K9s with Confidence
Good Behaviour Begins with Confident Calm Dogs
About
our training aims
To provide training that is:
- Suited to the individual needs of owners and their dogs
- Practical
- Scientifically based on up-to-date knowledge of animal behaviour
- Cost-effective
- Professional
Qualifications
- Certificate IV – Small Business Management
- Certificate IV – Companion Animal Services
- Certificate III – Dog Behaviour & Training
- Puppy Class Instructors Programme
- Puppy & Young Dog Development Programme
- Dangerous Dog Assessing & Handling
- Pet First Aid and CPR
- St Johns First Aid [ HLTAID 001-002-003 ]
- Working with Children Check
Experience
- Dog training since 1977
- Obedience instructor for a local dog club
- Trained dogs from puppy to trial competition level
- Assisted with the social and environmental development of puppies destined to become working dogs
- Part of a pilot group involved with the development of protocols for handling and retraining problem and reactive dogs
Services
Puppy Training
Everything your puppy needs to learn to be a well behaved, confident, happy dog.
Avoid later problems with proper training in your puppy’s critical development period of 8 to 16 weeks.
- Social Development (getting along with other people and other animals).
- Environmental Development (building your dog’s confidence in the wider world).
- Impulse Control (promoting good behaviour).
- Play (making training fun and building a bond).
- Essential Obedience (recall, sit, stay etc.).
Lifestyle Training
Building on the basics from Puppy Training, or preparing your older dog for home and family life.
- Default meet and greet (meeting and greeting without jumping up).
- Loose lead walking (enjoying a walk with your dog without being towed down the street).
- Place mat training (teaching your dog to go to its mat on command or when visitors arrive).
- Training for rescue or rehomed dogs (beginning with basic training if necessary).
- Stand for examination (useful at the vet).
Obedience Training
If you want to build on your Lifestyle Training or just sharpen up your dog’s Obedience, this is for you.
- Heel work
- Off-lead work
- Extended stays
- Training for trial competition
Behavioural Problems
Practical training solutions for problem behaviours.
- Separation anxiety
- Barking
- Destructive behaviour (digging, chewing).
- Jumping
- Mouthing, biting.
- Resource guarding (aggressive guarding of food, toys or family members).
- Pulling on lead.
