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About Amanda
Amanda is a qualified dog trainer & behaviour consultant who uses positive, reward-based methods and games to train dogs, meaning there is no pain, intimidation or fear involved. She specialises in building strong relationships between owners and their dogs and helps owners understand how dogs communicate.
Amanda works with all breeds and ages from puppies and adolescent to adults and seniors, as well as working with a range of behaviours including life skills and obedience. Amanda is passionate about growing confidence in our puppies & dogs to help create resilience, adaptability and optimism as much as possible, especially when faced with novelty or stressors in life.
Amanda has always had a passion for animals. She started working with farm animals and clicker training goats, while gaining Certificate III in Animal Studies. Then followed her dreams to Canada where she worked at Whistler Animal Shelter, gaining experience with rehabilitating rescue animals and also worked as a dog walker in the local area. This is where Amanda’s passion grew even more. Since returning home to Australia, Amanda pursued dog training, where she worked at a dog boarding kennel, becoming a Manager and gaining a Dog Training & Behaviour Certification.
Amanda then worked for Guide Dogs NSW/ACT as a Puppy Development Advisor, where her passion for puppy development grew even more, before pursuing pet dog training again. During this time Amanda gained the ProDog Trainer Certificate through Absolute Dogs. Amanda believes in continual professional development and has also graduated with a Diploma in Canine Behaviour Science & Technology through CASI. Amanda has also recently completed the Canine Conditioning Fitness Coach (CCFC) certification through Do More With Your Dog.
Amanda is a Dog Training Professional Member of Pet Professional Guild Australia (PPGA) and Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) Australia. Amanda's Dog Training Services is fully insured.
Services
Private in-home behaviour consults
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All ages
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Initial consult up to 1.5 hours in-home
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Further follow up consults (after initial) up to 1 hour each, in-home or a public environment (eg. park), depending on dogs needs
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These consults are for behavioural problems as well as teaching and strengthening obedience skills
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Behavioural form emailed to you prior to your initial consult
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Personalised training plan for you and your dog(s)
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Preparation work prior to each consultation
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Detailed session report after initial consult, email summary after follow up consults
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On-going support (training never stops!)
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Training treats for each consultation
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Follow up phone call/email one-two weeks after last consult
*Fee includes one dog, a $15 fee will be added on per extra dog, per session.
Initial consult $180
Follow up consults $140
The Confident Canine Package
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All ages
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3 x private consults, 45 minutes each
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This package is aimed at growing your dogs confidence & life skills, not obedience skills. This is done through games based training and body awareness. PLEASE NOTE: This package is not for behavioural issues, please refer to behaviour consults for this. Contact us if unsure
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Behavioural form emailed to you prior to first consult
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Preparation work prior to each consultation
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Details including handouts emailed after each session
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On-going support (training never stops!)
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Equipment brought to session to work with
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Training treats for each consultation
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Follow up phone call/email one-two weeks after last session
*Fee includes one dog, a $15 fee will be added on per extra dog, per session.
$390
Puppy Program
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For puppies 8-16 weeks old
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5 week intensive program, one session per week. All are private in-home sessions
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First session is 1 hour, then 4 x 45 minute sessions (following first session)
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Consisting of theory and practical
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Involving obedience skills, life skills, body awareness and confidence building games
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Puppy info pack & graduation certificate at last session
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Preparation work prior to each consultation
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Brief session report emailed to you after each consultation, outlining what we covered
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On-going support (training never stops!)
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Training treats for each consultation.
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Follow up phone call/email one-two weeks later once 5 sessions are complete
*Fee includes one puppy, a $15 fee will be added on per extra puppy, per session.
$550
The Active Adolescent Package
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For ages 6 months - 2 years
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3 x private consults, 45 minutes each
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This package is aimed at giving owners the education & tools to help their pup through maturity, involving enrichment, meeting your dogs needs, confidence building, games, disengagement skills and troubleshooting any household challenges. PLEASE NOTE: This package is not for behavioural issues, please refer to behaviour consults for this. Contact us if unsure
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Behavioural form emailed to you prior to first consult
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Preparation work prior to each consultation
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Details including handouts emailed after each session
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On-going support (training never stops!)
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Equipment brought to session to work with
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Training treats for each consultation
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Follow up phone call/email one-two weeks after last session
*Fee includes one dog, a $15 fee will be added on per extra dog, per session.
$390
Shop Mini Courses
●WHY dogs jump and how to give a dog the gift of calmness, establish rock-solid boundaries and set your dog up for a lifetime of success
●How transformational your own mindset shift can be when you flip thinking about what you don’t want into what you DO want instead!
●Management strategies and solutions to get your training off to the best start!
●How to skill up your dog to ace having visitors in your home and how to train your guests to be the perfect training assistants and set your dog up for success!
●This action packed mini-course is dedicated to help you turn your jumping up struggles to strengths thorough 16 powerful lessons with Game Ups (take your dog’s training to the next level) and Skill Ups (enhance your own learning to optimise your success). This is the path to achieving real-life results and overcoming jumping up struggles!
●A mini-course that will arm you with everything you need to achieve loose-leash walking success!
●A series of Game Up videos, demonstrating practical games to train your dog in just a few minutes a day and set them up for the total transformation of real-life results success!
●A series of Skill Up videos, where you get to geek out and learn all about how games-based training can reshape your dog’s brain and help you achieve amazing loose-leash walking skills, regardless of your dog’s age, breed or history!
●Terrific troubleshooting top tips on all the most common pulling on leash struggles faced by dog owners all over the world!
●Lifetime access to the course – so you can play again and again, as often as you want!
Our Happy Clients
What Our Clients Say
Amanda is a gem of a person and an amazing trainer who takes her time out to listen and answer questions patiently.
We have a Siberian Husky named Max who received puppy training and adolescent training , where she guided and helped us to teach commands and helped us with his walking on the leash which was one of the challenges which we faced.
Amanda is such very experienced trainer and her passion ,love for animals is very visible in her training methods.
Max not only learnt the basic commands, Amanda also helped us to empower Max through various stages of his growing up.
I strongly recommend her training services for anyone who is struggling with their pets and wants to overcome the challenges or has just begun a new journey as a pet parent.
Thank you Amanda for being such a positive influence in shaping up Max growing up.
Amanda is very professional and knowledgeable. She was responsive and prompt with her communication and the session reports she sent after our training sessions were comprehensive.
Her strategies were very helpful in training our dog, Nora, to become a more confident pup as well as us to be more confident owners. We highly recommend Amanda’s Dog Training Services to any dog owners.
Riel & Nora
Amanda was amazing to work with!
Her training guide and sessions where so helpful for my dog reactive dog
She guided us through every exercise and really broke down why we were doing it and how it could help
My confidence in handling my dog has sky rocketed and has made our walks a much more enjoyable experience!
We will continue to employ Amandas training technique to further improve upon the reactivity and help build mine and my dogs confidence in triggering situations
10/10 would recommend to anyone!
Shey & Kami
Deepali & Max
Contact
Servicing Orange, Bathurst and surrounding suburbs in the Central West NSW, Australia
0405 589 234