Where Pauline works
Built for regional South Australia.
Heart of the Pack is based at Crystal Brook and runs regular in-person consultation days across six regions of South Australia — plus online coaching anywhere in Australia. Choose your region for local information and town-specific pages.
Upper Spencer Gulf
Spanning Port Pirie, Port Augusta and Whyalla, the Upper Spencer Gulf is home to working families, working dogs, and the long open spaces that both help and hurt dog behaviour. I run regular in-person consultation days across the whole USG from my Crystal Brook base — with bookings grouped together for the longer Whyalla and Port Augusta trips so the drive carries multiple cases.
Dog training the Upper Spencer Gulf
Eyre Peninsula
The Eyre Peninsula is vast — Port Lincoln is roughly 5 hours from Crystal Brook, Ceduna closer to 8. I work in-home across the peninsula on blocked consultation days, grouping bookings together to make the drive worthwhile — and online coaching is equally available for owners who prefer it or whose case is time-sensitive.
Dog training in Eyre Peninsula
Iron Triangle
The Iron Triangle — Port Pirie, Port Augusta and Whyalla — is one of the densest regional dog populations in South Australia. Heart of the Pack is based 25 minutes south of Port Pirie at Crystal Brook and runs regular in-person consultation days across all three towns, with bookings grouped together for the longer Whyalla trips so the drive carries multiple cases.
Dog training in Iron Triangle
Mid North
The Mid North is home base. Crystal Brook sits squarely in the middle of it, and my standard rotation covers most Mid North towns within an hour's drive — Jamestown, Peterborough, Burra, Gladstone, Snowtown, Laura, Wirrabara, Quorn — with regular in-person consultation days through the week.
Dog training in Mid North
Clare Valley
Clare Valley wine-country dog life is its own thing. Tourists, dog-friendly cellar doors, dog-dense events, and a population mix of long-time locals and tree-changers from Adelaide. I run regular in-person consultation days across the Clare Valley from my Crystal Brook base — about 50 minutes south — with bookings grouped together so each Clare day carries multiple consults.
Dog training in Clare Valley
Yorke Peninsula
The Yorke Peninsula is beach country — fishing trips, tourist holidays, working sheep properties, and family dogs that range from spoilt town dogs to long-line drivers on the harvest. I run regular in-person consultation days across the peninsula from my Crystal Brook base, with bookings grouped together so the drive (90 minutes to the Copper Coast, around 2 hours to Yorketown) carries multiple consults in the same trip.
Dog training in Yorke PeninsulaHow the regions differ
Same method. Six very different regional realities.
The leadership-based work I do is identical from town to town — calm, clear, ethical, in-home where I can be in the room with your dog and the people around it. The cases I see, though, sort themselves out by region. The Upper Spencer Gulf throws me a high proportion of shift-work separation cases, working-breed adolescents and rescue dogs whose history is partial. The Iron Triangle adds council-pressure barking cases in the denser suburbs and a steady stream of foreshore reactivity from the long coastal walking strips. The Mid North and Clare Valley lean toward vineyard dogs, working farms and family pets that spend a lot of time around livestock and machinery, which puts stock-safe recall and arousal control near the top of every consultation. The Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas bring beach dogs, long open-ground recalls, and the particular challenges of raising a calm dog when the nearest puppy school is two hours away.
Choose the region page that matches your postcode and you will find the local picture written out properly — drive time from my Crystal Brook base, the towns covered, the named local walks and dog parks I work around most often, the cases I see most there, and a set of frequently asked questions specific to that part of the state. From each region page you can drill into the town pages for Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Whyalla and the rest, or jump straight to a service if you already know what you are dealing with.
In-home, online, or somewhere in between
How the rotation actually runs.
I run a real travel rotation rather than a static booking calendar. Crystal Brook to Port Pirie is 25 minutes, so Pirie is effectively a local day — same for the Mid North towns. Port Augusta and the lower Yorke Peninsula are around 75 minutes each way, and I block bookings together so a single trip covers two or three households. Whyalla is closer to two hours and runs on dedicated days, usually scheduled two to four weeks ahead. The Clare Valley is split between Mid North overflow days and dedicated wine-country runs through Clare, Auburn, Watervale and Sevenhill. The Eyre Peninsula — Port Lincoln, Cleve, Streaky Bay, Ceduna — is mostly online coaching, with occasional in-person trips when a cluster of bookings makes the long drive worth it.
Online coaching is the same method, the same accredited behaviourist, the same Five Rules of leadership — translated into structured video sessions and ongoing written support. For owners outside the in-home radius, or anywhere in Australia who would rather work asynchronously around a schedule, online produces equivalent outcomes for most cases. The exceptions are serious aggression cases with bite history, multi-dog households where the dynamic is best read in person, and anything where the household environment is itself part of the problem — for those, in-home is almost always the right format, and travel can usually be arranged.
If you are not sure whether your postcode is realistically inside the drive radius, ask. The Free Behaviour Test on the site will start that conversation, and I will either confirm the next available consultation day for your area or recommend online if that is the honest answer.
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