Many of my customers wished they had got the right advice from the start and avoided costly, stressful and time consuming behaviour problems - read Patty's story below.  Get yourself on the right track and avoid the stress, frustration and expense that goes with owning a badly behaved dog.

Puppy consultations are usually split into two 90 minute sessions.  Your puppy has a very short attention span and having two short sessions instead of one long one means that we can spend more time training your pup.

Session 1 - Getting the basics right: Includes - housetraining, nutrition and feeding routine, getting used to the lead and collar, teaching the sit, avoiding common mistakes, solving existing problems and breed advice.

Session 2 -  More advanced puppy training: Includes - learning to walk to heel, the recall, teaching the stay command, learning good manners, avoiding common mistakes, solving existing problems, coping with adolescence. 

These lists are not exhaustive and the sessions will be tailored to meet your needs and the individual needs of your puppy.

These sessions are normally set at least two weeks apart but this is very flexible, the second session will be arranged during the first session.

How much does it cost? Puppy Consultations start at £120 (this is fully inclusive of both sessions, aftercare and travel) and also includes a copy of my book - How to be the Perfect Pack Leader and a clicker, the full cost is due at the time of the first session.  This price applies to the following postcode areas: BT1-33,  BT36-44, BT46, BT61-67, BT71 & BT80 - outside this area please contact me for a free quote.

Patty's Story

Patty is a Yorkshire Terrier, she came to live with her new family aged 7 weeks.  Her family contacted me for information on a puppy consultation but decided to save the money and go it alone.

At six months old, they contacted me again, things had gone badly wrong and they had even considered having her put to sleep,  she had bitten two members of the family - quite badly, she was still not housetrained, and had chewed almost every thing she could reach in the house, she hadn't been walked for weeks because her behaviour towards other dogs was so bad and they were frightened she would end up causing a fight.

With good intentions they had actually encouraged Patty to be very dominant and she had taken over the whole house as her own, she had become territorial - a common problem with terrier breeds, she was over protective and very stressed indeed!  Patty is a model citizen now and her family are very proud of her, if they had just gone ahead with the puppy consultation they could have saved themselves a huge amount of stress, time and the cost of replacing most of their furniture, carpets and wood work on the ground floor of the house.