WE'RE GETTING THE PACKS TOGETHER IN REAL LIFE! 🙌🏻 Legends, we are so bloody stoked with the effort, progress and commitment we've seen from everyone throughout the Spring Challenge that we wanted to do something special to bring our community together! So... Nath & Matt are hosting a LIVE Spring Challenge Seminar! 🎉 📅 Wednesday, 28th October ⏰ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 Walkys Dog Training Academy – Wollongong Facility 🎟️ FREE for our Spring Challenge community! 🐕 TWO HOURS OF TALKING ALL THINGS DOGS! @Nath Morrison and @Matthew Marsh , together in person, talking training, behaviour, engagement, relationships and everything we've been working on throughout the challenge! 🎤 LIVE Q&A – Ask us absolutely anything! No scripts, no silly questions, just real conversations about dogs. 🐾 LIVE DOG TRAINING – This is where it gets exciting! We're inviting ALL OUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE WINNERS to bring their dogs along! We'll work through whatever YOU want help with, LIVE in front of the audience. Whether it's something you've been struggling with, a skill you want to take further or a behaviour you want to understand better. 🥤 REFRESHMENTS & NIBBLES PROVIDED! Come along, meet your fellow challengers, have a laugh and enjoy an awesome evening with your pack. Whether you're a Wild Dog 🐕 or a Jackal 🐺, we'd absolutely love to see you there! ⚠️ SPOTS ARE LIMITED, SO PLEASE RSVP TO SECURE YOUR SEAT! Drop a comment below letting us know you're coming, and how many seats you need! 👇🏻 If you're one of our weekly winners and would love to bring your dog for some live coaching, let us know that too! We started this challenge to build better relationships between people and their dogs, but watching the relationships and support grow between all of YOU has been just as special. CAN'T WAIT TO GET EVERYONE TOGETHER! Let's make this an awesome night!

Things are heating up, legends! 💪🏻 Today we talked about taking our loose leash walking skills into the REAL WORLD and what happens when we start pushing those thresholds! As we close the distance between our dogs and distractions, old habits can start creeping back in. Behaviours that have been reinforced in the past might suddenly reappear. And guess what? The same goes for YOU! Your nerves, tension and reactions can be just as conditioned as your dog's behaviour. Here's what we covered 👇🏻 🐾 Recognising thresholds – Understanding when your dog is approaching that point where old behaviours might take over. 🐾 Confidence down the lead – Being aware of your own tension, staying calm and acting with confidence. 🐾 Closing the gap – Gradually reducing distance from distractions without rushing the process. 🐾 Progress over perfection – Take your time! We're building a relationship and skills that last, not chasing a perfect walk. 🎥 AND PLEASE, POST THE MESSY VIDEOS! We don't just want to see your wins. Show us where you're struggling, where things fall apart and where you're unsure what to do next. That's where the REAL coaching happens! We're here to help you work through those moments, not just celebrate the good ones. 🏆 WILD DOGS ARE BACK ON THE BOARD! 🐕🔥 A MASSIVE congratulations to @Chris Bock & Jax, taking out the Week 4 win for the WILD DOGS! 🙌🏻 Seriously, what an incredible effort. Watching how far you two have come, the progress you've made and the relationship you've built is exactly what this challenge is all about. THAT is what working as a team looks like! ❤️ Well done, legends! So bloody proud of you both! The Jackals had better watch out... the Wild Dogs are coming! 🐕💪🏻 Watch the replay, get out there, challenge yourselves and keep those videos coming! Remember, we're not training for perfection. We're building dogs we can enjoy life with.

On Saturday 31 October, we’re walking the Blue Mile together and finishing at Diggies for coffee, with our dogs settled calmly under the tables. That’s the finish line. Getting there takes six weeks, six skills and six rounds, starting Monday 14 September. But we decided that simply helping everyone build better dogs wasn’t quite competitive enough... So we’re putting something far more important on the line. 🔥 NATH vs MATT. 🔥 Bragging rights. And unfortunately for one of us, there will be witnesses. When you commit, you’ll be randomly drafted into one of two packs: 🐺 THE WILD DOGS with Nath 🦊 THE JACKALS with Matt You don’t choose your pack. You can’t swap. And once you’re drafted, you're no longer on your own. But this isn’t just you training your dog and sending in homework. Your Pack Leader is in this too. Nath and Matt will be coaching, competing, stirring each other up and doing everything legally permitted under Walkys law to make sure their pack walks into Diggies as champions. So yes, you’re working on your dog. Yes, you’re working with your pack. But you’re also carrying the hopes, dreams and incredibly fragile ego of your Pack Leader. No pressure. 😂 HERE’S HOW THE SIX WEEKS WORK. Every Sunday night, a new level drops as an online course for you to work through. Every Monday evening, your Pack Leader goes LIVE in Skool to break down the week’s challenge, answer questions and get the pack ready to earn that point. Then your private pack WhatsApp group takes over. Questions. Videos. Training. Struggles. Wins...... Trash talk. And when someone posts at 9pm on a Tuesday night because their dog just nailed something they couldn’t do a week ago, the whole pack piles on. Then Friday comes. 🏆 ONE DOG + HUMAN TEAM WINS THE WEEK. They take home a prize from Drifter Dog Gear and, more importantly, put a point on the board for their pack. Six rounds. Six chances to score. And on Halloween, one pack walks into Diggies knowing they won the 2026 Walkys Spring Challenge.