About the Trainers

Lyn Fleet is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (No. 429). She is also a member of the UK Registry of Canine Behaviourists and works full-time as an animal behaviour therapist.

Helen Roberts is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (No. 285) and is also an Assessor for this organisation. Helen's particular area of expertise is puppy socialisation and development.

With two trainers and small classes, we aim to ensure that your time with us will help you learn much more about your canine companion.

Lyn and Helen both love using clicker training to teach dogs how we'd like them to behave. The clicker, a communication device, is very simple and hugely effective. However, its biggest advantage is that dogs love to be trained this way and can learn very quickly! It makes training a game that dogs enjoy playing.

No choke chains are allowed in our classes. They cause pain and discomfort to the dog and we think that any training method that does this is morally wrong. People who bully or hurt their dog in the name of training are uneducated, unintelligent thugs and deserve nothing but contempt!

With kinder training methods, breeds that had previously been considered 'stupid' or 'untrainable' have been able to prove that they have brains every bit as big as other breeds. Now dogs from the bull breeds, or hounds can show the Border Collies and German Shepherds a trick or two!

Dog training has made massive leaps in recent decades, with kinder training methods revealing a level of intelligence and willingness in dogs that would previously have been inconceivable. One only has to look at the tasks that assistance dogs can perform to realise that aggressive training techniques denied both human and canine the chance to really shine.