Throughout my life I have lived and worked with a broad range of animals (including several dogs!) and also had my own successful pet sitting business. I have qualifications in animal care and management, and have also completed my OCN on the Sheila Harper IDBTS, IPACS courses.
I am the proud owner of Pogo, a rescue crossbreed from the Border Collie Trust; Kuzu a Mastiff cross Anatolian Shepherd from Carla Lane Animals in Need and Daisy a Staffordhire Terrier cross from Sunnyside Kennels. They have taught me so much — as have all my dogs — and now I am able to help them have a better life thanks to what I have learnt from courses and working with Sheila Harper Ltd. I only wish I knew 20 years ago what I know now.
Having had previous experience of many different types of training and behavioural methods — most of which relied on exercising some form of dominance or control over the dog — I realised that, at best, they produced only short-term results, but more usually made matters worse, especially for the dogs emotions and mental health.
After attending further courses run by Sheila and other similarly enlightened people, I am now able to use my knowledge, qualifications and experience to help people understand their dogs from a different perspective, allowing for a positive relationship to emerge which so often prevents problems developing.
“A good relationship that works is about understanding, sharing and trust. With this dual relationship it lays down a solid foundation for the partnership to flourish and encourages problems to dissipate”
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