I hear you say “why a down and not a sit?”. Its so much easier for your dog to lay down than do a sit, not to mention its easier on the joints and much more natural for a dog to lay down on an evening than to sit. So, whats the purpose of a down? Down is a form of relaxing for our dogs, they lay to sleep. So why is it important that we teach it them? Well, lets say we want to go out to our local for a beverage, or out on a walk, we take a seat to watch the world go by… what does that mean for our dog? They don’t understand that we need to take a break to sit down on a walk, so we need to give them a job to do! Laying and settling allows them to relax and gives them some much needed downtime in the big wide world.
Rob Rose
2023-02-06
Our Cocker Spaniel suddenly became very hyperactive and unpredictable following an uncomfortable encounter with an off lead boisterous dog. Following a session with Bethany at The Canine Academy Training & Behaviour, we have seen a massive improvement with our dog. Bethany gave us expert advice and easy to achieve methods that have calmed our dog when meeting other dogs, turning aggression and anxiety into playful encounters. Thank you
Pamela Robinson
2023-01-29
Really enjoyed and found the training very beneficial, friendly, professional and helpful, Rufus also enjoyed his beginners course, hope to join you again in the future
kaisha rosamond
2023-01-29
We learnt so much from our training session today. Bethany was so friendly and gave us lots of useful tips for helping with recall! We can’t wait to keep up with the training skills we learnt today. Highly recommend.
Rowan Musto
2023-01-28
I wanted some obedience and recall for my dachshund and this worked just the trick! Beth was so kind and welcoming we will definitely be returning for the next steps 🐾
Amy Wall
2023-01-12
It’s been a fun filled evening and lots of learning and treats for the dogs! I now have much more knowledge and great tools to use with my own dogs and in the groom room for dogs that are reactive. Great course Thankyou so much to The Canine Academy Training and Behaviour all positive training based and very knowledgeable highly recommended 🥰❤️🐶🐾
Anya Clark
2023-01-12
We attended a zoom reactivity dog training course this evening.
Fantastic, informative and fun from start to finish.
Plenty of time to ask questions, and lots of practical, achievable goals.
As well as a well delivered presentation, that really made sense of what our dogs reactions meant, at the end we had time to be guided through some distraction and focus training with our own dogs!
10/10 from start to finish.
Thank you for all your help.
I would recommend anyone with a dog to take this session. There was something for everyone to understand and work on.
🐾 Practice makes permanent 🐾
Angela Walters
2023-01-11
The first training session l and my dog had with Bethany was very relaxed, tasks were explained clearly and so were the reasons why such tasks were useful in the training process. Its shows that Bethany has a genuine love for dogs and she got my dogs attention from the get go. She instilled confidence in me that my dogs issues are resolvable given time patience and practice.
Kayleigh Raby
2022-12-17
Puppy beginner course- Amazing training course from start to finish. Very thorough with information and very supportive even outside of the courses. My puppy has come on so much in the past 4 weeks. I look forward to the advanced course to develop and learn myself aswell as my pup 🐶
Ashleigh Howe
2022-11-27
We completed an eight week training course here and it was fantastic! We learnt so many useful and important new tips and tricks. It was so handy to be able to ask any questions and have them answered so completely. Jerry loves it and was always so tired out afterwards! He has learnt so much and is a lot more responsive and calm because of it. Thank you!
Marilyn Hamilton
2022-11-18
I am the owner of a longhaired standard dachshund who is now 17 and a half months old. He took his beginner's course with The Canine Academy and we both learned a lot. We really enjoyed the classes - four of them on consecutive Saturday mornings- at the very reasonable price of £50.00. We are looking forward very much to the intermediate classes in January!
I recommend this organisation very warmly and have done so personally to several people we have met out walking with puppies.