Support with dog training and help with dog behaviour issues Oxfordshire and surrounding areas.
Canine Potential is a professional dog training service providing positive, force-free dog training and help with dog behaviour issues in Oxfordshire and surrounding areas. Based in Witney, West Oxfordshire, the service is run by an accredited, qualified dog trainer and a qualified canine behaviourist, passionate about dogs and committed to a kind, science based and empowering approach to supporting dogs and their human guardians. Training is tailored to reflect your dog's individual needs and motivations. Help with dog behaviour training can be provided in person or remotely via video software. If you need help, please get in touch!
Help with dog training in Oxfordshire and surrounding areas - help your dog meet their potential!
One to one dog training sessions can engage your puppy, adolescent dog or older canine in dog training activities that incorporate fun and play and that encourage calm, focus, impulse control, and choice, building trust and a secure dog human attachment. One to one dog training is tailored to your dog's needs and goes at their pace, helping to ensure effective progress. Puppy training can provide opportunities for calm socialisation around other dogs. It can give invaluable advice on your puppy's developmental and environmental needs, how to minimise the development of unwanted behaviour, and how to give your puppy the best possible start in life, maximising their future confidence and adaptability. Any dog in need of some extra canine training is very welcome! The service is West Oxfordshire-based providing one to one dog training in Oxfordshire and surrounding areas.
Help with dog behaviour issues Oxfordshire - promoting calm and positive interactions
Dog behaviour assessment and consultation visits will involve actively listening to your concerns and assessing your dog's behaviour and the underlying emotions and other factors that may be influencing this. Observation of your dog's body language and their interactions is an essential part of this dog behaviour assessment process.
A tailored canine behaviour plan is provided in easy to follow and manageable steps following dog behaviour sessions. Commitment and consistency, and learning to observe and listen to what your dog is communicating are key. Dog behaviour support will provide you with practical and kind strategies and approaches, a 'toolkit' to help you support your dog to feel safe and secure, and to relax and calm themselves down, enabling your dog to start to learn an alternative response. Dog behaviour training should result in a canine companion that is more engaged and easier to live with. To help you address canine behaviour problems I can travel within a 30 mile radius of Witney, West Oxfordshire and cover Oxfordshire, East Gloucestershire and surrounding areas.
A tailored canine behaviour plan is provided in easy to follow and manageable steps following dog behaviour sessions. Commitment and consistency, and learning to observe and listen to what your dog is communicating are key. Dog behaviour support will provide you with practical and kind strategies and approaches, a 'toolkit' to help you support your dog to feel safe and secure, and to relax and calm themselves down, enabling your dog to start to learn an alternative response. Dog behaviour training should result in a canine companion that is more engaged and easier to live with. To help you address canine behaviour problems I can travel within a 30 mile radius of Witney, West Oxfordshire and cover Oxfordshire, East Gloucestershire and surrounding areas.
Why use this Oxfordshire dog training and behaviour service?
The service is run by an accredited and qualified dog trainer and a qualified dog behaviourist with over fifteen years experience of training dogs and of working with families and dogs to help them to address a range of canine behaviour issues. This has included working for the National Animal Welfare Trust for four years, as a volunteer dog trainer for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, volunteering for Medical Detection Dogs for nine years, as well as running my own business since 2013, providing dog training and dog care and helping with a range of dog behaviour problems. I have also worked as an Associate Lecturer with the Open University for ten years, teaching and mentoring and running regular workshops and have substantial experience of completing comprehensive assessments, working with families and their dogs towards positive outcomes. Qualifications, awards and training include:
Masters in Science MSc.(ASS) Oxford University: a key focus was the psychology of behaviour
Advanced Diploma in Applied Canine Behaviour A.Dip. AABC (distinction) Compass Education
Honours Degree in Music B.Mus.(HONS) (specializing in solo performance) Royal Holloway University of London
Advanced Dog Training Instructing Certificate Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT)
Diploma in Social Work (DipSW) Green College, Oxford University
PACT-KSA qualified trainer Professional Association of Canine Trainers (PACT)
ABTC-ATI registered animal training instructor Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC)
Recent training / webinars have included:
- Using scent-work for dog behaviour modification.
- The link between gut health, mood and behaviour in dogs.
- Using music to reduce stress in dogs.
- What reactive dogs really need - helping distressed dogs feel calm again.
- Helping dogs impacted by trauma.
- Scent-work solutions for abnormal and repetitive behaviours, fears and phobias.
- Adolescence in dogs: from brain to behaviour.
- Understanding street dogs and the implications for dog behaviour training.
- Separation anxiety in dogs.
- Dog training and the power of play.
- Teaching novel dog training behaviour.
- The power of pattern in dog training.
- Deaf awareness in dog training.
Masters in Science MSc.(ASS) Oxford University: a key focus was the psychology of behaviour
Advanced Diploma in Applied Canine Behaviour A.Dip. AABC (distinction) Compass Education
Honours Degree in Music B.Mus.(HONS) (specializing in solo performance) Royal Holloway University of London
Advanced Dog Training Instructing Certificate Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT)
Diploma in Social Work (DipSW) Green College, Oxford University
PACT-KSA qualified trainer Professional Association of Canine Trainers (PACT)
ABTC-ATI registered animal training instructor Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC)
Recent training / webinars have included:
- Using scent-work for dog behaviour modification.
- The link between gut health, mood and behaviour in dogs.
- Using music to reduce stress in dogs.
- What reactive dogs really need - helping distressed dogs feel calm again.
- Helping dogs impacted by trauma.
- Scent-work solutions for abnormal and repetitive behaviours, fears and phobias.
- Adolescence in dogs: from brain to behaviour.
- Understanding street dogs and the implications for dog behaviour training.
- Separation anxiety in dogs.
- Dog training and the power of play.
- Teaching novel dog training behaviour.
- The power of pattern in dog training.
- Deaf awareness in dog training.
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