August 26, 2025 • 22 mins
Ever wondered how elite trainers build confidence in both sport dogs and those with behavioural challenges? Lauren Langman and Jamie dive deep into the transformative world of confidence circuits – a versatile training approach that's changing how dogs learn to navigate their environment with precision and trust.
Confidence circuits combine problem-solving with physical awareness, creating a series of obstacles where dogs must thoughtfully place their paws while maintaining focus. The beauty lies in their accessibility – you don't need fancy equipment or vast spaces to get started. From bath mats and broom handles to recycled drawers and yoga blocks, everyday household items become powerful training tools when arranged strategically. Safety remains paramount, with both trainers emphasising non-slip surfaces to prevent injuries and build positive associations.
The applications are remarkably diverse. For puppies, these circuits develop crucial body awareness. For senior dogs or those with neurological deficits (like Lauren's dog, Brave), they help combat issues like foot scuffing. For "naughty but nice" dogs with behavioural challenges, they provide focus and build trust through micro-moments of controlled separation. For sport dogs, they're invaluable for perfecting running contacts and dynamic movement patterns.
What makes confidence circuits particularly special is their adaptability. Each session should be unique, challenging dogs to adapt to changing scenarios – an essential skill for real-world navigation. Even in limited spaces like hallways, minimal setups using just a few cones, a yoga block, and a step-in container can provide substantial physical and mental workouts.
Ready to transform your dog's movement, focus and trust? Join our community by sharing your confidence circuit creations on social media or in our community space. This training approach truly is, as Lauren concludes, "a must for any dog owner" – regardless of your dog's age, ability or temperament.
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Lauren Langman (00:09):
Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sexier than a
Squirrel podcast.
I'm Lauren Langman.
I'm one of the world's leadingdog trainers and it's my mission
to help owners become theirdog's top priority.
In each episode, you'lldiscover how to gain trust and
communicate with your dog likenever before, creating
unbreakable bonds that make youthe most exciting part of their
world.
Okay, confidence circuits,jamie, one of my absolute
(00:33):
favorite things to do, because Ithink that they have changed
the game for so many of my dogsin sport, but I also know
they're not just for sport.
They've also had massivebenefits in naughty buty but
Nice Dogs.
What is a confidence circuit?
A confidence circuit is the bestthing ever, I think, and it can
be anything really.
I love how enthusiastic you arethe best thing ever.
(00:55):
They are so cool.
They're also really fun, aren'tthey?
They're really fun to do.
Jamie Hogg (01:00):
And you can get creative doing them and there's
not really there's no rule.
Lauren Langman (01:04):
You can't go too far wrong.
No, I mean, you don't want them.
Running is the only thing.
So these you're going to playat where you do we do.
I think there are some peoplewho might play them where they
let the dog do any old movement.
Jamie and I are both going tolook for some specific good
movement.
Why?
Because we've got a sportstrained eye.
So when you've diet, it's kindof like ignoring I don't know.
It's like a police officergoing out and doing something
(01:25):
that's really against the lawfor them, because they you know
what the rules are in the gamesthat you play in sport.
So because we play so manysports, we probably are going to
look at it from a sporty pointof view.
Yeah, at the same time,brilliant for rehab dogs,
brilliant for dogs that arenervous, brilliant for dogs that
are lacking confidence.
So what is a confidence circuit?
a confidence circuit is I don'tknow how to describe it.
(01:46):
I would say it's a series ofdifferent obstacles, yes, where
the dog has to problem solve togo from a to b whilst
individually maneuvering theirlimbs.
Yes, in a correct form, in acalm headspace, you can focus,
keeping focus forwards, forwards, preferably.
Yeah, and I think that it canlook really different, can't it?
Because I'm already likedesigning one in my head and
(02:08):
it's got big boxes and it's gotlittle foily bits, the dog's
coming through and like glitterand shimmer, and the dog is like
striding through the glitterand the shimmer, like all of
those types of things I reallylike.
I really like them to lookdifferent.
At the same time time.
It also should be non-slip, yeah, and the thing when people are
at home listening going well, Ihaven't got all this stuff.
You don't actually need a lotof stuff.
You actually need to be quiteversatile and flexible to what
(02:30):
you already own, like if you'vegot a bath mat, or maybe you've
got a baby with a baby mat, orwhether you've got some form of
um dirt trapper at your door.
These things are all quiteuseful.
And the brillo brush type matoutside the front door those
types of things are all a broomhandle.
Yeah, all of these things.
A mop, like all of them, cancome in handy into the circuit
(02:51):
yeah, definitely a baby step,like yeah, yeah definitely,
definitely.
There's so many.
I'm looking around the room now.
I know about random things.
There are so many random thingsthat you can utilize a yoga
block if you've done any pilatesand then given up which is what
most of us do.
All of random things that youcan utilise A yoga block If
you've done any Pilates and thengiven up which is what most of
us do.
All of those blocks that youmight be working with yes, a
(03:11):
hoop would be nice.
You can get them from Tesco'sand Sainsbury's and Asda and
Amazon and Costco and, I'm sure,lots of other places like that.
But loads and loads and loadsof like.
You want like DIY gear, almost,don't you?
You just want like differentstuff.
If you've got anything I don'tknow what it's called.
I do know what it's called.
It's called insulation.
Insulation, for example.
Great, we make everythingnon-slip, jamie why?
Jamie Hogg (03:33):
because we're asking our dogs to stand on things or
in things with confidence and wedon't want that to move.
We don't want to cause aninjury.
We want to make this a safething for them to do.
Also, if it did move, then notonly is there a risk of injury
but there's also the risk offrightening them and we don't
want them to get scared of whatwe're trying to build confidence
(03:55):
.
You know we're doing confidencecircuit.
We don't want them to and I'mjust thinking.
Lauren Langman (03:59):
Then, when you told me that about one of your
free cycle, up cycle typesituations that you brought here
and I was jealous, I was like Iwant that upcycle free cycle
jealous thing, look at me and Istarted to eyeball it like I
really wanted it.
