“Don’t make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they’ll treat you like dogs” Martha Scott
Destructive behaviour – separation problems – excessive barking – generalised anxiety – compulsive behaviour – digging - disobedience – growling - jumping up –pulling on lead – submissive urination - inappropriate toileting – geriatric behaviour - fears and phobias – disobedience – aggression to people or other animals.
Does your dog embarrass you, frustrate you, stress you out, or make you anxious with any of the behaviours listed above? If so, you could benefit from a one to one session with me.
With my proven track-record and your commitment, we can teach your dog to be a model canine citizen!
In an Ideal World!
An ideal dog would be well behaved and part of the family. It should be responsive to commands and eager to participate in family life. Your dog should be sociable with other dogs and people, curious, alert, exploratory and affectionate. In public the dog should be a good canine citizen. If this describes your dog, then you can congratulate yourself on owning a stable and happy animal.
Dog Behavioural Problems:-
If you’re reading this though, it’s more likely that your dog is exhibiting unwanted or anti-social behaviour. But did you know that you, or your handling of the situation, may be exacerbating the problem?
Dogs may have issues or problems for a range of reasons including prior learning, breed predisposition and lack of socialisation and habituation.
Your dog’s issues or unwanted behaviour is highly unlikely to cease without correct intervention and may even become worse. The longer it continues it is often more difficult to remedy.
What’s involved in a Behaviour Consultation?
- Dependent upon the problem and other factors we may ask you to have your dog undergo a full health check with your vet prior to a visit. This is to rule out any possible underlying medical reason for your dog’s behaviour.
- You will be required to complete a fully confidential Behaviour Questionnaire prior to the consultation. This is to save valuable time during the Behaviour Consultation. Although we may need to clarify certain points with you upon meeting you and your dog.
- Ideally we will visit the dog and all of owners family who live/provide care for the dog, in the environment where the problem occurs. Often, dogs will behave very differently in different locations and with different people.
- My initial assessment consultation lasts approximately 2 hours. Following on from this meeting I will design a behaviour modification plan that you can implement yourself, offering guidance regarding the dog’s management and subsequent treatment.
- Although with more serious behavioural problems follow up consultations may be required, for many of my clients just one visit with some support via the telephone/email is sufficient.
- It should also be noted that, for certain types of aggression, there may not be a total ‘cure’ as such but an overall improvement. The
problem might however require long-term management strategies.
What’s included in the £95 Behaviour Consultation?
- FREE! An initial phone call to discuss and outline the problem behaviour prior to the Consultation (you are responsible for the cost of the call)
- A 2-hour home visit within 10 miles of central Cardiff
- Assessment of your dog and its behaviour
- Teaching you how to resolve issues and manage the dog
- Email support for 12 weeks from the date of the initial consultation
- FREE! You will also receive a 2 kg bag of Feelwells Adult Food and a bag of Feelwells Adult Treats and a Don’t Cook Your Dog! car sticker
So, if your dog is hyperactive, jumps on people, is disobedient, is overly fearful, if he barks excessively or ‘doesn’t like’ dogs or humans, is territorial or possessive of toys, chews furniture or wants to compulsively retrieve, then why not call me?
Cost
I cover the area of Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend and the Vale of Glamorgan.
Private Behaviour Consultations within 10 miles of central Cardiff cost £95 for a two hour session (mileage may be applicable to visits further than 10 miles from central Cardiff). Although there are other options available. Please see Services & Prices.
