This behaviour will be first trained at home before the dog is asked to perform under gradually increasing levels of distraction, step by step. Pamela follows a code of conduct that does not include aversive methods or equipment, and therefore will not use pain, fear, startle, shock, intimidation, choke or similar methods to motivate your dog. Additional mileage charges will apply for travel to more distant locations - please ask for details.

Whether your dog is newly adopted or you want to teach your adult dog some new tricks, putting the time into training is always a good investment. K9 Behaviour Solutions I really can't recommend enough, and i have actually referred two of my friends to them already.With a friendly and positive approach, both you and your dog will be treated with understanding and respect, and helped every step of the way. It is a collaboration piece between multiple force-free and fear-free professionals who found one another on Facebook, and put all their advice together in this book. Solutions to common issues from pre-puppy to adulthood Review - This is a book that all prospective dog owners, all current dog owners, everyone who has owned dogs all their lives, every professional trainer, should read.

Resource Guarding in dogs is a behaviour that is modifiable without force, fear, threat or intimidation. This is followed by a written Report which summarises our conversations and outlines recommendations for training or behaviour modification. I have learnt that there is usually a reason for any unwanted behaviour whether it’s medical or otherwise.We teach collaboratively and flexibly in partnership with our learners, helping you learn to change your dog’s behaviour using the best up to date methods. Because the trait is very “buggy”, just like a piece of computer software that has a virus or is bugged, the guarding trait we see in dogs can seem weird and make no-sense to us at all. In the wild, if you didn’t guard your food you wouldn’t last long, you wouldn’t survive, you wouldn’t pass on your genes to the next generation. A behaviour consult with Nick, is an investment in your dog, that will provide you a lifetime of benefits for you and your dog.

It is good to see some articles referring back to others written by a different author, proving that this is indeed a collaboration between like-minded professionals and the advice isn’t coming from a singular source. Guarding behaviour can successfully be modified without force or intimidation or making your dog afraid. Easy to understand anecdotes and comparisons help people to understand their dogs' perceptions of situations. We work through a range of assessment procedures to get to a detailed analysis of your dog’s difficulties – the what, the why and the how to change it. Any additional handouts, supplied during or after the consultation and advice for any equipment required.

Because we know that behaviour is always influenced by environment, our dogs can change as they grow up or age or we can undergo changes to our lifestyle too, we check in with you at regular intervals. In less than three weeks Winnie was entirely back to her old self and we now have even more fun together than we did before. We carefully consider how your dog’s behaviour is impacting you and what interventions we can make in the short and longer term to resolve the problem or range of difficulties, so that you are able to enjoy life with your dog. Dog like this may have previously learned that if they lunge or bark to try to keep the other dog away, that this behaviour works.