Roving Spirit Canine Coach

16/10/2026

13/10/2026

Ok, who's got a dog with a percentage greyhound in its genetics??

23 hours a day are spent chillin in this household..

Show me your sighthound sleeping!

06/10/2026

PLEASE REPORT DOG TRAINING ABUSE

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27/09/2026

A heartwarming story of an unexpected visitor....

Today I received a phone call from a lady who had been feeding a cat through the summer.

She requested me to come to scan his microchip as he had been frequenting various peoples homes in her cul de sac, but nobody knew who the cat belonged to.

I scanned, then called the chip company who advised me he was listed as "missing"....

When I was connected to the owner, he was stunned. His cat had been missing since February....8 months ago.

The owner said that he lived in Shifnal, yet Barnaby was now in Codsall.

But the story doesn't stop there. Barnaby had been fitted with a tracker. In February, the neighbours had had some work done on their house and it seems Barnaby had got into the work truck and been taken all the way to a recycling centre in Birmingham, and then exited the van.
His tag had then got lost, and it seems, so had Barnaby.

In an unfamiliar place, miles away from home, a stranger to a busy city....this young little cat would have been confused, scared and probably getting very hungry.

Somehow, Barnaby almost found his way home. He was so close. He must have decided to stay in Codsall and sofa surf, maybe he had given up, maybe he was hungry, tired, lonely.

Until a wonderful woman called Carole decided to take him in and find out about his past by phoning me to come and scan his chip.

The chip was one of very few that had up to date details on it. This rarely happens.

The owner came straight away to pick him up and there were tears all around. Even from Carole as she had become quite attached.

Barnaby wasn't a fussy cat, until his owners arrived....reached out their hands, and he completely turned to mush. He remembered them. Tonight....Barnaby has finally finished his adventure. He is home.

Check your microchip is up to date so that chip scanners like me can help reunite other lost pets as wonderfully as this.

What an absolutely gorgeous experience!

25/09/2026

After recent events with Hatton boarding kennels and others such as the horrendous Oaveed, I decided to write a letter to my MP expressing the need for more regulation in the pet/animal industry, specifically dog related ones....obviously.

Just trying to keep the pressure on.... For the sake of our besties.

Also. I am now a man. Pass it on.

25/09/2026

Did you know I have a 2:1 degree in visual communications?

Did you also know that last year I had a woman call me up and tell me that she'd had a trainer in who just "came round and handed me a sheet she'd just printed off the internet"?

That was me she was talking about by the way. But absolutely not what happened at all. 🙄

You can't please everyone!

I honestly put my heart and soul into everything I do, so this was disappointing and a little bit hurtful to hear.

I like to think what makes me stand out in the dog training world is that I incorporate training the humans with training their dogs. If I don't train the humans, how on earth do I expect them to know what to do in my absence?

So.... As well as all that....I design my own worksheets. Sometimes they take days. They contain all my knowledge because I don't want to gate keep it. I want owners to succeed, have something to look back on and refer to in case they forget. Id have loved to have had this knowledge when I had my first dog, so I presume others would too.

Isn't that what everyone wants from a training session?

Obviously not always. But most of the time it is!

I absolutely do not print out things from the internet, all of this knowledge in my worksheets comes from the many years of continuous study I've done and the brain cells that are left.

As well as worksheets, I make and edit videos for clients and also offer ongoing WhatsApp support. I'm THAT dedicated to setting up owners and their dogs for success.

But is this enough? Too much?

What else should I offer, if anything?

However you learn, I want to embrace it.