Jamie Hogg (04:10):
But tell everyone what you did and what you got
and how you improved it so therewere drawers from an old like
art kind of draw thing that Iwas going to chuck out and I was
just like, no, not chuckingthem out, and we're going to use
them.
So they were about that wideand about maybe that deep, so
just right for the dog to stepinto, or if I turned it upside
(04:30):
down, they could step onto it aswell.
So they were nice kind ofsecure plastic, yeah, so
anything like that, and a coupleof those draws in a row or in
different parts of theconfidence circuit.
It was really cool.
Lauren Langman (04:42):
And I think things, things like that really
good to start to spot becauseyou'll see them when you're
playing confidence circuits.
You're like, oh yeah, I coulduse that you also put that
non-slip stuff in it.
Jamie Hogg (04:50):
Just explain what the non-slip stuff is so the
non-slip stuff you can buy, kindof like a matty type thing.
It would be fine, and you'dlike to stick some caravans to
stop things slipping.
But yeah, I bought a roll ofthat.
It's I think it's called onAmazon decking decking like
non-slip decking tape.
Lauren Langman (05:06):
So you, oh my god, a sped a sped, you put it
on a step.
You put it on a step to stopyou slipping.
And I was just thinking aboutit.
That like, do you mean thatlike sandpaper stuff, I have to
say, be good for a scratch board?
I have to say that stuff is oneof those materials that makes
me feel sick and I don't knowwhy I I can use it for my dog
(05:28):
training, but when I get tostick it down I'm like you know,
like chalk on a chalk on achalkboard.
For me it's a chalk on achalkboard scenario and so when
I touch it I'm like I alwaysfeel like I need to like do
something.
My nails or I don't know.
It makes me kind of go and thatstuff and that stuff.
So that stuff is fantastic foryour confidence circuits.
It works really well.
And underneath it, isn't it?
Jamie Hogg (05:47):
Because underneath it will stop it, some stuff,
because we use a lot of sensorymats, so things like it can just
be a bath mat, but bath matscan be Both sides, yeah.
And we've got kind of astroturfup here and sometimes certain
things.
It's weird certain things canbe slippery on the astroturf and
not slippery on the carpet, andthen vice versa, slippery on
(06:07):
the carpet and not slippery onthe astroturf.
So it's just making sure you'rechecking it.
If you're changing whatever'sunderneath, check it first.
You you could you turn a corneron it?
Lauren Langman (06:16):
and a bit of trial and error, isn't it?
So it's a little bit of trialand error and I think that's
really really key as well.
So trial and error and changeit about and mix it up a bit.
Yes, the other thing I reallyreally key as well, so trial and
error and change it about andmix it up a bit.
Jamie Hogg (06:24):
Yes, the other thing I really really love with
confidence circuits is I thinkyou touched on it there like
proprioception and sensorystimulation and what's that
about so it's just the abilityfor the dog to be able to place,
or or become more aware of howit's placing its feet and body
and weight shifting.
Lauren Langman (06:44):
And who's that good for us?
Jamie Hogg (06:45):
Everybody, dogs, puppies, from like tiny to all
the way up to when they're intheir senior years, and you're
helping them to, because we kindof go backwards, don't we, from
being a puppy.
I think we're there, jamie.
Lauren Langman (07:01):
We're just talking about this, but, yeah,
kind of going backwards when Ithink about it, though.
I've got a dog with aneurological deficit.
Her name is Brave, herneurological deficit.
She had a spinal disorder or aspinal condition post an
accident where she wentsprinting, lost her mobility in
her back.
There was no health issuebeforehand.
We didn't know there was aproblem.
She'd had her back x-rayed,everything was fine.
(07:22):
We were just very unluckyafterwards.
Sometimes she'll scuff.
Now you'll hear that scuff witholder dogs.
I remember with my late dog,poppy, she used to scuff.
Yeah, so some dogs scuff.
So if your dog is a scuffer, Ithink it can also be a really
nice exercise.
Jamie Hogg (07:36):
Definitely it'll help them to be able to, instead
of scuffing along, pick uptheir, pick up their feet pick
up their little tootsies and andyeah, definitely, I think it's
really really good for the olderdogs, but just as good for
everybody else.
Yeah.
Lauren Langman (07:51):
I think it's a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant,
brilliant, brilliant exerciseto be playing for anybody with
neurological or sensorystruggles and dogs wise, because
actually, and actually even thesort of thing that people with
their dogs can work with,because when you're working with
the owners, they're creatingthem.
What I really really like isthat you see the dog develop
(08:11):
through the learning and you seethe dog sort of really hone in
on on the learning in a in inquite a smart way.
You see brave, really enjoyingher learning.
Jamie Hogg (08:20):
Like for me, this is nice, yeah, it's nice territory
, it's good territory to be in,yeah, definitely, and I think I
love it when they get to thepoint of under completely
understanding what their, whattheir, their kind of task is to
do in the exercise.
And then you, you maybe do acouple of reps, maybe two reps
each way, and then put them in aon their boundary or on their
place and then change somethingwithin that circuit and see what
(08:44):
they do then, because thatoften it's amazing then to watch
them work it out, watch them,oh, but this was this and now
it's not this and oh, I did thishere, or and it's just like,
yeah, amazing to watch them thenwork it out, so whether it was
a step in bucket, so they got tostep into something.
If you just change that to steponto, that changes the whole
(09:05):
stride and that changes thewhole way they're looking at it
and they've got, you know, bereactive in a positive way to
their environment, which is it'shelpful for dogs that have
off-leash freedom, that arejumping over things out and
about, to be able to have thatability, to be able to use their
body.
For sports dogs it's massivethe ability to be able to turn
(09:27):
and twist, the ability to flexflex and the ability to change
and the ability, I think, to bequite dynamic.
Lauren Langman (09:34):
Yeah, I think the dog has to be quite dynamic
to change, and just that momentas well, isn't it?
Yeah, it's big, really, reallybig.
And I think the other thingthat's worth acknowledging here
is that you never do the samesession twice, so you'll
actually do that session onceand then you'll do a different
session and a different sessionand a different session, because
you're always changingsomething on the confidence
circuit.
