Testimonials

Ash from Cambridge wrote;

I have an over excitable Staffordshire Bull Terrier, who had been allowed to slip into a few bad habits over the years. Linda agreed to train ME as well as my dog!

She made me realise that I wasn't challenging my dog enough 'mentally'. Linda spent a good 2 hours showing me techniques that would encourage better behaviour, as well as how to avoid inciting over excitement.

Although my dog hadn't particularly done very much physically that day, she was rather exhausted because of the mental exertion. It seemed that she had got just as much, if not more out of that training session than a long walk.

Linda taught me some obedience moves and tricks on how to keep your dog close. We made mock jumps in the garden and did some agility. It was good fun for all of us!

Linda knows what makes a dog tick, although often it can be the owners that need the training. She pulls no punches about letting you know where you are going right and wrong, she just says it like it is. Personally I find that her honesty and forthrightness are good qualities to have, especially for any change work that may be necessary.

Linda knows her stuff, has a huge heart and does anything she can to help animals. I admire her integrity and strong will. There aren't many people that I would trust with my dogs except Linda. I trust her implicitly!

Chris & Phil Begley from Hilton, Cambs wrote;

Our German Shepherd puppy, Zak, came to live with us when he was ten weeks old.  We initially decided to take him to puppy training classes, mainly so that he could socialise and also so that he could learn the basics, but we quickly found that he was easily distracted and just wanted to play with all the other puppies and totally disrupted the class!

Linda came highly recommended to us and was very happy to come to our home to meet Zak and train us!  Linda is passionate about her work, her dogs and her clients.  She is firm but gentle and soon got a measure of our ‘baby’.  We have now mastered all the basics of ‘sit’, ‘down’, ‘stay’ etc and are now working on more advanced tasks such as ‘the front door bell’ (always a challenge) and pulling on the lead (even more of a challenge).  We have no doubt that Linda will have these under control very quickly indeed.  Because of the work Linda has put in with our puppy, we now have a sociable and happy pooch!

Linda’s enthusiasm is totally infectious and we would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending her as a ‘personal trainer’.

Lesley Dropinski from Abington wrote; 

I have known Linda for just over a year and she has been visiting me during that time, teaching me and my dogs how to train and do tricks and agility.

The first a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, called Jock was so clever that he had his own parachute regiment uniform and could stand to attention and salute, creep, spin, whirl, sleep, advance, retreat, he could dance on his back legs, he loved agility and adored Linda. Unfortunately we lost Jock in an accident, and he is really missed by us all.

The second Staffordshire Bull Terrier, a cousin to Jock, also named Jock has started to train with Linda and already after a few weeks he walks beautifully to heel, sits, whirls, retrieves and is as excited when Linda comes as our first Jock was.

She has even been able to teach my Dogue de Bordeaux Mae at 10yrs old to follow the agility circuit, I wished I’d known Linda 10 years ago as Mae would have loved it when she was younger being so agile.

Linda has spent time with some of my staff giving them tips on how to get the best out of the dogs that stay in the kennels and how to stimulate them by showing them tricks.

I am hoping our friendship with Linda carries on for years to come with me and my husband and through the kennels.

Bernard Lobb from Cambridge wrote;

When we acquired a terrier pup Linda came to our house to help train the dog. She also explained that she would train us also so we could carry on her good work.

She gets into the animals mind and after a few lessons was getting the dog to do various disciplines such as stay, fetch, roll over, and creep along the ground.

He now sits and waits in the hall if someone comes to the front door, which is something she taught him to do. It really is amazing how she controls animals.