Our Story
No Longer in the Dog House is owned by Dawn BSc ABT - Dog Behaviour Training & Support with over 14 years experience with working with dogs. Dawn provides a bespoke service covering training that suit you and your dog. One to One to Training are hugely popular and provide you with the individual attention and personalised training required. Private sessions are also an option for dogs that find it hard in an group situation or perhaps you only have an few behaviours to teach/modify that don't cover class criteria.
Dawn is also based in a Veterinary Referral practice in North Yorkshire offering bespoke behaviour training & advice. As manager of the Small Animal Division working with the medical team enables her to build an full picture of your dogs behaviour. Her ‘Be Brave’ Clinics where very popular and helped many dogs to be at ease in the veterinary environment with helpful tips of handling for the owner to aid positive interaction with the veterinary staff. Dawn is also is a Member of the KCAI - Kennel Club Scheme for Accredited Dog Trainers that have be assessed in the area that they choose to teach.
Classes include the UK largest Dog Training Scheme - Good Citizen Classes are based at Kirk Deighton Village Hall (Wetherby) offering Puppy classes (4months), through to Gold level of training.
Dawn’s Workshop’s include Teenage Tantrums, Old dog new tricks, Pet Agility, Pet Gundog and Clicker Workshops which Dawn runs and invites guest trainers.
Prior to classes Dawn likes to have an informal chat with you so that we can get to know each other and work together in our training. It also enables Dawn to find you the right teaching and learning environment for you and your dog.
Previous experience includes working for many years with her mentor Philippa Williams at Dogs For Life/Castleman Gundogs for 7 years after university starting as her student and progressing to her right hand person. Puppy development & training from birth through to adolescent. Working with Field Trial Champion Gundogs and Boarding Kennel onsite trainer. It was at Dogs for Life that she met her best friend Indiana, a fearful/reactive Labrador that taught her so much about going against the textbook of dog training. With Indy’s behavioural problems she has not been a easy dog to teach how to be in everyday life from a puppy to her senior years and she always keeps me on my toes with understand dog behaviour. Ive been the early walker, looking over my shoulder, wanting to enjoy life in a cafe environment & attend different training classes with great difficulty especially as a teenager.
With Indiana’s journey No Longer in the Doghouse was born.
