Neil Short obedience training

Neil Short obedience training Fun, effective dog obedience training courses for dog and owner. Monthly and day courses, one to one tuition, or behavioural work in the UK & abroad.

I train monthly obedience day courses Bristol in the UK and have several courses in Europe
throughout the year. These suit a range of people and breeds from beginners and puppies up to those competing at all levels of competition. However you don't have to compete to come along for a fun day out with your dog. If you or your dog are not suited for a group setting, then I also offer one to one l

essons for individuals or small groups. I am happy to discuss setting up new courses, or one off days and weekends either in the UK or abroad. I also have limited availability for behavioural work however this is typically only within the South Wales area. Please call me on 07826 146080 or email for more information or to arrange a place on a course.

Thank you to Ulrike for all your hard work and for making me feel so welcome in Munich.To everyone on the course, especi...
07/10/2025

Thank you to Ulrike for all your hard work and for making me feel so welcome in Munich.To everyone on the course, especially Steff and Farina, it was a pleasure to spend time with you all.
We covered agility, dog dance and obedience and it shows how we can all learn from different sports and apply this to our own chosen sport.
Seeing mistakes are just part of the learning process and solving these problems without our dogs thinking they have ever made a mistake in the first place is central to my philosophy.To see them as guides to show us what we have missed in our foundation training is essential to keep the joy,freedom and connection in our work.
To watch a dog work with complete freedom, no fear of failure and a love of working together as one is a joy to watch.To create this we must become experts at dealing with failure with no blame, the correct energy for our dogs and to step back and let our dogs make the choices in our training.This builds so much confidence and self esteem that then is felt by the handler and then that feeling and reward you give comes straight from your heart.
Well done everyone, you created some amazing results with lots of different characters of dogs.
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A big thank you to Ramona for inviting me to Dusselldorf to run a seminar.I always feel so welcome here.We had lots of d...
17/09/2025

A big thank you to Ramona for inviting me to Dusselldorf to run a seminar.
I always feel so welcome here.
We had lots of different breeds with lots of different characters.
Bringing out the characters of the dogs within their work is always lovely to see.
Letting the dogs make decisions in our training is essential for this to happen, building confidence where anxiety used to be, allowing freedom where control used to be and letting those characters shine through in their work.
To get to this we must look at failure in a different way.To see it as just a vital part of the learning process, to see it as our friend, not our enemy, and to look into it with no blame, so that we can learn the path we should have taken.
All we have to do is, in that moment of frustration, to take a step back and listen to what our dogs are telling us.Not easy to do if that moment, but the rewards and success are just around the corner when you do.
Thank you all for trusting in my way, it was great to see the changes in you and your dogs
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A super few days in Viborg, Denmark.Thank you Miriam for looking after me.What a big change in all your dogs.It was grea...
08/09/2025

A super few days in Viborg, Denmark.Thank you Miriam for looking after me.
What a big change in all your dogs.It was great to see.
Our top priority in dog training should always be how our dogs feel.When our dogs work with complete freedom,and joy, they have no fear of failure and the handler trusts them completely it really is the best feeling you could ever experience.To achieve this you need to forget about the future, forget what anyone else thinks and live completely in the moment with our dogs.To do this is easy when our dogs do what we would like, not so easy when they don't.
Becoming an expert, when the dog doesn't do what we want and seeing this as an opportunity for us to learn the bits we have missed in our training gives us so much power to turn those moments around.
We also feel a very positive, proud feeling for not just blaming the dog.It VERY rarely is a mistake, just a lack of clarity in some piece of our training.
All we have to do is to read what our own dogs are telling us in the moment,the answers are all there.We just have to look for them.
You all did this beautifully and the results were great to see.
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This was a lovely course to run for Hamar hundeskole in Norway.Thank you, as always to Hilde and Ann-Katrin for all your...
04/09/2025

This was a lovely course to run for Hamar hundeskole in Norway.
Thank you, as always to Hilde and Ann-Katrin for all your hard work and the atmosphere you create.
I was so impressed by the improvements you had all achieved.Its all starting to look really super.
Believe in yourselves and your dogs. Listen to what they are telling you in each moment, as they have all the answers to all your questions.Use any mistakes as opportunities to learn.They are the experts, all we have to do is to listen to them.
Well done to you all but most importantly we'll done for supporting and helping each other.It was a lovely friendly atmosphere for us all and your dogs to work in 👏🇬🇧❤️

Thank you to Ulrike for inviting me to Munich and for making feel so welcome.We had lots of different breeds and several...
15/07/2025

Thank you to Ulrike for inviting me to Munich and for making feel so welcome.
We had lots of different breeds and several beginner handlers which is always lovely to see.
You all came together as one big family, helping and supporting each other.You all learnt so much from each other which created such a lovely atmosphere. 👏
I was so impressed by the changes you produced in such a short space of time and you all did this with kindness, fun and with no negativity 👍
Trust and love your dog in every step you take.What they give us back is too special not to ❤️🐕🇬🇧

Thank you so much to Rune and Christian for inviting me to Copenhagen.You both made feel so welcome.We had lots of diffe...
11/07/2025

