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Teddy’s Top Training Tip – Winter Tip 2: Be careful when exercising your dog outside in the frost and snow.  This week, we look at keeping your dog safe outside on walks and in your garden. The first frosty mornings can be fun for you and your dog, not to mention a covering of snow.

Winter tip 1:  Coats and fleeces can help keep your dog warm during the winter months.   Over the next four weeks we will look at certain topics for winter and the festive season. We start off this week with keeping our dog warm over the winter months. As we move from autumn to the

Teddy’s Top Training Tip: Older dogs benefit from walks too: take your dog for three or four short outings each day to stimulate their interest.   Older Dogs benefit from walks too. Taking your dog out for three or four shorter walks each day helps to stimulate his interest. Several short walks are better than

  Teddy’s Top Training Tip: You must be sure that your dog will respond to your voice when off lead. Letting your dog off lead allows your dog some free running, physical stimulation and enjoyable play time. Before you allow your dog off lead, practicing recall is important. Some useful tips for practicing your recall:

Teddy’s Top Training Tip: To avoid confrontation and your dog’s willingness to turn away from distractions, throw some treats on ground so that he/she has to hunt for them. Lead manners is part of teaching your dog some life skills. Dogs can become very frustrated on lead and this can result in the dog jumping,