Behavioural Consultation and Training

If you are experiencing any behavioural issues with your dog or dogs, this Consultation is designed to help you.  Many of my more extreme cases are taken as referrals from Veterinary Practices who send clients to me to get help with many different behaviours.  I also work with clients all over the country by remote consultations.
  
SOME OF THE BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS I CAN HELP WITH

• Reactivity towards other dogs this may be mild or it may be a full blown aggressive response. Behaviours always escalate, so it is much better to seek help as soon as possible.  
• Reactivity towards people from mild reactivity to more aggressive reactions.
• Resource guarding
• Separation anxiety
• Fear related responses, whether this to noise or any other cause.
• Problems resulting from lack of socialisation or incorrect socialisation.
• Working with issues in multi-dog households.
• Issues with toilet training.
• Working with dogs pre and post spaying or neutering.
• Helping with anxiety and issues due to phantom pregnancies.
• General anxiety, fear, or nervousness.
• Problems with toilet training.
• Car sickness and not wanting to go into the car.
• General training problems such as lack attention lack of recall, pulling on the lead, 
• Chasing issues whether this is cars, joggers, sheep, horses. 
• Dogs who are ‘shutdown’ and depressed.
• Over excitement.
• Fear going to the vets.

 
 During the consultation I will help you understand why your dog is displaying the behaviour and work with you to give you the ‘tools’ to help you both control and then help change the behaviour through practical management and achievable exercises.
 
HOW THE BEHAVIOURAL CONSULTATION WORKS - As every issue needs a different approach I tailor each consultation to the individual dog.  Please note that a lot of the work I do is background work analysing why your dog is practicing the behaviours as this is essential in order for me to help, and in the report which gives a lot of detailed exercises and practical ways to manage and work to solve the behaviours. 

How the Consultation works.
After the initial contact call to discuss your dog or dogs I will ask you fill in a detailed questionnaire online.  This is easy to do as it is part of the booking process.  For clients who prefer to be sent the form by email please let me know and I can arrange this.
 
Having read the questionnaire I will contact you by phone and/or email with some initial exercises to start, and any management changes that will help or are advised for safety. For instance this may help with resource guarding, or reactive dogs.
 
I will then arrange a date for the consultation, ideally when everyone who is involved with your dog are present.
Face to face consultations generally last around 3 hours.
For online consultations I break the session into two sessions of around 1.5 hours each (to avoid information overload and screen fatigue).
 
After the consultation I will send you a very detailed report covering all the areas we discussed at the consultation, the exercises to work with, any advice on safety management if needed, lots of general information to help.
 
After two to four weeks I will arrange a phone call with you to see how you are progressing.  We will decide the length of time at the consultation.
 
Some clients and dogs may need ongoing help.  In many cases I work with the client every few weeks with further training and behavioural help.  
These sessions can either be 1 to 1 sessions at the clients home, or by zoom or a phone call. These two products can be booked as and when needed on my web site. 

The techniques and training I use are all based on the latest research, are reward based, kind and effective.  Changing a dog’s behaviour is not a quick fix and requires dedication and understanding.  Sadly I do not have a magic wand, but I am here to help you all the way, and the pleasure in seeing positive results will make all the dedication worthwhile.