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Dog Training and Behavioural Services. We use only science based, force free training methods.

22/10/2026

13/10/2026

Doing something new can feel daunting. Like learning how to build your own business (eek!), or create your own website (eek eek!).
Contacting a trainer to help you out with your best friend needn’t feel like that.
When someone first contacts me, either by email or text or messenger, i always make sure I have a few basic pieces of information before taking anything further. Things like the breed, age, s*x of the dog, the behaviours that are to be discussed, and many other little details.
After this, I organise what I call an Initial Consultation. This consists of me visiting the customers home and asking many more questions so that I can build a full picture of the situation. This also gives me an opportunity to meet the dog and view for myself how they behave, and why they may behave in that manner. I’ll always try and leave this visit having given the customer some start points for training.
After this visit, I follow up with an email that includes all of the details discussed and the stage at which I believe we need to start any training to remove or replace unwanted behaviours with comprehensive instructions.
After this, the customer is free to book more sessions as they wish.
This session can last for around an hour, possibly longer depending on the behaviours being discussed.
If you have an unwanted behaviour you’d like to discuss, or you’d like to improve your dog’s recall or general behaviour, or you have anything else you’d like to discuss, please get in contact.

16/09/2026

A little update…

09/09/2026

Amongst all the training we can do with our dogs, I often think about how at the heart of it all is the most important thing; the dog itself.
How does all of this instruction and direction make them feel?
I’d like to think, if done properly, they enjoy it all! Especially when we keep one thing in mind - let’s not de-dog the dog.
What do I mean by this? Just that dogs have things they love to do (see a picture of Doug having a good old search for something in the grass!) and we should allow them to do these things.
Allowing them to be a dog is rewarding and fulfilling for them, and will allow them to be able to concentrate better on what we want them to do at other times with less distraction.

05/09/2026

More “middles” with Olive. She didn’t know this, hadn’t done it before. Worked up to this over the course of an hour and fifteen minutes walk. Four short stops to work up to this.
It’s not perfect and will need more work to secure it, but I’m sure you can agree, she’s doing a great job!!

26/08/2026

Here is Jack being “shot”!

26/08/2026

This is the amazing Jack. (That’s not a stage name, just an adjective).
I’m not officially training Jack, but he’s a dog I walk regularly and this week we have him for some extended hours. I thought I’d test him out and see what he knows and what he doesn’t know.
Turns out, he know A LOT. Confidently. I started all the different “tricks” from scratch as if he didn’t know anything. We’d nailed the “middle” in about 10 turns. This could normally take a good few sessions over multiple days.
Now obviously, he knew how to do this so was at an advantage but it’s still remarkable that with a different person in a new environment he absolutely nailed all of this very quickly.
I also managed to shoot him (I’ll post the video as a reel) and that didn’t take long either.
What an absolutely beautiful boy he is.
I did find a couple of things he wasn’t so sure about and am going to do a little work with him this week.
His problem with new things is he tries to preempt what is happening and reverts to an old trick, so I need to work around that! Looking forward to getting him to learn something new!

Address

117 Windsor Road
Tring
LU79GG

Telephone

+447590328103

Website

http://www.swatdogsherts.com/

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