Welcome to Dog Training, Without the "Training"
For thousands of years, people taught dogs without relying on hot dogs, treat bags or aversive methods. They used gentle body language, communication and relationship. And you can too.
What does training with me look like?
Together we'll:
work to understand your pup's individual personality, what drives them and, most importantly, give them opportunities to express their true selves,
see behaviour as communication: when your pup "acts up," what are they really telling us?
use methods that strengthen your relationship and build cooperation,
teach your pup how to make good choices,
help your pup work through their emotions and to understand their world, so they can live in it more calmly and confidently.
And we'll do all that without:
relying on obedience commands like "sit,"
stifling pup's personality or taking away their agency,
treating pup like they're a robot, not the sentient, social beings they are.
Hi, I'm Bobbie-Lee.
For me, everything began with one question: what would my pups do, who would they be, if they didn't live with me? The question sent me down an awesome rabbit hole of discovery.
Now, I use this knowledge to create learning and lifestyle plans specifically tailored to each pup that I work with. My plans treat each pup like an individual who has their own personality, needs, preferences, emotions, and backgrounds. I work with each pup's nature; I don't fight against it or try to suppress it.
I'd love to do the same for you.
My approach is:
gentle,
more like therapy then training,
positive,
genuinely force-free,
puts dogs in the driver's seat, allowing them to work at the pace they're comfortable with,
works with dogs' natural instincts, curiosity and body language, not against them,
has Turid Rugaas' pioneering work on calming signals and Chuck Eisenman's focus on natural communication at it's core,
achieves real-world results!
I believe...
dogs aren't robots: their behaviour won't always be perfectly polished,
it's easier to live with a dog who knows how to make good choices, than it is to micromanage what they do,
a dog with big emotions has big emotional responses; when we teach them to self-regulate their emotions, big problem behaviours begin to melt away.