It always looks different.
(09:56):
It doesn't ever look the same.
No it, even if you try, yeah,if you tried, you'd make it hard
.
Jamie Hogg (10:01):
It'd be hard to make it the same, because you're
always moving something yeah,and it's cool to watch your
brain think of new things to dowith it as well.
Like you know, just doingcavaletti with a plank
underneath it that was that wasquite a cool one to do and I was
just like, is this gonna?
Is this gonna work?
I'm not sure how this is gonnawork, but it was really really
cool and I was just like, oh,and that like actually looks
(10:22):
really cool, and for the dog tobe able to work that out, that's
a lot of skill to be able.
So it's basically like doingCavaletti along the dog walk,
isn't it?
That's smart, isn't?
Lauren Langman (10:32):
it Smart, smart.
So what is one of yourfavourite objects to put in your
confidence circuit?
And I'm going to start, and I'mgoing to give you a minute to
think about it, because I'vealready thought about my
question and I'm going to say myfavourite object I actually
love adding a large box.
I just like adding a box wherethey go through something, and I
don't know why.
I think it's probably becausewhen I was little I liked making
dens and for me there's a levelof den making and Cavaletti,
(10:55):
confidence circuit sort ofbuilding.
So when you're building aconfidence circuit with some
Cavaletti in it and you'rebuilding that scenario, there's
a bit of den making for me and Ilove the um.
Jamie Hogg (11:07):
You had up here a really big box for a while where
they went through like I lovedit.
Yeah, and so it was for thatseparation thing as well,
because they've got to trust you, because they're going behind
that barrier.
Lauren Langman (11:13):
If you've got a dog who's fearful of being
separated, a dog who's a littlebit separation anxiety, sort of
driven a little bit and anxiousto be left again, it's these
little micro moments ofseparation that you do and you
build in confidence for them togo.
Yeah, I got this and it's nodifferent with how you're
raising a child or how you'redoing other confidence training.
Eliza didn't used to likespeaking to people but she has
(11:36):
horse riding lessons and soshe's actually really confident
in teaching other people onhorses and herself having
lessons.
But she's learned through theconcept of confidence, through
training horses.
Yeah, she didn't learn it satin school or at a desk or with a
pen in her hand, and I thinkthat's really important that we
learn.
This is how you can learn theover and arching skill.
So for me, the box that couldbe a tunnel, nice and long,
(11:58):
could be tall, could have danglybits on it, but that's my
favorite, we even put like a boxin there where they had to.
You just got to be tall enoughand then they have to go in it
yeah, step in it and the otherthing we did we put different
surface in it, so we did dosometimes some mats in it and we
also did some foot targets init to make it stay upright
because it won't go wonky, andthen you had to put cones around
it and things.
So I do remember that one, butthat was my favorite.
And then there was one someone,someone lovely sent me some
(12:20):
flowers in the flower box.
There was a flower box as wellthat was similar and that was in
the house and rather than thedog training room and it was
back in the house and that wasin and the back room and we used
that one for a while, thepurple box.
It was a little bit cool shape.
Yeah, what about you?
What's one of your favoriteitems to put in a confidence
circuit?
Jamie Hogg (12:37):
I'm gonna say the step in, step out of a box,
because you can use it forstepping in, stepping out of the
box, like my draw, the drawersthat I had, the, the ones that I
recycled, upcycled, you know.
You could either use themlengthways or widthways, which
was, so that could be even achange, because obviously the
narrower the article is, theharder it is for the dog to
(12:59):
target, either way really.
So you've got the length thatway, but then you've got, you've
only got one.
When you turn it the other way,you've only got one narrow bit.
So it all switches it up.
So I quite like a step in andstep out of box.
Lauren Langman (13:14):
Yeah, nice, no, really nice.
I love a hoop as well.
I don't know, we do love a hoop, no fire.
So my next question One day,one day.
So my next question one time.
Just imagine it quick gonnahappen.
The room's on fire.
So my next question is if youwere to pick a favorite purpose
for confidence circuits, whatwould it be?
Jamie Hogg (13:34):
I think I love it for naughty but nice dogs, and
naughty but nice dogs they kindof are definitely dear to me
because I think I've beentrained well by my lot over the
last.
Lauren Langman (13:44):
And you've worked in rescue and you've
worked in those types of dogsfor a long time and I do love
them.
Jamie Hogg (13:50):
I just love them.
I get drawn to them Easilyattached.
Yeah, definitely, they are mycup of tea.
Lauren Langman (13:57):
I do like them.
I love it when we say that's my.
I was reading someone's postactually yesterday.
They'd lost their dog and theysaid this dog was my cup of tea.
And some dogs are just moreyour cup of tea than others.
I feel like one of my dogs.
I don't drink alcohol.
Really I feel like she's vodkafor me, um, whereas I've got
others and I'm just like you are.
So my cup of tea, just my cupof tea.
And, um, the naughtier thebetter.
(14:18):
You're so good.
You're so good with them aswell.
For me, my favorite purposerunning contacts.
They're the bane of my lifebecause I train agility and I
travel all over the countrytrying to win at agility.
For me it's massive to have adog that can do these things
well, and Confident Circuitshave just helped me so much in
agility and the dog's movement,their overall movement.
I think Wild at her best isreally fit on Confident Circuits
(14:39):
.
Wild is my dog and so at herbest, she's good at Confident
Circuits.
So I think wild is my dog andso at her best she's good at
confident circuits.
Jamie Hogg (14:45):
So I think it's just a really nice one.
Lauren Langman (14:46):
Yeah, definitely yeah really good one, really
good one, really good one allaround.
So last last thought onconfident circuits can you do
them in a smaller space?
Is there a way of adapting them?
Is there something we can do tomake it doable in anyone's
house, and do you need loads ofequipment?
Jamie Hogg (15:00):
yeah, no, you can definitely do it minimal and
it's definitely a rainy dayactivity.
Lauren Langman (15:04):
So good for that , isn't it the?
Jamie Hogg (15:06):
three things that I stick to, if I ever do them in.
I haven't got much space in thehouse and I literally tend to
do it in the hallway.
