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CB Dogs Positive Puppy and Dog Training in South Manchester est. 2011. CB Dogs is run by Clare Brewin (BSc).

The aim and mission of CB Dogs is to help improve the relationship between you and your dog using kind, fair and easy to understand training methods.

Older pup or adult dog driving you a bit crazy?🎄 Want to get some training in before Christmas?Our October Intro Class i...
13/10/2026

Older pup or adult dog driving you a bit crazy?
🎄 Want to get some training in before Christmas?

Our October Intro Class is running:
🐾 Sunday 25th October
⏰ 1.30pm
📍 East Didsbury
🐶 Dogs & pups 6 months+

If you’re new to CB Dogs, Intro is your gateway to our group classes - and joining this intake means there’s still time to move on to Good Manners and/or our Recall & Lead Walking workshops before Christmas! 🎄

£50, including access to our online Foundations Library so you can get started straight away (over 7 hours or online content!).

Spaces available book now by messaging us or emailing us! 🐾

Stocking up! Who recognises where we are?
13/10/2026

Stocking up! Who recognises where we are?

Stocking up! Who knows where we are?
13/10/2026

Stocking up! Who knows where we are?

Poem number 12 in our Dog's Trust Fundraiser! 🐾This one is for the absolutely lovely Bertie Basset - quite possibly one ...
13/10/2026

Poem number 12 in our Dog's Trust Fundraiser! 🐾

This one is for the absolutely lovely Bertie Basset - quite possibly one of the meltiest boys we know - those ears, that face, the dramatic mid-walk sit-downs… such a legend!💛

A huge thank you to Bertie, Sophie and Jed for their very generous donation to our Dogs Trust fundraiser. It means so much to us and is helping us get that little bit closer to our £1000 target

We hope you enjoy your poem - and that Bertie continues to reserve his final bursts of energy for the really important things in life… like stealing oven gloves 😂
Dogs Trust Manchester

Poem number eleven is for Avery, Beth and Scott 💛🐾Beth is one of our brilliant assistant trainers at CB Dogs, so we know...
08/10/2026

Poem number eleven is for Avery, Beth and Scott 💛🐾

Beth is one of our brilliant assistant trainers at CB Dogs, so we know first-hand just how much work, patience and love she puts into the complex little bean that is Avery 😂

Thank you so much Beth and Scott for donating to our Dogs Trust fundraiser – and thank you Avery for providing excellent poem material! 💛

Apparently we’re finalists in a thing! Who knew.So, confession… I was actually told about this about a month ago and was...
08/10/2026

Apparently we’re finalists in a thing! Who knew.

So, confession… I was actually told about this about a month ago and was supposed to be asking you all to vote for us. Unfortunately my brain was already approximately 147% full meaning i stored it in my 'think about that later' brain folder - which I rarely get round to looking in😂

BUT! CB Dogs has been nominated as a finalist for Best Dog Trainer/Behaviourist in the Pet Industry Business Awards, which whilst I don't really know what it is, it sounds exciting and its always nice to be recognised for good work🥰
Apparently if we’d like to actually win it, I now need to do the bit where I tell people about it… 😬😂
So, if you’ve trained with us and think we’re deserving of your vote, we would be incredibly grateful if you could vote for CB Dogs!
🗳️ Voting closes 18th October
👉 https://vote.piba.co.uk/vote/cb-dogs-dog-puppy-training-manchester

CB Dogs might technically be my business, but there are lots of people who help make it what it is – our trainers, assistants, volunteers and of course Fran on admin who all give a ridiculous amount of their time and energy to helping dogs and their humans.
So whilst I hold out little hope, given that I literally forgot to tell anyone about it, it would be pretty exciting for all of us if our little business managed to win!!

Please vote, and then I promise I will go back to my usual scheduled programming of dogs, terrible poetry and forgetting to advertise things. 😂🐾

Poem number TEN! 🐾This one is for the wonderfully sassy Rhubarb, courtesy of Sophie's generous donation to our Dogs Trus...
06/10/2026

Poem number TEN! 🐾

This one is for the wonderfully sassy Rhubarb, courtesy of Sophie's generous donation to our Dogs Trust fundraiser!

Thank you so much Sophie, Sam and Rhubarb for helping us raise money for such a brilliant cause 💛

Sometimes puppy training doesn’t go quite to plan…On Saturday evening, 8½-week-old Cali had her first shower. 🚿Ideally, ...
06/10/2026

Sometimes puppy training doesn’t go quite to plan…
On Saturday evening, 8½-week-old Cali had her first shower. 🚿

Ideally, I’d have introduced this much more gradually - exploring the shower, hearing it running, getting paws wet and slowly building up to water on her body over several sessions.

But… puppies and plans! 😂

The vet found a couple of fleas and advised us to shower her, so suddenly we needed to get her wet now.

And I think that’s worth talking about.

We want to introduce puppies to new experiences gradually, help them feel safe and avoid overwhelming them. But sometimes something has to happen before our dog is completely comfortable.

That doesn't mean abandoning everything we know about helping them cope...

I used the wet room rather than the bath so she had space to move, covered the slippery floor with towels, sat on the floor with her and gave her a delicious LickiMat, shower head on floor switched off. Then turned on but a couple of feet away.

She coped beautifully… until water touched her toes.
"NOPE!!" - She ran out of the shower. I let her, then waited for her to come back

We tried again using tiny cups of warm water. She left again. This time she didn't choose to come back, so I gently brought her back to her LickiMat.
Because ultimately, she did need to be washed.

But there’s a huge amount of space between “my puppy must enthusiastically consent to every second” and “she has to put up with it, so hold her still and get it done.”

My hand on her chest gently to keep her there, but if she became frightened and really needed to escape, I let her. We used food, reassurance, lots of pauses and little breaks.

She didn't LOVE it, but she coped incredibly well. ❤️

Sometimes life says “Sorry, we're doing this today.”
When that happens: slow things down, make the environment easier, use food, reassure them, break things into tiny pieces, allow breaks and keep watching the dog in front of you.

Sometimes “that was a bit weird and unpleasant, but I felt safe and I coped” is sometimes the best outcome. ❤️

Little 10 minute trip out on the field beside the house to sit on a bench and watch the world go by, we watched a bike, ...
30/09/2026

Little 10 minute trip out on the field beside the house to sit on a bench and watch the world go by, we watched a bike, a beagle, a retriever, a dachshund, some teenagers and someone talking on his phone. All safely wrapped up in the blanket that smells of her mum.

Excellent first 'walk' baby Cali ❤️. Now home for a sleep.

A little shout-out to the lovely people at Betty & Butch! 🐶Last month they very kindly gave us these gorgeous little pup...
29/09/2026

A little shout-out to the lovely people at Betty & Butch! 🐶
Last month they very kindly gave us these gorgeous little puppy welcome boxes for some of our Puppy Foundations pups, complete with treats, puppy sausages and a few other goodies to take home after class. 🥰
I’ve known the team at Betty & Butch for years - they actually started their business around the same time that I started CB Dogs - and they’re one of those local dog businesses I’m always really happy to recommend to clients.

They have lovely shops in Chorlton and Handforth, packed with all sorts of goodies for dogs (and plenty of excellent training treats and chews!).

A huge thank you to Betty & Butch | Dog Food & Treats & Butch for thinking of our puppies and treating them to their welcome boxes. They were very much appreciated! 🐾

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306th Scout Hut, Oakway, East Didsbury
Manchester
M205PS

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+447814599880

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