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Startrite Dog Training - Kathryn Wellock Cert.TPTD Reward Based Dog Training and Pet Gundog Training

🚨 New service announcement !! So many people say to me “I wish you could just take my dog away and train it” so I’ve dec...
19/06/2025

🚨 New service announcement !!

So many people say to me “I wish you could just take my dog away and train it” so I’ve decided to offer just that !!

An intensive training programme with me for pet gundog breeds and gundog breed crosses.

How does it work ??

I will collect your dog each day from home ( Monday to Friday ) and spend 2 hours with them, initially at my purpose built, fully secure 6 acre training facility where I will focus on teaching them important life skills and training to your requirements.
Your dog will then be returned home.
This will be available for a minimum of one week and up to four weeks.

There will be an initial assessment with you, the owner present, and then a handover session at the end of your required number of weeks.

How much does it cost ?

The initial 1 hour assessment is £50
It’s then £300 per week.

What dogs are suitable for this ?

This is not for dogs with severe behaviour issues that require behaviourist intervention.

This is suitable for dogs that require general obedience training.

What area will this cover ?

Due to travel this will currently only be available to dogs in these areas.

Barnoldswick
Earby
Kelbrook
Foulridge
Colne
Barrowford

Drop me a message if this is something you are interested.

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Todays 1-1’s First was Winnie the Labrador puppy , Winnie has springs in her feet so we concentrated on how to reduce th...
18/06/2025

Todays 1-1’s

First was Winnie the Labrador puppy , Winnie has springs in her feet so we concentrated on how to reduce the leaping !

Then it was Max the Patterdale puppy, Max is starting off with some basic foundation training 😀🐶

17/06/2025

From searching for bunnies to heel.. this doesn’t happen overnight !

Once Dot had a good understanding of heelwork I used the training method premack to strengthen it … ( You’ve got to eat your vegetables before you get your pudding ).

Heelwork became her access to hunting ..( if she wanted to be released to hunt she had to do heelwork first.. all the time ) no reinforcer can trump hunting with these dogs so you’ve got to use that reinforcer in your training !

I put A LOT of time and effort into this, this was important to me as my end goal was a dog that could walk off lead to heel on a shoot day, surrounded by the biggest distractions for her .. pheasants !

If I had just stuck with food and toy reinforcers I would never have achieved this with this dog without using punishment.

You’ve got to get creative with your rewards 😀🐶

A catch up with 5 month old waffle this morning, we looked at… 🐾 Recalling away from distractions 🐾 The stop whistle🐾 Hu...
16/06/2025

A catch up with 5 month old waffle this morning, we looked at…

🐾 Recalling away from distractions
🐾 The stop whistle
🐾 Hunting

Waffle’s genetics kicked in early, he’s very environmentally focussed and knows what he is bred to do !

We have spent a lot of time from day one trying to build toy drive with Waffle, however, although this is slowly improving, toys are just not his thing outside right now .. even in low distraction environments.

When using reinforcers they have to actually be reinforcing for the dog, there is no point using toys to reinforce behaviour if he doesn’t find them fun so today we also looked at incorporating hunting as a reward, as well as food.

Every dog is so different and it’s important to work with the dog infront of you.. what works really well for a lot of dogs I work with will not work for Waffle, however, he is coming on really well and we had a full hour of beautiful focus and learning ❤️

A couple of a one-to-ones from yesterday. First we had Percy the Jack Russell. Percy is eight months old and has starte...
14/06/2025

A couple of a one-to-ones from yesterday.

First we had Percy the Jack Russell. Percy is eight months old and has started to get quite vocal when he sees varying distractions, also, his once very good recall has become non-existent so we looked at strategies to deal with both of these issues.

Then it was Mabel the Cavapoo, Mabel is seven months old and he’s getting growly with her owners in certain situations, we identified that Mabel is very uncomfortable with any type of handling and also is beginning to develop resource guarding behaviour, our first course of action is to make sure Mabel feels safe in her day-to-day life and to help her owners understand body language and be able to read what Mabel is trying to communicate, we also looked at strategies to begin to make her happier with handling and being in close proximity to her owners with things of value.

13/06/2025

When my pointless but fun training isn’t pointless …

Millie is a bit stiff this week so she was a bit fidgety when being manipulated at hydrotherapy .. basically she was saying “I’m a bit sore, get off”

I’ve taught her the “sad” cue which basically means put your head down on the the ground and look sad 🤣

However this was really useful today to keep her still and focused on something else whilst she was manipulated 🥰

12/06/2025

Labrador Taggy is 6 months old now, I have worked with her regularly since 8 weeks old, her mum is really committed to her training and she’s coming on beautifully 💗

She’s got brilliant foundations in place now, today we looked at steadiness when her favourite thing ever ( the rabbit ball) is thrown and also maintaining the heel position with me and a rabbit ball as a distraction .. well done Taggy 👏👏

11/06/2025

Cleaning out your car when you are a dog trainer 🤣🤣🙈🙈

10/06/2025

The Working Cocker Spaniel .. genetically bred to find birds … even if they haven’t hatched yet 🤣🤣

Also quite a bizarre place to lay your eggs .. who knows what bird would lay eggs here ?? They were fully white eggs .. I’m intrigued to know ??

Back from my mini break, I’ll be replying to everyone today. The dogs had a mini break too at the fabulous All Creatures...
10/06/2025

Back from my mini break, I’ll be replying to everyone today.

The dogs had a mini break too at the fabulous All Creatures Great & Small they are now home and happy, as always, such a great place for your dogs 😀🐶

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About Me My passion for dogs and training began 35 years ago at the age of 7.

At the age of 7 I didn’t have my own dog but was well known in my neighbourhood for walking and training any dog I could get my hands on !!

At the age of 10 I started my first job working at the local boarding kennels, throughout my school years every weekend and holiday was spent surrounded by and working with dogs.

On leaving school I trained and qualified as a Veterinary Nurse and in 2010 completed my PTTLLS teaching qualification. I worked in practice for 18 years until the birth of my second child, after taking a couple of years off to be a mum I set up my dog walking and training business.