Love Your Paws

Love Your Paws Helping dogs and owners thrive through thoughtful, reward based training 🐾

Fun, friendly and effective dog training that is designed to help you understand your dog & how to build a really strong and positive relationship with you dog. Using kind techniques used to promote & strengthen the bond that you already have whilst teaching your dog the skills that they need to live happily with us in our crazy human world. I am accredited through The Institute of Modern Dog Trai

ners and regularly takes courses to ensure that my knowledge is up to date to provide you and your dog with the best possible service.

🐾🪵 SIMPLE JOYS 🪵🐾Lochy has developed a slightly ridiculous habit on walks.If there is something she can jump onto, there...
06/09/2026

🐾🪵 SIMPLE JOYS 🪵🐾

Lochy has developed a slightly ridiculous habit on walks.

If there is something she can jump onto, there is a very good chance she will be standing on it before I have even noticed. Logs, rocks, tree stumps… apparently they are all potential podiums. 😄

It started when she was growing up. I used to ask her to sit on the same rock whenever we passed it, partly so I could take a photo and keep a record of how much she had grown.

I reinforced it so often that eventually Lochy decided this was clearly just something we do.

Now I regularly turn around on walks to find her already posing on top of something, without me asking at all.

The unexpected bonus is that it has become one of her most effective recall cues. 😂

Dogs pick up all sorts of funny little habits from the things we make worthwhile, sometimes very deliberately and sometimes almost by accident.

And honestly, I think those little quirks are one of the loveliest parts of living with them.

What is one of your dog’s quirks that never fails to make you smile?

🐾 💭 WHAT THEY BUILD ALONG THE TRAIL 💭 🐾It is easy to look at Track n’ Trail and think the goal is simply finding the per...
04/09/2026

🐾 💭 WHAT THEY BUILD ALONG THE TRAIL 💭 🐾

It is easy to look at Track n’ Trail and think the goal is simply finding the person at the end.

And yes, dogs usually love that part.

But so much of the useful work happens before they ever get there.

They have to follow the scent across changing ground, work out which way it has gone, recognise when they have lost it and then figure out how to find it again. Sometimes the answer comes quickly. Sometimes they need a bit of time and support before they can carry on.

That is where we start to see confidence and resilience developing.

We are not solving every problem for the dog or constantly directing them. We are creating opportunities for them to succeed, then giving them enough space to think and make decisions for themselves.

Their person is learning too: when to help, when to wait, and when to trust that their dog knows far more about the scent than they do.

Over time, the dog becomes more confident about working things out, and the owner becomes better at reading and supporting the dog in front of them.

Finding the person at the end is lovely.

But for me, one of the most valuable parts of Track n’ Trail is everything the dog and owner are building along the way.

🐾🐶 HOW STRESS CHANGES YOUR DOG’S WORLD 🐶 🐾Dogs can smell when we are stressed.That alone is interesting enough, but what...
02/09/2026

🐾🐶 HOW STRESS CHANGES YOUR DOG’S WORLD 🐶 🐾

Dogs can smell when we are stressed.

That alone is interesting enough, but what I find even more fascinating is that the smell of our stress may change how they feel about the world around them.

A 2024 University of Bristol study looked at how dogs responded to scent samples taken from people when they were stressed and when they were relaxed. When the dogs were exposed to the stress scent, they were more hesitant about approaching something unfamiliar.

In other words, smelling human stress seemed to make them a little more cautious about what might happen next.

I think that is such an important thing to sit with.

We often think about the information our dogs pick up from us through our body language, the lead in our hands, our movement, our breathing, or the tone of voice we use. But there is also this whole invisible layer of information that they may be noticing long before we realise we are giving it away.

If we are tense or unsettled, our dogs may quite literally be breathing that in.

That does not mean we need to somehow become perfectly calm every time we are with our dogs. Life would make fairly short work of that plan. 😄

But it is a reminder that our dogs are taking in far more from us than the things we deliberately say or do.

Their noses really are extraordinary.

🍂 There are still Hoopers spaces available tomorrow evening!Tomorrow is our last chance to offer two separate evening se...
01/09/2026

🍂 There are still Hoopers spaces available tomorrow evening!

Tomorrow is our last chance to offer two separate evening sessions as the lighter summer evenings begin to draw in.

For the following two weeks, there will be one extended 90-minute session each week before we move over to weekend workshops. Grab yourself some evening Hoopers while they last!

🐾🐶 NHU Ecology Dogs… 🐶🐾Workshop part 2!! Was everything & more!!What a brilliant day we had 🤩After getting the dogs (& t...
30/08/2026

🐾🐶 NHU Ecology Dogs… 🐶🐾

Workshop part 2!! Was everything & more!!

What a brilliant day we had 🤩

After getting the dogs (& their handlers) warmed up with a play session the dogs then started focusing on odour with a short linear search.

They then searched a large area for small pieces of Kong, using the same techniques as the NHU Ecology and Detection Dogs use when searching for bat and bird carcasses around wind turbines. This work forms part of ecological surveys that assess wildlife mortality and help ensure wind farms are operating within environmental regulations.

Next, they searched along a road for tiny pieces of Kong, mimicking the way the NHU Ecology dogs search for pine marten s**t. Finding s**t can provide valuable information about where pine martens are living, their population and distribution, and even what they’re feeding on, helping ecologists build a much clearer picture of how the species is doing in an area.

To round off the day, there was plenty of time for questions for Natasha about her work and the dogs, before everyone headed back out for another go at searching larger areas.

The difference from the beginning of the day to the end was phenomenal. The confidence that had grown in both the dogs and their handlers really showed in those final searches.

I think it’s fair to say everyone had a fabulous time, and the feedback coming in already has been absolutely brilliant.

And the good news is, Natasha and her dogs will be back! Keep an eye out for dates for next year.


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