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Dog Trainer | Relationship-Based Results 🐾
Strengthening the bond between owners and their dogs through training.
1–2–1 behavioural sessions at home or a chosen venue 🏡📍
Four-level group obedience courses to build skills & calm behaviour 🎓🐶

🐾 Are you expecting enough from your dog?Sometimes, improving your dog’s behaviour isn’t about teaching lots of new comm...
11/10/2026

🐾 Are you expecting enough from your dog?

Sometimes, improving your dog’s behaviour isn’t about teaching lots of new commands. It’s about changing the little things you do every day.

Teaching patience, encouraging independence and being consistent with your expectations can make a bigger difference than you might think.

I recently worked with a dog who showed an immediate change in demeanour simply by addressing some of these everyday habits.

It’s not about being harsh or expecting perfection. It’s about helping your dog learn to make better choices.

Raise the bar, be consistent and don’t underestimate what your dog is capable of. 🐶

Swipe through for some simple ways to get started 👉

If you’re struggling with your dog’s behaviour, or any other dog-related issue, feel free to get in touch. I’d be happy to help!

📩 [email protected]
📞 07808 645663

10/10/2026

The next Beginners Obedience course begins on Monday 26th at 6.20-7.20pm.

Dates are below:
Oct 26th,
Nov 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
Dec 7th, 14th

The classes will teach you how to effectively teach your dog:

Sit, down and holding these positions until they are given a release cue from them.
Stand, wait and stay and the difference between the two commands.
Loose lead walking as well as heel on the left and the right.
Play and drop of the toy.
Targeting, back, recall, eye contact.
The difference between yes and no as well as a rapid response to their name.
Some easy agility type activities that you can do when out in your walks on everyday objects as well as some other fun exercises.

These will be held in a unit in Brackla Industrial Estate. It will be for 8 weeks at a cost of £150 for the course.

To book a place:
📧[email protected]
📞07808645663
Or send a DM

10/10/2026

What an awesome backdrop we had for the last lead skills and socialisation session. The waves were good and surfers were out.
Good socialisation means exposure not necessarily greeting every dog and person in sight. This class gives practice aplenty in those skills. Learning to have your dog give you attention and to be doing this because they want to. This makes being around distractions and temptations so much easier in the real world. Feel free to get in touch for any assistance you may need with your training.

Out of the hundreds of puppies I’ve had through my classes, this ONE thing stops the biting faster than anything else… 👇...
04/10/2026

Out of the hundreds of puppies I’ve had through my classes, this ONE thing stops the biting faster than anything else… 👇

Stop making biting the most rewarding game in the house.

When your puppy bites your hands, clothes, ankles or anything else they can grab, it’s very easy to react — pushing them away, telling them “no”, moving your hands around or trying to physically stop them.

But for many puppies, all of that can actually make the game MORE exciting.

Instead, teach them what does work.

Have something appropriate to redirect them onto — a toy, chew or another activity — and make that the thing that gets your attention, interaction and praise.

But there’s another really important part…

Don’t wait until your puppy is already in full bite mode.

Puppies often become much more mouthy when they’re overtired, overexcited or have simply had enough. Learning to recognise those moments and helping them settle before they reach that point can make a huge difference.

And remember — puppy biting is normal.

The aim isn’t to punish a puppy for behaving like a puppy. It’s to teach them what you do want them to do instead, consistently and calmly.

The more often they rehearse the right behaviour, the quicker it becomes their default.

🐾 If you’ve got a puppy who seems to have developed a particular obsession with biting, I can help you work out why it’s happening and what to do about it.

📩 [email protected]
📞 07808 645663

30/09/2026

Come and join for some fun this Saturday 2nd Oct at 10.00-10.50am:
Lead skills and socialisation class!
Group session designed for any age and abilities catered for.
We will be working on getting better focus from your dogs whilst other distractions are going on and fun games.

