In Home Behaviour and Training Consultations
If you’ve fallen out of love with your dog because of ‘problem’ behaviours, or you just want to build a good relationship with your dog – I can help. I love helping people understand their dogs and create stronger bonds.
Over the years I have found that most of my clients don’t want to be professional dog trainers. So rather than trying to use a lot of technical industry-mumbo-jumbo and complex competition obedience-style techniques, I use simple and effective methods that everyday-dog-owners can get cracking with from Day 1, and change how they live with and appreciate their dogs.
What can I help with?
- Leash pulling
- Reactivity
- Recall
- House manners
- Puppy training
- Settling your rescue/rehome dog in their new home
- Aggression (Dog, Human or Predatory – case by case basis)
- Seperation Anxiety
Dog Day School
A Day Training and Socialisation service on the Kapiti Coast.
This service is for dogs and owners who want to build or maintain a high level of socialisation and training with their dogs.
This service includes structured offlead social time in a private, safe and secure environment. This helps your dog practice good social ettiquette and learn from other social dogs in an enviroment run by a professional dog handler and trainer.
It includes an onleash pack walk, to ensure all pack members understand how to walk nicely on a lead and how to behave appropriately in public places.
I also offer a “hand over” service, where I get together with you, and show you everything your dog has learnt while out with me and the pack. You can then take these skills and use them in your adventures.
This service includes pick up and drop off from your home.
All potential pack members are subject to a meet and greet to ensure they will be a good fit for the service. If you are unsure if your dog will be a good fit – get in touch and we can have a chat about where they’re at, and what we can do to help them be able to join us.
This is a good fit for your dog if:
- They need a bit more structure during the week
- They need some help with their dog to dog social skills
- They need practice making better choices
- They have energy that needs a more productive outlet than digging up your garden during the day.
Trainer Only Sessions
This is a service to help support you and your dog on your training journey. I take your dog out for focussed training sessions and we spend the time building foundational communication systems that are required for any behaviour change or lifestyle skills you’d like to have. These are booked on a case by case basis after an initial behaviour and training consultation.
This service is perfect if:
- You want to sharpen up a recall
- get a head start on working through reactivity issues
- teach a dog to run beside a mountain bike (or other specific skills)
- you’ve got a puppy and want someone to do the difficult work of getting them comfortable in the big wide world.
Homestay
If you’re going away on holiday and would prefer for your dog(s) to stay in a home-based environment while you’re gone, this is for you. I take a maximum of 2 dogs at a time to ensure each one gets the care and attention they need.
This service is only offered to training and dog day school clients. This is because it’s easier and fairer for those dogs to stay with a person who already has a relationship with them.
This is for dogs who:
- would get nervous in a noisy kennel environment
- are a bit older and need a bit of extra attention
- have specific behavioural needs
- have specific training requirements to uphold (working and sport dogs)
- need more outlets and stimulation than a traditional kennel environment can provide