Meet the team
Alice - Trainer & Behaviourist
The Dream Dog was formed from Alice’s love for dogs and helping people. Alice uses her combined skills of people management with her studies in canine behaviour to help people understand how to better communicate and work with their dogs.
Alice began her career as a dog trainer working in rescue. Her experience comes from working with a range of different behavioural issues enabling her to provide support for simple things like recalls to dealing with more complex behaviours such as separation anxiety and aggression. Alice is working towards accreditation with The Institute of Modern Dog Trainers (IMDT) and is a member of the World Scent Dog Association (WSDA).
Woody & Stella - Co-founders
Stella (Cairn Terrier) is a super girl and a very well rounded dog. She has been used for stooging for nervous and excitable dogs who need to learn appropriate ways of greeting. Stella’s favourite thing to do is sleep!
Woody (Pomeranian) was rescued at 5 weeks old so we don’t know much about his previous life. He’s very smart and loves to train. He has a sensitive side to him and shows subtle body language that can help owners identify similar signals in their own dog.
Our Services
Private 121s
Our 121s will provide you with an hour to focus on specific areas of your dog's behaviour to teach vital life skills or basic obedience such as recall, pulling on the lead, jumping up etc.
These sessions are suitable for dogs of any age.
Session includes:
- A pre-session phone consultation to identify your dog's behaviour and training needs
- A one hour training session with you and your dog
- A detailed follow up report at the end of the session
- Ongoing phone/email support for up to 1 month
Training 121s - £60 per hour
Behavioural 121s - £80 per hour
Video call
Our video calls provide you with the opportunity to receive training advice from the comfort of your home. We are able to advise on basic training needs and help guide you through training exercises on the call.
Video calls are also perfect for discussing how to prepare for a new puppy!
Session includes:
- A 30 minute zoom/phone call to provide basic behaviour and training advice (aggression is excluded from this service)
- A detailed follow email at the end of the session including all training advice discussed on the call
- Follow up calls are discounted to £20
£30 for 30 minutes
4 week Training Programme
Our 4 week training programme is designed to provide you with more time and support to work on your dog’s behaviour and training needs. This can include basic obedience training or complex behavioural issues e.g. resource guarding, dog-dog aggression, dog-human aggression, separation anxiety, excessive barking, noise phobias etc.
These sessions are suitable for dogs of any age.
Session includes:
- A pre-session phone consultation to identify and discuss your dog's behaviour and training needs to formulate a plan to ensure you achieve success with your dog
- 4 x one hour training sessions to carry out your training plan
- A detailed follow up report at the end of each session
- Ongoing phone/email support for up to 3 months
£200 for 4 weeks
Puppy Training Classes
Coming soon...
Our 5 week course is based around teaching your puppy vital life skills, socialising and building a bond with you. We will teach your puppy self-control, being calm and able to listen and to have good manners beyond just basic obedience.
This course is for puppies aged 8-20 weeks (at the start of the course). Each of the 6 classes will run for one hour. With only 6 puppies in each class, you will have first-class help and support on-hand throughout the course.
Course covers:
- Advice on puppy matters e.g. biting, chewing, toilet training etc
- Teaching basic cues e.g. sit, stay, leave it, settle, drop
- Recall training
- Focus/watch me
- Loose lead walking
- Handling and examination skills for vets and groomers
- How to greet without jumping up
- Socialisation and appropriate play with other dogs
- Socialisation around new people
£200 for 6 weeks
Foundation to Scent Training Workshop
Watch this space!
We will be introducing a new scent training workshop to active your dog's nose. Scent training can be great for all types of dogs, you don’t just need a bloodhound to do it!
Scent training can act as a great way to mentally stimulate your dog, tire them out and teach them something new!
Please note up to 6 dogs can attend this workshop as a group class.
Workshop includes:
3 X 1 hour sessions to work on odour pairing, teaching your dog to indicate and odour discrimination
£100
Testimonials
Bonnie
Crumpet
Crumpet
Alice is an amazing dog trainer, no doubt about it! She is extremely informative and makes sure that you understand why certain ways of training are better for your dog than others, so you yourself learn things as well as your dog. We had 4 sessions with Alice, and felt that our puppy learnt more in those sessions than in the 10 sessions
Alice is an amazing dog trainer, no doubt about it! She is extremely informative and makes sure that you understand why certain ways of training are better for your dog than others, so you yourself learn things as well as your dog. We had 4 sessions with Alice, and felt that our puppy learnt more in those sessions than in the 10 sessions we had with another trainer! We learnt several commands/behaviours which were extremely useful and kept our puppy stimulated throughout the session. I have never seen another dog trainer be so passionate and organised!! And to top it all off, the prices are extremely reasonable, and well worth the money!
Crumpet
Crumpet
Crumpet
Alice had Crumpet engaged from the offset and we saw the benefits from our first session immediately. Everything from the pre-planning elements to written feedback was undertaken with professionalism, structure, and ongoing reassurance - Alice removed the angst from our early learning experience. Highly recommend.
Pandora
Crumpet
Pandora
Alice is an excellent trainer. I came to her when I was experiencing my dog barking at other dogs when walking on the lead. Within only a few training sessions I was able to see a difference in Pandora who was much more focused on me and could look at other dogs in the distance with no reaction. A month on and Pandora can now walk next to
Alice is an excellent trainer. I came to her when I was experiencing my dog barking at other dogs when walking on the lead. Within only a few training sessions I was able to see a difference in Pandora who was much more focused on me and could look at other dogs in the distance with no reaction. A month on and Pandora can now walk next to other dogs with no reaction at all! Amazing!! I loved training with Alice, she was dedicated, clear on what I had to do and was able to get the best out of Pandora.
Luna
Hattie
Pandora
Being a first time dog owner I didn’t know what to expect when it came to puppy training but Alice made it so simple and easy for us. From the start we could see Alice had lots of experience working with and understanding dogs.
Not only did she provide a clear training plan on what we had to do but also went the extra mile to help us when
Being a first time dog owner I didn’t know what to expect when it came to puppy training but Alice made it so simple and easy for us. From the start we could see Alice had lots of experience working with and understanding dogs.
Not only did she provide a clear training plan on what we had to do but also went the extra mile to help us when Luna decided she would become a fussy eater. Alice was able to get us to think outside the box with Luna’s training and find fun ways to encourage her to eat! I would definitely recommend Alice to anyone who is looking for a fun and friendly yet professional dog trainer.
Hattie
Hattie
Hattie
Alice was keenly interested in what Hattie’s needs were and equipped us with the tools to help get her there. We really liked how Alice was able to get us to think like a dog, which helped us to understand how Hattie experiences the world and how to apply this to her training. Asides from being brilliant with Hattie, Alice had a kind, app
Alice was keenly interested in what Hattie’s needs were and equipped us with the tools to help get her there. We really liked how Alice was able to get us to think like a dog, which helped us to understand how Hattie experiences the world and how to apply this to her training. Asides from being brilliant with Hattie, Alice had a kind, approachable and non-judgemental style to her training. She works hard and is always available to offer help/advice when needed. We look forward to training with Alice again in the future.