Leanne is a good dog trainer but she is not a magician.  Until they invent a pill that turns your dog into Lassie overnight, there will always be parts of your dog’s training programme that will require you to change the way you live with your dog

Whilst there are many different techniques for dealing with each challenge, one thing remains constant, you must prevent your dog from rehearsing any unwanted behaviour.  100% of the time.  No excuses.  This is the vital first step and cannot be omitted.  We will also teach your dog an alternative behaviour but in some cases this management will be for the life of your dog.

To give some examples:

The challenge Management
Your puppy/dog runs up to people in the park and jumps all over them. Your dog must always be on a lead or a long line when out in public until the recall is perfect.
Your puppy/dog jumps all over visitors at the door. Your dog must be put in a crate, another room or kept on lead until it has been trained to behave calmly when visitors arrive.
Your puppy/dog barks at passers-by when in the garden. Your dog never has unsupervised access to the garden.  If possible, your dog is not allowed access to any part of the garden where it can see passers-by.
Your puppy/dog barks at passers-by, cats, birds etc out of the window. Your dog must not be allowed access to windows where it can see these stimuli.
Your puppy/dog acts like a lunatic in the car, barking and ‘chasing’ other vehicles. Your dog must not be able to see out of the car, either by covering the crate or securing the dog below window height.
Your puppy/dog growls when you try to remove it from your bed. Your dog does not have access to your bedroom.  Shut doors at all times.
There are fights over food or toys in your multi-dog household. You must either separate your dogs or remove any resources that cause conflict and keep them under your control.
Your puppy/dog wanders off your inadequately fenced property. Fence your entire property or provide a smaller fenced enclosure for your dog.  Remember to shut all gates.
Your puppy/dog steals valuable or dangerous items or your children’s toys and chews them. Keep these items out of your dog’s reach.
Your puppy/dog gets over-excited and nips the children when they are playing. Supervise all interactions between dogs and children and ensure both parties are calm.  Separate dogs and children when either of them need their mad half hour.

All dog training involves changing the way in which you interact with your dog.  Most of these changes are fairly straight forward as illustrated above but they do require you to be consistent with your dog.  If you want your dog’s behaviour to change, your behaviour will have to change too.  Leanne can give you direction and help to give you all the information that you need but 90% of the training will happen with you training your dog at home.  If you don’t work with your dog between lessons your dog’s behaviour is unlikely to change

 

Cancellation Policy

This is my full-time job and as such it is the way that I earn my living.  I apologise that I must be so direct, but over the years a minority of people have thought that it was OK to cancel lessons at short notice and try to avoid paying for the lesson.

The amount of detail that I go into is because of the many reasons people have come up with so that they should not have to pay the cancellation fee, the best one is that I had not told them to read the cancellation policy that I sent to them!

All dogs who attend the training venue must be up to date with their vaccinations.

This is very important as I have many young puppies coming to the training venue.  Titre testing is fine, as long as we know that the dog has immunity.

Also, very important – Dogs that have been imported from Europe must have had a Brucella Canis test.

 This is so that we know that the dogs are not infected with brucellosis which is contagious to other dogs and can be transmitted to humans.

Bitches in season are allowed to come along to 121 sessions and groups.  Please let me know if your bitch has come into season if you are attending a group session so that I can be aware.

One to One training sessions

If you must cancel a lesson there is a cancellation fee.

Less than 48 hours: full price of lesson.

48 hours to a week: 50% of price of lesson

If you have tried to contact me to cancel a lesson and have not had confirmation that I have received the information please try to contact me again. 

If you do not receive a confirmation from me that your cancellation has been received a cancellation fee will be charged.   

Please use email – leanne@dogsrdogs.co.uk or text or call on 07811 048555 as Facebook messages are likely to be missed. 

If cancelling on the day please use text or call as I won’t always be checking my email.

Also please note: – Rescheduling of a lesson will be classed as a cancellation if your lesson cannot be rearranged for the same day.

Group Training

Groups must be paid for at the time of booking and are non-refundable.