Lauren Langman (15:13):
Jamie's got three kids, a very happy husband
, four dogs and we were justmoaning today about grumpy old
men Do not tell our men this butwe were moaning before this,
which is why she nearly spat outher cup of tea as we spoke
about it.
But, man, three kids, dogs,kids, stuff yeah, because, liza,
(15:33):
I'm constantly putting stuffaway.
I literally work ondecluttering every morning and
she works on cluttering everyday and it feels like it's like
a declutter circle and I feellike I lose most days.
Jamie Hogg (15:43):
but I try really hard anyway, I tend to for this
reason I tend to just have myhallway by my front door,
because chloe will be in theother room with stuff every
stuff, every bit of stuff.
Lauren Langman (15:52):
So go on.
What have you got?
Jamie Hogg (15:53):
bare bits of my little, three little exercises
that I love to do that are justgood for small spaces.
So my little cones, so threecones, and then you can have a
yoga block so a step on to stepoff type of block.
So it's just the three conesand the yoga block so they go
from one side to the other, tothe other.
Then I switch that out and putmy draw where they've got a step
(16:17):
into and out of whichever wayyou want to put that.
They do a couple of circuits ofthat and then I do maybe a pole
and if your dog's advanced, youcould do three poles out of the
three cones then, so thatthey're doing a nice curve as
well.
Yeah, and that's that's.
That's the equipment I wouldtake to new environments and
stuff as well.
So it's not huge but it's aworkout.
(16:38):
They're working on theirflexibility within their spine,
they're working on theirproprioception, they're working
on so many task focus.
They're working on so manythings.
You can play around with thedistance in my hallway.
I can actually move away fromthem.
Yeah, you can come forward andyou can play around with the
distance and stuff like that.
But it's just a nice rainy dayactivity or an activity that you
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want to teach them to be ableto take to you know the back
garden, the driveway, whereveryou are at with your dog, a car
park or or wherever really, theagility waiting for your agility
round see if they're flexibleenough to do that and have like
stuff going on in the background.
Lauren Langman (17:17):
So, yeah, yeah, I love it for that it definitely
makes sense, because youactually can then play around
the space.
Another thing I'm going to sayguys, if you don't have space,
hiring a facility, using afacility, taking the kit that
you've got, using their kit Iknow that if you were hiring
this facility, we hire out thearena here.
So if you're in Devon, we hirethe arena, or if you're passing
Devon, we hire the arena.
I would say the kit in theentrance is actually all you
need.
So it's just giving you an ideathat actually we should
(17:38):
probably hire the entrance.
So hire the kit in the entrancethat people can just use that,
because that's really what youneed.
Yeah, so you just need a littlebit of space and and the
entrance area and you can getvery creative with all of that,
oh my god, literally, you couldspend as long putting it out as
you could doing your trainingsession.
In fact, you could spendprobably a lot longer.
Have fun with it, enjoy thecolour, enjoy the vibrancy,
(17:58):
enjoy the flexibility that itoffers.
Confidence circuits havesomething for everyone.
If I was to pick confidencecircuits, confidence hoops or
Cavaletti, which one would youpick If it was a fist fight?
If it was a fist fight, it'sreally hard, isn't?
(18:19):
It.
Isn't it because of my hoop offire?
Jamie's struggling, jamie'sstruggling.
Jamie Hogg (18:26):
I don't know they're too good.
Lauren Langman (18:28):
I've given her, basically, three different types
of chocolate.
Oh my goodness, she likes allof them.
Oh my goodness, it's tough.
You know what?
They've all got brilliant,brilliant purposes.
I'm gonna say like they do worktogether.
They do work together reallywell, really well.
I'm gonna say, if I had to pickone, I'm gonna say confident
circuits.
And the reason I'm gonna sayconfident circus is I think it
incorporates all three.
And I think no, no, no, you canpick your own.
(18:50):
You don't have to take mine,you don't can.
You're OK to have if it'sdifferent.
Jamie, I really like that.
You can do all three.
So I like that you can and youcan have all three, which is the
best bit.
Just head to absolute dash dogsdot com.
They're all three, yours andtheir lifetime badges.
But for me, if I was to pickone, I would pick Confidence
Circuits.
And the reason I would is Ithink Confidence Circuits
incorporates hoops, I think itincorporates cabaletti, I think
(19:13):
it incorporates movement, Ithink it incorporates all the
patterns, ideally dual three.
I mean it makes sense to do allthree, do all three.
However, confidence circuits forme is like home, I feel.
I feel like there's that song.
It's like home, is youconfidence circuits is like home
for me.
I just literally see it and I'mlike it makes my I was about to
immune system.
It's not my immune system, mywhatever that is.
(19:33):
That system that sometimestriggers it makes it happy.
That system that just goeschill I can't remember the word
but it makes me just feel alittle bit sort of settled like.
It doesn't make me feel it whenI watch it.
I just feel really comfortablewatching a dog around it.
When they do it well and whenyou're training.
It's very calming and it's veryfocused exercise.
Yeah, it's a good exercise.
You have to zone.
Yeah, it's a bit like I'mthinking it's a bit like
(19:54):
childbirth.
You really have to be in theright zone, don't you I?
Jamie Hogg (19:56):
think you've got to be in the moment and adjust
yourself.
I think that's what the three,three badges really teach, isn't
?
It is being in the moment,you're just mechanic whatever.
Lauren Langman (20:05):
They're giving you a little huge mechanics, a
brilliant eye.
For those of you who want toimprove your dog training, you
will improve your eye doingconfidence.
Circuits, cavaletti and thehoop training.
Particularly the former two Ithink they really hone your eye
in, they really make your eyework hard.
And then mechanics for allthree, and especially the hoop,
like your mechanics need to bereally good.
Do you ever have a lot of hands?
Especially if you start puttingit on fire, you lose.
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So I don't know that you've gota lot of hands then.
So it definitely, definitely,definitely All of them combine,
don't they Very, very nicely?
Jamie Hogg (20:33):
They all complement, don't you think, I don't think
I could choose one, you know.
