Training Consultation 

Even though the specific issue you want to work on may seem obvious, such as leash walking or recall, often we have other supporting behaviours that need to be worked on before we can address your main issue. For example, to start working on leash walking, we need to get your dog to choose to pay attention to you outside, being able to take treats outside, reduce arousal around other dogs, and work on making them comfortable with their harness. These supporting behaviours can be very unique to a particular dog's needs. We want to set you and your dog up for success so we reduce the amount of chopping and changing approaches as we go through the work. 

There is a surprising amount of supporting information needed to build a training plan suitable for an individual dog. This requires not only a description of the issues you are facing, but also getting to meet your dog, seeing how they respond to different training approaches, observations of their various handler-dog relationships, and their personality. How your daily life is set up also has an impact on the current issues and the solutions we need to develop. 

We aim to get your training plan out to you within 5 working days. However, at very busy times of year this can require up to 10 working days. 

Typically, the plan requires doing classes with a trainer or behaviourist. These may include one-to-one sessions, group work or remote work. The main function of the trainer is not just to set the exercises but to tweak them as you proceed through them. Our trainers are highly educated in making changes to exercises to best suit you and your dog, to recognise when a dog is struggling, or getting bored if progress is too slow, and to set the training pace so that we work through the plan as quickly as possible without sacrificing reliability of the resulting behaviours and training. 

While your trainer will design a training plan just for you and your dog, how quickly that plan will be completed fully depends on how much time you can dedicate to doing the homework between sessions, your engagement with the inter-session video submissions, how your dog learns, and how well the whole family implement the control and management strategies. We will always aim to get you through the work as quickly as the case allows.