John Gatt K9

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Dog Trainer 🐕 | K9 Behaviourist | 55 Years Experience
Specialist in Dog Psychology 🧠
Based on the NSW Central Coast 📍
Serving all of Australia 🇦🇺 — in-person & online
Helping dogs + owners build trust, respect & results 🐾

Heading into my 32nd year on the Coast helping rehabilitate rescue dogs, running home behavioural consultations, k9 boot...
01/12/2025

Heading into my 32nd year on the Coast helping rehabilitate rescue dogs, running home behavioural consultations, k9 bootcamp training classes, k9 detection work, and snake avoidance workshops. 🐾🔥

As I mentioned earlier, on December 14th I’ll be running three FREE workshops as my way of saying thank you to everyone who has supported me over all these years.

Giving back to the community is what makes this work worth it — and I’m looking forward to continuing to serve the Central Coast, Sydney, ACT, Melbourne and QLD for as many more years as this body will let me. 😆🤣
(If I’m in a wheelchair by then, I’ll still be yelling instructions from it! 👊🐕)

I truly believe God blessed me with this gift, and I’ll continue using it to help as many dogs and owners as I can.

👉 For all details and how to register for free, just search John Gatt K9 on Facebook or call 0414 562 746.

Be nice, be kind, and please be safe.
— Johnney

01/12/2025

Just before I start my editorial on this behavioural consultation with Lisa and Teddy, I went to see mu Dr this afternoon usual check up, as he knows I work with dogs he asked me any interesting cases lately? I replied...absolutely! in fact it was this morning... I proceeded to show him this vidio clip what your about to see , very impressive 👏 he said... how on earth did you that? And how long did it take you to stop it? My reply....how long? 10 minutes and how?? You pay for it like my clients do, we both laughed but I thought I'd tell him any way being a Dr friend of mine . So when he finished with my medical consultation I went to pay the reception the 80 bucks visit and she said... Dr said it's free, so he did pay me.! 😆 🤣 😂.

Now to this very unusual consultation that I've never come across before, I truly had to put on my thinking cap on to see how I can resolve teddies hyper reactiveness in the bowling club.

Meet lisa and teddy the sheepadoodle as you'd know by now lisa and Teddy have been my clients for a while to be trained as a certified assistant dog and they were nearly there until ? ...... Lisa one afternoon decided to go to a bowling centre for a fun night out with friends but!... unfortunately it didn't happen due to Teddies behaviour as you see here, but unfortunately she had to leave and go home .

Lisa immediately rang me to see if I can assist with Ted's unseen before behaviour.

Check it out folks.. yes I had to sit down for a little while to put together how to stop teddies unruly behaviour in a public place before he can be a certified assistant dog in the feture.

Now that we have him nice and calm a few more repetitive visits he'll be fine to proceed as a feture assistant dog.

John.

Be nice, be calm and be kind .

Johnneys here !!! Hay Johnney give me a scratch 😆 🤣 😂 But seriously... this over excited pooch is a huge headache for th...
29/11/2025

Johnneys here !!! Hay Johnney give me a scratch 😆 🤣 😂

But seriously... this over excited pooch is a huge headache for the owners when any visitors come !

Let's undo what was once learnt behaviour from the owners by exciting him with hyper greetings when coming home from work ; and this why I also recommended don't greet your pooch straight away when coming home but rather don't engage with him till he or she settles in a calm state of mind then call them to you calmly not crazy greetings.

Now that I introduced no hyper jumping which in the future there can be consequences on his joints but also boundaries and boom! Look where he needs to be in the photo on your right..

Happy clients? Happy John.

Be nice be kind and be safe

Aussie says.....Another hot day coming up you all!.So please ensure there's plenty of sheltered water, shelter like with...
26/11/2025

Aussie says.....Another hot day coming up you all!.

So please ensure there's plenty of sheltered water, shelter like with a wet towel like my leader John does for me , and of course when he's not to busy he throws in a 2 little frozen container with yummo treats inside of it for me to lick em out .

I've got a good leader , provider and protector!.

Aussie.

Give my k9 buddies a pat for me !.

26/11/2025

When will dog owners take my advice when it comes to puppy education??.

I formulated my puppy education program for owners from many years of handling and watching dog behaviours and the consequences of how we bring puppy up and of course what we give them as puppies like these dam squeaky teddy bears, different shapes of little animals, shapes of hot dogs and burgers and add sausages in there as well with high pitched squeakys in the toys!.

