The Ladies Working Dog Group

The Ladies Working Dog Group The Ladies Working Dog Group is a supportive online community for ladies with highly active dogs.

We offer training tips, advice and support for everything from choosing the right dog, to field trial preparation.

17/06/2026

Comment PULLFREE below and I’ll send the link straight to your dm’s 🙌🐶❤️

Your dog pulls more like a farm bull than a family pet the second you step outdoors and somewhere along the way you’ve s...
15/06/2026

Your dog pulls more like a farm bull than a family pet the second you step outdoors and somewhere along the way you’ve started to wonder if it will ever get any better!

Next Thursday we’re running a free live masterclass, one hour of pure training, built for exactly the dog you’ve got.

People who come to our free masterclasses LOVE them so make sure not to miss out!

Comment PULLFREE and I’ll send you the link. 🐾

12/06/2026

Am I the only one whose predicting this change ?

There's a question our experts get asked a lot, and it rarely arrives as a question about sleep. It comes in as "why doe...
11/06/2026

There's a question our experts get asked a lot, and it rarely arrives as a question about sleep. It comes in as "why does my dog lose his head every evening" or "why is training falling apart on the last walk of the day."

And often, somewhere in the answer, the expert asks how much rest the dog is actually getting.

The numbers still catch me out. An adolescent dog needs fourteen to sixteen hours a day. A puppy needs more than that.

And our breeds are the worst at taking it, because the drive we love doesn't come with an off switch. A spaniel will keep going long past the point where a calmer dog would have taken himself off to bed, so the rest doesn't happen unless we make it happen.

When it doesn't, the tiredness comes out sideways. Mouthing, zoomies, selective hearing, usually at the exact moment you've sat down with a cup of tea.

These figures cover sleep (and chilled out rest can count here too) .

Save this, or screenshot ands stick them on the fridge, and have an honest look at what your dog actually gets.

And if this was useful, the sleep numbers are only half the picture.

What your dog needs from training changes by age too. The Gap Map shows you where your dog is now and what to work on next. Comment LEVEL and I'll send it over.

Tell me: what time does your dog's witching hour hit?

09/06/2026

Nobody tells you this when you bring home your working puppy.

More isn’t more. Less is more.

Have you been guilty of pushing too soon? Tell me in the comments. 👇

Most of us don't fail at dog training because we make the wrong decision. We fail because we don't make one at all.There...
07/06/2026

Most of us don't fail at dog training because we make the wrong decision. We fail because we don't make one at all.

There's a difference between a cliff edge and a crossroads. A cliff edge forces your hand. Your dog goes for the cat. You have no choice but to act, right now, no deferring, no waiting to see how you feel about it on Thursday.

A crossroads? You can walk away. Come back tomorrow. Or not at all.

And dog training lives almost entirely at crossroads.

There's no urgency. No knock at the door. So the question of whether to train today just sits there. And because it feels like a huge decision, all in or nothing, we don't make it.

But doing nothing is still a decision. And the longer you stand at that crossroads, the more likely it is that something comes along and forces your hand anyway. And by then, what was a small thing has become a cliff edge.

Move a little today. Not because you have to but because the crossroad choice is still yours to make.

Ten recalls in the garden. Five sits and waits on the walk. That's it. That's the whole decision available to you today.

Drop a 🐾 below if you're standing at the crossroads right now. Let's move together.

And if you’re honest with yourself, standing there on that walk while she completely blanks you and carries on nose-down...
02/06/2026

And if you’re honest with yourself, standing there on that walk while she completely blanks you and carries on nose-down through the undergrowth... you know too.

Her ears flicked... There was a pause... She heard you.

She just hasn’t learned yet that the first ask is the real ask.

So you say it again.

And again.

And somewhere in the repetition, you both learn the wrong thing.

She learns to wait for ask number three. You learn to expect to be ignored.

That’s not a recall problem.

That’s a gap between what you’re asking and what she understands the ask to mean.

Small, specific, daily work closes that gap. Not a total overhaul and no need to start from scratch.

Just the right thing, done consistently, in the right order.

The Gundog Gap Map shows you exactly where your gap is and what to do about it first.

Comment LEVEL and we’ll send you the link for you to access it to you right now

Introducing the newest ( and youngest!) LWDG Lady! Congratulations to our amazing daughter and son in law Charlotte and ...
27/05/2026

Introducing the newest ( and youngest!) LWDG Lady! Congratulations to our amazing daughter and son in law Charlotte and Rhys Baggett on the birth of their beautiful daughter last night ❤️Baby B x Welcome to the LWDG family … now we just have to get you a dog of your own 😂🥰

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