​Dog behaviour support Oxfordshire 
Help with a range of dog behaviour issues

Working in partnership with yourself and your dog, an initial assessment and consultation visit will draw on your own expertise and knowledge of your dog’s history and circumstances to help understand the underlying emotions and other factors driving your dog’s behaviour.  A tailored and flexible dog behaviour plan is then provided in easy to follow, manageable steps after each practical session.  Behaviour issues could include:

• reactivity to dogs, people, traffic;
• fearful and anxious behaviours including generalized anxiety;
• separation related issues;
• hyperactivity;
• frustration;
• guarding of food, objects, locations or people;
• excessive barking/vocalization;
• destructive behaviour;
• compulsive behaviour;
• phobias;
• and more - please just ask.

 
A kind, relationship-based approach to dog behaviour will help build greater trust and a secure dog human attachment and will prioritise your dog’s welfare.  Learning how to attune to what your dog is communicating can enable you to interact and respond in a way that helps your dog feel more comfortable.  Support is dog centred, responding to your dog’s needs, preferences and motivations as well as responding to your own needs, wishes and preferred learning styles.  Just like us, a dog needs to feel safe and secure in order to learn.  We can then support them to relax and to learn an alternative approach.  Recognising your dog’s strengths and utilising these in a dog behaviour plan can help increase their resilience. 
 
A key aim is empowerment.  Practical dog behaviour sessions and advice can help your dog to gain greater confidence and skills and to learn they have choices available to them.  A dog behaviour consultation, practical dog behaviour sessions and remote support should also enable you to gain greater confidence and a ‘toolkit’ of knowledge, approaches and skills that you can use for the lifetime of your dog. 

Dog behaviour consultations Oxfordshire

​A canine behaviour consultation and assessment visit will focus on assessing your dog's behaviour, carefully listening to your concerns and feedback, and drawing on your own expertise, veterinary information, and direct observation of your dog's body language and interactions.  It is important to consider your dog's natural instincts and drives, their developmental stage and behavioural history, and other genetic and environmental factors. Consideration will be given to the circumstances under which the behaviour occurs as well as the underlying emotions and other causes in order to create a tailored dog behaviour plan which is as effective as possible and gives you the approaches and strategies you need to deliver it.  The consultation is a two way process which also enables you to ask lots of questions.
 
A dog behaviour consultation would generally take place in a dog's usual environment but could take place at an alternative location depending on your dog's needs.  It includes a behaviour assessment and will provide you with some initial behaviour plan strategies and approaches to put in place.  A written assessment report is provided after the consultation.  Support includes a range of useful handouts, vet liaison, and remote email support following the consultation.  A more comprehensive behaviour program allows time to demonstrate practical behaviour exercises at the initial consultation.  A full tailored Behaviour Plan is provided in steps after each practical dog behaviour session when the techniques and exercises have been demonstrated.
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Dog behaviour support Oxfordshire - practical behaviour training sessions, and online support 

Practical sessions provide advice and demonstrate the kind strategies and exercises that can support your dog to learn an alternative response, the how of putting a flexible Behaviour Plan into practice.  Dog behaviour training sessions will give you a chance to practice a range of dog behaviour exercises and approaches with a canine behaviourist present.  Every individual dog and family unit is unique and the Behaviour Plan is reviewed and modified to accommodate any new information or circumstances.  

For practical dog behaviour sessions comprehensive Behaviour Plan notes are provided after each session along with handouts, vet liaison as needed and remote support.  Please see the pricing page of this website for further details.  Contact Fiona on ​[email protected] or via the contact form for further information.  

Please contact Fiona on [email protected] or via the contact form for further information.