Testimonials
“With Tom’s guidance Mabel has conquered her intense fear of bath time and become comfortable with the handling required for her medical care. Tom always considers the whole dog - he isn’t just about obedience and cool tricks. His training is focused on helping dogs make choices that work better for guardians and helping guardians set realistic expectations for their dogs. Watching Mabel thrive by using his strategies and advice has been nothing short of incredible.
We are so grateful we are able to work with Tom!”
— Annie & Mabel
“Tom has helped us to understand our dog on a much deeper level and to help her to feel calmer, safer and genuinely have a much better life. Something that appealed to me right from the start was Tom's training philosophy - accepting the dog (and owners!) where they are at, and only ever rewarding behaviours so your dog doesn't fear you or worry about making mistakes, and you feel good about the process too.
We reached out to him our rescue staghound's separation anxiety hadn't gotten any better after a year of hoping it would resolve on its own. We're now making steady progress to time away from our dog without her feeling any stress, which was once inconceivable, and have so many tricks up our sleeve for helping her to be calmer and more confident in more settings - which is such a delightful change to her hectic, anxious energy of the past.
Tom himself is super friendly and gentle, and I've never felt judged for not knowing things, or doing what we thought was the right thing to do before we knew better. Very grateful we found him!”
— Bronwyn & Lupa
“Working with Tom on a training and behaviour plan for our dog has been game-changing. Tom helped us to understand the root cause of those problems and given us strategies to help mitigate them they don’t involve punishment or force…It has helped us to become more in tune with our dog, responsive to her needs, work out why she is doing something we don’t want, and offer her an alternative that is better or safer.
He has not only completely changed the way we understand our dog, every step of the way he has also helped us to make sure every single one of our dog’s needs are being met so she is happy and fulfilled.”
— Zach & Bagel