Our Team
All our trainers are highly qualified and experienced so you are guaranteed a quality training experience
LEARN MOREAll of our trainers are highly-qualified and experienced. Between us, beyond dog training in general, we have expertise in reactivity, separation anxiety, canine nutrition, therapy and assistance dogs, multidog households, resource guarding and much more. We help dog owners all over London and beyond to learn how to understand their dog better and work together to train them using force-free training techniques.
Intimidation, correction, force, pack-based beliefs or punishment have no place in the human-dog interaction and this is the ethos we all follow. We believe in learning techniques backed by the latest science, kindness and compassion when it comes to changing behaviour.
Lydia is the founder of Friendly Creatures and is a full member of the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers which supports ethical dog training methods. She specializes in helping animals with anxiety. Lydia offers a Mentorship scheme to help people who want to work with animals.
Vanda co-runs Friendly Creatures with Lydia. She is a qualified Victoria Stillwell Academy dog trainer. She has owned dogs most of her life and has a strong interest in dog behaviour and educating owners in how to offer a good quality of life to their dogs.
Martina rescued her beloved Ulisse who led to her enthusiasm for dogs. She has qualifications with the some of the biggest names in the field such as Karen Pryor Academy, Dr Susan Friedman PhD, Terry Ryan and Professional Association of CanineTrainers.
Holly worked for years at Battersea before becoming a trainer with Friendly Creatures. She is also qualified to do Animal Assisted Therapy with children and young people, with Parker her amazing poodle.
Maedhbhina studied dog training with the Institute of Modern Dog Training. She also qualified in canine nutrition with the Companion Animal Science Institute and she offers a holistic approach to training and health
Our Puppy training course runs over six weeks, one hour each week, and is for puppies aged 9 weeks to 6 months (approximately). In this course you will learn how to teach your puppy important foundation behaviours and life skills.
Our Foundation course is for puppies and dogs over the age of about 19 weeks. This is a great course if you have done no or little training with your dog before.
We run special courses to help excitable, reactive and sensitive dogs learn how to remain calm in the presence of things that trigger them (such as other dogs, strangers or even children).
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