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Multiple Certified. Force Free Trainer. 8000 sessions in 15 years. Ashwini Aiyar is an award winning entrepreneur and certified canine behaviourist.

With over a decade of experience under her belt, Ashwini has worked nearly a thousand cases in her extensive career. Her methodology is gentle and humane and based purely on positive reinforcement where no force is used to train. It is her core belief that training is based on understanding and she strives to help owners effectively communicate with their dogs. Ashwini currently resides in Sri Lan

ka with her family pack of nine dogs. She offers online and in person sessions for dog owners all over the world.

26/05/2025

Want your dog to live their best life?
Then don’t miss the Decoding Your Canine Summit – June 2025!

This complimentary online masterclass series brings together 21+ world-class trainers, behaviorists, and canine wellness experts to help you understand your dog on a deeper level—body, mind, and heart.

Curated by the amazing Ness Jones, the summit covers everything from training and enrichment to health, nutrition, and emotional well-being.

🐾 And yes, I’ll be there too.
I’ll be speaking on one of my favorite topics:
“The Future of Dogs: What Comes Next in Training, Tech & Transformation.”
If you care about where this field is going, this is the conversation to hear.

Whether you’re a new dog guardian or a seasoned trainer, this series is full of insight, compassion, and community.

Join us here:
👉 https://summit.decodingyourcanine.com/Ashwini

Let’s build a better world for dogs—together.

09/10/2024

It is with unbearable sadness that I announce the passing of my best friend. My darling Momo, I am lost without you. This is the hardest thing I have ever gone through in my life. Fly high my baby girl. Mama loves you. We will meet again and then my heart will be whole again. 💔

29/04/2024

It is with the greatest of pleasure that I announce that I am now officially a Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer (CSAT). Thank you for the incredible opportunity. This feels so surreal.

04/04/2024

Need I say more?

28/10/2023

Thank you for this amazing outfit. 📸 by my Instagram husband

15/10/2023

Cody and I at our first time at

27/09/2023

When my mentor and team lead first told me this it really put things in perspective for me.

Too often we put so much pressure on our dogs for their choices, but in truth there are three things that influence dog behavior, one is certainly the dogs own thinking, the other is the environment and the third thing is us. How we behave affects dog behavior too, and mostly I find it is not that dogs to not listen, it is that they do not understand- and we do not understand them in turn.

This is especially true if you’re a trainer. We as trainers get frustrated often when people make mistakes or do not know what we know about dogs. It has been greatly beneficial for me to apply this same line of thinking to my clients- every time I think they aren’t getting it- I look at how I am teaching and see if there are ways that I can improve. As an educator it is my job to spot the error and I often tell my clients if they see something they don’t understand or something they want to work on, that their only job is to tell me, and I will be able to help them out.

Next time you see your dog do something you don’t like- don’t scold or punish them, instead see if there is something you can do to help them understand or set them up for success. This is one of the foundations of errorless learning, and errorless learning is a powerful and beautiful thing, isn’t it?

24/09/2023

Sometimes there is nothing quite like getting your hair done for no reason at all- except because it makes you feel good! Loving the cut and the colour courtesy of at

20/09/2023

What an amazing journey of learning by The Karen Pryor Academy! So pleased to be the first trainer to complete this course back here in Lanka! Clicker training is mind blowing. It is has made me a better trainer and I am excited to share this knowledge with you all! Thank you so very much I hope to do you all proud!

19/09/2023

Life is beautiful!

04/08/2023

Interested in signing up for a training programme? Then this is for you! Teach your dog in the most humane way possible with a certified force free trainer. Learn to understand your dog and have a better relationship with them as well as teach foundation cues and work on displaced Behaviour with a four time certified dog trainer! Sounds like something you would like to try? Send us a dm!

23/07/2023

Have you ever heard of a throw chain?

A throw chain was an extremely popular dog training tool that was touted by the great trainers at the time like Most and Koehler.

In the book the Koehler Method of Dog Training there is an entire exercise that teaches how to throw the chain at the dog when they delay a response to a command by half a second. This book describes throwing the chain at the dogs rear but when this was invented it could even be thrown at the dogs head.

The throw chain was invented by Herm Sprenger. You know what else he invented? The prong collar.

Throw chains are still sold on Amazon today but are described as a chain you throw on the ground to get your dog’s attention. While they are still available the premise of the device has been adapted to suit modern day ideology and science. The prong collar however is still widely used in the way it was originally invented.

Herm Sprenger clearly believed that causing pain was the only way to train a fact we now mostly refute as dog trainers. If one of his inventions have lost popularity and have evolved to suit the present day- is it not time that we looked at the others as well?

There is no excuse the train with pain.

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The Dog Lady's House is Colombo's first behavioural facility, run by Ashwini Aiyar- a UK certified canine behaviourist. Ashwini started her career five years ago, when she opened up Haven- Sri Lanka's first and only dog hotel. She has since gained her certification from the Cambridge Institute of Canine Behaviour and Training, where she was praised for 'raising the bar' and a high standard of work presented, particularly in the area of Canine Communication. Ashwini specialises in basic training, as well as diagnosing problem behaviour. She uses only positive methods and has a thorough understanding of the dog's mind. She believes that all training is simply communication, and empowers owners to learn to effectively communicate with their dogs. The Dog Lady's House is run located in Rajagiriya. Training sessions are booked in advance and by appointment only. They can be either in the home or at the facility depending on the requirement.