Behaviour care with trust and connection
We provide quality behaviour care for families seeking to troubleshoot behavioural challenges and bring their animals up with kindness, respect, and the strongest bond. Our approach is force-free, reward-based and committed to science and animal welfare. We offer behaviour consultation and training plans that bring perspective and set up a blueprint for preventing and tackling most of the challenges one can face raising a puppy, navigating dogs’ teenage days, handling leash reactivity and more.
Dogs and Bonds choose to nurture the “You can trust me, let’s have fun" attitude with the cleverest repertoire
Dog training is about communication, and it needs the right repertoire, dog and family on the same page. Our training plans aim to build on clever repertoire, most based on shaping, choice, and cooperative games, always working alongside everyone’s right motivation. Ultimately, we want you to team up with your pet and have this repertoire ready to go, fluently, to bring in connection and cooperation- that’s what it means to have a well-behaved pet, right? - one that shows willingness and bright eyes to cooperate with the things that are important to you.
We advocate for the physical and emotional well-being of the pets in our care, and also care for the guardian’s well-being, so instead of attitudes of the kind "Do it because I said so", Dogs and Bonds choose to nurture the “You can trust me, let’s have fun" attitude, as it builds trust and connection over time. It’s an approach that feels good for everyone and takes care of relationships at the end of the day. Manners and obedience come along much more reliably and pleasant this way.
Our approach is delineated by scientific principles of learning that apply to all species: effectively communicating what we want, through immediate feedback and rewarding for the desirable behaviour performed. As for undesirable behaviours, well, it is necessary to remove whatever is rewarding those behaviours before they are reinforced and get strong. A professional dog trainer is there for you to help to identify those ones and put a behaviour plan into action. A variety of learning and behaviour change strategies may come into play during a case. We follow the Most Positive, Least Intrusive guidelines when choosing a strategy out of a set of humane and effective tactics likely to succeed in achieving effective training and behaviour change.
