Dog Training
Animal Kind Dog Training & Behaviour can give you strategies and training tips, in a measured and supportive way, that will help you from your first session. We guarantee we can improve things for you, having helped thousands of teenage and adult dogs with training and behaviour issues in the Dorridge, Solihull, Birmingham and the Kenilworth area.
Assessment & First Training Session
We get to know you and your dog, and discover what you want to achieve in the 2 hour in-person consultation, which is usually held at your home.
In the Dog Training Assessment/First Session we will:
- Assess your dog’s personality and what type of training will
benefit them.
- Diagnose what is causing the problem(s) and how we can
improve it.
- Explain to you the training plan that will improve it.
- Start training - in the second hour of the consultation, we get to work on practical training immediately.
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To get started, either book directly via the website or get in contact with us directly.
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As a qualified behaviourist and training team, if there are behaviours you are worried about, we can give you our verdict on what is causing your pup's behaviour, and how to remedy it.
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Specialist Training
The First Assessment & Training session is normally the place to start for adolescent and adult dogs, especially if the problem involves aggression.
We specialise in rehab work, especially dog-to-dog aggression, and we provide a full service for rehabilitation which includes:
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- Management and training techniques.
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- Desensitisation and Counter Conditioning to improve your dog's behaviour at our facilities.
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- Access to a range of rehab dogs who we use for rehab and re-socialisation, including Labradors and Labradoodles - Luna, Izzy and Archie.
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- Access to a range of locations including Solihull Riding Club, and our private space in Lapworth/Hockley Heath.
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- Training walks with your dog given by our training team to help with embedding the training plan (Dorridge/Knowle/Bentley Heath area only). ​
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- Special packages for Rehab, and for Recall and Lead Walking.
Obedience Courses
We offer fun and rewarding Obedience Courses for teenage and adult dogs, starting with our Tweenies Obedience and Rescue Rehab course, which you can book via our Classes Journey page.
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Once you’ve completed Tweenies and Rescue Rehab, we offer an Agility course (called Teens Agility) or you can choose to take part in a unique Out and About course, called Top Dogs, where sessions take place in real-life situations and involve managed experiences such as going near calm livestock, on train trips, and around villages, towns, cafes and pubs.
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There is no upper age limit to any of these courses, with dogs as old as 9 years old having enjoyed our courses and learnt new skills, including re-socialisation, which can be used in combination with our 121 Training services.
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So long as your dog is showing no signs of aggression, you can book onto our Tweenies course directly, but if any aggression has been shown, including lunging or growling, it will be necessary to have a First Training & Assessment session first, although many dogs who we have worked with for dog-to-dog aggression go on to attend and enjoy our group courses.
Our Experience
Our knowledge and experience comes from a wide-range of education and personal experience – we have fostered and owned 10 rescue dogs. Chris and Helen have been training dogs for over 15 years.
We both gained our dog training instructor accreditation by learning under Steve Mann at the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers.
Chris took a part-time Masters in Animal behaviour and Welfare at Newcastle University, and qualified as a behaviourist in 2017.
Chris is currently working towards the highest level of behaviourist qualification in the UK, to become a CCAB: Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourist.
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