You welcomed a dog into your life with visions of a wonderful companion who’d be an absolute joy to be around. But the reality isn’t quite matching your desires.

Maybe your dog pulls like crazy on the lead, making walks a nightmare

Or perhaps they are more than a handful when guests come over, which makes you dread the ring of the doorbell.

Obedience dog training may help your dog to learn how to behave beautifully in a class hall, but how useful is that when you step outside?

You want a dog who can behave well in the real world, who can enjoy a nice walk and then settle at your feet over a pub lunch. A dog who doesn’t leap all over your visitors or bark their heads off every time someone walks by.

Your dog needs life skills that make it easy to behave well, wherever they are.

Difficult behaviour is a screaming symptom of silent emotion

For me the important things are:

• Getting real, lasting change so that you and your dog can have a happy life together;
• Only using kindness.  I want to be able to look at your dog’s body language and know that we have put their welfare and their emotional wellbeing as our top priority – and I know you do too.
• Finding the root cause of the issues – every behaviour is driven by emotion so we need to find that emotion and work with your dog so they feel better…  Then calm behaviour will come naturally.
• Never, ever deliberately putting your dog or you in a position where you don’t feel safe for the sake of a sexy video.

So, yes, not sexy.  But kind, easy, and incredibly effective.

How does training with me work?

Cards on the table!  You’re not going to get the sort of dog training most people expect.  

Cues, not commands, no telling off, nothing that makes you feel icky.  

I am an unashamedly woke dog trainer – I don’t bully, I don’t discriminate and above all I believe in kindness above all else.  

But you don’t need to worry, I don’t compromise on relief. On the contrary, this approach brings greater and more comfortable stress relief – no more trying to push uphill and feeling bad about how it affects your dog or it not working.

If you’re an awakened person for whom a woke dog trainer sounds right up your street then you’re absolutely in the right place.

Who am I?

Before I entered the incredible world of dogs and their behaviour, I worked as a teacher.  I spent a lot of my career researching why so many students are so anxious about Maths and find it so difficult. 

I found that where there were struggles with learning or behaviour, that there’s always a reason for it.  It isn’t a choice, it’s a response to an emotion.  

Once a geek, always a geek.  So when I started working on dog behaviour I researched similar stuff – but with dogs not kids.  And it’s exactly the same.  There is always a reason.  So what we need to do is work with the reason, not the behaviour.

I know that when it comes to your dog’s behaviour you often feel guilty and embarrassed.  I promise you I won’t make you feel like that.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll tell it how it is, but without making you feel bad.  

That way you know you are getting real, from the heart advice – but, I’m not going to be barking commands at you (or your dog for that matter…)  

We’re in this together, working together for the benefit of your dog and for you.

Ready to give your dog the life skills they need to thrive?

Is your dog a bit of a reactive rebel?

It’s embarrassing and can be scary.

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