The Dog Man

Craig has been working with us with our puppy since we bought him home 8 weeks ago and he is thriving with his training at 16 weeks old. If we have any problems or not sure how to go about something then Craig is always at the end of the phone to help and will come out to visit us to talk us through it. Highly recommend Craig’s training techniques, and the warm friendly professional service he provides.

Craig worked with our rescue dog phoebe, by following his plan we can see a big difference in phoebe, we will continue to follow the plan as we can see such a difference.Once Craig explained to me why she was doing what she was doing it made a lot of sense and I could see how the training would help.

Craig is a wonderful man. He really is The Dog Man.He has helped us no end with our Cane Corso.Craig also offers dog food which is again 5*.I would highly recommend The Dog Man to anyone.Thanks Craig we are really grateful.

Craig came highly recommended by our dog walker who has had 1:1 training with her German Shepherd. Both Craig and his wife are very knowledgeable. We initially asked Craig to help with our ‘rescue’ sprocker Daisy. We wanted to get her off the lead and coming back to us (something we thought she would naturally do in time by learning from our older dog). When Daisy first met Craig and Karen, she was so badly affected with other issues that we were given some training tips to follow to help to get her to focus. A second visit gave us a few more techniques. Now we have a visit to a freedom field booked to see if Craig’s ‘magic’ works. We have noticed how much calmer Daisy is around the house. Little techniques used consistently over a period of time have had a huge impact. Visitors have noticed the difference in Daisy, as have other people we meet whilst out walking.We notice new improvements all the time and know that we have a long way to go - and it will take time - but Craig reassured us that we will get there. One thing for certain, we couldn’t have done it without Craig’s approach to training, his support, the videos or the answers to questions that we have asked on our portal.

After completing our 1 to 1 training with Craig - The Dog Man I can confidently say that he offers possibly the best dog training service in the UK. Over the years we have had many trainers however the service, skill and knowledge Craig offers is unmatched. The client zone and training videos make training at home simple to remember. Cant recommend enough!

I can highly recommend Craig & Karen .When they first met Sid (cocker spaniel -9 months), he was a nightmare to take on a walk , he pulled like an husky pulling a sleigh !. We wish we had used them for training from the moment we got Sid .Their extensive knowledge / training techniques , have transformed Sid & his owners !.With total commitment , he is now able to walk along side me , with no pulling . It is joy to take him out .The training hasn’t always gone smoothly , but Craig & Karen , are there promptly to offer further advice guidance .We will be extending the training ,so further develop Sid .

We saw Craig due to our border terrier Colin, being totally over stimulated by pretty much everything! He would lunge and bark at other dogs and people because he wanted to greet them and was intensely excited. He paid absolutely no attention to us outside of the house, had no loyalty to us and was more motivated by any external stimulus than by us. His friendly nature made us wonder if it was worth paying to see Craig as we didn’t have a problem like aggression with Colin, but as we’d tried general training classes with absolutely no success we decided to give it a go as holidays, days out and walks weren’t improving no matter what we had tried and Colin’s frustration on walks was clear to see.I wish we hadn’t waited so long as within a few days of seeing Craig we could see improvement and a few months later he is like a different dog. He pays attention to us, is generally much calmer and most importantly he is much happier and is not displaying frustrated, self soothing behaviours all of the time as he was before.Today we’ve had a follow up session at a really good price as Colin continues to be an excitable boy in very stimulating environments and we wanted to know how to help him direct that. Craig was happy with Colin’s progress and now that Colin is calmer and paying more attention we’ve been able to move on to new techniques to help him direct his excitement and desire to chase and have fun. I’m excited to be able to put the new techniques into action as I know they’ll get results after our previous success. I can’t thank Craig enough for helping us to understand our Colin and enabling him to be a calm and happy boy.I highly recommend!

Craig continues to work with my 2 small dogs with separation anxiety and behaviour issues. Since working with him I've seen a great improvement in both their overall health and behaviour and have already got the point the dogs don't react to me leaving and can be left for periods of time. Slowly and steadily both dogs are getting better and Craig has always been there to answer any questions and offer all kinds of advice to help out

Craig and Karen have been working with us for the last few months with our 2year old rescue dog Winston ,Winston was very temperamental with listening was very territorial over the garden breaking 2 of our fences and barking when ever anyone comes to the door or visit the house and recall was as an when he wanted.He has calmed down soo much! He’s like a different dog! Using the techniques and videos showing us how to work with Winston, we still have some work to do but he is going the right way!It’s easy steps done right make all the difference!I would recommend them to anyone! Craig has a vast amount of knowledge working with dogs! And they are both just genuinely lovely people and so supportive with training. Honestly can’t thank them enough for the time and effort they have provided us with!

I contacted Craig about my two year old Labrador who’s fearful barking and lunging at the unknown particularly strangers had made walks very stressful and days out and holidays no longer an option. During the 1-1 sessions at my home Craig gave me the techniques to get my dog to focus on me. This is not going to be a quick fix and it’s going to take a lot of work to overcome his behavioural issues. Two months into training I am seeing small improvements all the time and I certainly could not of done this without Craig’s training techniques and continued support through the portal.