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Pricing

What it costs

A flat $110 an hour for everything, and straight answers on what each format involves and how many sessions you are realistically likely to need — so you can work this out before you ring.

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The whole price list

$110per hour

That is it. One flat rate for everything — puppies, obedience, reactivity, barking, behaviour work. No call-out fee, no surcharge for the difficult cases, no package you have to buy into. The only thing that changes is how long the job takes, and I will give you an honest estimate of that on the phone before you book.

For comparison, published rates elsewhere in southern Adelaide run from $195 for a single in-home session to $450 for a longer one, and two of the larger operators do not publish anything at all.

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Session formats

Four ways this usually goes

Every session is an hour and happens in your home. What differs is what we are working on — and how many sessions it takes to get there.

Puppy Start

One hour · In your home

The first few months, taken in order rather than all at once — biting, toileting, settling, and a socialisation list you can actually work through.

$110/hour

Puppies under 6 months

What’s included

  • Full home setup review — crate, bed, routine, boundaries
  • Biting and mouthing — technique that works at 11pm
  • Toilet training routine built around your household hours
  • Settling and alone-time foundations
  • A socialisation list for the critical window, walked through with you
  • Name response, loose lead and the beginnings of recall
  • One thing to practise before the next session
  • Follow-up support while you put it into practice

Best for

  • New puppies from 8 weeks
  • First-time owners
  • Families with young children
  • Anyone who wants to get it right the first time
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In-Home Training Session

One hour · In your home and on your street

Most booked

The core session. Rules and boundaries in the house first, then direction and protection on the walk — one at a time, in the place the problems actually happen, with everyone in the house involved.

$110/hour

Same flat rate as everything else

What’s included

  • Full assessment in your own environment
  • Hands-on coaching — you handle your dog, I coach you
  • Loose-lead walking on your actual walking route
  • Recall foundations and household rules
  • Whole-family coaching so everyone is consistent
  • One thing to practise before the next session
  • Follow-up support while you put it into practice

Best for

  • Pulling, jumping, not listening, general chaos
  • Adolescent dogs that have stopped listening
  • Households where everyone gives different instructions
  • Anyone who has done a group class and found it did not stick
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Behaviour Consultation

One hour · In your home, at your dog's pace

For the problems obedience will not touch. A full history, a careful assessment, safety and management first, then a staged modification programme.

$110/hour

Reactivity, aggression, anxiety and guarding

What’s included

  • Full behavioural history and trigger mapping
  • Careful observation — no deliberate provocation
  • Immediate management and safety plan
  • Structured, staged behaviour modification programme
  • Honest prognosis, including what will need managing long term
  • Referral to your vet or a veterinary behaviourist where warranted
  • One thing to practise before the next session
  • Follow-up support through the first weeks

Best for

  • Reactivity, aggression, fear and resource guarding
  • Separation anxiety and panic-based behaviour
  • Rescue dogs with difficult or unknown histories
  • Cases where safety is a genuine concern
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Follow-Up Session

One hour · In your home or out in public

The check-in that makes the staged approach work. Did the last thing hold? Then we add the next one, or take it somewhere harder — the cafe, the beach, the park.

$110/hour

Same flat rate as everything else

What’s included

  • Review of progress since the last session
  • Troubleshooting whatever has not clicked
  • Advancing the plan to harder environments
  • Public-access work — cafes, beaches, busy paths
  • A clear next thing to work on

Best for

  • Consolidating gains after the first session
  • Behaviour cases that need staged progression
  • Taking the training out into public
  • Anyone who wants ongoing accountability
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Being straight with you

How many sessions will you actually need?

I would rather tell you this honestly than sell you a package before I have met your dog.

Straightforward obedience and puppy work is usually about three hour-long sessions, spread out rather than stacked. The first covers rules and boundaries in the house. You get a week or two to practise. The second covers direction and protection out on the walk. Another week or two. The third checks it has held — and that is often the one where you realise you have stopped thinking about it.

The gaps are the point. Nobody retains a three-hour lesson, and a household handed twelve instructions reliably follows none of them. One thing, practised until it is automatic, then the next.

Behaviour cases — reactivity, aggression, separation anxiety, guarding — take more than three, and they progress unevenly. Safety and management come first, on their own, before any modification work starts. Expect follow-ups over several weeks and at least one week where it feels like it has gone backwards. That is normal and it is not failure.

