LEARNING FOR THEIR LIFE AND YOURS

Behavioural Consultancy for Dogs and Cats

We help you and help them

Our mission is to help people from the start to the finish of their pet ownership journey.

We can help get you set up for success by helping you find the right pet for your lifestyle, teach you how to settle them into your home and teach you how they learn.

If you already have pets and need help. Then we are here for you. We help people heal troubled relationships with their furry family members if it becomes a struggle.

We share our knowledge of animal behavior and communication using common sense and science to teach the pet owners how to communicate with their pets without cookie cutter approaches. We look at things holistically - it’s never just the pet’s fault.

We aim to make our services honest, empathetic, affordable and practical for all family types and all pet types.

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Why choose us ?

  • Experienced - Two decades working in the Animal Industry across many different organisations from Welfare to Vets.

  • Qualified - Certifications in Veterinary care, Animal Psychology, handling, behaviour and Human Education

  • Safety First - Current National police check, First aid trained, Working with children check, Vaccinated and comprehensively insured

  • Honest - We will tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. We advocate for your pets but also are realistic that we need to make sure you can act on our recommendations

  • Collaborative - We work with your pet care providers or refer clients to other high-quality services in the area.

  • Quick - We aim to see clients rapidly, and we do not prolong the training process. If we can achieve your goal in one session, we are over the moon but we are always around if you need more help.

  • Real - We don’t like the “pushy” sales tactic or spam. We get that life happens and their is not one sized fits all approach to working with emotional creatures both human and animals.

  • Flexibility - We work the way you need us to, within your budget and scheduling needs. We prefer to work with the whole family.

  • Fun - We use a positive first methodology and help make every session rewarding for all involved.

WHY WAIT ? BOOK NOW
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Dog and Cat Owners

  • We provide many options such as:

    • House Calls for all types of behavioural issues

    • Online Tutoring

    • Out and About Sessions

    • Walk and Train sessions

    • Group Classes

    • Formal Behavioural Assessments

    • Pre Purchase Behavioural assessments

    • Puppy preparation advice

    • New Pet introduction

    • New Baby Introductions

    • Service dog training

    • Therapy dog training

    • and more

  • We provide help for Cats via

    • House calls for behavioural issues

    • Online tutoring

    • Formal behavioural Assessments

    • New Pet introductions

    • New Baby introductions

    • Pre Purchase Behavioural assessments

    • and much more

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FAQ

  • Our goal is to help you not bankrupt you.

    We want you to enjoy your pet not get frustrated about paying others thousands for no change at home

    Our fee’s are dependent on many different factors such as:

    • Your location and our travel time

    • The number of pets in the home

    • The behavioural issues that need addressing

    • Your preferred needs and time availability

    • How you learn best

    • What level of service you require

    • Our high level of skill and quality service.

    We are always available to chat and work out a quote for you. Prices start from $80.00

    It is our preferred method to always start with a house call as all animal behaviour starts at home where pets spend the most of their time.

    There is no lock in contracts or obligations with our service.

  • An open mind, an honest idea of what you are willing to do to get your pet where you want it to go, a sense of humour and a list of your goals or problems you have with your animal and some effort and your time.

    Initial assessment sessions take around 2 hours. We provide the treats, and some tools that may be beneficial in the training process and we can call on the assistance of our wonderful tester dogs Poppy and Wally to aid us if need be.

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Community Education

  • We provide presentations for:

    • Children’s events on topics like pet care and safety

    • Presentations for community groups

    • Presentations for Small and Large businesses in the Illawarra on Service animal legislation or provide Therapy animal support during periods of trauma

    • We provide Veterinary Clinics a wide range of classes from Safe interactions with pets. First Aid for Animals for pet owners and Guide how to host successful Puppy classes

  • We can attend prvate homes or groups with animals to provide positive animal Therapy for people or groups of people that benefit from animal handling.

    From group homes to large venues such as Aged care facilities.

We use the term “companion” animal to describe a pet but to me pets are family.

We bring pets into our homes and we expect them to understand us. We don’t really learn to understand them and this is where challenges arise.

I have “life-proof” pets that can come anywhere and do anything with me because I have built a great relationship with them. They aren’t perfect they aren’t robots, but they are safe.

I wish for others to have that kind of relationship with their pets that I have, too. Everyone can be happy with their furry family like I am.

Alicia Robb - Owner Operator - The Pet Teacher