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Dog Training & Behaviour Services

Puppy Training

Give your puppy the very best start in life. Lay the foundation for a trusting bond and well behaved dog with our individual puppy education programme

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Dog Obedience Training

Turn your good dog into a great dog. Our approach is about education to get rid of those frustrating and annoying habits, for a well behaved dog

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Behaviour Training

Feeling stressed? Have you desperately been trying everything and seeing no improvement? We we have the solution to your dog's behaviour problems

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Any Breed, Any Age, Any Problem

Frustrated or desperate when dealing with your dog's inappropriate, embarrassing, or destructive behaviour? Our easy to follow, natural and dog friendly training techniques focus on developing a positive relationship to establish a lasting emotional bond, based on respect and trust. Our training leverages the same communication methods, voice tone and body language, that dogs follow as part of their instinctual behaviour. We come to your home at a convenient time to show and guide you through the lesson. The Bark Busters dog training approach can help owners establish control of their dog without relying on treats or the need for harsh punishment. In the first lesson, most owners see dramatic improvements in their dog's behaviour.

We teach you to communicate with your dog

Do you find yourself shouting, but your dog isn't listening to you? Maybe we're simply not speaking their language. The Bark Busters method is based on the way dogs communicate with each other and how they learn from older, more experienced dogs. This is what makes our dog training unique and effective. Your behaviour therapist will guide you on the most effective way to overcome the problem behaviour and leave you with a training plan to ensure long and lasting results.

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What our clients say

 

Bark Busters Home Dog Training methods help to solve behaviour problems such as:

  • Basic dog obedience
  • Aggressive behaviour
  • Chewing and destruction
  • Digging in the garden
  • Jumping up
  • Nuisance barking
  • Pulling on the lead
  • Puppy Training
  • Separation Anxiety
  • Toileting in the house
  • Recall

    and much more...

 

The Bark Busters Dog Training Method

No harsh punishment
The Bark Busters method of training is based upon how dogs naturally communicate with each other. Our approach is no harsh punishment, non-physical and as stress free as possible for both you and your dog.

We DO NOT use techniques such as hitting or smacking, shock or spray collars, choke chains, pronged collars, alpha rolling (pinning the dog down), shouting or harsh physical punishment in our approach to training. In addition, as our approach is based upon how dogs communicate, we don't rely on the use of treats or lures. Although treats are a great way to reward your dog, we don't concentrate on their use for dog behaviour and training. We teach you how to gain control of your dog without the use of a lures.

We teach you how to use your VOICE TONE and BODY LANGUAGE to control your dog... both on and off lead, at your home, at the park... anywhere you need it. There may be times when training equipment is needed, such as leads, collars, harnesses etc., and your trainer will discuss this at your lesson.

Why do we train in your home?
Your dog is part of your family, in your home. Training in the home environment is far less stressful for your dog. This is also where your dog leans best and where you'll most often see behaviour problems, so this is where training is most effective. Dogs learn by association, so Bark Busters teaches your dog to listen in the home environment where the association is more established. If your dog does not listen to you in the home environment then it's highly likely he won't listen outside, where there are far more distractions.

Training in your home is a one-to-one system, without the distraction of other dogs or the stress of being sent away for training classes for disrupting the others.

Of course, where you are experiencing problems outside the home, such as pulling on the lead or dog aggression, we will set up controlled training scenarios in the park or wherever is most practical.

Lifetime Support Guarantee
You may wish to consider our Lifetime Support Guarantee to give your dog the very best start in life. this gives you the peace of mind that your Bark Busters trainer will return free of charge should a behaviour problem occur later in life.

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"Neil was amazing. My dogs behaviour is dramatically different ."

Karen
Trainer: Neil Price

"Wow!!! This service is absolutely amazing! Do not waste your money elsewhere. There is five adults in our home and lead busy in and out the house lives. We have a Reggie the Patterdale and Frank the cocker. We have tried lots of other training and some made our dogs worse and that cost us a fortune and more than we spent with Barkbusters! I was apprehensive this could work given nothing else has. Firstly Kevin is amazing. Put us at ease, was kind, friendly, fun and very very knowledgeable. We knew we had failed our dogs but Kevin never made us feel that way he is there to educate and help and this training is worth every penny. Having read the reviews I thought this is amazing but maybe other people’s dogs aren’t as tough as ours and it won’t work for us. I had got to a point of avoiding all situations out walking and dreading people coming to our house as we would have to manage the dogs, jumping, barking and sometimes being aggressive as Frank can be protective. Within one minute of our dogs being out in the room they were calm, listening, doing as they’re told. We literally couldn’t believe what we were seeing. We did a some training in our garden and the dogs were perfect. Then Kevin suggested going out and the busier the better and my anxiety hit the roof. I thought this is where it will all go wrong. There’s no way I would take them to a busy seaside and go to a cafe which is exactly what we did. They were again perfectly behaved. All of us were in shock. We gave Kevin a long a4 list of issues and they have ALL gone!! It’s all so simple too. Other training has been so complicated we haven’t stuck to it. This is easy, you’re in control, life is better and we can now take them everywhere and anywhere which is crazy to us as we avoided so many situations and felt so tied to the house and couldn’t enjoy life. This has changed all of our lives and we are so happy and our dogs are much happier, settled, content and enjoying their lives too. We are on day three and everything is the same. We’ve been on lots of walks, been to cafes with other dogs and our dogs have sat there beautifully, I can’t believe it… we are so proud and happy. Life is so great. My only regret is not doing this three years ago when we first got Reggie. Thank you so much Kevin. Our chaotic house is now a very calm and happy home for me, my children, Reggie & Frank…. Oh and our visitors :)"

Christine
Trainer: Kevin McDonnell

"Emma was absolutely brilliant after the first 3 hour lesson my dog was totally transformed. Emma came again today to give me lead training & within half an hour Scout was walking to heel. There's still a long way to go but with Emma's help I'm 100% sure we will get there. I can highly recommend her."

David
Trainer: Emma Barrett

"Very friendly and knowledgeable. Gave great advice to combat sibling rivalry and barking"

Marie
Trainer: Gavin Chambers

"Very pleased with the way the session went. Lynn was both informative and explained things well giving me more confidence with Harvey"

Jan
Trainer: Lynn Prentice

"Neil was wonderful, friendly and extremely helpful. We saw a change in Teddy almost immediately and he left us clear instructions giving guidance on how we can improve Teddy's behaviour."

Roy
Trainer: Neil Price

"Excellent!! Gavin was very clear in his advice and helped me to understand what I need to do to rectify the issues buddy has"

Sally
Trainer: Gavin Chambers

"Excellent 1st visit from Ben, he was calm and put both Billy and myself at ease, easy to follow techniques, cannot believe how quickly we managed Billy to walk well on a lead it is now a pleasure to take him for a walk, the barking is becoming less and looking forward to the next lesson with Ben"

Julie
Trainer: Ben Jordan

"It went so much better than we thought it would. Tia is a very nervous dog that we have never been able to have downstairs whilst we had visitors, as she would spend the whole time upstairs barking until they left. Gavin explained to us why she was feeling she needed to do this and how to help her through it. We have already noticed a difference and know that with consistency ,we can do this. It will be baby steps but with the support we feel she will be a happier dog. Thank you."

Renae
Trainer: Gavin Chambers

"Another great session with Sarah, we managed to walk our dog to heel within half an hour!! so pleased."

Imelda
Trainer: Sarah Coleman

 

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