Train Your Dog the Walkabout Way
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News Updates - Does your dog chase? Does your dog pull?
Wont come back when called? Let us show
you how to help - book your place now. In addition to our Social Groups on Sundays we are pleased to announce the following starting on Easter Sunday: Sunday Afternoon Fun in the Park A chance for you to explore 58 acres of countryside which is fully secure with your friendly dog. Or why not join our pack walks and other events. All the family welcome. Pack walks: Young dogs under a year - come and let them let off steam with their friends. Fully supervised walk in secure locations starting at 2pm Family Dogs and multi dog units: You are most welcome to join us at 3.30pm. As multi dog owners ourselves, we understand the dynamics of the pack - come and learn more or just have fun with your dogs. Costs start from £17.50 per dog with discounts for block bookings or family units. Bookings being taken now.
Residential Training - Book your dogs place for our Easter course Some dogs benefit from our residential training programme especially if they are of high energy or in their teenage years. We also recognise that many owners find it difficult to attend regular classes due to work and family commitments. This is an ideal solution. By leaving your dog with us at our training establishment, (http://www.spangleberry.co.uk ) you can be sure that your dog will have access to high quality training on a daily basis and be well looked after whilst staying within our kennels. Not only do they get trained, you also spend time with us learning how they behave and what to implement when you take your dog home. You are then welcome to join our group social skills sessions to help remind your dog how they should behave. Call or email us for an information pack. Going away and booked your dog into kennels already? Why not ask us to call and train it while you are on holiday? - Easter bookings being taken now All Day Workshop on 15th April We are delighted to announce another of our very popular all day workshops on Thursday 15th April at our Alton venue. Come and spend the day with us working on any problems that you are currently experiencing. A chance for you to concentrate on your dog without distractions - these sessions really help our dogs learn and you have fun too. An ideal place to remind your dog all that you have taught him/her and a chance for them to run off lead with our balanced pack members. Book your place soon either through your trainer or the office. We are always delighted to be able to help our clients and their dogs in their own home or local area. Many puppies benefit from a home
start visit, to help you start off as you wish to continue. Read all the books and now not sure how to put it all into place? Just rescued a dog? Then our rescue remedy package is designed just for you. Do you have a specific problem that you need help with? Book a 121 session with one of our experienced trainers and they will show you how to overcome it. Would you prefer to come along on your own the first time with your dog? Then book a visit through the office. Some breeds are better on their own and some owners feel happier - whichever way, you can be assured of a warm welcome. Check out our snowy dogs in January - they had fun but we are truly pleased it has all gone! Come Walkabout with us!! Some of our members now have dogs that behave perfectly when attending the social groups but are still having problems whilst out walking. So we are arranging walks for members away from our centres, in areas we know, so that we can help you there. If you are interested in our joining our group, please contact Carol to discuss the possibility. Costs will be just £17.50 and we plan to meet regularly in various areas. Our training dogs will also attend to help supervise the walk and numbers will be strictly limited. Mytchett Social Walk - click for directions Next Windsor Walk is on 10th March
The dog's found a way to cool down in the heat last summer and made sure we got wet in the process! More pictures here We are also pleased to recommend Spangleberry Kennels in Worplesdon, Surrey where our dogs stay when we are visiting family in Australia. Check out their website http://www.spangleberry.co.uk or call 01483 232330. Why not ask us to train your dog whilst they stay in kennels?
Agility club - now on Saturday or Sunday mornings so that everyone can come along and have some fun. All welcome no matter what standard - the whole reason we run these sessions is to give your dog a chance to learn something new. Call us now to book your dog in on 07500875541, just £5 per dog.
Social Groups and Rehabilitation Workshops (Click for more details) Weekend Social Groups Find out what type of dog you have.........Learn what your dog is trying to tell you. Understanding Dog Behaviour Course - starts July 2010 Over the past few years we have been running a training and instructing course for members of the Walkabout group. Now we are delighted to be able to offer a new course for those of you interested in how our methods work and how the teaching dogs can help. Our next understanding dog behaviour course starts soon and will run over a 6 month period. During this time you will have 6 modules to complete so that you have notes to refer back to alongside the opportunity to work with the trainers learning what the dog's behaviour is showing and how to better help dogs. This one off opportunity will be open to all who are interested in learning more -so be sure to ask for your information pack soon as numbers will be limited. Further details on our understanding dogs page.
