I’d like this opportunity to introduce myself and let you have an insight into my dog training experience and the methods I use. My name is Cathy Keith - student member IACE, I run Fast ‘N’ Furious Dog Training group. I have over 20years of dog training experience in Agility, obedience, clicker & dog behaviour, over the years I have had many puppies of my own and also helped club members with training a new puppy. I’ve recently extended the services that I offer to include a home puppy visit to try and help owners give their puppies the best start in life, the visit will last for between 1 ½ to 2hrs and will cover all of the items below. After the visit I will email or post a personal training plan for your puppy. All the training I offer uses only kind motivational methods which are suitable for all sizes and shapes of dogs and puppies, I encourage the use of toys and titbits in training but hands on praise works just as well if this is what you prefer to use. I will teach you how to replace behaviour you don’t want with behaviour you do want.
I can be contacted
By email - click on the contact link make sure you mark your email ‘dog training’
Or by phone 07906654638
Agility classes - I have over 20 yrs experience competing and teaching agility to numerous different breeds. I'm a Kennel Club Championship Judge and an accredited Agility Judges Trainer.
Obedience Classes - I also have over 15 yrs experience helping at the classes run by our obedience trainers, I generally work with all the aggresive/problematic dogs on a one to one basis within the class.
Dog Behaviour - the techniques I use in both agility and obedience classes are based on kind motivatial training and I have over the years worked with owners of problem dogs with a very high percentage of success. At the moment I'm working with a very dog and people aggressive rescue boxer x mastiff, she's coming on a treat. I train a deaf, partially sighted rescue dog who was badly treated at his last home he's ready to enter his first agility competition shortly (can you tell we're very proud of all he's achieved) and a rescue dog who was stabbed several times by drug addicts she was held for over a year by the SSPCA until the owner was prosecuted, she is another dog we are very proud of. I am in the process of studying for an Adv Diploma in Dog Behaviour with Compass Education and am pleased to be able to offer this as another service. I've been sickened lately by the number of people who tell me they have used or are considering using electric shock collars or 'pinch' collars on their dogs, my aim in life is to get these barbaric and old fashioned methods of training stopped. The Welsh parlaiment has now banned the use of shock collars and the Scottish parliament has this matter under discussion.
Clicker Training - I've been using clicker training for over 10yrs and find it a very effective and positive method to use when the owners are taught the correct way to use the clicker and treats. It's amazing to see what the dogs work out for themselves using this method.
Puppy home visits - I think this service will be of real benefit to people and also to vets in general. During a 2hr visit I will teach people to teach the puppies in a kind and effective way that produces quick results from a happy puppy. I can't be the only person shocked by what I'm hearing that people are still doing to pups, recently I was told by an owner that they rubbed their pups nose in a mess it had made on the carpet....why! another who's dog is so afraid to 'go' in front of them she's taking to messing and then hiding in the bath, another alpha rolling a 10wk old pup, anyway as you can tell I'm not too impressed with what I'm hearing so on the visit they will be taught, caring for the puppy, house training, crate training or relaxed isolation, socialising to include handling by a stranger ie. a vet or nurse, simple obedience suitable for a puppy, feeding advice, how to control mouthing and biting, playing with and excercising the puppy, innoulation advice and basic first aid until they can then seek out veterinary help, advice on why they should have their dog neutered and to seek veterinary advice as to when, and probably the most important one how to deal with puppy tantrums as this is when your 'teenage' puppy learns he can get away with a lot if he throws his weight around. Hopefully people using this won't need me as behaviourist in the future. The visit comes with handouts and with a follow up personalised puppy training guide.
Please contact me for details & costs on the details above.
Cathy