Location is Ogmore by sea car park. Meeting point around to the right after you enter the car park along the top close to the estuary. If you have the app what three words, this will take you to the meeting point.  The words are pinch.trickles.bats

https://w3w.co/pinch.trickles.bats

Cost is £10/dog and £5 for each additional dog.
Limited numbers so this will be on a first come first served basis.
N.B. These sessions are not suitable for antisocial dogs.

If you would like to secure a spot on the group session please send an email to me on 
📧[email protected]
📞07808645663 or what’s app

🐾 Looking for a Beginners Obedience Course?Before choosing a dog training course, it’s worth looking at what you actuall...
30/09/2026

🐾 Looking for a Beginners Obedience Course?

Before choosing a dog training course, it’s worth looking at what you actually get for your money — not just the headline price.

My Beginners Obedience Course is £150 for 8 weeks, with each session lasting an hour.

But there’s more included than simply turning up to a weekly class:

🐾 8 weeks of training – giving you more time to build and reinforce those important foundations.

🎥 Video access to every session – so if you miss a class, you don’t have to miss the training. You can watch the session and keep up at home. Video access isn’t often offered with other trainer courses.

📝 Written notes for every session – so you have something to refer back to when practising at home.

💬 Ongoing support throughout the course – because knowing what to do is one thing; knowing how to apply it with your dog is another.

When you compare courses, it’s easy to see £120 or £150 and assume they’re similar. But a 6-week course at £150 and an 8-week course at £150 aren’t the same amount of training or support.

For me, it’s about giving you and your dog as much help as possible to make the training useful beyond the hour you spend in class.

📅 Next course starts: 20th October
⏰ 5.15–6.15pm

Spaces are limited, so if you’d like to find out more or reserve a place, get in touch:

📧 [email protected]
📞 07808645663

Invest in the training, not just the class. 🐾

26/09/2026

The next Beginners Obedience course begins on Tuesday 20th October at 5.15-6.15pm.

Dates are below:
Oct 20th, 27th
Nov 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th
Dec 1st, 8th

The classes will teach you how to effectively teach your dog:

Sit, down and holding these positions until they are given a release cue from them.
Stand, wait and stay and the difference between the two commands.
Loose lead walking as well as heel on the left and the right.
Play and drop of the toy.
Targeting, back, recall, eye contact.
The difference between yes and no as well as a rapid response to their name.
Some easy agility type activities that you can do when out in your walks on everyday objects as well as some other fun exercises.

These will be held in a unit in Brackla Industrial Estate. It will be for 8 weeks at a cost of £150 for the course.

To book a place:
📧[email protected]
📞07808645663
Or send a DM

Three dogs (only one of the Dachshund’s was reactive).Three completely different starting points.But all three have some...
19/09/2026

Three dogs (only one of the Dachshund’s was reactive).

Three completely different starting points.

But all three have something in common…

They’ve been learning that seeing another dog doesn’t have to mean reacting to it.

When people talk about reactive dogs, the focus is often on getting rid of the reaction.

But I think it’s important to look at the bigger picture.

Your dog doesn’t need to love other dogs.

They don’t need to play with them.

They don’t need to greet them.

And they certainly don’t need to become “social” with every dog they meet.

For some dogs, real success is simply being able to see another dog and carry on with their walk.

For others, it might be being able to recover more quickly after a reaction, focus on their owner, or cope at a much closer distance than they could previously.

Progress isn’t always dramatic.

Sometimes it’s a tiny change that you might not even notice unless you know where that dog started.

And that’s why I don’t believe in judging a reactive dog by one walk, one session or one reaction.

Look at the journey.

These three dogs are all at different points in theirs — and that’s completely okay.

The aim isn’t to make every dog the same.

It’s to help each individual dog become better able to cope with the world around them.

So, if you have a reactive dog…

What would success actually look like for you?

I’d love to know in the comments. 👇

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CF312AQ

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