The photo above is my graduation after completing my Police Dog Handlers course with RAAF when I was obviously a very young man ha ha. Dog training has been part of my life since I was a kid. My mum told me stories of when I took my dog Rusty out and trained him when I was as young as 6 years old. As the saying goes “Turn your hobby into your job and you never work another day in your life”. This is exactly what I have done.

I have had dogs all my life and always had a passion for training them. I turned that passion into my professional career. I am a former Military Police dog handler in the Australian Army. After leaving the Army I opened my own professional dog training business teaching group programs, private lessons and board and train programs which I operated for several years in Port Macquarie. From there I moved to Sydney to work as a Quarantine detector dog handler a Sydney Airport. After leaving this job I returned to Port Macquarie to continue working as a professional dog trainer. 

The experience and skills I gained doing these jobs gives me the knowledge to deal a wide range of dog temperaments and enabled to develop a diverse range of training techniques.

What temperaments do I deal with?

In short all of them, one of my main things people come to me for is to learn how to manage their reactive dog and help them become a well balanced member of society. With my background of being or former Military Police Dog Handler I am very comfortable dealing with all temperament's including high level reactivity. When you understand where that aggression is coming from we can devise a plan to manage it.

What do I do different?

What I do different than some other trainers is communicate on a level with dogs that they understand and respond to. There are several ways in which trainers will aim to teach your dog and unfortunately some of them are not very effective in real world scenario's. My aim is to be force free and use as much positive reinforcement as possible. However I don't believe we should rely on food to get results. If food is your only training tool what will skills do you have when it fails you, because it will at some stage. I feel that if you train a dog correctly and have a bond with them they will want to work for you and not need food to do it. I use training methods that adapt to each dog and the specific thing we are working on. This is vital as one method doesn't suit all dogs.

What training do I offer?

- One on one catering to what you need basic and advanced obedience
- Group obedience for puppies and older dogs
- Assistance and therapy dog training

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