Make no mistakes here... when I went to take his toys out of the crate he jumped and tried to bite me! This is not funny or cute ! Could you imagine if it was a innocent child that wanted to pick up one of his toys because in association it looks like the child's toy???.

A little advice if I may ..... especially if you purchased a young muscle breed, ( bull breed, security breeds, hunting breeds) and you would like your puppy to become aggressive or try's to kill other animals even little dogs on a dog walk or perhaps counter surfing the kitchen looking for your food then keep giving those dam toys that pet shops or even most dog trainers, puppy schools will advice you to give your puppy just to occupy them!.

Puppies are not human children! They are young predators natural instincts to kill, rip, throw around the kill, also dangerous to their health!. ( swallowed buttons, squeakys, treated fillings, and the whole toy) which dogs have died from these horrible cheap dog toys!.

But..... if you'd like to have a smart dog in the future?.... buy them brain / stimulating toys !. Make sense 👌?.

John.

Be nice, be kind and be safe.

25/11/2025

This is a serious tuff dog that needs tuff luck on it's feelings!. ( I don't like the change).

When highly aggressive dogs that comes to me with their owners seeking advice and learn how to challenge their pooches behaviour towards people or dogs like this fella I quickly assess firstly the state of mind it's in...the owners ability to control their dog.... the temperament of the owner compared to the temperament of their dog ... and also what training equipment is being used and what is needed, as you can see placing the wrong training equipment on this pooch which was advised by other trainers is definitely the wrong one as it's choking the pooch while trying to land a hard core luv bite on Aussie!.

So once that important assessment is done as each dog and owners are different from one another I formulate the appropriate tools and handling skills that's needed , but ?... as I keep mentioning...I can only assess, help, teach, provide tools, and the rest is up to you! To enforce what was taught day to day slowly as for example: if your pooch is 4 years old you have 2 weeks of each year that they are enforceing consistency training of what was taught by me!. So if she's 4 years old there's 8 weeks of rehabilitation training to be done.

As humans unfortunately we expect so much in little time when it comes to behavioural modification, the older they are with behavioural issues the longer it takes in most cases.

So, ... with this fella like many others that come to me for help I quickly handle her first with my 3 in one lead challenged her unwanted behaviour with calm balanced directions and the right leash!. Yes.. as you can see she doesn't like it right? Well, it's a bad luck from me and the owner as she, like many reactive dogs don't like being controlled or challenge buy their actions!

Buy the time she left me with the new owners ( rescue dog, God bless him) she was mentally at peace and so was the owner, and so was I 😆 🤣.

So after the consultation we are going to do some car anticipation training, and she done well on that one to.! Bloody owner he really milked me on this job 😆 🤣 😂

John.

Please be nice, be kind and be safe especially around this time of year.

22/11/2025

I haven't seen my old mate chaos in weeks as I've been soooo busy with work and all, so I finally got my first free afternoon and took advantage to go and visit Chaos.

1st, let's greet and play .

2nd.. a little obedience with a new introduction language ( Maltese) sit, stay, come and down ! Doing well for his first language association.

3. Don't push it by trying to come inside
The kitchen it's obvious he tried before lol. Love ya Chaos until our next catch up training date it'll be German commands once he's profound with the first two obedience language commands.

John and Chaos.

Be nice , be kind and be safe.

19/11/2025

This tuff American staffie was the most and I mean most challenging dog I ever come across!.

At 4 years old and muscle bound this tuff pooch knew it!, selective hearing, highly territorial near that gate, pulls on the leash like no one is behind him , and much stronger then the owner when trying to walk him.

But, the owner being very concerned and honest excepting that he failed his loving pooch behaviour for not getting on to him as a pup or contacting me .

So, I'm here as the last resort again hopefully to stop this uncontrollable behaviour at the gate every time a person walks past the gate especially with a dog or he hears a motor bike goes by.

I was just as pleased as the owner was I finally got inside his hard head to understand that the gate is a boundary and must not be territorial over it as this concerning behaviour that he displayed was once reported to the council.

The great news ...... we are finally getting there! Now , for the next challenge... the leash control walking it's going to be a huge challenge knowing he is 4 years old and that's all he knows how to walk. Ill keep you posted next meeting I have with him.

John.

Be nice, be kind and be safe

18/11/2025

The chicken snatching thief ! Lol.

But seriously it's not a laughing matter as this cavoodle has killed one chicken and injured another!.

So let's create a boundary where he is not allowed to roam and explore and make those cooks a lot less appetising.

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