Club T Shirts - Available to all club members @ £17.50 each in sizes from Small to XXL, these quality blue polo shirts can be ordered through the office. Please ask if you would like to see one otherwise why not collect your order form at your next meeting. Stop press - Red Agility T Shirts and Navy waterproof jackets now on sale. Training Lines Training Lines, the one-stop shop for those difficult to find dog training accessories. If you can't find what you're looking for at the pet shop, or want to try something new in your dog training, you've come to the right place! As dog owners ourselves we know how difficult it can be to locate those unusual training items that may provide the answer to your dog training problems, and that is why we've created this site. All our products have been tested by ourselves and our team and so we are certain that you will be delighted with them. We've already done the searching for you, and if you're looking for something
that isn't listed , drop us a line and we'll do our very best to find it for
you. Contact Sharon or Neil on 0845 644 2397 or visit their website: http://www.traininglines.co.uk Stress - Do Dogs suffer too? Well at Walkabout, we have known that many cases of aggression are eventually sorted out by removing the stress that the dog is experiencing. So perhaps now is the time to consider if this is one of the reasons that your dog is playing up. Although medical conditions should always be checked out by a Vet first, these are some of the signs to look out for: repeated ear infections or eyes weeping, not eating well; constant periods of diarrhoea or sickness; poor skin and coat; aggression over food or towards humans or other animals; constant barking or over reaction to the slightest noise; barking or even lunging at dogs/people as they go past. Whilst some of these problems on their own are not really signs of stress, if your dog shows signs of several of these symptoms, then we would suggest you need to work with us to help your dogs cope better. We can illustrate coping with stress by telling you a short story. Suppose you have a near “miss” in your car, just a near miss, but enough to shake you up. Within 15 minutes, you will be feeling angry, going over in your mind what happened and how stupid the other driver was. You cannot stop this – it is an automatic response by your body to the possible accident. When your body felt it was under threat, it set all sorts of survival instincts off to protect you. So when your dog is getting the wrong messages from you and has to take over as pack leader, its body is reacting to a threat to its pack. If this continues then your dog is suffering – but how to explain to your dog that you have the situation under control? Over the past 12 years, the team at Walkabout have been helping owners regain control over their dogs by giving them the tools to help their dogs. We are holding workshops throughout the next month offering dogs and their owners a chance to learn these techniques. If you would like to come along why not book your dogs place now. PAST EVENTS Walkabout Open Day 14th November from 9.30am Photos by Cheesy Grins available now - see above. Winter wonderland at Rushmoor Arena raising money for CURE LEUKAEMIA Thank you to everyone that attended despite the awful weather and for being so generous. Special thanks to Terena and Debbie who kept up a regular supply of hot food from the back of the horse box! And to Jane, Karis and Caroline for braving the terrible weather and organising the various events around the centre. Our Dogathon attracted a loyal crowd and the winners this time were: Obedience: Wendy with Bella Cross Country: Tracy with Callie Agility: Lesley with Finlay We were also delighted to meet the Malamutes and see them racing and keeping fit, finding out more about this fascinating breed from their rescue stall and meet the dogs - all organised by Louise and her friends. They were so kind to give up their spare time - we hope they managed to enjoy themselves, we know that the dogs did. Lindsey from Simply Gorgeous! is Arctic Dog Sledging in Northern Sweden in aid of Cure Leukaemia. We are delighted to confirm that she has met her target of £3250 and is off on Friday 12th February - look out for some photos soon.
Dogathon 2 - September 5th at Rushmoor Arena Another glorious day made sure that everyone had a great time at our second Dogathon of the year. Entrants were surprised at how easy it was to have fun with their dogs and yet still be competitive. it was great to see so many people do so well and the dogs behave impeccably, well done to all those who joined in. We hope to see you all again at our final event later in the year provisional date 14th November at our Winter fundraising special. The winners this event were: Overall winner: Tony with Holly the Boxer with Linda and Holly the GSD as runner up. Social Skills was won by Laura with Phoebe, the chocolate Labrador Cross Country was won by Linda with her GSD, Holly with Adam and Vicky winning the questions section with their dog Gemma. Agility was won by Diana and her magic dog, Bonnie. As all these owners have had some challenges to meet with their dogs, it was wonderful to see their efforts so well rewarded. Thank you to everyone who got involved and helped - we really couldn't have done it without you! Thank you so much for the money raised at the Walkabout Fun Day. In dollars, the money you raised came to $1040, so a really good chunk towards building our clinic. On completion, we will be putting up a plaque in recognition of those who have helped to bring about such a great achievement - you can be sure that 'Walkabout' will be included. Once again, many thanks for your help, it's very much appreciated. Jen (Andy & Peanut Pet Shelter Board) What a brilliant fun day and thank you for the tremendous support. Between us all we have raised over £650 for the peanut pet shelter. This was our chance to fund raise for our charity based in Mexico. The Peanut Pet Shelter is having a really rough time at the moment due to the "Swine Flu" epidemic. Many of the tourists are keeping away or being prevented from visiting and this means that nothing can get to the shelter. They are desperate for medicines to prevent flea and tick infestations but the cost has risen so high that is almost impossible to help these young dogs. As a company we always try and run at least one fund raising event each year - so thanks for coming along to support us. Here are the results: Treasure Hunt: Leah with Kiera, Linda with Holly and Julie and Keith with Twiggy and Timba
Then we decided to have a fun dog show: Here are some of the winners with their prizes.
