Sue is a our senior trainer and has over 20 years of dog training experience. She is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), an organisation set up in 1995 to offer pet owners a guarantee of quality when looking for a training class or puppy class in their area.
All members of APDT have been assessed according to a strict code of practise and agree to abide by kind and fair principles of training. They do not use any punitive or coercive techniques and equipment. A copy of the APDT code of practise is on their website www.apdt.co.uk.
Sue undertook two years study with leading trainers (including Turid Rugass of Norway, the world’s expert on stress in dogs and the calming signals they use to deal with this stress and communicate safely with each other) at the International Dog Training School.
Sue has also spent many weekends training up at the Learning About Dogs Centre in Chipping Campden. At LADC, Sue trained with Kay Laurence (the country’s top clicker trainer) and achieved Distinction at the Competency Assessment Program for clicker training [this is currently the only certified system validating the competency of clicker trainers].
Sue has also completed a number of other courses in the Teaching of People – it is just as important to focus on the needs of the owners & how to teach them be to effective, with the effective skills to support their own dog’s training, as it is to to train a dog itself!
Sue’s lovely dogs include Dexie, a Jack Russell Terrier rescued from Dogs Trust after his second stint there, and Suacepan a puppy Yes, he was the terrier who starred as 'Toto' in the 'Wizard of Oz' performance at Salisbury Playhouse in Summer 2009 !! Some of her dogs go out with her in the winter months on the local shoots.
