About Beacons Dog Training

 I live in Llangors with my three children and my dogs whom first and foremost are family pets. I love learning all the while about dogs and behaviour and spend all of my free time going to train with some of the best trainers in the UK and abroad and also attending lectures by UK based and overseas visiting lecturers.
 
I have over thirty years of experience of owning a variety of breeds of dog including the following breeds:
Rottweilers
Border Collies
Labradors
Dobermann
Pembrokeshire Corgis
English Bull Terriers
Staffordshire Bull Terriers
Toy Poodles
Standard Poodles
Jack Russell Terriers
English Springer Spaniels
Huntaways
 
along with many crossbreeds
  
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     Gemma in the river
  

As you can see from these photos our dogs have to get on with children and other animals, they live as part of our family and because of this need to be well behaved!

Tracie worked as a dog warden and fostered and advised on behaviour for various Bull Terrier charities, Tracie also works sheepdogs, has trained in agility and obedience and shown dogs to championship level.

 

 Tracie holds full liability insurance so that your vet can refer you to her with confidence. Tracie is currently working towards my IMDT membership and membership of INTO DOGS as the organisation holds and ethos very close to Tracie's own. Tracie has attended CAP 1 & 2 training with Kay Laurence and clicker gundog training courses run by Helen Phillips. Platform training with Kay Attwood and Scent work training with Nando Brown and Jo-Rosie Haffenden.

 

Tracie is bound by the APDT as an Accredited Instructor (Member number 001145) to only train using positive reward based methods but would do this anyway as the method really does work. Tracie uses Clicker training but should anyone feel that this is not a method they are happy with Tracie can alter the training to suit person by person or dog by dog.

 

Tracie's main aim in life is to try to give people the tools with which not only to train their current dog but also any other dogs they end up owning. These are life skills that you can pass on to your children and she wholly encourages anyone in the household turning up to the classes so that everyone knows how to train the family pet. She aims to offer this in the most affordable way possible.The whole training process is designed to create the best possible relationship with your dog so that training becomes easy.