Grumpy Dog Workshop

Is your dog a grumpy dog?

Does your dog:

Bark at other Dogs/Strangers?

Growl at other Dogs/Strangers?

Lunge at or act aggressively towards Dogs/Strangers while they are either on or off lead?

Lunge/bark or overreact towards joggers/cyclists/motorbikes?

Do you panic when another dog approaches your dog?

Do you walk your dog at Midnight to avoid all other dogs/people?

If the answer to any of the above is yes then join capablecanines on a series of 4-hour workshops designed to understand, stabilise and rehabilitate your dog.

We cannot promise you that this workshop will turn an aggressive dog into a friendly dog, but you will leave the workshop with a greater understanding of your “Grumpy Dog”.

Having a “Grumpy Dog” can be very isolating and stressful for you, their owner. A “Grumpy Dog” is often “demonised” by people that see them when they are displaying their “reactive” behaviour when in fact the majority of “Grumpy Dogs” are dogs that find life scary/threatening - suffer from anxiety/stress and their greatest need in life is to be understood and protected.

We place unreasonable expectations on our dogs nowadays. The way in which we live our lives today is partly to blame. We live in close proximity to each other, which in turn forces our dogs to do the same.

This workshop has been designed to allow your dog to be slowly desensitised to a stimulus enabling greater success. The stimulus is anything that causes a reaction, such as those mentioned above. The reaction that your dog may be having can range from slight to extreme.

It is relatively easy to teach a dog a behaviour such as “sit” – “down” – “recall” but at the “grumpy dogs” workshop we are dealing with your dogs emotions and teaching them how to control their emotions – it can be likened to a person who has anger problems – they can attend an “anger management” course – they can be taught how to control their anger – but their anger always has to be managed!

You will learn how you can control the environment that you put your dog in. We will show you how to relax in what can be a distressing situation, give your dog the correct signal and help them control their own emotions in a completely kind, fair and effective way. No harsh methods ever need to be used.

The length of the time between workshops will give you the much needed time to work with your dog.

Your dog will work on an individual basis for 20 minutes at a time and then allowed to relax before beginning work again. The environment that your dog works in will be calm and relaxed at all times.

Your dog will need to be able to stay in the car between exercises or in a separate room.

The workshops are on a Saturday morning at 9.30am and take place every 5-6 weeks.

Don't be a stressed stay at home dog owner or a lone midnight walker anymore.

One comment from a client that has attended some of the Workshops says it all -

"Thank you for showing me that there is a different way"

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