Lauren Langman (20:37):
It's just calm.
She's struggling to pick.
So, guys, confidence circuits.
It is a must for any dog ownerWorks for naughty but nice dogs.
Works for puppies.
Works for senior dogs.
Works for dogs who aregeriatric.
Works for dogs who are athletic.
Works who are geriatric.
Works for dogs who are athletic.
Works for dogs who are sporty.
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Works for dogs who need toimprove movement.
Works for naughty dogs Jamie'sfavourite.
So dogs who are difficult dogs,who are troubled, dogs who are
menacing.
Yeah, that's sometimes how Ilook at mine.
I'm like you are a menace.
You're an absolute menace.
Ultimately, I cannot wait to seemore confidence circuits.
I think we should actually havea competition.
Yes, the best confidencecircuits that we can possibly
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see.
Share them on social media,share them on our community
space.
Share them because I love tosee them.
Maybe you could post one, jamie.
It's really cool.
Your next confidence circuitthat you do, posting a few of
them in our community space.
And for you guys, if you couldalso get posting, posting, we'd
love to see them.
So that was this episode of thesexiness girl podcast.
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Okay, confidence circuits,jamie, one of my absolute
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favorite things to do, because Ithink that they have changed
the game for so many of my dogsin sport, but I also know
they're not just for sport.
They've also had massivebenefits in naughty buty but
Nice Dogs.
What is a confidence circuit?
A confidence circuit is the bestthing ever, I think, and it can
be anything really.
I love how enthusiastic you arethe best thing ever.
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They are so cool.
They're also really fun, aren'tthey?
They're really fun to do.
Jamie Hogg (01:00):
And you can get creative doing them and there's
not really there's no rule.
Lauren Langman (01:04):
You can't go too far wrong.
No, I mean, you don't want them.
Running is the only thing.
So these you're going to playat where you do we do.
I think there are some peoplewho might play them where they
let the dog do any old movement.
Jamie and I are both going tolook for some specific good
movement.
Why?
Because we've got a sportstrained eye.
So when you've diet, it's kindof like ignoring I don't know.
It's like a police officergoing out and doing something
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that's really against the lawfor them, because they you know
what the rules are in the gamesthat you play in sport.
So because we play so manysports, we probably are going to
look at it from a sporty pointof view.
Yeah, at the same time,brilliant for rehab dogs,
brilliant for dogs that arenervous, brilliant for dogs that
are lacking confidence.
So what is a confidence circuit?
a confidence circuit is I don'tknow how to describe it.
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I would say it's a series ofdifferent obstacles, yes, where
the dog has to problem solve togo from a to b whilst
individually maneuvering theirlimbs.
Yes, in a correct form, in acalm headspace, you can focus,
keeping focus forwards, forwards, preferably.
Yeah, and I think that it canlook really different, can't it?
Because I'm already likedesigning one in my head and
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it's got big boxes and it's gotlittle foily bits, the dog's
coming through and like glitterand shimmer, and the dog is like
striding through the glitterand the shimmer, like all of
those types of things I reallylike.
I really like them to lookdifferent.
At the same time time.
It also should be non-slip, yeah, and the thing when people are
at home listening going well, Ihaven't got all this stuff.
You don't actually need a lotof stuff.
You actually need to be quiteversatile and flexible to what
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you already own, like if you'vegot a bath mat, or maybe you've
got a baby with a baby mat, orwhether you've got some form of
um dirt trapper at your door.
These things are all quiteuseful.
And the brillo brush type matoutside the front door those
types of things are all a broomhandle.
Yeah, all of these things.
A mop, like all of them, cancome in handy into the circuit
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yeah, definitely a baby step,like yeah, yeah definitely,
definitely.
There's so many.
I'm looking around the room now.
I know about random things.
There are so many random thingsthat you can utilize a yoga
block if you've done any pilatesand then given up which is what
most of us do.
All of random things that youcan utilise A yoga block If
you've done any Pilates and thengiven up which is what most of
us do.
All of those blocks that youmight be working with yes, a
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hoop would be nice.
You can get them from Tesco'sand Sainsbury's and Asda and
Amazon and Costco and, I'm sure,lots of other places like that.
But loads and loads and loadsof like.
You want like DIY gear, almost,don't you?
You just want like differentstuff.
If you've got anything I don'tknow what it's called.
I do know what it's called.
It's called insulation.
Insulation, for example.
Great, we make everythingnon-slip, jamie why?
Jamie Hogg (03:33):
because we're asking our dogs to stand on things or
in things with confidence and wedon't want that to move.
We don't want to cause aninjury.
We want to make this a safething for them to do.
Also, if it did move, then notonly is there a risk of injury
but there's also the risk offrightening them and we don't
want them to get scared of whatwe're trying to build confidence
(03:55):
.
You know we're doing confidencecircuit.
We don't want them to and I'mjust thinking.
Lauren Langman (03:59):
Then, when you told me that about one of your
free cycle, up cycle typesituations that you brought here
and I was jealous, I was like Iwant that upcycle free cycle
jealous thing, look at me and Istarted to eyeball it like I
really wanted it.
Jamie Hogg (04:10):
But tell everyone what you did and what you got
and how you improved it so therewere drawers from an old like
art kind of draw thing that Iwas going to chuck out and I was
just like, no, not chuckingthem out, and we're going to use
them.
So they were about that wideand about maybe that deep, so
just right for the dog to stepinto, or if I turned it upside
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down, they could step onto it aswell.
So they were nice kind ofsecure plastic, yeah, so
anything like that, and a coupleof those draws in a row or in
different parts of theconfidence circuit.
It was really cool.
Lauren Langman (04:42):
And I think things, things like that really
good to start to spot becauseyou'll see them when you're
playing confidence circuits.
You're like, oh yeah, I coulduse that you also put that
non-slip stuff in it.
Jamie Hogg (04:50):
Just explain what the non-slip stuff is so the
non-slip stuff you can buy, kindof like a matty type thing.
It would be fine, and you'dlike to stick some caravans to
stop things slipping.
But yeah, I bought a roll ofthat.
