Thanks so much to Antonia who has done some outstanding work with our Labrador puppy and not only helped train him, but helped train us too! Odi loves his sessions with Antonia and we always leave happy (and tired – an added bonus as Odi sleeps for almost 3 hours after a fun filled session!).
Antonia takes time to not only teach us how to do things, but also why, which really helps us. I’ve been cautious with recall and want to build up sensibly to letting him off lead (when he’s ready and we can trust him not to bother other people and dogs) and Antonia is helping us safely work up to this, step by step.
We’re so grateful for all of Antonia’s advice and support, and we’re enjoying seeing our pup grow into a lovely boy! Thank you!
Antonia’s guidance was really impactful. In our first session, we we able to quickly reinforce my dog’s recall with just a few adjustments to my practice, which showed immediate improvement, and it helped to boost my confidence to know that I was on the right track. We are looking forward to our next session!
We adopted Ted through a Frenchie rehoming charity in June 2021 and he came with a truck load of issues; dog reactivity, fear aggression, separation anxiety and allergies galore.
Because of him still being quite young when we adopted him, we hoped that with some time, love, patience and training he would be better – we still have a way to go, but the improvements are huge!
Antonia has helped us massively. She gave us a call initially as we couldn’t find a date, and gave us tips and reassured us that we’d get there, which she didn’t have to do but wanted us to feel supported. In his first session, we worked on his focus and recall, and he’s had it down ever since. Ted really enjoyed the session and warmed to Antonia right away. She taught us these small little tips that we’d never really thought of, and how to utilise yummy treats and that’s it, recall down!
He’s been with us for about four months now and he’s practically a different dog. We’re super confident having him off the lead, know his signs to a tee, and can’t wait for our next session!
Antonia was very patient, encouraging and knowledgeable in our recent lead pulling training session. She taught us some great foundation tips which we can already see have started to make a difference. We look forward to making even further progress in our next session.
Our Labrador Lyra is now 8 months old and we have had lots of training sessions with Antonia. We have worked on walking to heel, good manners, recall and retrieval. We are all very much so looking forward to learning some fancy new tricks in our future sessions. With the support of Antonia, Lyra now spends her weekdays at school helping to boost pupil and staff wellbeing, and her weekends are spent exploring the parks and having a well deserved snooze!
Pluto and I have only had one session with Antonia so far, but we learned so much in those 45 minutes! Pluto is reactive towards dogs and Antonia explained and showed us how training based on distance and threshold worked. We’ve been working on this with a long lead (which Antonia also helped us use better!) and Pluto has already made improvements! Antonia was in contact with us over the phone before our first session together so we’d already talked about what kind of training Pluto needed, which meant we could focus solely on Pluto during the session. She was also very flexible with timings and allowed us to wait for a rain shower to pass before we started the session, which we hugely appreciated, especially with Pluto being a bit of a diva when it comes to rain! We received follow up notes via email after the session, which also included a bit on resource guarding, something I had just happened to mention at the end of the session, so that’s been great to continue our training at home and outdoors. We’re looking forward to seeing Antonia (and her super tasty treats!) again soon!
Antonia has been working with us and our 10 month old Cavapoochon, Rupert, predominantly on settling and recall. We have already seen such a huge improvement in Rupert’s attention and commands. As a lockdown pup, we haven’t been able to take him to many places with us, but with Antonia’s advice, we’ve felt comforted and secure when introducing him to new and busy environments, and he’s becoming a lot more calm and relaxed. I cannot recommend Antonia enough – she has such a great way with Rupert, is really flexible and tailors the sessions according to our desires. She has been a great sounding board for advice and we can’t wait to see more of her magic!
Antonia is amazing with our little puppy TK. He has had two training sessions so far and he has made great progress! His focus has increased a lot and he is much better with his recall. Antonia also taught us a lot of useful tricks to understand TK and be better dog parents! We would highly recommend.
We did another 1-1 training session for Gus with Antonia and what an improvement we have seen so far! Antonia showed us how to steer Gus away from situations through the use of treats and improved recall. He has been fantastic since and doesn’t leave our side. Would highly recommend! It helped that Gus fell in love with Antonia the minute he met her!
Wally loved his time with Antonia during our 1-1 session. After the very first session, he was already able to focus on me, despite multiple distractions. We also worked on lead walking and he got on so well! We can’t wait for the next few sessions and to see Wally learn even more.
A+ DOGS 