Good dog training starts with understanding both ends of the lead.
We’re interested in the whole dog, the person living with them and the life the two of you need to share.
We don’t use pain or intimidation. We don’t sell quick fixes. We try to understand why behaviour is happening, then build training that owners can repeat in normal life.
Emotion, learning, breed, movement, environment, physical comfort and natural behaviour all matter.
The best plan in the world is useless if it doesn’t fit the person who has to live it.
Success means easier walks, calmer homes and more freedom. Perfect exercises in a training field don’t count for much.
Adam has worked with dogs for more than twenty years. He focuses on behaviour, real-world training and helping owners understand what’s driving the problem, so the plan deals with the cause and doesn’t only suppress what the dog is doing.
He was featured on Channel 4’s The Dog Academy, working with families both on screen and behind the scenes. He started Avon Dog Services almost a decade ago to give people something different from the usual six-week class and a wave goodbye. The Whole Hound Academy is the next chapter.
Claire helps puppy owners through the period where everything is new, everything changes quickly and everybody on the internet appears to have an opinion.
Her work focuses on practical foundations, confidence, calmness and making puppy training fit normal family life. She explains not only what to do but why it matters, how to apply it in real situations and how to adapt when things do not go to plan.
Sarah trained under Kamal Fernandez and Di Martin, two of the most respected names in modern, reward-based dog training.
Her background in psychotherapy and psychology sits at the centre of how she works. She treats behaviour as communication, in dogs and in people, which makes her especially good with anxious or fearful dogs and with owners who have started to lose confidence in themselves.
Sarah is working towards her APDT accreditation. She lives with her two border collies, Lucky and Branston.
We’re not here to make you feel stupid for what you’ve tried, guilty about what’s happened or intimidated by dog-training terminology.
We’re here to work out what makes sense from here.
Bath, Bradford-on-Avon, Corsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Saltford and Trowbridge.
Further away? Behaviour clients may be better served by an Intensive Week.
We take behaviour referrals from vets across Bath and the surrounding towns, and we keep your practice informed throughout.
For vets