Thank you so much to Rune and Christian for inviting me to Copenhagen.You both made feel so welcome.
We had lots of different dog sports to cover which is always great but the philosophy always stays the same.
How to deal with failure with as much energy, passion and fun as we do when our dogs succeed.To see failure as a wonderful opportunity to learn and help our dogs.Our dogs can then learn with complete freedom and most importantly no fear of failure.
You all did this beautifully and the end results were so great to watch and it looked so easy.I said many times on the course that it was like I was watching you in slow motion.It was so quick and yet so smooth and super to watch.The trust this created because you knew your dogs were in your zone was a joy to watch.
Well done ❤️🐕🇬🇧

A big thank you to Ramona for inviting me to Monchengladbach and for looking after me and to Andrea and Anya who worked ...
11/07/2025

A big thank you to Ramona for inviting me to Monchengladbach and for looking after me and to Andrea and Anya who worked so hard to provide us with lovely food 👍
This was always going to be a very emotional course for me to run as I had just lost my Mum, but I was surrounded by caring, sensitive and understanding people.Thank you ❤️
You were all very kind to your dogs and very supportive of each other.
Dog training can be the best medicine, if our main criteria is how our dogs feel
When we create a feeling of joy, safety and freedom for our dogs, those end results we so desire just seem to happen.

Thank you all ❤️

A Super course to run in Viborg ,Denmark.Four days of great fun and super work from lots of different breeds.I always sa...
05/05/2025

A Super course to run in Viborg ,Denmark.
Four days of great fun and super work from lots of different breeds.
I always say that dog training should be like meditation.It should take you away from the stresses in life and take you to a place where you live in the moment with our best friends.To do this we must lose the need to rush to the end result, see failure as our friend that can show us the right path, and make our dogs feel "very special" in the way we talk, the way we move with complete trust in our dogs and in our rewards.
In doing this you all created a lovely freedom, joy and easiness in your work together which was great to watch.👏
Thank you to Miriam and Tine for looking after me and to Louise's friend for the amazing muffins (OMG they were nice )❤️

A super Dog dancing course to run in Calais, France.It's great to see the creativity, imagination and thought that goes ...
07/04/2025

A super Dog dancing course to run in Calais, France.
It's great to see the creativity, imagination and thought that goes into your routines, especially with so many different breeds.
Always my top criteria when running any course is how our dogs feel.Our training should create a feeling of safeness, happiness , and be stressfree and our dogs should love every second of it.
Becoming an expert at seeing mistakes as something that can help our dogs get better and to loose the fear of failure can be so powerful in creating this feeling.Mistakes are so good at showing us what we have missed in our foundation training, so seeing them as an opportunity to learn and not criticise or blame creates a dog who works with complete freedom and no fear.You all did this beautifully and the end results were great to see 👏
Thank you all for supporting, laughing and giving me so much focus.I loved watching you work your dogs 👏
To Veronique Devender , Elodie and Vincent.....a big thank you for looking after me and for making me feel so welcome ❤️🇬🇧

Thank you to Carina Lach for organising this beautiful course for me to run in Dusselldorf.Your kindness, fun and hard ...
02/04/2025

Thank you to Carina Lach for organising this beautiful course for me to run in Dusselldorf.Your kindness, fun and hard work created a lovely friendly atmosphere for us all to enjoy.
The people on the course were so friendly and welcoming and most importantly kind to their dogs.You all worked so hard, had complete focus,laughed and had fun together and produced some beautiful end results.
When you work together like this you create a dog that works with complete freedom and no fear of failure.
Well done, it was lovely to watch.
The thing learnt most from this weekend was ;
When you see failure as your friend, something to help you learn what we have missed in our training and deal with it with no blame to your dogs....then success is just round the corner.
Having so many different breeds on the course is always great to see.I think you all went home, especially the dogs feeling very proud of yourselves 👍❤️🇬🇧

Thank you to everyone who attended the 4 day course at Hamar Hundeskole in the beautiful Norway.We had so much fun.A bea...
18/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended the 4 day course at Hamar Hundeskole in the beautiful Norway.
We had so much fun.
A beautiful part of my work is in seeing the progress teams make and watching their confidence and self belief increase.
I was very impressed with you all.The work those had done at home and what you all achieved on the course was so good.I could see you were all very proud of your dogs.
Solving problems with kindness, positive energy and with no blame to our dogs is a beautiful way to work.
You all focused, learnt from each other ,helped and supported each other and got some great end results.
The two puppy's on the course were amazing.
One Flatcoat at 5 months and one sheltie at 8 weeks.It was a joy to watch you work together.
Achieving the end result, when allowing the journey to build confidence, self esteem, reducing stress and simply loving every second of time spent with our best friends really is the best medicine 👏👏🇬🇧❤️

A Massive " congratulations" to Sonia Grande Moreno and the lovely Hook for achieving your dream together and getting t...
17/03/2025

A Massive " congratulations" to Sonia Grande Moreno and the lovely Hook for achieving your dream together and getting to class 3 ❤️👏
You started your journey with no confidence or self belief and Hook was very anxious, noisy and worried about everything.
Carlos and I have watch you both grow in confidence, self belief and you now have built a beautiful trust in other.
Hook now works with such freedom and I know you are really enjoying working together.You have achieved this with patience, talent and most importantly kindness.
It's not the end result that's important but how the journey towards that end result helps our dogs become happier, healthier and stress free.
You and Hook are the perfect example of this.
I couldn't be more proud of you both 👏❤️🇬🇧

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