Trainer Recommendation

[bristley]

Hi,

We live on the north side of Brisbane and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good trainer who could do a session or two - with us and our 6 year old twin girls - and our new 8 1/2 week old dalmatian puppy. One of the girls is quite nervous around our puppy - my partner says he can remember having similar responses to dogs when he was a child. The other twin is doing very well and is helping Emma the puppy calm down if she gets too excited.

Emma is not the problem - she's doing everything we can expect and will start puppy school and then do obedience etc. but having read around this and other forums I think that having a good trainer come and give the girls some training on how to act around a puppy will make one twin feel much more confident and help Emma the puppy by having two well trained 6 year olds to play with.

thanks

Pam

[Mrs Rusty Bucket]

Hi Pam

These are the two dog trainers I've seen recommended for problem dogs in the Brisbane area, but I reckon they must also be good people trainers. If they're not comfortable with training 6yo girls - maybe you could ask them to recommend someone they think would do a good job.

Jane Harper

http://www.dogsontrack.com.au/

Craig Murray

http://www.dogschool.com.au/

Hopefully someone else will get in here and make some recommendations.

I remember my brother trying to train his kids how to behave around strange dogs (eg mine) and it was a total fail. Pay attention to what your twins like as rewards and make sure you have a good stash of these for when training day comes :)