Online Coaching for Dog Behaviour

The first outcome of online coaching, almost universally, is a written plan that owners describe as 'the first thing I have ever had that actually tells me what to do.' That clarity alone produces behaviour change within days of the first call, because most owners come to me having tried many things, applied none of them consistently, and accumulated genuine confusion about what is supposed to happen when.

Week one of an online engagement focuses on stabilising the household. The plan goes on the fridge. The routine changes. The owner stops the things that have been making the issue worse, and the dog notices that within the first 24 to 48 hours. Most clients report the first visible improvement (a settle that holds, a recall that lands, a goodbye without a meltdown) inside the first three days.

Weeks two to six progress the work along the curve specific to the issue. Reactivity follows its threshold-expansion arc; separation anxiety follows its desensitisation arc; obedience follows its real-world transfer arc. The video clips you send between calls let me see what is genuinely happening versus what you think is happening — owners are routinely the worst observers of their own dog — and the corrections compound week over week.

By the three-month mark, most online cases are at a point of stable, sustained progress. Some are fully resolved; others have one or two specific contexts still being worked. A small percentage need to convert to an in-home consult at some point because something has emerged that benefits from physical-environment work — and in those cases I am happy to do that when the geography allows, or to refer to someone closer who works in a compatible way. In-home is always my preferred format because being in the real environment gives me information video can't; online is the right call when geography or scheduling rules in-home out.