Need A Good Trainer For Idiots In The Shire

[Trisven13]

I just spent 24 hours with my bestie and her family. They have a much adored little dog (designer breed) who is now around 7-8 months of age. They have done puppy pre school and also do training at Sutherland Kennel Club on my recommendation AND have always brushed her so that she would learn to be okay with brushing. BUT...... she is really trying it on with the brushing and, after watching them today, it is only a matter of time until someone gets a very serious bite. She is, generally speaking, a really great little dog but she is very pampered and very loved and they don't really know how to deal with it and, I'll be honest, neither did I . She is very, very, very mouthy when being brushed and not in a cheerful way - she hasn't yet learnt to put enough serious pressure on in order to puncture but I really don't think it is far away.

They are very lacking in knowledge but big on love and desire to make it work so I'd love to find them a GOOD trainer, with recommendations from people who know them, in Sydney. They are not the sort of people who would travel to K9 for example as it is about 2 hours away - I'm looking for a good home visit type trainer akin to Cosmolo in Melbourne.

Edited September 24, 2011 by Trisven13

[corvus]

Haha, good trainer in the Shire, how funny. :p There's a clicker trainer who is only slightly loopy:

Clicker Academy for Animal Training, Behaviour and Enrichment

mount st, Arncliffe, NSW 2205

St George-sutherland

p: 0401194709

From what I've heard of The Canine College based at Menai, they are quite good. They do private training. I see their training classes every time I go to the gym on Saturday mornings and they are full of happy dogs and owners having fun together. Keep saying I should check it out, but never get around to it.

Perhaps they could borrow my Manners Minder? It'd be great for something like that. It marks and treats at the press of a button, so makes rewarding easy when you're hands are busy. This stuff is not so hard once you make it clear what the dog should be doing and start rewarding anything that looks a little bit like that. Or if she's already got a negative association with the brush it would probably help to do a little counter-conditioning first. Just have to start small and work up.

Also, IME dogs can suddenly become a lot more cooperative about brushing if you use good brushes. I have some great brushes they can try to see if that helps. Anything that makes it easier is worth it, I think. Good brushes don't pull as much.

[Casima]

Don't know of anyone who does that sorta thing around here either. Hope she finds some help

[Yesmaam]

I just spent 24 hours with my bestie and her family. They have a much adored little dog (designer breed) who is now around 7-8 months of age. They have done puppy pre school and also do training at Sutherland Kennel Club on my recommendation AND have always brushed her so that she would learn to be okay with brushing. BUT...... she is really trying it on with the brushing and, after watching them today, it is only a matter of time until someone gets a very serious bite. She is, generally speaking, a really great little dog but she is very pampered and very loved and they don't really know how to deal with it and, I'll be honest, neither did I . She is very, very, very mouthy when being brushed and not in a cheerful way - she hasn't yet learnt to put enough serious pressure on in order to puncture but I really don't think it is far away.

They are very lacking in knowledge but big on love and desire to make it work so I'd love to find them a GOOD trainer, with recommendations from people who know them, in Sydney. They are not the sort of people who would travel to K9 for example as it is about 2 hours away - I'm looking for a good home visit type trainer akin to Cosmolo in Melbourne.

Try

Nathan McCredie

He used to live in Loftus but has since moved down south a bit.

Does home visits throughout the Sydney area

Edited September 27, 2011 by Yesmaam

[dee lee]

I used Nathan some time ago- he is great.