Agrade Animals Dog Training

Agrade Animals Dog Training Karen Sadler is Agrade Animals. Dog Training made simple for easy Domestic, Competition Obedience, Film and Television work. We make dog training easy.

Life with dogs should be easy and enjoyable. We specialise in the training of all breeds of dogs in the following areas:

Domestic training:
Classes for dogs of all ages including a specific puppy class. Home visits for one on one training and helping you choose the right dog for you and your family. Help with solving behavioural problems with your dog or dogs. Helping to train children and dogs.

Trick training classes to impress the friends. Competition training for:
Obedience competitions
Agility
Rally O
Scentwork
Heel work to music (Dancing with your dog). Film and Television:
Providing the right dogs and animals for the job so as not to waste film and time. Trainer of the following:
Quitline (quit for your pets)
Roly (Purex toilet paper) dog
Dulux dog
Whiskers cat
Prince Terrien (Bridge to Terabithia)
and many more famous dogs and animals. Agrade Animals is owned and run by Karen Sadler. Karen Sadler has trained dogs for over 25 years including a huge number of domestic dogs of all breeds and ages. Of Karens own dogs 3 have become obedience grand champions 4 obedience champions, she has also won seven national titles in obedience and 2 in agility. Karen is a specialist dog trainer and has studied canine behaviour with Massey University. She is expert in coaching people on how to train their dogs and the training methods are fun and rewarding for you and your dog. Karen Sadler is also the author of "Kids and Dogs can be friends". This is a book designed for children living with dogs to teach them how to interact safely. ages 0-7 childrens pictue book.

So the only results I have from the weekend are from Sherry and Banshee.Well done Sherry, you and Banshee had a good wee...
02/06/2026

So the only results I have from the weekend are from Sherry and Banshee.
Well done Sherry, you and Banshee had a good weekend. πŸ‘πŸ’œπŸ˜€
A credit to how hard you have worked.
It might not be perfect, but your understanding of training is improving all the time.
Congratulations πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

I got a sad message tonight from Jane to tell me she had said goodbye to her best mate Fergus today.My thoughts are with...
31/05/2026

I got a sad message tonight from Jane to tell me she had said goodbye to her best mate Fergus today.
My thoughts are with Jane at this sad time.
Run Free Fergus
You were a special boy who will be missed so much, Thankyou for introducing your owner Jane to me, she has become one of the special people in my life.
You and Jane had a great partnership in life and in dog sport. From beginners to Test C together in obedience, great at scent work, canine good citizen Gold, RallyO advanced dog.
You could certainly do it all
Your titles
CDXG RA TCQ SA AIS AES EVS MCS CGCG
Just shows what a great partnership you and Jane had.
Love you Fergus and I will miss that excited greeting you gave me every time I visited. Run free my friend

31/05/2026

Jodi Cowan a 50 year old woman was mauled to death by two dogs while out walking.

While this happened overseas, mark my words it will happen more here too.
Until the day we start being way more careful about the experience of owners of fighting or combat breeds and the crosses of these breeds, we will have this sort of thing happen more in NZ.

I believe breeders and welfare organisations need to only sell these breeds to really experienced good dog owners.
As inexperience will not save a life either canine or human.
RIP Jodi

Out and about today Guess where?And all the other dogs we met were on lead and just walked on by. There were lots of the...
30/05/2026

Out and about today
Guess where?
And all the other dogs we met were on lead and just walked on by. There were lots of them, great to see πŸ’œ

Thankyou to all that came to yesterdays seminar, I hope you learnt some new things or it reinforced some old things that...
24/05/2026

Thankyou to all that came to yesterdays seminar, I hope you learnt some new things or it reinforced some old things that you needed to rethink.

Question for you all???How many responsible dog owners are too scared to walk their dogs on the streets? Fear of it’s ok...
19/05/2026

Question for you all???

How many responsible dog owners are too scared to walk their dogs on the streets?
Fear of it’s ok he friendly people?
Fear of aggressive dogs?
Fear of owners that have no clue of what they own or how to control it?

Have your say tell us why you no long walk your dog on the streets or if you do why you do and have you had any problems?

So a lot of people have asked me how I chose Scorch here’s how.1. Decided on the type of dog I wanted wirehaired Jack Ru...
15/05/2026

So a lot of people have asked me how I chose Scorch here’s how.

1. Decided on the type of dog I wanted wirehaired Jack Russell x Bichon.

2. Spend months looking for that cross.

3. Find that cross, talk to the person who bred them, ask her if she will send you photos and videos of the boys that are available. (Thanks for doing that Glenys)

4. Decide that yes it is worth calling in a favour on a couple of the pups. So Ring my friend Lynda Loader (the only person I would trust with this job) and ask her if she could pleeaseee go and test some pups for me. (She said yesπŸ’œ thanksπŸ’œ)

5. Do Not tell Lynda which one I like and cross my fingers and toes that the one I like is ok when she tests them.

6. Get the video phone call from Lynda, with her saying β€œI like this one” πŸ‘pheww she picked the same one I liked.

7. Ask Glenys if Lynda could pick him up and bring him to Rotorua show for me (she said yes thanks Glenys)

8. Get video calls from Lynda on the way down teasing me that she might not let him goπŸ˜‚ (Thanks for making his first car trip a great experience Lynda and Wayne)πŸ’œ

9. He arrives and straight away all that meet him love him, once we could get him out of Lynda’s arms πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

10. Now have to share this special wee guy with my hubby. Who loves his Timmy (his name for Scorch)

So biggest Thankyou To
Glenys for breeding him
Lynda for testing him
Wayne for going out of his way to pick him up
THANKS ALL πŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œπŸ’œ

So over the weekend a couple of the team went to Taupo to compete in Obedience.  There were some good Results and it was...
10/05/2026

So over the weekend a couple of the team went to Taupo to compete in Obedience. There were some good Results and it was very good to see Brenda and Wikki competing again, and what a great weekend they had 2x1sts and a 2nd in test C and earning top dog for the weekend.
Sherri also had a lovely round on Saturday afternoon gaining a first place with Ditto. It was lovely to see the siblings first and second πŸ˜€
Irma got a placing with Spica
Sherry got some placings with Banshee in beginners.
Karen judged two tests and played in the ring with Smash.
Good luck for next weekend at Napier all πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ‘β­οΈ

08/05/2026
08/05/2026

Scorch story: Well here is the 5 month video. No things aren’t perfect but that’s ok as Karen says, there is plenty of time to polish and proof behaviors. And she is just happy that I love training ! πŸΎπŸ˜€πŸΎ

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PO Box 40620
Upper Hutt
5018

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 6:30pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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027 4971146

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