Our Dog Adventure Mission
Our mission is to improve the physical health and mental well being of all the dogs in our Sausage Sitter family. We aim to do this by connecting them to their environment and nature, through social safe adventures with fun and enrichment.
We always use positive reinforcement methods and reward your dog’s good behavior, listening and ‘good canine’ social skills.
All our Dog Adventures incorporate the Sausage Sitter’s four key principles of “SAFE”:
1. Safety
2. Adventure
3. Fun
4. Enrichment
Is my dog suitable for your Adventure Programme?
Our Dog Adventures are suitable for most friendly, sociable, active dogs. We can-not provide services for dogs classed as dangerous or those which show agressive behaviour. Read our full terms and conditions for more information.
What area do you cover?
We are located near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, South Wales and our Dog Adventures are mainly based in and around this beautiful area, but occasionally further affield. We offer a local collection service in and around Abergavenny.
How will my dog benefit?
We all worry about leaving our dogs home alone or who we can entrust with their care. We don’t want them getting depressed or suffering from separation anxiety, leading them to potentially become destructive by shredding cushions or chewing shoes and furniture, howling or barking at anyone who passes by.
Our Dog Adventures can help with this by giving them the opportunity to get rid of all that pent up energy and frustration.
We achieve this by going to exciting locations where they can interact in small, social, group adventures. During our group adventures we play, we interact with challenges to stimulate their brains and reward with enrichment before returning home tired and calm, both physically and mentally.
How will I benefit?
You can relax knowing your pet is well cared for and stress free.
Remove the worry of ripped up furniture, howling and barking or sinking into depression or anxiety and you can leave the house feeling fine and guilt free!
We will discuss your dog’s needs with you to ensure adventures meet their individual requirements.
We provide a home collection sevice in our specially converted van.
What about Puppies?
For puppies 6 to 12 months old, we offer specially tailored Puppy Adventures. Our puppy services cover Abergavenny and the immediate surrounding area. Costs and details are outlined in our puppy packages on our home page.
What about Boarding?
Our overnight boarding services are for Dachshunds only. We offer a home from home experience for your pet and they will be treated as part of our own family, living in the home with our own Daxies!
Other services – Dog Grooming
Is your pet in need of some pamper treatment, clipping/ grooming? Nikki is a fully qualified Dog Groomer.
This can be added to our day care/ boarding packages at competitive rates. Just let us know if you are interested in this add on service.
Our van has been specially and professionally adapted to ensure your dog travels safely, securely and comfortably to and from adventures. The van meets and exceeds the laws and regulations when it comes to transporting dogs.
The van is fully insulated and ventilated to the same standards used by the RSPCA and transportation used for Police Dogs. The specially designed, fully washable cages with antislip matting, are sealed off from each other, lessening any possible confrontation between dogs and facilitating happy and relaxed transportation.
Dogs soon get to associate going in the van with going on exciting walks and adventures and travel quite happily.
We are Steve and Nikki Beer AKA “The Sausage Sitters” and we thought you might like to hear our story!
Working life, or my first career started when I joined the Army aged 21. The years following saw me travel & deploy on many operations worldwide. During this time I met my wife Nikki who also served, we’ve now been married 21 years!
After leaving the forces Nikki followed her lifelong passion for dogs immediately by training & qualifying as a dog groomer. For me life after the Army included 5 years working as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan before moving into the corporate world in 2015.
Dachshunds first came into our lives in 2018. Current and previous dogs in our family were working dogs, including our old girl Maddie the Weimeraner, she’s now 13.
Nikki has always wanted to have a dog that she could take to dog shows, so Nikki and our daughter hatched a plan to get our first daxie. After a lot of research and speaking to lots of Daxie people at shows we found our first Dachshund.
Honey arrived in the summer of 2018. We had caught the sausage bug and this was quickly followed later that year with the additions of Frankie and Rita. We now had a Weimaraner along with a string of sausages, how did that happen?
The following 18 months saw us travelling the length and breadth of the UK attending many Championship shows, with the hope that we might one day qualify for the show of all shows, Crufts.
March 2020 Nikki relalised her dream and we were at Crufts with all 3 of our girls!
First time at Crufts and the girls did great, all gaining places in their breed classes but Rita was the star by topping the day with second place in her breed class. Little did we know only days later the world would come to a stop due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Following the Covid-19 pandemic and personal events, I came to the decision that now was the time to do something I truly had a passion for and also give me and my family back the life balance we had lost. Our idea for “The Sausage Sitter and Friends” was born.
If you’ve seen our Sausage Sitter Facebook page, you will know our girls are certainly not just show dogs, they are family and are just as happy up on the Blorenge mountain in the rain on adventures, as they are in the show ring, or snuggled on the sofa. As I write this Rita is around my neck and Honey and Frankie are squeezed in the other side of me. They do pretty much everything with us as families do.
This becomes the dilemma for all dog parents when we need to be away from our dogs. This might be in the week due to work hours or because of a holiday or perhaps work commitments require us to stay away a couple of nights each week, who can we trust to understand and provide the care and safe environment that our dogs depend on, especially Dachshunds!
If you’re reading this as a dog parent you will completely understand where I’m coming from, even more so if you have a Dachshund in your home. That’s why our mission is to provide safe adventures that are full of fun and enrichment, whether that is as a sausage staying overnight with us as part of our Dachshund exclusive home from home boarding service or any other dog out on a daily adventure with us.
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