It's I think it's called onAmazon decking decking like
non-slip decking tape.
Lauren Langman (05:06):
So you, oh my god, a sped a sped, you put it
on a step.
You put it on a step to stopyou slipping.
And I was just thinking aboutit.
That like, do you mean thatlike sandpaper stuff, I have to
say, be good for a scratch board?
I have to say that stuff is oneof those materials that makes
me feel sick and I don't knowwhy I I can use it for my dog
(05:28):
training, but when I get tostick it down I'm like you know,
like chalk on a chalk on achalkboard.
For me it's a chalk on achalkboard scenario and so when
I touch it I'm like I alwaysfeel like I need to like do
something.
My nails or I don't know.
It makes me kind of go and thatstuff and that stuff.
So that stuff is fantastic foryour confidence circuits.
It works really well.
And underneath it, isn't it?
Jamie Hogg (05:47):
Because underneath it will stop it, some stuff,
because we use a lot of sensorymats, so things like it can just
be a bath mat, but bath matscan be Both sides, yeah.
And we've got kind of astroturfup here and sometimes certain
things.
It's weird certain things canbe slippery on the astroturf and
not slippery on the carpet, andthen vice versa, slippery on
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the carpet and not slippery onthe astroturf.
So it's just making sure you'rechecking it.
If you're changing whatever'sunderneath, check it first.
You you could you turn a corneron it?
Lauren Langman (06:16):
and a bit of trial and error, isn't it?
So it's a little bit of trialand error and I think that's
really really key as well.
So trial and error and changeit about and mix it up a bit.
Yes, the other thing I reallyreally key as well, so trial and
error and change it about andmix it up a bit.
Jamie Hogg (06:24):
Yes, the other thing I really really love with
confidence circuits is I thinkyou touched on it there like
proprioception and sensorystimulation and what's that
about so it's just the abilityfor the dog to be able to place,
or or become more aware of howit's placing its feet and body
and weight shifting.
Lauren Langman (06:44):
And who's that good for us?
Jamie Hogg (06:45):
Everybody, dogs, puppies, from like tiny to all
the way up to when they're intheir senior years, and you're
helping them to, because we kindof go backwards, don't we, from
being a puppy.
I think we're there, jamie.
Lauren Langman (07:01):
We're just talking about this, but, yeah,
kind of going backwards when Ithink about it, though.
I've got a dog with aneurological deficit.
Her name is Brave, herneurological deficit.
She had a spinal disorder or aspinal condition post an
accident where she wentsprinting, lost her mobility in
her back.
There was no health issuebeforehand.
We didn't know there was aproblem.
She'd had her back x-rayed,everything was fine.
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We were just very unluckyafterwards.
Sometimes she'll scuff.
Now you'll hear that scuff witholder dogs.
I remember with my late dog,poppy, she used to scuff.
Yeah, so some dogs scuff.
So if your dog is a scuffer, Ithink it can also be a really
nice exercise.
Jamie Hogg (07:36):
Definitely it'll help them to be able to, instead
of scuffing along, pick uptheir, pick up their feet pick
up their little tootsies and andyeah, definitely, I think it's
really really good for the olderdogs, but just as good for
everybody else.
Yeah.
Lauren Langman (07:51):
I think it's a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant,
brilliant, brilliant exerciseto be playing for anybody with
neurological or sensorystruggles and dogs wise, because
actually, and actually even thesort of thing that people with
their dogs can work with,because when you're working with
the owners, they're creatingthem.
What I really really like isthat you see the dog develop
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through the learning and you seethe dog sort of really hone in
on on the learning in a in inquite a smart way.
You see brave, really enjoyingher learning.
Jamie Hogg (08:20):
Like for me, this is nice, yeah, it's nice territory
, it's good territory to be in,yeah, definitely, and I think I
love it when they get to thepoint of under completely
understanding what their, whattheir, their kind of task is to
do in the exercise.
And then you, you maybe do acouple of reps, maybe two reps
each way, and then put them in aon their boundary or on their
place and then change somethingwithin that circuit and see what
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they do then, because thatoften it's amazing then to watch
them work it out, watch them,oh, but this was this and now
it's not this and oh, I did thishere, or and it's just like,
yeah, amazing to watch them thenwork it out, so whether it was
a step in bucket, so they got tostep into something.
If you just change that to steponto, that changes the whole
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stride and that changes thewhole way they're looking at it
and they've got, you know, bereactive in a positive way to
their environment, which is it'shelpful for dogs that have
off-leash freedom, that arejumping over things out and
about, to be able to have thatability, to be able to use their
body.
For sports dogs it's massivethe ability to be able to turn
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and twist, the ability to flexflex and the ability to change
and the ability, I think, to bequite dynamic.
Lauren Langman (09:34):
Yeah, I think the dog has to be quite dynamic
to change, and just that momentas well, isn't it?
Yeah, it's big, really, reallybig.
And I think the other thingthat's worth acknowledging here
is that you never do the samesession twice, so you'll
actually do that session onceand then you'll do a different
session and a different sessionand a different session, because
you're always changingsomething on the confidence
circuit.
It always looks different.
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It doesn't ever look the same.
No it, even if you try, yeah,if you tried, you'd make it hard
.
Jamie Hogg (10:01):
It'd be hard to make it the same, because you're
always moving something yeah,and it's cool to watch your
brain think of new things to dowith it as well.
Like you know, just doingcavaletti with a plank
underneath it that was that wasquite a cool one to do and I was
just like, is this gonna?
Is this gonna work?
I'm not sure how this is gonnawork, but it was really really
cool and I was just like, oh,and that like actually looks
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really cool, and for the dog tobe able to work that out, that's
a lot of skill to be able.
So it's basically like doingCavaletti along the dog walk,
isn't it?
That's smart, isn't?
Lauren Langman (10:32):
it Smart, smart.
So what is one of yourfavourite objects to put in your
confidence circuit?
And I'm going to start, and I'mgoing to give you a minute to
think about it, because I'vealready thought about my
question and I'm going to say myfavourite object I actually
love adding a large box.
I just like adding a box wherethey go through something, and I
don't know why.
