Top Barks Dog Training

Top Barks Dog Training Experienced, professional dog trainer and behaviour specialist with an honours degree in canine behaviour and training.

In business for 20 years, thousands of satisfied customers, specialising in gundogs and reactive dogs in York and surrounding area. Established in 2005 Top Barks is run by Mark Sanderson BSc hons (canine behaviour and training) Cap1, Cap 2
Member of The Association of Pet Dog Trainers (0977) and a registered animal instructor with the ABTC. Mark is also a member of The Pet Professional Guild. Top

Barks offers dog training and behaviour solutions throughout the uk. Mark is very proud to be the first man in the UK to hold an honours degree in canine behaviour and training, awarded by the University of Hull. Mark specializes in spaniels, bracco italiano and reactive dogs of all shapes and sizes.

20/01/2025

I love this little guy. Elvis is 16 weeks old. Today was his first introduction to a whistle.

18/01/2025

Some of you may have had the pleasure of meeting Ernie. Well on Thursday we went to Manchester championship show and Ernie won Best of breed from 55 bracchi and became a UK Show Champion. Here he is in the gun dog group strutting his stuff. He ended up being shortlisted down to the final 9 from over 2000 gun dogs in attendance.
Ernie, or to give him his posh name
ShCh Owlspoint Trouble Again JW ShCEx OSW was back at the day job this morning helping puppies.

15/01/2025

Working with this young lady this morning who has been reactive to cyclists and Joggers among other things. Loving this progress.

Working on a retrieve to hand with this beautiful boy on his training walk this morning.
15/01/2025

Working on a retrieve to hand with this beautiful boy on his training walk this morning.

Had our last session with the stunning Tanner this afternoon. Adore this lad.
09/01/2025

Had our last session with the stunning Tanner this afternoon. Adore this lad.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️My star of the day today was Dora. I've been working with this young lady since she was a very tiny puppy. To ...
03/01/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️My star of the day today was Dora. I've been working with this young lady since she was a very tiny puppy. To say she has been a handful for her owner is an understatement. We are now beginning to get somewhere. Huge credit to her mum for putting in all the hard yards. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

If Craig Revel Horwood did new years pics.🤣🤣🤣For the People were asking where Arthur was on our Christmas pic, here he i...
31/12/2024

If Craig Revel Horwood did new years pics.🤣🤣🤣
For the People were asking where Arthur was on our Christmas pic, here he is making Merry and wishing everyone a very happy new year.

Today's 1:30. Some might say he's my type of dog.🐕🐕🐕❤️❤️❤️ Who am I to argue?
30/12/2024

Today's 1:30. Some might say he's my type of dog.🐕🐕🐕❤️❤️❤️

Who am I to argue?

30/12/2024

Tanner on his training walk today did ever so well with his stop and recall. From where this boy started, what we did today was huge. Training walks are all tailored to the individual dog and provide an excellent balance between exercise and mental stimulation.
Call us on 07932 632855 if you would like your dog to have their own personal trainer in 2025.
[email protected]

Top Barks Dog Training has finished for the festive season. We will reopen on the 28th of December. May we take this op...
22/12/2024

Top Barks Dog Training has finished for the festive season. We will reopen on the 28th of December. May we take this opportunity to wish all friends and clients a very merry woofmas.

This beaut was my 11 o'clock training walk. I've not seen him for a while, but the change in him from when I first worke...
12/12/2024

This beaut was my 11 o'clock training walk. I've not seen him for a while, but the change in him from when I first worked with him and his owner is huge. Credit indeed to his owner for giving this boy the time and patience he needed.
He is now beginning to blossom and fulfill his potential.

06/12/2024

Here is Max on his training walk yesterday. Training walks are different from sending your dog out with a regular dog walker on so many levels.
Max has made immense progress! From a dog that would run off and chase birds and squirrels to this. Training walks are stimulating and fun for your dog. Rather than just letting him run and sniff for free or go and find fun in strangers dogs, his brain is engaged and he is connected to me.
Training walks are available to dogs of all ages.

www.topbarks.co.uk

05/12/2024

Bruce has been working on his sits until released today. Just one minor blip but this is huge progress.

