Ruff Company Rushden

Fully equipped, fully insured, Police vetted staff, canine first aid trained, Assistant Trainer with the Guild of Dog Trainers AND studying 2 Level Three OFQUAL qualifications on the APGI Course with the reknown Lez Graham MA.
Countryside walks or play sessions in a secure private field.
What more could your dog ask for?!

Bobby Boy loving life in the long grass.

Brain training doesn't suit every dog... Sometimes the best way to solving a problem is the easiest! 😂

Surely this isn't just me?!
What else do your dogs do on cue? Pepper knows its time for bed when the Xbox turns off.

Pepper and I are up in Scotland training this week, but we are back to normal the week after!

The Lab report is in. The fenceline is the best place to sniff...

A few words from my mentor Lez Graham on the subject of harnesses.
''Anybody who knows me knows I am a passionate anti-harness person. Not because of my dog training background or beliefs but because of my Kinesiology background.
... I look at a harness and think why would you put that on a dog (okay, medical grounds excepted). You are inhibiting muscles, shortening stride and creating tension where there should be free-flowing movement... and that's before there is any pressure added from the lead.
And then when the dog pulls, depending upon the harness used, you can inhibit the proprioception system, twist ribcages, impact the spinous reflexes, compress the thyroid and parathyroid, overstress the hips, glutes, hamstrings and cause undue pressure on the cruciate ligament.
This video, which has been generously created and shared by Maria Mai is stunning in its simplicity, showing inhibition of movement and gait impaction... and that is before you put a person pulling against it.
When a dog walks it should over-track - that is the hind paws should come forward of where the front paws have just been, as beautifully demonstrated when the dog is free walking. Even the best design of all of the harnesses in the video are causing the dog to under-track, that is the hind paws not making as far as the paw prints of the front paws.
And the harnesses where the belly bands are sitting at the base of the ribcage are causing the dog to tuck up and arch it's back - no doubt the position of the strap is irritating the xiphoid process (the knobbly pointy bit at the bottom of your ribcage).''
Lez Graham. MA.
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Eric and Shadow. Having a collie kind of day today!

Sometimes its ok to take the weight off your feet...

This popped up on my feed today.
Please be assured that I will never risk your dogs life by doing an act as stupid as this...

The view from the office this morning...
Excuse the sniffling, I've just had Super Manfluenza.