Services
Buckinghamshire Dog Training UK - Tailored To Your Dog
Full Time Intensive Training
Our fully bespoke, full-time intensive training courses are the ideal solution for those looking for rapid results, for dogs with multiple behavioral issues, for extremely prey-driven dogs and more. Because training you, the owner is such a pivotal part of ensuring the long term success of your dogs training journey, we have a thorough handover process, extensive aftercare and send you how-to videos so that you learn as your dog learns, even if you're not there.
We are a small company who take pride in only ever taking in one or two dogs at a time for our in-house training.
We do not utilise outdoor kennels, instead treating your dog as one of our own.
Our full-time intensive training packages include a thorough handover process and extensive aftercare including multiple private sessions to ensure your dogs new training sticks and is easy for you to maintain.
Our Full Time Intensive Training starts at £2300 for four weeks and we offer packages up to eight weeks in length where needed.
UPDATE: Frustratingly, due to our governments recent decisions and subsequent changes to our insurers policies, we are no longer able to accept XL Bullies for any of our intensive training packages. We apologise profusely for this. We can however still see your exempted XL for private training sessions and are working on legally compliant XLs being permitted in our group sessions. Please contact us for details.
Private Training Sessions (1-2-1s)
Covering all common behavioral and training issues, our highly tailored (approximately) one hour long training sessions work to strengthen your handling, management skills and confidence just as much as they do your dogs'.
We can hold these sessions at our private training ground, come to your home or work in the specific environments that your dog is struggling with.
UPDATE: We are pleased to be able to continue to offer private training sessions for legally compliant, exempted XL Bullies and pitbulls.
These sessions are £75
The original Leash and Learn Training Walks (although we are rapidly gaining imitators!)
A Little Goes a Long Way
Our training walks are approximately an hour long and during this time we will actively work on manners on lead, loose lead walking skills, reactivity, basic obedience or even provide specialist trick training for mental enrichment and confidence building. We created these walks as a more financially attainable way of accessing professional training but also as an opportunity for your dog to gain vital mental stimulation over and above what a standard dog walking service is able to provide.
During your dogs walk, you will receive videos of their progress as well as short how-to demonstrations to help you maintain the training we put on your dog. We hold regular group classes specifically tailored to our L&L clients where we give you additional coaching too as it is vital that you as the owner are taught how to maintain our training.
£30 per hour
Intensive Training Days
The Perfect Alternative To Traditional Residential Training
Available from spring through until autumn, our ITD's are the perfect alternative to traditional residential training.
We generally run these days from our private training ground in Great Kingshill and provide a successful and cost effective means of tackling manners around other dogs, safe socialisation*, reactivity**, general obedience, recall and even canine fitness and conditioning.
Healthy, high value training rewards are included so be sure to tell us if your dog has any allergies.
And yes, we train you too!
Starting at £1000 for 1 full day per week for 8 consecutive weeks.
Your dog will usually spend half of his or her training day on our private land practicing things like recall, dropping a toy on command, learning to be neutral and polite around other dogs. The other half of their day we take them out and about for walks to train in the "real world" and will work their obedience around the local area.
They will also receive a few essential rest periods to ensure they can adequately process the training they receive and do not burn out.
You'll be given time to ask questions, learn what we have been teaching your dog and discuss the various videos you received throughout the day.
*Please note, whilst we offer socialisation training, we are NOT a doggy day care facility. Good social etiquette is a vital aspect of becoming a good family pet and therefore it is important that dogs learn how to interact with one another safely or ignore other dogs if this is what their temperament dictates is safest. For these reasons, we include socialisation as part of our syllabus though it is a small part of a much wider picture.
** Please be aware that ITD's are not a suitable environment or training strategy for true aggression cases or severe resource guarders. Please contact us to discuss better options for these dogs.
Unsure? We are here to help you decide what service plan is right for you.
About Bucks Dog Training UK
Educated * Effective * Experienced
The Bucks Dog Training UK training system is best described as heavily reward-based and focused on making good, appropriate behaviour something your dog chooses to do because it's fun for them.
The bulk of our training is done by finding something the dog finds reinforcing (such as food, a ball, play, praise) and then utilising it as payment for when the dog complies, is learning new things or is making an effort to get things right.
Reward systems work to increase the likelihood of your dog performing that behaviour in future and so are superb for teaching new skills. They do however often fall flat in the moments you need them to hold up the most if they are our only option (e.g. recalling off a deer, not eating that cooked chicken bone the dog found in the park, not jumping all over exciting visitors etc).
This being the case, behaviours that are dangerous to either owner, dog or both such as car or sheep chasing are things we will work to eradicate as swiftly, clearly and fairly as possible before immediately returning to our usual fun and reward based methods.
We do this because reward-only systems often struggle or fail completely to override the incidence of a dog performing an unwanted behaviour that he finds fun and attempts to merely replace it with a new, less exciting one is very often an unfair and incomplete picture to the dog. It can also drag out training for far longer than necessary, lead to lifelong management rather than an actual fix and can even put the dog and owner at unnecessary risk.
So as much as we always want to keep training fun, we also have to keep it realistic and effective and thus will use safe, fair correction to enforce boundaries where it is necessary for the dogs long term welfare.
We are also strongly of the opinion that it is highly unethical to spend many months or even years keeping a high energy, high drive dog confined to a lead (especially if charging the owner continuously) whilst trying to create a truly reliable recall when this can generally be achieved in 6 to 12 weeks using a less closed-minded ideodology that sees the dog able to burn off steam properly and be trusted to have real unconfined freedom to be a dog.
A properly exercised dog is also usually a dog with fewer behavioural issues so this is an important factor to consider too.
This all being the case, we are proud to be able to offer gentle, safe and effective remote collar training to dogs for whom a reward-only system is failing or who have such powerful prey drives that it is unsafe to permit them off lead without a safety net. By doing this, we are thereby ensuring their long term welfare and (one of the Five Freedoms) ability to express natural behaviours safely without risk to themselves or others.
We do not really ascribe to any of the Internet dog training labels such as "force" free, balanced or purely positive as training should be appropriate, effective and tailored to each and every dog and owner as the individuals they are.
Closed systems and labels don't do anyone any one any favours and frankly, labels don't train dogs.
