The dog trainer with dreads

09/07/2025

Meet Eddie! 🐾

Eddie is a high-energy little rocket with a big personality and an even bigger heart 💥💚 Recently adopted from the Ballarat Animal Shelter, his new owner reached out for help settling him into his forever home.

Together, we worked on building strong foundations and tackling a few key challenges – including helping Eddie manage frustration, which sometimes led to redirection onto his owner. He had me laughing every session with his antics, and it’s been such a joy to see his progress!

Here’s what we focused on: 🔹 Finding a diet to support his sensitive tummy

🔹 Toilet training and building a reliable routine

🔹 Creating a clear communication system

🔹 Settling indoors with bed work and crate training

🔹 Structured play to help with impulse control and frustration tolerance

🔹 Obedience – including engagement, positions, stays, and loose leash walking

🎥 Check out Eddie in the video showing off his loose leash walking skills — a big achievement for a boy who started off pulling like a freight train!

Eddie’s owner truly put in the hard yards, and watching their bond grow has been an absolute pleasure. Go Eddie! 🐶💪

07/07/2025

Meet Frankie! 🐾
This sweetheart's family is gearing up for a lap around Australia and wanted to help Frankie feel more confident before hitting the road.

When I first met, Frankie was a little unsure of me—but with each session, her tail wagged a bit harder and her eyes lit up a bit more 🥹💛

In our first chat, something stood out: Frankie had experienced temporary paralysis in her back end after an injury in the yard. Thankfully, by the time she reached the vet she was walking again—but it raised red flags.

We made seeing a professional our first step. After just one session with the amazing Aurora the vet nurse Frankie was already showing signs of relief—and a noticeable drop in reactivity.

Pain can often be behind reactivity. For Frankie, it was taking a toll on her confidence. So we focused her training on confidence building and practical travel-friendly skills her family can use on the road.

As someone planning my own Big Lap with dogs, I’ve thought a lot about the kind of skills that make vanlife easier for dogs and humans alike 🚌🐶

Watching Frankie grow braver, happier, and even more connected to her humans was such a joy. I’m so proud of this little legend 💪🐾

01/07/2025

Molly's owners absolutely aced their homework! I loved watching Molly's confidence grow during the sessions and slowly becoming more and more comfortable with Ricky being near by 🥲
The biggest win for me as the trainer though, seeing Molly's owners read Molly's body language and communicate with her so clearly ❣️

16/06/2025

Meet Rex!
Rex's foster careers reached out for some assistance with Rex to help him become adoption ready and to help tackle a bit of reactivity Rex was struggling with.
Rex is a very social dude, and was getting frustrated when on leash when he would see another dog.
Rex is such a sweet dog, and has come so far in such a short period of time.

11/06/2025

Meet little Charlie 🥹🥹
Charlie is a golden retriever x Labrador and I'm obsessed.

More puppies please 🙏

10/06/2025

How cute is little Autumn the kelpie x puppy 🥹

28/05/2025

I had the absolute pleasure of meeting this sweet young Labrador Molly to help her with a little bit of reactivity and building some more confidence.

27/05/2025

How cute is little Billy! 🥹
I had the absolute pleasure of teaching this clever little fella some loose leash walking.

29/04/2025

Still in awe over the weekend! Ricky and I absolutely love these competitions.

Thankyou again to , for putting on such a fun completion and to .hound for sponsoring such incredible prizes!
As well as the dogs (mostly me) are so excited about all the goodies we picked up at the comp!

Thankyou .of.holly
For getting these ripper photos of Ricky where Rick and I are pulling the same serious faces 😂

Swipe to see the bloopers of our Photoshop 😂

08/04/2025

08/04/2025

Entries are live for our next club event 💦
We are also so excited to announce the .hound will be sponsoring this event!

The event will run on the 26th and 27th of April at our sanctioned facility 💦
Head over to the Dock Dogs App to secure your spot

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25/03/2025

Meet Frank!
Frank is such a sweetheart and in the house he is the perfect angel, though out on walks he was struggling with some big and loud reactions when he would see other dogs and sometimes people.
Though Frank is friendly, he is over social and would assume that every dog he saw when he was out on a walk was a potential friend and would vocalise with the frustration of being on leash and not being able to go and say hello freely.

I'm so impressed with Franks progress during our sessions! His owners have really put in so much work with Frank that during our last two sessions there were no reactions at all!

Well done Frank!