Leia's Barkside Training

Leia's Barkside Training At Leia's Barkside Training, we offer relationship-based dog training that helps puppies and adult dogs build confidence, calmness, and real-world skills.

Based in Port Coquitlam, we specialize in positive reinforcement techniques that prioritize your dog

06/15/2026

You’ve asked and we said OKAY!!! Our intro to scent work classes are starting again on Monday, July 6th! This is a 6 week course for $240, 6:45pm in Port Coquitlam!

Want to sign up? DM US NOW!! The sign up link is being emailed to everyone on the waitlist at 12:30 PDT TODAY for 48 hours before public access. If your name isn’t on that list, you’ll have to wait the 48 hours 🤷🏽‍♀️

Unsure if Nose Work / Scent Work is for you? Check out Lauren and Grizzly above and how the class helped them with confidence and recall!! Also check out our website for more details! https://www.leiasbarksidetraining.com/scent-work

Leia just earned a Clean Title in the very first DSG1! So incredibly proud of my girl and her amazing sniffer. What a wo...
05/18/2026

Leia just earned a Clean Title in the very first DSG1!

So incredibly proud of my girl and her amazing sniffer. What a wonderful day to compete, sniff, learn, and spend time together doing something we both love.

Huge congratulations to all of the teams today, and a special shoutout to Maui .gowans and !!!

Thank you to for hosting such a wonderful trial, and to for creating this new competition. We had an absolute blast!

I cannot even begin to describe the absolute joy I had these past 6 weeks working with these 5 teams! Watching the growt...
05/06/2026

I cannot even begin to describe the absolute joy I had these past 6 weeks working with these 5 teams! Watching the growth in skills, the change in the dogs confidence, and their overall drive was the best part.

I’m really proud of everyone for showing up and sticking with it, for giving your dogs something for them. A job, an outlet, a way to use their brain and just be dogs.

And as my first time running this course, it meant a lot to me too. I won’t forget this group 🤍

Congrats to all of you and your very good detectives!! Check out our website to add your name to the waitlist for our next Scent Work Foundations course

04/30/2026

Most people go straight to: “how do I stop this?”
…and skip the most important question: “why is this happening?”

Every behaviour has a function. It’s not random, stubborn, or “bad”. It’s just communication.

So if you’re only trying to stop the behaviour, you might suppress it temporarily…but it will keep coming back, because the underlying need hasn’t been addressed.

Why? Because behaviour isn’t the problem even if it does annoy you. Behaviour is the output of something deeper:
• unmet needs
• emotional responses
• learned patterns
• environment

When you zoom out and start looking at your dog as a whole, things start to make a lot more sense.

Start paying attention to the full picture:
• what happens before
• what your dog gets out of it
• what patterns keep repeating

Instead of asking “how do I stop this?”
Get better information by asking:
“what is my dog experiencing?”
“what are they trying to achieve?”

Because when you understand the why, the how becomes a lot clearer, and a lot more effective.

Real progress comes from understanding, not just control.

04/14/2026

Another week of amazing graduates! Congratulations to Percy for graduating Adolescent Academy!! Chispa and Phoebe graduated Puppy Pawlementary together! Amazing team work from these pups and their pawrents! #

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