Happy 2025

Here's to good health and harmony in 2025!

(Another photo of Pluto below.  We'd love to include your dog in a future edition - any surprising, glorious, wacky shots you'd like to submit?  Email them to Amanda.)

Amanda, David, & Ruth
Gentle Modern School of Dog Training

2025 could be the Year of . . .

1. Quality Time - More time with your dog may not be feasible, but making the most of the time you spend is!  Keep your phone in your pocket, take an interest in that spot that your dog is taking an interest in, have a chat to your dog along the walk, etc.
2. Try a Dog Sport - Our Play+Train program is a great way of trying out agility, tracking, hoopers, targeting, . . .  Anything that you and your dog really enjoy you can delve into further, join a sport-specific club, do a short course with a specialist, etc.
3. Embrace a Playful Mindset - "When you do play with your dog, be genuinely enthusiastic and give it everything you’ve got - your dog will mirror your energy." (quote from the blog)
4. Ease situations your dog finds stressful - that trip to the dog park that your dog is finding overwhelming, that visit to Bunnings that's turned out way too noisy for your dog to handle, that coffee at the cafe that is way too hectic; call it quits and head home.
5. Commit to keeping training positive and playful - short and sweet, slow and steady, high energy and bouncy - you know what works best for your dog.

Body Language

Your Reward for Reading to the End . . .