Testimonials

Hi Clare

Thanks for coming out to see Bosch & I on Monday. We find your visits VERY helpful. You seem to explain things in a way I understand & whatever advice you give me always works! Bosch has been practicing his 'look at me' command. Now when I hold the treat out to the side he only looks at it for a split second then he looks straight at me. Towards the end of our last training session he wasn't even looking at the treat, he kept his eyes on me.

Thanks again for all your help.

Sam

I have really enjoyed the last 6 weeks and Todd is so excited to come to puppy classes. I have seen a big improvement in his obedience and the socialisation with other dogs has been fantastic.

We really enjoyed the course - clear instructions and a small group size. Looking forward to the Improvers classes!

Hi Clare,
Thank you so much for our session today. You have given me a lot to think about and it feels good having a plan for recall training. I particularly feel that my awareness of my own behaviour has increased a great deal.

Best regards
Melanie

Hi Clare

Rebel is doing really well now thanks to you!!  He comes when called first time, unless he sees the famous squirrel.  He has played with quite a few dogs now, large and small, and while he is still fairly unsociable, there doesn't seem to be any aggression and certainly no pinning small dogs to the ground.  Yay!!  He still has issues with dogs if they mount him but maybe that is not too bad because he can be called away without too much difficulty.
 
Looking forward to more training.
 
Regards, Claire

Excellent class. Will be back for more for sure!
Thank you so much.

Sian

The course has been great fun for both of us and has taught Berkeley a lot.
Thanks.

Sue.

Hi Clare

Thanks so much for the one-to-one training sessions with our crazy Goldendoodle - Carlton. Your calm and consistent approach was perfect, plus we all had fun!

Our needs were around skills such as recall, lead walking, commands and general typical 7 month old puppy behaviour issues We have noticed a definite improvement in our furry rascal and are determined to continue with your methods.

Thanks again for all your help and we look forward to joining you at one of your group classes soon. Who knows, perhaps Carlton will be the first skateboarding dog in Redbourn!!

…Could I take this opportunity to thank you for your help. I will have no hesitation in regards to recommending you to friends and family.
Thank you once again.

Regards
Frances

Hi Clare

I just wanted to say thanks again for all your help with Milly. Having never had dogs before, I don’t think we knew quite what we were letting ourselves in for when we got a new puppy. With your help, I’m glad to say that Milly is now fully housetrained (well, she hasn’t had an accident for a week now so keep fingers crossed!) and she seems to have learnt to chew on her toys rather than the furniture. She is also doing really well out on walks, coming when she is called and not pulling too much on the lead. She’s still only little so she’s obviously not perfect but we feel we’ve made a great start.

Many thanks!
Susie & John.

Oureighteen month old Rottweiler,Natty, had a very bad experience during a walk and afterwards was very frightened of passing vehicles, particularly in the wet. She was so frightened that she would hide when we got her lead or even put on our shoes to go out. If we did get her out of the house she would shake with fear and foam at the mouth.

Clare came to visit usand could see how frightened Natty was, even at our own front door with Clare's car on the drive. Within a monthusing clicker training and treats Natty is now able to go to the end of the road where it is busy with cars and has been out for a few walks. Although sheis not happy with passing vehicles, shetolerates the cars until we arein the country fields. It has been hard work getting to this stage but Iam very happy with the results so far.I think without Clare’s advice and understanding of the problem we would havethe dog bouncing off the walls where she would not leave the house.Thank you, Clare!

Regards
Karen & Family

A few months ago, our 8 month old puggle (pug/beagle) thought that "come" meant look at me strangely then run in the opposite direction! He was very inattentive and I didn't think it would ever change. I stopped walking him in the local park because it just wasn't enjoyable.

Clare has provided me with the knowledge and enthusiasm to persist with the training. She is the perfect trainer for me. Firm but not too firm, encouraging and fun to be around. Looking at him today in our session he seemed like a different dog. "Come" means look at me and leg it over -Hurrah! I can also tell now that he really enjoys our walks and doesn't feel so much need to seek his own fun but running off. It feels great!

Thank you so much.
Sarah & Jho

Hi Clare

Both dogs have improved, and Amber definitely calms down much more quickly when we get in!

Jake is still not very happy being groomed, but I am managing to get further under his tummy now! I had to trim his face the other day, and he soon worked out that if he sat still he got a click and a treat, and it made trimming his face much easier and quicker!

They have been much better with the house training, and we haven't had any puddles for a while! Fingers crossed that they have got that one sussed!

Kind Regards

Catherine

Hi Clare

I very much appreciated your visit last week to see myself and Meg. It was really helpful to receive constructive suggestions to help overcome Meg's dog to dog aggression. I was very impressed by your calm, common sense approach (and Meg loved the sausages!). I have no hesitation in recommending you to other people. I truly hope your business does well in this area.