What I will not do is quote you a six-session package over the phone before I know anything about your dog. If two is what you need, that is what I will say.

At $110 an hour that is genuinely cheaper than most of the alternatives, and you are not paying a premium because the case is a hard one. Ring me and I will tell you roughly how long yours is likely to take before you book.

Travel

Where the price includes travel

I cover a long corridor, and I would rather be upfront about the distance than surprise you.

Travel is included across the southern suburbs, the beaches, the Onkaparinga suburbs and the Southern Vales. For the Fleurieu — Victor Harbor, Goolwa, Port Elliot, Normanville and Yankalilla — I group bookings into runs so a trip covers several households. That keeps it viable and it keeps your cost down, which is why flexibility on timing helps if you are down that way.

If you are right on the edge of the area, ask. I would rather give you a straight answer than have you guess.

Questions

Cost & expectations

All the questions I get asked
How much does it cost?
A flat $110 an hour, for everything — puppies, obedience, reactivity, barking, behaviour work. No call-out fee and no surcharge for the harder cases. The only variable is how long the job takes, and I will give you an honest estimate of that on the phone before you book rather than after. For comparison, published rates elsewhere in southern Adelaide run from $195 for a single in-home session up to $450.
How do I know whether I actually need a trainer?
If it is bothering you enough that you are reading this page, it is worth a phone call. There are two situations I would not sit on: a dog that has bitten or come close to it, and a barking complaint with a council deadline attached. Both get worse on their own and both have consequences that arrive whether you are ready or not. Everything else, ring and describe it — a conversation costs you nothing, and if I think you can sort it yourself with a bit of direction, I will tell you that instead.
Can you guarantee results?
No, and I would be careful of anyone who does. Dogs are not appliances, and how much changes depends heavily on what happens in the weeks after I leave. What I will do is give you an honest assessment of what I think is achievable, and tell you if I do not think I am the right person for your case.
Is this fixable, or am I going to be managing it forever?
Both outcomes exist, and which one you are looking at is among the first things I will tell you honestly. Straightforward obedience and the great majority of puppy problems genuinely resolve. Some behaviour — an entrenched fear, a strong genetic component, a real bite history — reaches a point where the honest result is a dog living a good life inside sensible management rather than a dog that is cured. That is not a failure, and it is a long way from where most people think they are heading when they ring. But it is worth knowing which one you are working towards before you start rather than three months in.
How fast will I see a difference?
Honestly, the visible part is not the part that matters. A first session will often produce something that looks like progress — a lead that goes slack, a dog that settles — and that is the easy bit. What actually determines the outcome is the fortnight afterwards, when you are the one running it without me in the room. So I would rather set your expectations around weeks than around the session, and tell you at the end of it what a realistic timeline looks like for your dog specifically.
What if only one person in the house is on board?
You will make progress, and it is still the most common reason progress stalls. What your dog learns in a divided household is that the rules depend on who is in the room — which is a form of training, just not the one you paid for. It also means the behaviour comes back the moment you are not there. If someone in the house thinks all of this is nonsense, it is worth them sitting in for the first twenty minutes rather than hearing it relayed over dinner. They do not have to participate. They just have to hear the same explanation.
What if you cannot help my dog?
Then I will say so, and I will do my best to tell you who can. Some cases belong with a veterinary behaviourist. Some need a vet before they need a trainer at all. Occasionally a dog needs something structural — a change to the household, the routine or the workload — that no amount of training substitutes for. Taking your money and hoping is not a service, and a referral costs me one booking and saves you a great deal more than that.
What if my dog needs a vet rather than a trainer?
Then I will tell you. Pain is behind far more behaviour change than most people realise, particularly in older dogs and in anything that appeared suddenly. If I think you need a veterinary workup, an anxiety-medication conversation, or a referral to a veterinary behaviourist, I will say so rather than train around it.
Is in-home better than a group class?
For most behaviour problems, yes — because the behaviour happens in your house, with your family, on your street. But group classes are genuinely good for structured socialisation around other dogs, and there are good clubs in the southern suburbs and on the Fleurieu. They are not in competition, and if a club is what your dog most needs I will tell you.

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Tell me what's going on and I'll tell you straight whether I can help — and roughly what it will take. No obligation, no pressure. Southern suburbs of Adelaide — CBD to Victor Harbor.

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