I think it's probably becausewhen I was little I liked making
dens and for me there's a levelof den making and Cavaletti,
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confidence circuit sort ofbuilding.
So when you're building aconfidence circuit with some
Cavaletti in it and you'rebuilding that scenario, there's
a bit of den making for me and Ilove the um.
Jamie Hogg (11:07):
You had up here a really big box for a while where
they went through like I lovedit.
Yeah, and so it was for thatseparation thing as well,
because they've got to trust you, because they're going behind
that barrier.
Lauren Langman (11:13):
If you've got a dog who's fearful of being
separated, a dog who's a littlebit separation anxiety, sort of
driven a little bit and anxiousto be left again, it's these
little micro moments ofseparation that you do and you
build in confidence for them togo.
Yeah, I got this and it's nodifferent with how you're
raising a child or how you'redoing other confidence training.
Eliza didn't used to likespeaking to people but she has
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horse riding lessons and soshe's actually really confident
in teaching other people onhorses and herself having
lessons.
But she's learned through theconcept of confidence, through
training horses.
Yeah, she didn't learn it satin school or at a desk or with a
pen in her hand, and I thinkthat's really important that we
learn.
This is how you can learn theover and arching skill.
So for me, the box that couldbe a tunnel, nice and long,
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could be tall, could have danglybits on it, but that's my
favorite, we even put like a boxin there where they had to.
You just got to be tall enoughand then they have to go in it
yeah, step in it and the otherthing we did we put different
surface in it, so we did dosometimes some mats in it and we
also did some foot targets init to make it stay upright
because it won't go wonky, andthen you had to put cones around
it and things.
So I do remember that one, butthat was my favorite.
And then there was one someone,someone lovely sent me some
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flowers in the flower box.
There was a flower box as wellthat was similar and that was in
the house and rather than thedog training room and it was
back in the house and that wasin and the back room and we used
that one for a while, thepurple box.
It was a little bit cool shape.
Yeah, what about you?
What's one of your favoriteitems to put in a confidence
circuit?
Jamie Hogg (12:37):
I'm gonna say the step in, step out of a box,
because you can use it forstepping in, stepping out of the
box, like my draw, the drawersthat I had, the, the ones that I
recycled, upcycled, you know.
You could either use themlengthways or widthways, which
was, so that could be even achange, because obviously the
narrower the article is, theharder it is for the dog to
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target, either way really.
So you've got the length thatway, but then you've got, you've
only got one.
When you turn it the other way,you've only got one narrow bit.
So it all switches it up.
So I quite like a step in andstep out of box.
Lauren Langman (13:14):
Yeah, nice, no, really nice.
I love a hoop as well.
I don't know, we do love a hoop, no fire.
So my next question One day,one day.
So my next question one time.
Just imagine it quick gonnahappen.
The room's on fire.
So my next question is if youwere to pick a favorite purpose
for confidence circuits, whatwould it be?
Jamie Hogg (13:34):
I think I love it for naughty but nice dogs, and
naughty but nice dogs they kindof are definitely dear to me
because I think I've beentrained well by my lot over the
last.
Lauren Langman (13:44):
And you've worked in rescue and you've
worked in those types of dogsfor a long time and I do love
them.
Jamie Hogg (13:50):
I just love them.
I get drawn to them Easilyattached.
Yeah, definitely, they are mycup of tea.
Lauren Langman (13:57):
I do like them.
I love it when we say that's my.
I was reading someone's postactually yesterday.
They'd lost their dog and theysaid this dog was my cup of tea.
And some dogs are just moreyour cup of tea than others.
I feel like one of my dogs.
I don't drink alcohol.
Really I feel like she's vodkafor me, um, whereas I've got
others and I'm just like you are.
So my cup of tea, just my cupof tea.
And, um, the naughtier thebetter.
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You're so good.
You're so good with them aswell.
For me, my favorite purposerunning contacts.
They're the bane of my lifebecause I train agility and I
travel all over the countrytrying to win at agility.
For me it's massive to have adog that can do these things
well, and Confident Circuitshave just helped me so much in
agility and the dog's movement,their overall movement.
I think Wild at her best isreally fit on Confident Circuits
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.
Wild is my dog and so at herbest, she's good at Confident
Circuits.
So I think wild is my dog andso at her best she's good at
confident circuits.
Jamie Hogg (14:45):
So I think it's just a really nice one.
Lauren Langman (14:46):
Yeah, definitely yeah really good one, really
good one, really good one allaround.
So last last thought onconfident circuits can you do
them in a smaller space?
Is there a way of adapting them?
Is there something we can do tomake it doable in anyone's
house, and do you need loads ofequipment?
Jamie Hogg (15:00):
yeah, no, you can definitely do it minimal and
it's definitely a rainy dayactivity.
Lauren Langman (15:04):
So good for that , isn't it the?
Jamie Hogg (15:06):
three things that I stick to, if I ever do them in.
I haven't got much space in thehouse and I literally tend to
do it in the hallway.
Lauren Langman (15:13):
Jamie's got three kids, a very happy husband
, four dogs and we were justmoaning today about grumpy old
men Do not tell our men this butwe were moaning before this,
which is why she nearly spat outher cup of tea as we spoke
about it.
But, man, three kids, dogs,kids, stuff yeah, because, liza,
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I'm constantly putting stuffaway.
I literally work ondecluttering every morning and
she works on cluttering everyday and it feels like it's like
a declutter circle and I feellike I lose most days.
Jamie Hogg (15:43):
but I try really hard anyway, I tend to for this
reason I tend to just have myhallway by my front door,
because chloe will be in theother room with stuff every
stuff, every bit of stuff.
Lauren Langman (15:52):
So go on.
What have you got?
Jamie Hogg (15:53):
bare bits of my little, three little exercises
that I love to do that are justgood for small spaces.
So my little cones, so threecones, and then you can have a
yoga block so a step on to stepoff type of block.
So it's just the three conesand the yoga block so they go
from one side to the other, tothe other.
Then I switch that out and putmy draw where they've got a step
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into and out of whichever wayyou want to put that.
