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Don’t Dread The Dog Canine Education

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Don’t Dread The Dog Canine Education

Dog training services, focusing on living in harmony with your dog, reactivity, aggression and competition obedience. Through to obedience and dog sports.

To find out more, book a session, DM me or email me at [email protected] My name is Lisa and I'm the founder and trainer at Don't Dread The Dog. My specialty is developing dog and owner relationships through motivating play and engagement. Dogs and handlers learn basic life skills and real world obedience like living in the home politely, going to a cafes, and breweries. I am a member an

d competitor of GRC Dog sports (Gameness, Relationship & Control). My own dog Gus has his SR1 (Social Responsibility Level 1) Title and has points towards his Mill Race L1 Title. GRC dog sports channels the dogs, genetic drives, motivations and potential into constructive activities like Slat Mill Races (self propelling tread mills for dogs), Spring Pole, Wall climb and Weight pull, whilst teaching the dog to control that drive in the real world. You can find more information about GRC at https://www.grcdogsports.com/
If you think it might be the right fit for your dog check out our club on Instagram

Credentials and Seminars:
2022/23 - National Dog Trainers Federation (NDTF) Certificate 3 Dog Training and Behaviour
2022 - Pat Stuarts NePoPo deep dive Online Course
2022 - NePoPo seminar with Hans Verbruggen
2023 - 'Play is the Way' workshop with Jay Jack, founder of GRC Dog Sports
2023 - Austins Dangerous Dog handling Course
2023 - Jas Whiting - GRC Dog sports Seminar
2023 - Michael Ellis Experience Sydney
2024 - Pat Stuart - Pros & Cons Seminar Melbourne

15/05/2026

Back in Feb I had the privilege of learning from one of the best in the Biz. Dr Melanie Uhde.

Seminars are a fantastic way to learn new techniques and perspectives. This particular seminar was definitely not like the others. Dr Melanie Uhde walked us through the processes the brain goes through when our dogs a learning. Whether it’s purposeful learning like when we teach behaviours or when dogs learn from instinct and natural occurrences in the environment.

If you’re into dogs, training, biology or anything to do with learning theory you should be following . Dr Melanie breaks the science we don’t understand and explains it so we do.

I know this is late, but I think about this seminar and what I learnt a lot and consider how I train my dog and others.

Thank you Dr Mel 🫶🏻

24/04/2026

The boy can do many things….
The spatula treat flip is not one of them.
tricks

26/09/2025

Happy lil camper!

23/06/2025

I just spent the weekend in Vic watching these legends present a ‘Dealing with difficult dogs’ seminar.
I came away with more knowledge, inspiration, ideas, questions (not in a bad way), reassurance, and confidence.
Josh, and Alex have a great way of explaining things that is easy to understand, their friendship is hilarious.

Thanks for having me 🫶🏻 much love

24/01/2025

Day trains now available.
Drop your dog off in the morning. Pick them up in the arvo with some new skills or they’ve just had a fun day out with a trainer.

The days activities are tailored to your dog, their skill level and your goals.
From obedience, recall, loose leash walking, environmental socialisation, in home manners, out of the home manners.
At the end of the day, we will run through the things your dog learnt so you can keep up with the training at home. Along with a video diary of all the fun things your pup got up to.

If you’re interested, shoot me an email [email protected] and I can send you more info.

Half day - $90
Full day - $150
One way pick up/ drop off + $15
Two way pick up/drop off + $30

17/01/2025

I freaking LOVE camping with my dog.

With some trips booked and long weekends coming up I wanted to share some info about camping with your dog.

It’s the adventuring, watching him explore new smells, new locations. It’s the long walks, splashing around in rivers (Gus doesn’t swim), the zooms and the all important camp fire chill sessions with yummy food and dirt on absolutely everything I own.

To achieve a peaceful existence around the camp site, even with other dogs. I built a solid foundation consisting of:
- Basic obedience, including a solid recall and long downs.
- Boundaries, including a tie outs, crate and place bed. - An off switch, so the boy rests after a stimulating day of activities.
- And play, to improve our bond, and to build play drive in new environments.

Before I even thought about taking Gus camping. I made sure these foundations were solid at home, out on bush walks, at cafes, breweries, you name it, I trained it.

It’s incredibly unfair to expect him to keep his s**t together in an environment as stimulating as the bush on a camping trip without training those foundations and teaching him about what is required and the accompanying expectations.

If you are thinking about going camping with your dog, have a think about what your behavioural expectations are and ask yourself…

Can my dog meet those expectations or will I be constantly arguing, correcting or getting frustrated at my dog?

Hit me up for some camping tip, tricks, helpful products I love, or if you want to get started on training your camping dog, get in touch!

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Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	8am - 12pm
Sunday	8am - 4pm

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