DOG TRAINING

Individual 1-to-1 dog training programmes to match each dog and owner

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Gain a deeper understanding of your dog's behaviour, remove challenging & unwanted behaviours

Promote good manners & essential commands to create a responsive dog

Learn how to manage your dog's emotional responses and reshape how they view their triggers

Behaviour Modification

Support with challenging and unwanted behaviours

Gain a deeper understanding of the root cause of the behaviour performed

Learn to manage your dog’s emotional responses and reshape how they view their triggers

Who Is This Made For?

Dogs That Are...

Reactive towards people or other dogs

Showing signs of nervousness or anxiety (including separation anxiety)

Over-aroused or easily frustrated - at home or outdoors

Resource guarding food, toys, people or space

Barking excessively - at home, outdoors or in the car

Obedience

8+ months old

Promoting good manners and essential commands to create a responsive dog

Developing impulse control, focus and structure during walks and training

An opportunity for you and your dog to continue learning new things

A Taste Of What You Will Be Included

Threshold Training

Place & Settle

Off Lead Skills

Breed Fulfilment

Environmental Confidence

Strengthen Commands

Polished Lead Walking

Distance Work

Trick Training

Engagement

Engaged Labrador Retriever - Gundog training

What you will learn

Lead Walking

00:24

Structured Play

00:19

Place & Settle

00:22

Recall

00:26

Breaking Your Dogs Behaviour Down

Anxiety & Nervous

Reactivity

Obedience

Aggression

Anxious dogs may struggle to feel calm or secure, showing behaviours such as restlessness, vocalisation, avoidance, or distress.

This can include separation anxiety when left alone, unable to be calm and settle.

Environmental anxiety in most, new or busy environments, triggered by loud noises.

Travel anxiety during journeys and transport.

Reactive dogs may respond intensely to certain triggers, displaying behaviours such as barking, lunging, growling, or heightened arousal.

Reactivity can be directed towards other...

Dogs

People

or moving objects such as cars, bikes, and scooters, often stemming from fear, frustration, or overexcitement.

Poor obedience can present as difficulties with lead manners, unreliable recall, and a lack of appropriate house manners.

This may include barking at things passing by the window, at the door or tv and too excited with visitors.

These behaviours often stem from unclear boundaries, inconsistent training, or a lack of understanding rather than defiance.

Aggression in dogs can present through behaviours such as growling, snapping, or biting. This may include resource guarding of food, toys, or space.

Redirected aggression when arousal or frustration is high

Fear-based aggression in response to perceived threats; and predatory behaviour directed towards moving animals or objects.

Struggling with any of these behaviours?

Here are your training options

1-to-1 Sessions
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1 Hour

90 Minute

2 Hour

Training Walks

All Day Trains

Packages

Group Classes &
Nova Events

Pack Walks

Confidence Building

Challenging Environments

Exposure Work

Training Walks

Packages

Book Consultation

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bella callaway

2025-12-21

I asked Ellie for help with my dogs as i recently had a small breed puppy as well as having a large breed my small breed puppy really struggled with seeing other dogs and new people outside and would be quite reactive, as well as being overbearing for my current dog my large breed had issues with barking 24/7 as well as pulling (literally dragging me), and resource guarding toys and food from the puppy and going for her after a few sessions with Ellie, my puppy no longer acknowledges new people or dogs and is less over bearing for my current dog, and her walking on lead is coming along beautifully my bigger dog no longer pulls, her recall is ten times better, she doesn’t bark as much anymore (still the occasionally grumble due to being a husky 😂) and she no longer resource guards i genuinely couldn’t thank Ellie enough

Melanie McElroy

2025-12-14

Ellie has been helping me with some issues I have with my girl. Ellie has done some training with us in the home, in the car, out in parks and walking the streets. Ellie has covered all sorts of training with us and is very knowledgeable with the needs of both dog and owner. We love having Ellie to help and guide us and will continue to use her for all her services. 100% highly recommend

Richard North

2025-12-14

Ellie came into our life a couple of years ago and I can honestly say it’s one of the best decisions we have made for our dogs We wanted someone to look after our dogs in a home setting but also be someone who knew how to handle them and respected our home She has been incredible to the point where we have zero concerns when going away and she teaches us so much about dealing with our dogs Myself and my wife can’t recommend her enough Absolutely golden Richard and Donna North

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How Our Dog Training Works

Free Consultation

You can book this by contacting us through phone, email or social media. There is also a booking system here on our website for you to fill out, allowing you to book a time and date to suit you.

This gives you an opportunity to tell us how you would like Nova Dog Training to help you and your dog.

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Gundog style games 🐾

How to improve impulse control using thrown dummy’s/toys:

- Use a lead to assist
- Repetition after repetition
- Dropping the lead midway through the game when you are getting consistent sits whilst holding the lead (pups are very smart, and they know when the lead has been dropped, so best to do this sneakily)
- Make each game a little more challenging

Self control will encourage impulse control, which will set your dog up for success and is the foundations you need in a dog - no matter the breed or behaviours.

