I have over 30 years hands on, real life experience with dogs. This has enabled me to develop a sound knowledge of dog psychology, and how and why dogs can become unbalanced when they do not have a calm assertive, strong pack leader to look to for guidance.

To finely tune my knowledge I attended Sharon Bolt from Good Dogs! Advanced Course, which is only for people who are serious about becoming a dog behaviourist or have a strong desire to increase their knowledge of dog psychology. Attending the course reaffirmed all I had learnt along the way and gave me the confidence to set up my own dog behaviourist business.

Being my mother’s daughter, who has been a huge dog lover since she was a little girl, genetics kicked in when, as a family, we got our first dog, a golden Labrador called Harry, when I was five years old.

The eight week old bundle of cuteness was the first of many family dogs who have completed our family ‘pack’ over the past 30 years.

I have owned my first dog, Molly a chocolate lab, since the summer of 2003, and added to my pack, in 2008, when I took on Holly, 11 year old rescue collie, who has turned out to be such a joy to own. Collectively Molly and Holly are known as The Olly Girls!

Even as a small child I had a subliminal understanding of the alpha dog, the dog pack, and how dogs live and work together as a pack in order to survive in the wild. I also always understood that as humans we must respect all animals and their natural ways. So for us to get the best out of our dogs we have to treat them as dogs.

Always having these beliefs and having grown up with various breeds of dogs, who were always a huge part of our family and family life, being included in all that we did together, it was only natural for me to want to work in some way with dogs.

As dog psychology is of real interest to me and because I have always naturally applied leadership skills to my own dogs, it seemed obvious that I should teach other open minded dog owners, who believe in this philosophy, the same techniques.