Best Veteran Prettiest Bitch Handsome Dog
Dog most like its owner? Waggiest Tail!! Agility and a cake stall and the tombola and then a raffle all added to the sum raised. So special thanks to everyone involved, we know that Andy and Jennifer will be so pleased with the result. The Walkabout Dogathon-1 2009 We all had great fun at the first Dogathon-1 on the 23rd May at the Rushmoor Arena and we were delighted to see so many old friends and their dogs come and take part. We were blessed with kind weather and following the dressage/obedience test, there was a race around the centre to find all the treasure in the cross country. Then the show jumping—or rather the agility. We had designed the course so that everyone could take part and enjoy their dogs and despite keen competitiveness amongst some, it was the steady work by Neil and Tony that made sure of a lower penalty rate and resulting in overall winner and runner up position. The winners of each section also were awarded with trophies to recognise their skill in each section.
See http://www.cancerdogs.co.uk for more information.
Overall Winner Neil Aust with Elsa, is joined here by Tony Mulcahy with Miska as overall runner up and also the winners of each of the sections. In the centre are: Helen Thomas with Bill who won the Dressage section Alex Collins with Arnie who won the Agility section James Vacher with Marley who won the Cross Country section Well done to everyone who took part - see you next time.
More Photos of the February snow here - why not send us yours?
Congratulations to Julie with Pearl and Flyte for their success at Crufts 2009 Here are the Finchampstead class celebrating with Julie and Pearl- the Sealyham, (Flyte has now come into season so wasn't there for this photo!) on their successes at Crufts this year. Debbie (in red) kindly made a chocolate cake for us all to enjoy to mark this special occasion. This friendly class will always welcome new members of all ages, so if interested, why don't you come along and join us on Wednesday evenings at 7.30pm.
PROBLEM SOLVING MONTHLY WORKSHOP -19th February from 1pm. Monthly workshops at our new venue near Alton - call the office now to see how we can help you and your dog. Given the chance, all dogs are good but sometimes they just don't know how to be! Maybe they have been rescued and never learnt or maybe you just ran out of time, or they forgot. For whatever reason, they need to relearn their canine skills and you need help to guide them Call us now and book your 121 session with the experts - our teaching dogs and our trainers will help you to understand what it going on and how you can continue to help your dog remember their lessons.
Walkabout Fun Day - Saturday 26th July 2008 at Rushmoor Arena raises over £300 for the Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs. (Thanks to Shaun for the photos.) Thank you for all of you that came and joined us and had some fun with your dog. We raised nearly £300 for the Berkshire Search and Rescue dogs who were kind enough to give us a demonstration
Social Groups - lots of opportunities for your dogs to interact and socialise with other dogs in fully supervised and secure compounds.
Kennel Club Awards - well done to all of you that attended and passed their awards especially those who qualified for GOLD. COCOA MULCH WARNING - PLEASE READ AND PASS THIS ON I make no apology for copying this - we need to protect our dogs. This
message came to one of the groups from Ali Taylor, Head of Welfare, Battersea
DH. They gave permission for it to be passed on. Quote: Over
the weekend the doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from
Target to use in their garden. They loved the way it smelled and it was
advertised to keep cats away from their garden. Also
included was the following information - Quote: Cocoa
Mulch, which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other Garden
supply stores, contains a lethal ingredient called "Theobromine". It
is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts
dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several
deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks. Just a word of caution, check
what you are using in your gardens and be aware of what your gardeners are using
in your gardens. PLEASE
GIVE THIS THE WIDEST DISTRIBUTION!!! Reminder - have you moved home recently - is your dogs id tag up to date? Have you had your dog microchipped? Then make sure you notify Pet Log now with your new address. Their number is 0870 - 6066751
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Brook and
Zytta love it but it is too deep for cars apart from 4x4's.
We were
delighted to see so many people attend our comic relief effort on Saturday at
Rushmoor and well done to everyone who had a go on the agility. We hope to see
you at our Sunday afternoon sessions very soon. Here are some photos of some of
the dogs at the social session - the teenagers were definitely showing signs of
"spring".
Julie with Jet starts the learning process!
Here
is Debbie with Fern who has just passed her Kennel Club Gold Award along with
Sue with Troy and Julie with Jet.