by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 26 Mar, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
I sent out an email recently asking some questions about your dog’s behaviour and how it makes you feel, and oh my word I got some answers. (If you haven’t answered yet there’s an online form for you to fill out, there’s only a handful of...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 19 Mar, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
While I was musing what to write about I was watching my two younger spaniels race around the back garden enjoying the snow. A while ago one of my spaniels, Fraggle, went horribly lame on her back right leg. No one knew how, or exactly why, but while under examination...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 11 Mar, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
You need to use management to tackle problem behaviours. This is something that comes up often in both my behaviour work and tackling it is vital for successful behaviour change. Whether training your dog to come back when called or to not freak out when walking past...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 5 Mar, 2018 | Training & Behaviour, Blog, Classes, Workshops & Events, Life With Dogs
Consequences drive behaviour It’s a short little sentence but packed with meaning. We think about behaviour backwards generally. It’s easy to think that your made your dog sit by telling him to sit. You didn’t though. I think about behaviour as...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 26 Feb, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
This last week proper sucked. I was in a bad mood for most of it, quick to snap at people, quick to pass judgement on others, I was an angry, stompy arse. Why? Well today is the 2 year anniversary of the death of Khanu my very first “dog of my own”. I had...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 18 Feb, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
So it was Valentine’s Day earlier this week – you might have noticed by the abundance of chocolate in the shops and cheesy movies on TV, maybe you even got a card? It seems a little odd to me that we only spend one day out of the year telling our most...