• Full assessment of your dog (or dogs) to ascertain the root cause and or potential environmental influences contributing towards the exacerbation or development of unwanted behavioural issues. You will be made aware of the cause of the behavioural issue and will actively take part in the solution.
• A clear plan of action will be put in place to turn unwanted behaviours around and re-establish a calm and balanced relationship between dog and owner based on implementing the re-direction of self-taught unwanted behaviours from the dog.
• A report is provided covering everything that is visited throughout the session to include specific pointers relevant specifically for the dog worked with. This should be followed each day with consistency from the owner/s for a bare minimum of the following two months.
• In addition to this, support by phone or WhatsApp video is available for the life of your pet at no extra charge.

The session will last up to 4 hours, but I do not clock watch.

I do not drip feed information into shorter sessions over time as this is a more effective way for me to impart information and guarantee understanding from the client. My clients also find this more cost effective.

There are so many opinions on the internet about what methods should or should not be used when working with your dog that it often leaves owners feeling over whelmed as to what they should be doing. Finding the right approach for your dog is essential.

Positive Reinforcement:

This involves lots of reward and play on a positive level to help shape the behaviour you want by helping the dog increase its chances of repeating the desired behaviour, whilst at the same time simply ignoring the behaviour you do not want. This way, the dog is given the choice to repeat behaviour that is followed by a positive result.

Operant Conditioning:

This is also known as instrumental conditioning. This focuses on associating behaviours with consequences to either increase or decrease their frequency. This is achieved using positive reinforcement (rewarding desired behaviours) and mitigated corrections (discouraging unwanted behaviours).

Here is a more detailed explanation:

• Operant Conditioning:
  A process of where the dog’s behaviour is modified by its consequences.
• Positive Reinforcement:
  Adding something desirable (a treat or praise) to increase the likelihood of something being repeated.

I use a combination of both to meet a point in the middle that is both fair, and realistic to either increase or decrease behaviours in dogs without being harmful to the overall long-term development of their behaviour physically or mentally. In short, this creates a perfectly balanced relationship between dog and owner.

• Clients will be helped to understand and recognise specific aspects of their own dog’s body language, eye contact and verbal communication, as well as any contributing environmental factors that may be relevant.
• The owner will learn how to communicate with their dog from a point of view that the dog understands, rather than relying solely on manmade constructs such as obedience training.