About Us
Mission
About us
Our goals are to live a country where well-trained socialised dogs are welcome do enjoy life wherever their humans go. We aim to do this by creating a community of people and their dogs to show what is possible.
We used only evidence-based science behavioural research. We follow the proven techniques and strategies designed by Sirius Dog Training Academy as developed by Dr Ian Dunbar.
Effective dog training begins with giving dogs the freedom to choose and rewarding the behaviour we want and ignoring the ones we don’t. We believe wholeheartly this type of conditioning that this is the simplest way to train for both humans and your dog.
We tailor our classes and location to suit every situation. These include run a variety of classes, one-to-one sessions, and board and train in order to suit every learning human style and situation. We understand the need to adapt the training depending on the needs of each person and dog. In order to make dog training accessible to everyone we run a number of pop-up, pay as you go training sessions in towns, beaches and parks. We also organise group (pack) walks and hikes to help with socialisation with humans and dogs. These are updated on our social media regularly and are available to all current and past clients who have completed any our classes or programmes.
LK Dog Training is born out of my two dogs Louie and Kelvin and these both form part of my training team. They are two two confident well-socialised dogs which means they are comfortable with even the most nervous of dogs and I use them to help people understand the communication with their puppy or dog.
I have been an animal lover since as long as I can remember. There is no time I can remember as a child that I wasn’t wanting a dog. I found my calling in studying Animal Care Course and Wildlife Biology degree I completed my dog training with Dr Ian Dunbar’s, Sirius Dog Training. I am passionate in improving peoples understanding in animal behaviour and continuing to help our communication with dogs. I found my way into dog training by fostering dogs. There were many fosters that found their way to me that helped me to this decision but a few hold a special place in my heart. Find a way to communicate with another species when they were scared and hurt filled my heart. To gain their trust and begin to show a dog how to act in our world and see them go on to live a normal life has brought me huge joy and I am have loved every minute of it. Since becoming a dog trainer it I get to help people communicate with their dogs and to see their relationship flourish is an absolutely fantastic opportunity.
Hopes for the future;
Improve people’s understanding of dog behaviour
I hope to complete Masters in Animal Behaviour
Train dogs in environmental projects
Create a community of positive-reinforcement dog owners that advocate for dogs
Louie
Louie loves people and occasionally has to be reminded that not everyone is here to be fawn over him. He is fiercely loyal and works as assessor in with dog training clients. I could not tell you how many clients have come to me from stopping to observe and pass comment at how “good he is”. He is “good” because he understands calm patient energy gets him everything he wants in the world and all the attention and cuddles (well he would definitely argue he doesn’t get enough)
Kelvin
Kelvin was born almost blind. He has helped me understand how dogs interpret the world. Rescued at five months I babied him for the first year but as time went on I realised that it was not as big a disadvantage as I had first thought. Now I realise it was the limitations I was putting on him that were holding him back more than anything. In addition to helping me to understand how dogs interpret the world through smell I have learned that sympathising with an individual’s predicament can actually inhibit their learning and experience. Kelvin and I have an understanding that we work on every day and is far from a perfect communication (nor can any let alone cross species communication). He is gently assertive with puppy’s and is always keen to help them figure things out with a unique motherly energy.