Hi, my name is Tess. My husband, Mitch, and I started taking our dog Ruby to classes with Sonia after an incident involving our neighbour’s cat. Ruby is a four year old Kelpie/Staffy and is fairly anxious when we are out and about. She can be quite reactive to other dogs and animals, although she is lovely with people. We really wanted to have more control over her so that we could enjoy taking her out and about, rather than worrying if she would react to dogs.

The first lesson Ruby was very reactive and we were, as I put it, out in Siberia so that she wasn’t too close to the other dogs. By the end of the 5 weeks of classes (we missed one week), she is now a completely different dog. We were stationed only a metre or so from other dogs, without reaction, her body language is much more at ease, even happy, and we can walk near other dogs without her even looking at them. She listens to us, she watches us while she walks, not the rest of the world, and she is a brilliant walker now. No more sore shoulders from her pulling all the time.

We are so happy that we did classes with Sonia! We have a completely different dog. I’m looking forward to taking her and our other dog Charlie to the intermediate class.

Cheers