About us
Our training philosophy is based on three principles:
Story -its the dog's
Management
Acknowledgement
Relationships
Training
All Training Methods are force free and utilise reward based training methods. All methods are those advocated by the RSPCA, the Australian Veterinary Association Behaviour Interest Group and the Delta Society.
Check Chains, Shock Collars and Prong Collars are never used.
About Gill Anderson
Gill with Specs and Copilot
Gill Anderson is a retired teacher with 35 years teaching experience. She has a Bachelor of Education and a Masters from Queensland University of Technology. She also has a Graduate Diploma of Applied Linguistics from Griffith University.
She has been running dog training classes since 2004: holds a Cert 4 in Companion Animal Services through the Delta Society .
Gill is a Certified Trick Dog Instructor and Certified Fun Scent Game Instructor..
Her passion is coaching people to develop life and social skills in their dogs so that dogs are healthy happy members of their family. Management, Training and Building a Relationship are important components of her training philosophy.
As a former teacher Gill understands the importance of providing structure for children and believes the same applies to dogs. Force Free Training based on scientific approaches are techniques Gill applies to all learning.
She lives with her husband Don and their two Dalmatians Specs and Copilot who have agility, trick dog and cyber rally titles.
Gill is a member of
- Association of Pet Dog Trainers Australia
- Pet Professional Guild Australia
