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Give your puppy the very best start in life. Lay the foundation for a trusting bond and well behaved dog with our individual puppy education programmes

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Turn your good dog into a great dog. Our approach is about education to get rid of those frustrating and annoying habits, for a well behaved dog

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Behaviour Problems

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Dog Training in Your Home

An international company founded over 35 years ago and over 1 million dogs trained worldwide. Bark Busters trainers work directly with you in your own home to resolve behaviour problems and help with your general training needs. Of course, where problem behaviours happen outside your home, we work with you to resolve problems such as pulling, lunging, chasing and more severe problems such as aggression to other dogs, animals, or people.

Our approach works because it is based on how dogs naturally learn and communicate. Whether you have a puppy, adolescent or older dog, by ensuring they follow your cues and commands will help them navigate and thrive in the human world they live in.

Free Dog Behaviour Assessment

Take the free online dog behaviour assessment and find out how your dog's behaviour rates. The results are emailed along with the contact details of your local trainer for expert help and advice if you need it.

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35 Years, Training over 1 Million Dogs

Our training programmes consider the unique challenges you are facing, fostering a positive relationship between you and your dog. Our method enables you to build a lasting, emotional bond based on trust and respect, which in turn aids in overcoming the challenges with your dog. Bark Busters Home Dog Training behaviour therapists focus on dog owners too. We teach you how to communicate effectively with your dog so that you have the necessary tools to overcome any of your dog's behaviour problems. Our techniques work with any breed, any age and with any behaviour problem. You and your dog get one-to-one personal attention in your home, a tailored training plan for both you and your dog. Our support guarantee gives you the peace of mind that your trainer is here to help and support you for the life of your dog.

Life of Your Dog Support Guarantee

We believe in our methods and our 35 years of amazing results they have achieved, which is why Bark Busters offers our unique "Life of the Dog Support Guarantee". If you purchase our Gold Service, your trainer will continue to work with you, in your home and free of charge, to address new or any recurring behaviour problems, for the entire life of your dog. We will continue to visit you to provide practical training to resolve the behaviour problems you are experiencing, and we are there to help and support you for your dog's entire life.

New Home?
Not a problem, you're covered

Bark Busters free of charge support guarantee remains valid even if you move home and we have a Bark Busters trainer covering your area. We continue to provide home visits in covered areas, and if there is no trainer that services your new postcode, Bark Busters will provide remote assistance by phone, email, video chat, or another electronic method.

 

 

What our customers are saying

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"Sharon was very good everything seemed to make sense & works"

Jane
Trainer: Sharon Chapman

"Alex was absolutely amazing how my dog settled immediately we have some work to do with the barking but Alex made it so easy to understand and what is best to do and the way Alex explained and gave demonstrations and then I had to do it it was all just so easy and clear and straight forward Alex is absolutely lovely and very easy to get along with with helps the training process more I can not thank him enough for all his help"

Tracey
Trainer: Alex Fraser

"We recently re-homed Marbles (we think he’s a Staffy-Boxer cross of some sort) from a local dog’s home. He’s about 18 months old but we didn’t really know what to expect given he was handed in as a stray. Whilst he is undoubtedly a lovely tempered dog, he wasn’t great at listening or following commands. We reached out to Alex because we wanted to give our new dog the best start in his new environment, and given his breed felt that professional advice and support would be sensible. Alex was brilliant in his follow up from the initial enquiry; he is thorough and knowledgeable and explained his services clearly. He is also realistic in what we could hope to achieve in the initial session. On the day of our appointment, Alex was again brilliant. He set us at ease, and instilled us with confidence in how to interact with our new dog (particularly the very boisterous jumping up we get regualrly). Every dog is different, but I feel like Alex knew exactly where to start with ours. He taught us to communicate with Marbles on a variety of situations, showed us how to walk him properly on a lead and reduce the pulling (Alex also provided us with some better equipment to help - it’s now like a different dog on our daily walks). Alex was also very helpful in explaining nutritional needs of dogs and gave us some useful pointers. After our first session, Alex shared a number of documents so we had follow-up homework to maintain the consistency with training Marbles, so he could be the best version of himself. I’m really glad we chose BarkBusters as it’s given us the perfect platform and more importantly, empowered us to provide the best support for our new pooch!"

