hi i was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this school. My dog is there at present and we are not happy with the way things have been going so i was just wondering if anyone else had tried this school.

thanks

Hi

I would be interested to know why you are not happy as my dog is due to go there next month.

Please can you also let me know how you get on once you collect?

Sam

hiya i may have spoke in haste! The biggest problem was there hasnt been lot of communication, they have an update chart which you can log onto to see how your dog is doing but ours has only just been updated properly and this is olivers 3rd week! never the less our trainer has been been very good and honest about how the training is going, so much so oliver is staying an extra week, the trainer thinks this will really help. oliver will now be coming next friday instead of this saturday. We have made a point of saying how disappointed we are at not being kept up to date as this was one of the reasons we chose this training school. It probabaly hasnt been easy for the trainers as our dog is 8!!

will keep you informed

sorry for the ramble!!

youve sent your dog off to be trained?

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yes, i have, we have tried training him in the house but just hasnt worked. i now have an 18 month old son and the dog didnt know boundries. I thought this was a better solution than to get rid of him.

Ive always been a bit dubious about sending dogs/horses away to be trained they will follow the commands of whoever has taught them,and may not listen to you when they get back!also how will you know how they have been taught,the methods,in order to follow them through at home? i suppose if they offer you both joint training towards the end,so you know how to get the results they are,is that what happens?

hiya, yes this is what happens. when my husband goes to pick oliver up, he will spend a good couple of hours being taught the commands and how exactly to use them. I checked his update chart this morning and we are pleased to see that he seems to be doing a lot better than we hoped he would.

I'd be interested to find out if he returns to his old habits when returnig home. I'm beginning study into canine behaviour and dog training. One of the things i'm interested in is finding out if its better to send your dog away or whether its best to deal with the issues in the enviroment that causes them. If he doesn't know his boundaries its possible they have been put accross in a language he doesn't understand (dog language) I have 2 dogs and 2 young children. The dogs are not allowed upstairs or on funrniture. The children are not allowed to feed tit bits to the dogs at meal times and if the dogs beg they are removed from the room. The dogs are only allowed in with the children when myself or my husband are around to monitor the situation. The dogs do not jump at the children if they do because of their height the children have learnt to turn away from the dog and say no or in the case of my 1yr old make a loud sound. The dogs do not get petted until they have calmed down and all 4 feet are on the ground. This may seem like tough love for the dogs but we have harmony in our home and the dogs know as soon as the children are in bed its their time with the heads of our pack.

hiya, me and my husband have said we wont let him return to his old habits, (otherwise we have just wasted a small fortune). things like being allowed to sleep upstairs is going to stop. Its not really my 18 month old who is the problem, its slightly older kids. I have a 3 year old nephew who is quite lively and oliver thinks he is great fun but doesnt know when to stop. We then put him out of the room, but he will bark, most of the time he will calm down and just go and lie down but the times he doesnt is what we want to correct. Oliver is not a greedy dog, we wont allow to greed at meal times and if he tries to, he moves when told. Our main problems have been taking him for walks as he is easily distracted and i can not manage him and a buggy by myself so we have asked the trainers to work on this, and by all accounts is doing well. i think for us it was a case of last resort and i love the dog that much i would rather try anything and everything than get rid of him. I think one of the main things is he was a rescue dog and he is now 8,(we have had him 7 years) probably not the best combination!!

hiya, we thought long and hard about doing this as i agree that it is about bonding but also knowing the correct way to make a dog listen! oliver has selctive hearing , we thought he would get a little better with age but i swear he gets more active!! The vet couldnt believe he was 8. When he is collected my husband will be shown how to use the commands they use so we can carry on when he gets home. Like ive said before anything is worth a go... and we felt this was the best thing for us