Chesterfield Dog Trainer & Behaviourist


Introduction
I started training dogs when I was in my early 20's. I had an unruley Jack Russell cross Staffordshire Bull Terrier that I had as a sort of rescue dog and he'd had very little training, and at 18 months old he was very boisterous. I took Rambo to training classes close by in the June that we got him and by the Christmas party he'd won dog of the year. The following year I did agility with him which he was pretty good at but quite slow so we didn't enter many competitions with him. I enjoyed training so much that I got a second dog, Osca a Border Collie pup, who I trained, although it was never my cup of tea to train for obedience competitions, he was just trained to behave mimself and come back when he was called, general stuff like that. The training classes were fun, so much so that I got a third dog, Bobby, a Border Collie cross terrier, not long after getting him I packed up the training classes as I had too many other commitments, however he was still trained to behave himself, come when called etc.
As time passed, my three original dogs passed away and one by one were replaced by others and at present we have four, all rescue dogs, and although a little boisterous at times, are well behaved.

The first one of this second wave of dogs, Neelix, I got in 2002, he like Rambo previously, was a nigtmare, running off at every oppertunity, jumping on furniture, barking all the time, and nipping you if you tried to tell him off. I thought to train him I needed serious help and took a behavioural course as well as a clicker training course, and within a few months he was brilliant, doing as he was told most of the time and enjoying the clicker training, so much so that within just two weeks of the course I'd taught him some tricks, jumping through my arms, weaving in and out my legs, and going away and laying on a mat, to name but three.

A few months prior to this I'd given up woprk due to illness and needed somthing less sressfull than the job I was doing and since going on the two courses decided to take the plundge and take dogtraining and behavioural work up as a job.


Here's the lad who started it all off, Rambo


Email & Links
Where, When & Cost?
Pauls Problem Pooches will visit you at your home for behavioural work, or at your local park for training, as long as the place is within EIGHT miles of Chesterfield. I do occasionally travel beyond eight miles if I don't have much work on at that time, but to cover the extra travelling it will cost 1 pound per mile (for every mile after the eight miles)  will be added to the price.

We normally work between the hours of 10am and 6.30pm (that is the time our last job would start), and work some weekends as well as weekdays. The times are a little flexible, sometimes we start a litlte earlier and occasionally a little later. PLEASE NOTE the evening work is only done during daylight hours, so during the winter months we generally finish around 4.30pm.

Each training session lasts between 35 to 40 minutes, normally the last excersize we do with the dog  will not be started after 35 minutes. I find for most dogs, anything longer than this and the dog gets bored.

With prices starting at around 6 pound 50 pence per session, we're possibly the cheapest in the area.

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What/How Do We Train?
We at Pauls Problem Pooches pride ourselves on our adaptability, we don't take a dog on and say this is how we will train him, we use kind methods, often reward related, that are tailored to suite YOUR dog. Unlike a lot of  peple doing similar things we don't offer guarentees, we beleive that ANY dog can be made better than it was before it came to us, but every dog is individual, and where as some will learn easy, occasionally some will hardly learn anything.

As well as behavioral work we train, and can train your dog to do a variety of things including:
general obdience (staying, coming when called, walking without pulling etc); tricks (jumping through hoops or your arms, skipping, weaving in out your legs, playing dead etc... YOU CAN CERTAINLY IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS WITH THESE); fetching things (is the remote in the kitchen and you can't be bothered to get up?); catching frizbees ; or doing tasks around the house to help the disabled