Success stories

UPDATE: So for the second session with Sally I thought there was no way we could move forward much, how wrong I was.

UPDATE: We have just had our 3rd session with Sally for Benji, over a period of 4 weeks and feel we have made a huge amount of progress. Sally has taught us how to be the leaders in our house, where the work to rehabilitate really starts.

There is no doubt in my mind that Sally has been blessed with this unique gift of talking to the animals. She is a joy to work with and it is a privilege to be in her company. Sally is an inspiration. My parents and I are looking forward very much to the next visit and to continue our learning to be the 'pack leader'.

Immediately Sally had us take back control of our house and be the pack leaders, by talking to us about the basic rules in the home we could see why the dogs did not trust or follow us.

After purchasing my sixth TV remote, minus many shoes and several pairs of glasses I was at the end of my tether over the behaviour of our beloved Patterdale terrier aged 20 months.

UPDATE: In the few days since Crumble has been a model citizen in the garden, ignoring neighbour's barking dogs and church bells. Neither Crumble or ourselves are quite the finished article but we are more confident than ever that we will get there.

After the first session many of our bad habits were corrected and Heidi responded amazingly - no further over-enthusiastic greeting of visitors, no pulling on the lead and happy to walk where we wished to go.

I allowed Margo to stay on the floor and greet Sally. When I say greet, I mean nip. I was horrified. Sally made me realise that if Margo was a large breed dog we would have a big problem on our hands, she made me aware that even though Margo is tiny we still had a big problem on our hands.