Keeping sane and healthy with your Dogs during this time

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What unprecedented times we live in! It can feel very scary to hear the news daily and perhaps it makes you feel completely unprepared as it is hard to know what we can do at this time other than stay home!

But staying home is what we are being asked to do, it is “what we can do” and this affords us a fantastic opportunity to work with our dogs and develop our relationship with them.

And this means that we can take this strange new home based lifestyle and properly PREPARE our dogs for life after Covid19. We won’t leave our dogs unprepared!

I have a fantastic opportunity for you to take advantage of this season of homeworking. You can have fun with your dog as you grow fantastic qualities in your dogs personality and Keep yourself from getting bored.

It’s affectionately called the “Worldwide Sexier than a Squirrel Challenge” 

25 Days, 25 Games to play with your dog for just £27

This is a brand new online video based training programme produced by Absolute Dogs and I can give you LIFETIME access to it along with membership of my private Facebook group; (Faithful Friends Tribe) where I will be adding coaching tips and videos and answering your personal questions through live training videos and posts. PLUS you get access to a Facebook group specifically devoted to the challenge that will join you online with people from all over the world – the Faithful Friends and Absolute Dogs online communities are very positive spaces and I’m sure you will find that this will fight some of the loneliness in in times of isolating. All this for just £27!!

Click the link to join this training programme that kicks off on Monday 23rd March:

https://www.faithfulfriends.online/store/world-wide-sexier-than-a-squirrel-challenge

 And if you haven’t yet got your puppy but are definitely intending on becoming a puppy parent or if you are just weeks or days away from collecting your fur-baby - I highly recommend you join the training programme now too as it is LIFETIME access for such a fantastic price of just £27 (This is an introductory price ... the ordinary price is £97) 

This training programme is suitable for all dogs and owners of all ages and abilities. Our style of training is very different to the village hall type training you might have attended in the past... AND IT WORKS. It really achieves real life results. 

It takes at least 21 days to change a behaviour in a human or a dog... the great thing is that this training is 25 days long – you should be seeing some results by the end of it ... but at the end of it don’t despair - the training continues with me through our private Facebook group too. 

Advice on dogs and Covid19

FIRSTLY There is NO EVIDENCE that dogs can get Covid19

  • General hygiene around your dog is recommended... It’s vaguely possible that an infected person could pet your dog and carry the virus on their fur from human to human as it can live on surfaces for up to 72 hours. Stroking or sneezing or coughing over the dog could pass the virus to another human.

  • If you are self-isolating due to symptoms you should NOT walk your dog. You should stay home for 7 days. This is where playing games with your dog will help you exercise your dog. (there will be ideas on my private Facebook page for exercising your dog at home)

  • But - If you are self-isolating or social distancing just for your own protection and have no symptoms PLEASE DO WALK your dog as normal ... Just stay a good distance away from other people and don’t let your dog to play freely with other dogs.

  • Advice is that you have 2 weeks amount of dog food in your home. And a whole month’s worth of your dog’s medication. This is due to supply chains, vet practices and delivery trucks being disrupted.

  • AND- If you have a cat – the advice is keep them in – get a litter tray – don’t let them wander the neighbourhood.

I hope you find all that helpful. 

And If you join the challenge and therefore access to my private Facebook group - please feel free to ask any questions you have on that page publicly so that anyone else who has that same question can see the answer and benefit from it.

Here’s the link to access all these resources... 

https://www.faithfulfriends.online/store/world-wide-sexier-than-a-squirrel-challenge

the “challenge” officially starts on Monday 23rd March but you can join anytime and benefit from the whole programme whenever you join!

This is an exciting time! Where some people may see problems, we here at Faithful Friends pride ourselves on finding solutions - not just when it comes to pulling on lead, being distracted and not listening - but also when the world throws us a curve ball!

Let’s keep the energy up and the dog training results coming!

Lydia Faithfull