Impulse control is used absolutely everywhere in each different environment and real life scenarios.

Here at Nova Dog Training - Archie has gundog style walks and confidence building. Focusing on breed fulfilment and encouraging good behaviours.

Safe to say he has the best time - and continues to improve more and more each session 🐾

Bella’s owner is a lovely older lady, Bella’s pulling and reactions towards cars were beginning to put both of them at risk.

It was important to help Bella understand what behaviours are expected instead of reacting - while keeping both her and her owner safe and confident on walks.

Because of this, walks had started to become difficult for her owner, and Bella was being taken out less and less.

Our goal was to rebuild that confidence by improving her lead manners and teaching her that reacting to cars isn’t appropriate — while also giving her a clear, positive alternative behaviour to choose instead.

Bella has low motivation towards both toys and food, so we focused on using praise, reassurance, and affection as her main rewards, helping her feel safe and supported throughout the process.

We still have more work to do, but we’re on the right track — working towards calm, enjoyable walks where Bella can truly relax and decompress in her environment 🐾

Brilliant work during a training class here at Nova Dog Training 🐾

We would love to see more of you as our community grows - please get in touch to join our weekly classes, working on a number of different skills and activities which will benefit your dog’s progression 💪🏼

Pet Gundog training with Archie 🐾

Some lovely loose lead walking to start our session - working on general engagement and calmness.

Whistle stops are used in gundog in order to ensure safety and control from a distance. They are beneficial to use when practicing impulse control too!

Holding the dummy/ball for a duration is important in order to have a hand delivery - this is used in gundog to promote a gentle mouth.

Working gundog breeds can still practice these activities without being on a shoot - exactly like what Archie is doing on his training walk 💪🏼

Spaniels, spaniels and more spaniels 🐾

I have such a soft spot for gundogs, particularly spaniels. They are so unbelievably smart and have such a drive to work.

Archie is in for weekly training walks, today we introduced pet gundog style games!

Why are these useful and what does it teach?

- Impulse control
- Obedience
- Recall
- Brain games
- Confidence building
- Sense of smell is used

A 2 hour hike wouldn’t even compare to the benefits of these types of games!

Do you have a gundog breed? If you want more control and activities you can do with your dog out on walks - drop us a message and claim your FREE consultation now 🐾

Confidence building, exposure and socialisation!

The 3 mains things that need to be focused on when puppy training.

I adore working with new puppy’s as the process of shaping their view of the world is fun and super beneficial! Take a look at some training bits we have done here at Nova Dog Training with mixed breed pup, Princess 👑 (she’s too cute!!)

This training has been done before she is able to go out on walks - so there is a list of things you can do before vaccination programmes are completed.

A puppy’s critical learning window is between 6-8 weeks, so taking your puppy out to see the world is equally as important too. This is as simple as carrying them to allow them to see and hear different environments - this is often missed!

If you want to set your puppy or young dog up for success, drop us a message and claim your FREE consultation now 🐾

We have a number of puppy programmes available with resources to help you along the way!

Impulse control, searches and rewards!

There can be so much controversy surrounding continuous ball throwing - it is absolutely FINE in moderation.

Lexi finds a lot of value in a ball, so I ensure I use this for our training and rewarding for general good behaviours.

Mental stimulation for dogs is often seen to be limited to your licky and snuffle mats - however there is so much more value in the outside environment and allowing them to do what dogs do best! Sniff, explore and search. This is mental stimulation too.

If you want a deeper guide on activities you can do with your dog out on walks, message us “FETCH” and receive your free guide now 🐾

The importance of doing absolutely nothing!

The ability to regulate emotions and arousal states are the foundations to improving canine behaviours. People often forget that teaching your dog how to settle is equally as important as the walks you do too.

In order to work on reactivity - you must change the way your dog views its triggers and what emotions they feel.

Neutrality means to allow your dog to exist in a range of different environments, around people, bikes, dogs, horses… you name it. Whilst feeling calm, engaged with the handler and having the ability to settle.

The art of doing nothing - is so important yet often overlooked.

Jett can struggle to switch off in busy environments, so we took our time today to work on this. Safe to say he smashed it 🩵

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DOG TRAINING

What you will learn

Lead Walking

Structured Play

Place & Settle

Recall

Breaking Your Dogs Behaviour Down

Struggling with any of these behaviours?

Here are your training options

1-to-1 Sessions Available

1 Hour 90 Minute 2 Hour Training Walks All Day Trains Packages

Group Classes & Nova Events

Pack Walks Confidence Building Challenging Environments Exposure Work Training Walks Packages

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1-to-1 Sessions
Available

1 Hour

90 Minute

2 Hour

Training Walks

All Day Trains

Packages

Group Classes &
Nova Events

Pack Walks

Confidence Building

Challenging Environments

Exposure Work

Training Walks

Packages