct behaviours such as fence rushing, leash pulling, anxiety, and aggression.

📆 Wednesday 23 September
⏱️ 5:30 – 6:30pm
📍Nightcliff Community Centre (Boab Room) –18 Bauhinia St, Nightcliff
🎟️Free

Registration is essential and free. This is an educational workshop for humans only. Please leave your pets at home.

To secure your spot and learn more about the workshops, visit our website: https://www.darwin.nt.gov.au/explore/whats-on/dont-bite-be-polite-pet-parent-workshop

14/09/2026

Does your dog sit? Stay? Heel?

Come when called? Wait at the door?

We’ve spent decades measuring good dog ownership by obedience.

But I think there’s a much more important question:

What kind of relationship does your dog have with you?

Because a dog can follow instructions without necessarily feeling safe, understood or connected.

And a dog can have an incredible relationship with you without performing every behaviour perfectly.

I want my dogs to listen to me.

Of course I do.

Recall matters.

Safety matters.

Life skills matter.

But I don’t want obedience to be the foundation of our relationship.

I want trust to be.

I want my dogs to communicate with me.

To come to me when they’re unsure.

To know I’ll listen when they say no.

To feel safe making choices.

To want to stay connected when the world gets interesting.

To know that making a mistake doesn’t change our relationship.

Because when you build connection, communication and trust, training doesn’t disappear.

It becomes part of the relationship.

You’re no longer spending your life trying to control your dog.

You’re learning how to live together.

And perhaps we’ve been asking the wrong question all along.

Instead of:

“How do I get my dog to obey me?”

What if we started asking:

“How do I become someone my dog wants to listen to?”

That’s the relationship I want with my dogs.

07/09/2026

YOUR PUPPY ISN’T JUST
GROWING UP.

THEIR BRAIN IS LEARNING
HOW TO HANDLE LIFE.

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29/08/2026

They are tiny.

Cute.

Following you everywhere.

And most things still feel manageable.

So it is easy to think:

“We’re fine.”

But this is exactly when your puppy is learning enormous amounts about life.

Safety.

People.

Dogs.

Novelty.

Frustration.

Handling.

Rest.

Independence.

Communication.

And their relationship with you.

Then adolescence arrives.

The puppy who followed you everywhere suddenly discovers the rest of the world.

Big feelings arrive.

Independence grows.

Distractions matter more.

And suddenly people start looking for help.

Early learning is not about drilling obedience into a baby.

It is about giving that baby the foundations they will need when life gets harder.

Do not wait for adolescence to discover what you could have been building all along.

What do you wish you had taught your puppy earlier?

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Darwin, NT

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Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 8am - 3pm

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