Sexier Than A Squirrel: Dog Training That Gets Real Life Results

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Adding a New Family Member Are you looking to bring a new canine family member into your home?  Would you like to know what to consider when adding a new family member to your home, especially if you are adding a dog to your family and creating a multi dog household?  We dive deep and focus on the questions provided to us by our very own clients.  Does the ag...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Creating Food Drive in your Dog!  Let’s talk about creating a food driven dog! We get hundreds, thousands, of emails asking how to take a dog that lacks motivation for food and grow them into a truly food driven dog. We’ve got super solutions for you and this episode is jam packed!  It’s all about creating an experience for you and your dog. As with anything,...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss:  Stop Your Dog from Jumping Up!  When dogs jump up with all the exuberance in the world, it is most definitely a pain point. If this is your struggle, we wanted to dedicate an entire episode of the podcast to this!  This struggle can have an impact on whether you even have visitors come to your home, or if you have children or grandchildren, this can really b...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss:   Your Best Training Session Ever! Your training sessions do not have to be difficult… In fact, dog training in general does not have to be difficult. Let’s get rid of those barriers or anything that gets in the way and focus on having your best training session ever.  In this episode, we talk on how to make your training sessions, even with a busy life, and...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss:   The Power of Scent with Ann McGloon This week we introduce you to Ann McGloon, one of our amazing Pro Dog Trainers, and experienced Search and Rescue handler. Meet Ann, and get to hear her passion and energy shine through as she dives into the benefits of scent for every dog, as well as vivid, incredible stories of wins and wow moments with her own brillian...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Surrendering to your Inner Awesome! In this podcast episode, we spend time learning about Justin Prust, a personal and executive coach, and entrepreneur.  Do you want to find out how you can get out of the way of your own success? Listen to the voice inside of you and surrender to that inner awesome you’ve been suppressing for way too long.  There is a core v...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Health, Superfoods and Behaviour! We can have a very important impact on our dog’s health. This is one topic that cannot be underestimated!  Many dog owners want to know how they can improve their dog’s quality of life, and how they can measure their dog’s quality of life. In this episode we dive into and explore how we can support our dog’s health and behavi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Valentine’s Gifts for our Dogs! In today’s podcast we dive into what we can do for our dogs to show them even more love in our everyday life. What are some gifts sprinkled in love that we can give our dogs to support them?  We show love to our dogs all the time. Today’s tips focus on providing our dogs with that extra bit that will help them be the best versi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: The Power of Games for Rescue Dogs (featuring Caroline Johnson) Caroline Johnson, the General Manager, of Oak Tree Animals Charity, talks on how special the animal and human relationship truly can be. Caroline talks on how they enrich the lives of the animals they work with and how they provide diversity and games into each day.  Games have allowed them to en...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Top tips on crate and boundary training! This is an epic episode! One of the foundation layers of many of our training programmes focuses on teaching our dogs to settle and relax on anything. We utilise a variety of surfaces to generalise the game. In today’s episode of Sexier than a Squirrel, we provide some top tips tennis on the nuances of achieving advanc...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Barking, Lunging, and Distracted Dogs and the path to transformation that you have within your reach, right now.   We want everyone to know that struggles with a dog with reactivity or frustrating (sometimes even embarrassing) behaviour that they are not alone. There is hope.  You may have gone to other trainers that have said there is nothing they can do. Yo...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss:   Being a leader of your dog To really unlock real-life transformations, to unlock next-level relationship, look after both ends of this lead! This means YOU, just as much as you look after your dog. This will allow you to get the momentum that you need to really transform their behaviour for the better.  Your optimism, as your dog’s owner, is so, so key! Jus...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Focusing on Moving into 2021 with Momentum and the Drive toward your Dreams! 2021 is a year of real-life results!  Can you believe that 2021 is here?! We can’t and yet here we are, ready to get started, ready to have targets, intentions, goals, or vision, whatever it is that helps us be in the present moment so that we are aware of the steps that will allow u...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Police Dog Insights and a Dive into What We Can Learn from Everything They Do! The West Midlands Dog Unit joins us today in an EPIC episode! You are going to LOVE listening is as this episode is jampacked with super insights into the police dog programme process, the passion and intensity that is day to day for these incredible human beings and their canine p...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Christmas Day and Celebration! What are you celebrating today? What can you look forward? Finding easy wins, and small things to celebrate on a daily basis, is so key. Christmas is a great opportunity to talk about wins! There are so many wonderful things we can celebrate together!  How did you start this year with your dog? Reflect very briefly on 2020. Some...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: What should you do when you bring a new dog into your home, whether you’ve got a new puppy arriving, or an older dog! Woohoo! Get excited, we are bringing some top tips tennis on bringing a new dog into your home! We discuss: Setting up the environment and the dog for success before they even come home!  Knowing what your expectations are proactively! Taking...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Preparing for the situation instead of in the situation whilst preparing our dogs for upcoming vet visits!  Our dog’s may spend one visit or more throughout the year with their vet. We all know that it can go quite well or it can go quite poorly… How can we prepare our dogs so that each visit We cover some really cool concepts and strategies, including: Disse...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Super strategies to survive and THRIVE through the Christmas holidays with our dogs amidst the holiday fun! In this epic episode, we give ourselves permission to get really excited about the holidays ahead! Regardless of whether you are separated from your dog, or your dog is with you and you think they might be naughty in the Christmas chaos – we are here to...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Kids and Dogs ---- > Kids are incredibly novel, and dogs can find them either quite exciting or very scary! The secret to a successful relationship between kids and dogs might be surprising! Dive into this epic episode focused on dogs and kids and making sure they have a wonderful relationship.  Details we delve into include:  Presence doesn’t mean access...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: How can you move from transitioning from treats galore to growing value in other reinforcement areas…  What happens when you don’t have the food or the treat right there for your dog to do what you’re wanting them to do? In the Gamechanger world, we teach them skills, we are reshaping their brain, so that even in the absence of food, they will perform in a wo...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: How did Tom and Lauren got started… and how AbsoluteDogs came to fruition! In this episode, Tom and Lauren dive into how they started with dogs, their childhood experience with dogs, and how their passion for having animals and dogs in their life grew them to where they are today.  How did Tom become a Vet? What lead Lauren to Bowerland's, the amazing ho...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Stop Pulling My Lead … overcoming on-lead behaviour struggles with your dog! Pulling on lead is one of the most common challenges to your sexiness! This is often the #1 struggle that not only is uncomfortable and definitely not fun but can sometimes be physically painful! The dog-owning reality most of us dream of having does not include being dragged down th...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Problems in the car and solutions that overcome them! Sometimes, there are problems that happen with dogs in the car, whether they’re nauseous or a bit of a Naughty but Nice dog… traveling isn’t without a level of stress when it comes to bringing our dog’s along.  In this episode, we take a deeper dive into the different situations that pop up when we choose...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Preparing your dog for the novelty chaos of Halloween  It’s that time of year when ghosts and ghouls are a common sight, when pumpkins have incredibly clever facial expressions with lighting that looks sinister in the dark! It’s Halloween time! For our dogs, it’s a time of novelty, of discovering new and mysterious things in their life that they may have neve...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss: Your next Optimism Top-Up and our favourite event, Super Trainer Live! You, an incredible gamechanger, a devoted, dedicated dog owner, are invited to join us in our special, annual 3-day event, Super Trainer Live! This is an optimism boost as we head into winter, a super JOY top-up, where we’re diving into some really focused subjects! In this episode, we’re...