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How to Find a Dog Walker

Finding a Dog Walker? As people are starting to plan ahead for a return to school, I am receiving more enquiries about Dog Walking. I only cover Swords and Malahide for dog walking and have very little availability at the moment, so in an unregulated industry, it can be hard to know who to trust with your best friend and with more people using it as an easy way to make quick money, how can you find a professional you can trust? As a professional Dog Walker and as someone who has used the services of a dog Walker in the past, these are my top five tips for finding a genuine professional: 1. Qualifications The qualifications you should look for in a Dog Walker would be at a minimum First Aid and a basic accredited Dog Training or Animal Care course. When I take on new dogs, I spend a lot of time training them to come to my cues, I can’t have 4 different cues for 4 different dogs, so it’s extremely important there is a basic understanding of how to train dogs ...

Preparing your puppy for Halloween

🎃 Halloween 🎃 With a week to go to Halloween, I’ve been getting lots of requests for how to prepare young dogs especially for this week. 👻 If you have an adult dog already terrified there’s not a lot of time to change how they feel but I would speak to your Vet to see if your dog could be prescribed any medications that may help. 💀 With midterm starting now, It might be an idea to walk dogs very early in the morning before anyone might be messing around with bangers and fireworks to avoid any one trial learning that may have life long affects on how your dog feels about fireworks. 👻 If your dog is already sound sensitive this week is probably going to be hard so prepare as best as you can. It might be an idea to chat to your vet as there are strong links between pain and sound sensitivity in dogs. If your older dog is more fearful this year, pain might be one thing you want to rule out with your vet. 💀 If y...

Puppy Training in Lock Down 3 2021

Have you decided to take advantage of the extra time at home to add the pitter patter of tiny puppy feet to your life. When you take home your puppy, it is quite frankly, often a shock to the system, sleepless nights, crying, teething, biting and pee and poop everywhere (for anyone that’s yet to get their puppy, yep we are still talking dogs not newborns babies lol) And now you need HELP but.....no where is open, so where can you get help, trainers can’t visit your home, puppy socialisation classes are cancelled!! Well, thankfully like most industries, dog trainers are going digital too. I know, you want the trainer in your home, the helping hand in front of you and what about the all important puppy socialisation.... Like most dog trainers, I’ve moved my business online, it has been such a success, I’ve decided it’s going to be a permanent feature. Let me explain the benefits and why I love online teaching and why you should embrace it too. 1. Safety Of c...

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