Hope you've enjoyed your holiday.

Kind regards,
Annie (and Meg)

Dear Clare

Thank you so much for coming down to us in Hove yesterday, it was a pleasure to meet you. Mark and I both feel more positive now about things and feel we have a really good training programme that will bring only positive changes to Mavis! She has already shown great skill in the Leave it exercise!

Anyway, we both thought you were really easy to understand, and felt that finally someone had made us see what it was we needed to do- it all seemed so complicated before, but now we can see it is possible to make just a few changes to make a big difference. As the training commences and goes on, I will let you know if I have any follow up questions, but I just wanted to say Thank you again!

Very best
Amy

We have an 18 month old West Highland Terrier called Snoop. She developed Legge Perthes at around 7 months and had a serious operation to correct this. Obviously this meant that she couldn't go outdoors for a long while and due to this her anxiety grew and became defensive of our Home and fearful of strangers. She also had to go to hydro-therapy for 10 weeks and although this helped her start to reuse her leg, her behaviour got steadily worse.

Since Christmas she had been a nightmare, pulling frantically on her lead, barking and snarling at children and adults alike, chasing bikes prams and children on scooters. She even had incidents of pulling children's trouser legs! Enough was enough!! Clare came to visit and suggested a reward-based training with a clicker - we had done clicker puppy training previously.

We worked very hard on rewarding her for walking as close to heel as possible and not reacting in a negative way to strangers. We also asked people on the street to give her treats. (This was mostly done by people in the park who owned dogs themselves!!) She is now allowing a lot more people to touch her and play with her when we are out. We are still working on the chasing bikes, but we'll get there.

We have to see how this goes, but feeling quite optimistic!

Claire & family

Hi Clare

Thanks for your time on Monday - we really appreciate you coming over in the evening. It was really good to hear that Rocks isn't anywhere near as bad as some other dogs who don't like being left.

We're now leaving her the run of the kitchen and kids lounge, and she can go upstairs if she wants but all the doors are shut up there. The bone from the butchers and the pyramid seem to show on video that she's pretty well occupied for the 2-3 hours that she is left on her own.

When we leave the house (without making a fuss of her), she does look through the window - but instead of staring until she can't see us any more, she just has a look, and then gets down and presumably goes back to what she was doing before.

Even the wees are getting better, she seems to be holding it better, as we haven't had any accidents for the last two days. A treat is definitely her motivation. She's now does "down" immediately, we're still giving her treats with it, but next week may start weaning off the treats.

I'm sure we'll need to call you, but in the meantime, thanks again.

Rachel & Kevin, Stacey, Craig and Tom

We have a 2.5 year old Jack Russell who, having been spayed, had calmed down a lot but we were still having problems with her and her interaction with other dogs especially.She would get really stressed, barking and snarling when other dogs approached her.

Clare came to us for a consultation and showed me how I could begin to let our dog concentrate on me rather than the other dogs when we are out in public. She showed me how to use the clicker and after a while our dog got the hang of it.

We are really pleased with Sabi's progress and she really does react to the clicker now which really helps when I am out walking her, especially with the children.
Clare is a total professional and is a clear teacher and explains the process through well.

Kate

I consulted Clare because I had problems with my10 month old maleWestie, Zak'srecall, walkingto heeland destructive behaviour when left alone. I found her interested, sympathetic and her adviceinvaluable. Even though I have had dogs before,shepointed out things I would never have thought of and showed me ways of interacting with him, getting him to dowhat I wanted, not what he wanted, but at the same time making it fun for him. He seems to have gained confidence (and so have I!) and in onlyfour weeks and one consultation, Ihave huge improvement in his behaviour. He now comes back when called, even when playing withother dogs. He's stopped chewing in the house as shesuggested leaving him an interesting toy containing hidden tit-bits (and also helpfully suggested which toys to buy), and walks to heel when required. Iwas very impressedby Clare and have no hesitation in recommending her.

Ruth

Weasked Clare Lang to help us recently with some behaviour issues we were having with our 12 month old male standard poodle, Hogan. In particular we asked Clare to help with Hogan's tendency to chase after runners and cyclists when off the lead and also to improve his recall response. Clare provided us with some simple training tips whichare designed to encourage Hogan to respond to the "leave it" and "come" commands even when his attention is diverted.Clare provided a range of tips which could be used both in the garden and also on longer walks in open spaces such as our local woods. Clare made sure that Hogan was fully engaged throughout the training and that he was having fun. So far we are very pleased with the improvements in Hogan's behaviour. He is now responding much more positively to standard commands and we intend to continue with the training regime to achieve further improvements. We are more than happy to recommend Clare to anyone interested in learning how to improve their dog’s behaviour.

Gill & Ronn