Maher & Hound Dog Training & Behaviour

25/01/2025

Just a reminder that I am more active (I'm mostly posting) on Instagram. If you need dog training tips give me a follow on there 🙌🏻🫶

20/01/2025

🫶 Fun with Edie & Bonzo

🙌🏻 I’m wearing the Cyclone 3L Shell Jacket in Captain’s Blue
AND the amazing
GP Pro Trousers in Blueberry - you will see lots of dog trainers in these (because they are THE best trs in terms of fit, comfort, durability and they have lots of pockets). I wear mine almost every day whilst training

❤️ Because the jacket and trousers are designed to last in harsh outdoor settings, they are both wind and water-repellent and fairly Spaniel proof too (the
mud just brushes off)

😍 The lovely team at have kindly given us an exclusive discount for a couple of days

👉 Use KAREN15 for a 15% discount on all products from 20/1 to 22/1

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07/01/2025

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07/12/2024

🫶 We are staying cosy today away from the ⛈️🌪️🌩️ and my dogs are loving this bed that kindly sent them.

🔑 One of the key things I look for in a dog bed is does the bed allow my dog to sleep in the way that they naturally like to sleep? Because this is so important for proper quality sleep

💤 Some of my dogs love to sleep covered (my terriers) or curled in a ball with a smaller bed with sides (Fred, my Hound), Bonzo likes to sleep flat out on his front, side or back (the Spaniel sprawl 😂 ) and this bed allows him to do that and the sheepskin topper keeps him warm

😉 It’s so comfy that I quite fancy a lie down on it too

☺️ BTW adult dogs need 16-18 hours sleep a day and puppies 18-20, so the choice of bed is really key to achieving this 👌🏼

23/11/2024

🌟 Online Training Client Testimonial 🌟
"He's a different dog, and it's the best feeling in the world" Thank you to Lydia and Sputnik for this testimonial 💙🙌🏻

13/11/2024

🥇 Success story:

🚀 When I first met the very gorgeous Scooter I popped a long line on him and he was soooo fast he had me doing circles around the park like a helicopter 😂 He moved at this speed whether he was on a long line or a short lead

🧐What did we do about it?

😎 We gave him a job to do

🫶 We taught Scooter to retrieve (he’s amazing), and we taught him to recall, stop, turn and hunt to the whistle

⏰ This took time - there are no quick fixes

😊 But what I will say is that within the first session, as soon as I taught Scooter to hunt to the whistle he switched his focus on to us and he looked at me like ‘wow, woman you can hunt too’

🥰 Now Scooter comes to my Pet Gundog workshops and he’s excellent and I regularly get updates of Scooter off lead, checking in and stopping and recalling to the whistle

🙌🏻 He goes on holiday with his family and he’s great.

Oh and he’s able to switch off and relax too

🏆 Well done team Scooter

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09/11/2024

Over on Instagram 🙌🏻 (reminder that most of my training tips are there)

26/10/2024

🦁 Folkvang Sungazer aka Bonzo in (ambassador)

A dream of a dog 🥰

24/10/2024

🤴 Meet Duke, from London, we’ve worked together online for a few months - working through general puppy and adolescent training and some little bits of anxiety. We met in person recently and did some Gundog training together and it was soooo much fun

🚀 He’s a natural Gundog

📲 Everybody that I work with - we get the initial foundations in via online coaching as it is the most efficient way to do so.

➡️ And then, as and when it’s needed (which it often isn’t) I work with people on a 121 basis in person, but I now reserve all of my in person services for my coaching clients.

🤩 Its fun working with dogs all over the world, even if I don’t get to meet them all 🥲

20/10/2024

👉🏻 The last one is super important. But ALL of the them are very important

🐶🧦 Please share the posts with a Spaniel owner

09/10/2024

🤩 Fun fact, I wanted to work with dogs for years... but I didn't, because I was told I was 'too soft with dogs'

☹️ I never really understood this because my dogs had great lives, were well mannered, but fun and they were happy.

🫶 So I carried on loving dogs whilst working in PR

🙌🏻 But now I work with likeminded people all over the world Online, we have fun and we get great results and the dogs are living happy, fulfilled lives

🥰 So winning awards for this work really does mean the world

06/10/2024

Bonzo and I always have the best time with Becky Contented Gundogs Training Club 🫶

01/10/2024

❤️❤️❤️ this so much from my client Dr Martha and her wonderful Springer puppy Churro 🫶

29/09/2024

😊 One of the most common questions I get asked is “how many hours a day do you walk your Working Cocker Spaniel to get him so tired and relaxed and happy?”

😃 The answer is about 1 hour a day, 6 days a week. 1 day he doesn’t walk at all. He has a rest. No walk, no training, some play and some scatter feeding, a chance for his body and mind to rest

👍🏻 And he settles really well that day too

Because:

💤 If you have a Pet Gundog the answer to calm does lie in teaching them to switch off and that sometimes we do nothing. And they do often need to be taught to do this.

✌🏻And the answer to calm also lies in some kind of Scentwork or Pet Gundog training - this isn’t a ‘want’ it is a ‘must have’

🤓You cannot train any dog’s natural instincts out of them. All dogs are born with certain genetics and instinctive behaviours, we need to work with these. Not suppress them.

😬Buying a high drive Working Line dog and expecting them to be happy doing a heel walk to sit in a cafe as their daily stimulation is usually going to lead to some sort of behavioural issues such as guarding, barking at noise, pulling on the lead, inability to settle, inability to focus on walks, destructive behaviours and many more

💰The answer is often to then suppress these behaviours, to spend hundreds / thousands of £ (kerching) treating these behaviours as isolated issues - when in a lot of cases these issues would not have arisen if the Pet Gundog had an outlet to express their natural dog behaviours / instincts and to do what they are bred to do

📞📲Please get in touch if you need help with your Pet Gundog, I currently work Online helping more than 50 Pet Gundogs all over the world

18/09/2024

Thank you. Award for my work with gun dog breeds and rescue dogs 🙌🏻

A Wi******er woman has won ‘Specialist Dog Trainer of the Year’ for her work with gun dog breeds and rescue dogs.