Think my 1:30 wanted to come home with me.
05/12/2024

Think my 1:30 wanted to come home with me.

Employee of the day today was Ernie🥇🥇🥇Ernie was helping this young man with his manners around dogs today. I was called ...
04/12/2024

Employee of the day today was Ernie🥇🥇🥇

Ernie was helping this young man with his manners around dogs today.
I was called to this boy by his owner having seen other trainers to work on an agression problem towards dogs.
Having made a careful and cautious assessment of this lad with stuffed dogs and my own incredible team it showed his behaviour was not fuelled by nerves or a hatred of his own kind. This boy was frustrated and his owner was very relieved and overjoyed to see him running off lead with 5 of my gang.
Now knowing he wasn't aggressive, we started practical on lead sessions firstly in York and then today in the dogs local environment near Pickering.
This boy met 4 dogs on his walk today and nobody died. For the most part his behaviour was exemplary. More sessions needed to give the dog more social contact and his owner more positive experiences to build her confidence.

This today is why I do this job.
I'm blessed to have such great K9 Co workers at Top Barks.🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕

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27/11/2024

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Any amount can be added to the voucher it's totally up to you.
Vouchers can only be redeemed within York & surrounding areas, please get in touch for more details 🎅 www.topbarks.co.uk

Top Barks seems to be the best.
24/11/2024

Top Barks seems to be the best.

These two, as well as being amazing members of the Top Barks team are also life savers.Both donate regularly to Pet Blo...
22/11/2024

These two, as well as being amazing members of the Top Barks team are also life savers.
Both donate regularly to Pet Blood bank and we are very proud they made it onto their 2025 Calender.

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Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm
Sunday 9am - 4pm

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I love this little guy. Elvis is 16 weeks old. Today was his first introduction to a whistle.

Some of you may have had the pleasure of meeting Ernie. Well on Thursday we went to Manchester championship show and Ernie won Best of breed from 55 bracchi and became a UK Show Champion. Here he is in the gun dog group strutting his stuff. He ended up being shortlisted down to the final 9 from over 2000 gun dogs in attendance. Ernie, or to give him his posh name ShCh Owlspoint Trouble Again JW ShCEx OSW was back at the day job this morning helping puppies.

Tanner on his training walk today did ever so well with his stop and recall. From where this boy started, what we did today was huge. Training walks are all tailored to the individual dog and provide an excellent balance between exercise and mental stimulation. Call us on 07932 632855 if you would like your dog to have their own personal trainer in 2025. [email protected]

Here is Max on his training walk yesterday. Training walks are different from sending your dog out with a regular dog walker on so many levels. Max has made immense progress! From a dog that would run off and chase birds and squirrels to this. Training walks are stimulating and fun for your dog. Rather than just letting him run and sniff for free or go and find fun in strangers dogs, his brain is engaged and he is connected to me. Training walks are available to dogs of all ages. www.topbarks.co.uk

Bruce has been working on his sits until released today. Just one minor blip but this is huge progress.

Excellent recall around distraction work from Otto the field spaniel.

This guy is obsessed with Squirrels and will switch off his owner and go and make his own fun. I have been doing some training walks with him to try and form some new habits by keeping him busy. Today I started to see the fruits of my labours.

Progressing loose lead walking by counting and rewarding in incremental steps. We start rewards on the count of two, then four and 6 and so on. Here we have built up the time to the count of 40. Our criteria to keep counting is a loose lead.

Getting a dog to relax in public settings such as the pub or vets waiting room can be very valuable. Here is the start of teaching a relaxed down on lead this morning.

Recall practice with Maple. Her owners look to have done their homework as Maple's response to the whistle cue is excellent.

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