A Handy Bit of Serendipity September 29, 2005
I’ve thought for a while that the PuppyDeluxe & I needed some professional help to get her head straight again and put her on track to being the flyballer I reckon she could be. The difficulty with getting professional help in this area, as in so many others, is that I prefer to do so based on personal recommendations, rather than sticking a pin in the phone book and I don’t know anyone who has used a professional dog trainer/behaviourist.
I’ve seen lots & lots of good things said about this guy on the dogs forum that I read and would be happy to go see him, but there’s one problem. He’s in Sydney. As important as sorting the PuppyDeluxe out is to me, there’s no way I’m going to Sydney to do it.
Well the good news is that I don’t have to head up the Hume. He’s coming to Melbourne. In November. While I’m on leave. On a weekday. When Finn will be at childcare.
He’s doing a full day (6 hours) workshop at Beaconsfield and the PuppyDeluxe & I are going.
One workshop obviously isn’t going to make everything rosey, but it should give me the pointers I need to start to fix the things I’ve stuffed up and bring us that one step closer to a happy flyballing PuppyDeluxe.
Initially i thought you were talking about some exotic type of behavioural problem, but now I know why you didn’t contact Dr Harry
Good Luck with it! It’s the smart ones that get the better of us.