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Monday 10am - 4pm Tuesday 10am - 4pm Wednesday 10am - 4pm Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 10am - 5pm

Animal Haus Behaviour and Training, Naylor Drive, Tamborine (2026)

First International Scurry Dog Gundog Games Instructor! ✨
📍South East Qld
Ready to transform your relationship with your dog? DogTag Dog Training is committed to providing a fun, easy to understand method of training your companion dogs using modern, reward based techniques. We provide group and private training for puppies and dogs of all ages and behaviour concerns. Our goal is to help you achieve a confident, happy and well behaved family member.

18/08/2026

🐕 Scurry Dog Taster Workshops - Sydney
One weekend only!

📅 22nd + 23rd August
⏰ 9am -11am
📍 East Kurrajong

🎫🔗 In Bio

17/08/2026

There's a growing emphasis in dog training on choice, agency and empowerment...and that is a good thing.

But sometimes freedom gets confused with empowerment.

Giving dogs more freedom can absolutely be empowering. Allowing them to choose where they sniff, which direction they explore or how they interact with their environment can be valuable.

But more freedom doesn't automatically lead to more empowerment.

Sometimes it simply creates more opportunities to rehearse challenging behaviours.

A dog who reacts to other dogs, with unrestricted access to the front fence, might spend their day running, barking and reacting to everything passing by. An off-lead dog might repeatedly rush towards other dogs before they have the skills to disengage or respond to their handler.

Practice matters.

Repeatedly rehearsing chasing, barking, lunging, fence running or rushing towards triggers can make those behaviours increasingly established and easy to perform.

It can also mean more stress, not less.

A reactive dog who has the freedom to constantly monitor their environment and respond to every potential trigger isn't necessarily relaxed or empowered. They may be spending significantly more of their day in a heightened state of arousal, repeatedly experiencing the physiological stress associated with those reactions.

This is where management is important.

Management isn't inherently restrictive and it isn't the opposite of empowerment. Done well, it creates situations where dogs can practise the behaviours and decision-making skills we actually want them to develop.

We can still provide choice within boundaries.

A dog can explore on a long line without having the option to rush another dog. They can choose where to sniff while we prevent them chasing wildlife. They can watch and process a trigger without being able to charge towards it.

And as their skills, confidence and ability to make good decisions develop, their freedom can grow with them.

Empowerment isn't about removing every boundary. It's about giving dogs meaningful choices, appropriate support and the skills to successfully navigate their world.

11/08/2026

Show me your dogs 📸👇

Just for fun, I'd love to 'meet' your dogs! Pop your favourite photo of them in the comments and tell me a little bit about them 🫶

This is Eevee, she is a 5.5yo Amstaff type. We adopted her from RSPCA QLD in early 2023 after losing both of our dogs. She is Spicy 🌶️ but has come a long way. She thinks every human exists to love on her (and be licked in return). She does Nosework, Mantrailing and Scurry Dog. In her spare time she enjoys long naps in the sun ☀️, following odour trails 🐽 and dismembering stuffy toys. 🧸

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04/08/2026

⚕️ PAIN, BEHAVIOUR + OVERALL HEALTH

Recently Eevee has appeared more stiff, is spending more time sleeping/resting, is overall less active, has had some irregular incidents of abnormal gait and yelping when getting up.

She has also had intermittent gut issues and increased anxiety...

Pain, behaviour and GI health are all closely linked.

It can feel like the chicken or the egg. Is the pain causing the anxiety? Is the anxiety causing the gut issues? Is the anxiety causing pain and gut issues?
Often the answer is that they are all contributing to each other.

Importantly it is also crucial to remember that dogs will hide pain and discomfort and so increases in anxiety, other behaviour changes or GI upset could be the only signs your dog is uncomfortable.

This morning Eevee and I headed to Dr Steve Denley BVSc CVA Grad Dip ABM for an initial assessment and treatment. The vet identified issues with her lumbar sacral region, her iliopsoas and likely soft tissue injury to her right shoulder (I'm sure attempting to yeet herself off a garden bag did not help with this! 😅).

Eevee had her first treatment, has come home on rest + some anti-inflammatories and we will be back next week for her next session.

We should always look at the whole dog. Even when a change appears to be just behavioural/physical/digestive, it may be one part of a much bigger picture. Behaviour does not exist separately from the body, and our dogs deserve for us to keep asking what else might be going on.

Address

Naylor Drive
Tamborine, QLD
4270

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+61477676312

Website

http://www.animalhausbehaviour.com.au/

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