They do a couple of circuits ofthat and then I do maybe a pole
and if your dog's advanced, youcould do three poles out of the
three cones then, so thatthey're doing a nice curve as
well.
Yeah, and that's that's.
That's the equipment I wouldtake to new environments and
stuff as well.
So it's not huge but it's aworkout.
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They're working on theirflexibility within their spine,
they're working on theirproprioception, they're working
on so many task focus.
They're working on so manythings.
You can play around with thedistance in my hallway.
I can actually move away fromthem.
Yeah, you can come forward andyou can play around with the
distance and stuff like that.
But it's just a nice rainy dayactivity or an activity that you
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want to teach them to be ableto take to you know the back
garden, the driveway, whereveryou are at with your dog, a car
park or or wherever really, theagility waiting for your agility
round see if they're flexibleenough to do that and have like
stuff going on in the background.
Lauren Langman (17:17):
So, yeah, yeah, I love it for that it definitely
makes sense, because youactually can then play around
the space.
Another thing I'm going to sayguys, if you don't have space,
hiring a facility, using afacility, taking the kit that
you've got, using their kit Iknow that if you were hiring
this facility, we hire out thearena here.
So if you're in Devon, we hirethe arena, or if you're passing
Devon, we hire the arena.
I would say the kit in theentrance is actually all you
need.
So it's just giving you an ideathat actually we should
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probably hire the entrance.
So hire the kit in the entrancethat people can just use that,
because that's really what youneed.
Yeah, so you just need a littlebit of space and and the
entrance area and you can getvery creative with all of that,
oh my god, literally, you couldspend as long putting it out as
you could doing your trainingsession.
In fact, you could spendprobably a lot longer.
Have fun with it, enjoy thecolour, enjoy the vibrancy,
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enjoy the flexibility that itoffers.
Confidence circuits havesomething for everyone.
If I was to pick confidencecircuits, confidence hoops or
Cavaletti, which one would youpick If it was a fist fight?
If it was a fist fight, it'sreally hard, isn't?
(18:19):
It.
Isn't it because of my hoop offire?
Jamie's struggling, jamie'sstruggling.
Jamie Hogg (18:26):
I don't know they're too good.
Lauren Langman (18:28):
I've given her, basically, three different types
of chocolate.
Oh my goodness, she likes allof them.
Oh my goodness, it's tough.
You know what?
They've all got brilliant,brilliant purposes.
I'm gonna say like they do worktogether.
They do work together reallywell, really well.
I'm gonna say, if I had to pickone, I'm gonna say confident
circuits.
And the reason I'm gonna sayconfident circus is I think it
incorporates all three.
And I think no, no, no, you canpick your own.
(18:50):
You don't have to take mine,you don't can.
You're OK to have if it'sdifferent.
Jamie, I really like that.
You can do all three.
So I like that you can and youcan have all three, which is the
best bit.
Just head to absolute dash dogsdot com.
They're all three, yours andtheir lifetime badges.
But for me, if I was to pickone, I would pick Confidence
Circuits.
And the reason I would is Ithink Confidence Circuits
incorporates hoops, I think itincorporates cabaletti, I think
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it incorporates movement, Ithink it incorporates all the
patterns, ideally dual three.
I mean it makes sense to do allthree, do all three.
However, confidence circuits forme is like home, I feel.
I feel like there's that song.
It's like home, is youconfidence circuits is like home
for me.
I just literally see it and I'mlike it makes my I was about to
immune system.
It's not my immune system, mywhatever that is.
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That system that sometimestriggers it makes it happy.
That system that just goeschill I can't remember the word
but it makes me just feel alittle bit sort of settled like.
It doesn't make me feel it whenI watch it.
I just feel really comfortablewatching a dog around it.
When they do it well and whenyou're training.
It's very calming and it's veryfocused exercise.
Yeah, it's a good exercise.
You have to zone.
Yeah, it's a bit like I'mthinking it's a bit like
(19:54):
childbirth.
You really have to be in theright zone, don't you I?
Jamie Hogg (19:56):
think you've got to be in the moment and adjust
yourself.
I think that's what the three,three badges really teach, isn't
?
It is being in the moment,you're just mechanic whatever.
Lauren Langman (20:05):
They're giving you a little huge mechanics, a
brilliant eye.
For those of you who want toimprove your dog training, you
will improve your eye doingconfidence.
Circuits, cavaletti and thehoop training.
Particularly the former two Ithink they really hone your eye
in, they really make your eyework hard.
And then mechanics for allthree, and especially the hoop,
like your mechanics need to bereally good.
Do you ever have a lot of hands?
Especially if you start puttingit on fire, you lose.
(20:26):
So I don't know that you've gota lot of hands then.
So it definitely, definitely,definitely All of them combine,
don't they Very, very nicely?
Jamie Hogg (20:33):
They all complement, don't you think, I don't think
I could choose one, you know.
Lauren Langman (20:37):
It's just calm.
She's struggling to pick.
So, guys, confidence circuits.
It is a must for any dog ownerWorks for naughty but nice dogs.
Works for puppies.
Works for senior dogs.
Works for dogs who aregeriatric.
Works for dogs who are athletic.
Works who are geriatric.
Works for dogs who are athletic.
Works for dogs who are sporty.
(20:57):
Works for dogs who need toimprove movement.
Works for naughty dogs Jamie'sfavourite.
So dogs who are difficult dogs,who are troubled, dogs who are
menacing.
Yeah, that's sometimes how Ilook at mine.
I'm like you are a menace.
You're an absolute menace.
Ultimately, I cannot wait to seemore confidence circuits.
I think we should actually havea competition.
Yes, the best confidencecircuits that we can possibly
(21:17):
see.
Share them on social media,share them on our community
space.
Share them because I love tosee them.
Maybe you could post one, jamie.
It's really cool.
Your next confidence circuitthat you do, posting a few of
them in our community space.
And for you guys, if you couldalso get posting, posting, we'd
love to see them.
So that was this episode of thesexiness girl podcast.
(21:39):
Remember to join us for nextweek and, more importantly,
remember to stay sexy.
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