Michael
Trainer: Alex Fraser

"Lee was absolutely amazing with both our dogs. Literally within the first 30mins he taught us a tactic to calm them down and teach them not to jump and get over excited, this worked and continues to work! He then taught us tricks to use to improve recall and attention on us rather than otter dogs, this is also going very well. We can see a change in our dogs already and it's only been a week. Really looking forward to our next session."

Gary
Trainer: Lee Hardy

"Sharon was extremely helpful and gave us so much helpful advice. She explained everything clearly and why and how things should be done. She helped us understand where we were going wrong and pointed us in the right direction. We would highly recommend Sharon & Bark Busters to everyone."

Barbara
Trainer: Sharon Chapman

"Liz was excellent, very helpful and discussed a lot of aspects we hadn’t thought of. Positive changes were noticed within an hour and we are working on the tips she gave us. Going great so far..!"

peter
Trainer: Liz Johnson

"Lovely and knowledgeable lady. Already seeing huge improvements with both dogs barking at the door. Normans loose lead walking is improving daily and they are eating their food much much better. Highly recommend and can't praise high enough"

Nick
Trainer: Kirsty Dudfield

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Kirsty was lovely, on her first visit we sat and went through all sorts of details, including the potential difficulties that we may well come up against, given our pups breed and our living arrangements. Pup is a border collie x springer spaniel and we live aboard our narrowboat. She kept in touch in a regular basis and came out to us when we needed her help. Sadly, though absolutely nothing to do with Kirsty, it became fairly obvious that our situation was never going to work out for us or puppy so the heartbreaking decision was made to rehome her with a more suitable family home. Bark Busters training will continue with whoever is in the new area.

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pennie
Trainer: Kirsty Dudfield

"From the first initial contact with Alex to our sessions with Alex he was amazing. We got Luna from a dogs home and she had 2 previous owners who had never done training with her before so we knew it was going to be to tricky. The tips and information Alex gave us has been amazing and just yesterday we finally managed to get her off lead chasing the ball which I never thought we’d be able to do! I would recommend Alex to anyone who needs help with there beautiful dog!!"

Lorna
Trainer: Alex Fraser

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Alex was absolutely brilliant, he had great patience and respect for Boris and us, we would definitely recommend his training programme, our lives are already better as a family, 👍thank you Alex

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martine
Trainer: Alex Fraser

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Neil was amazing. Within half an hour of being here coco was a different dog , we still have a way to go but I know with Neil's help all will go great

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Michelle
Trainer: Neil Price

"Emma was very polite, she talked us through how we should train Freddie to help with his barking. Emma was here for 2 hours and by the time she left Freddie had calmed his barking. So far the training is working really well, knowing Emma is only a phone call away is reassuring. We would definitely recommend using Emma if you need help with your dog."

Paul
Trainer: Emma Barrett

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The whole family can not believe the improvement in Patch’s behaviour,after the first lesson he doesn’t pull on the lead with the canny collar,he now sleeps in his crate at night and not on my bed,still working on greeting visitors and separation.Many thanks Sydney

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Brian
Trainer: Sydney Coleman

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Alex was brilliant!! He gave us clear and focussed advice and practical help. It was a pleasure to work with him and Rita responded really positively throughout the visit. Alex gave us lots to work on and there were some instant changes in Rita’s behaviour which we’ve been able to build on and maintain. Alex never made us feel like bad parents !!

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Cath
Trainer: Alex Fraser

"As first time dog owners with a new puppy, my wife & I wanted someone to come in and show us the basics to make sure we were teaching Penny the right things. Sydney visited us as short notice and gave us three hours of her time on a Sunday morning and we both found the session incredibly helpful. Sydney’s knowledge on training, nutrition and even the Shar Pei breed is extensive and we learned a lot, which we have been able to put into practice straight away. At times the information overload was a little overwhelming but Sydney is very approachable and spend a lot of time checking our understanding of what was discussed and answering our questions. I am glad we have her for the next year to call upon with our training needs, and think the course is great value for money so far."

Sam
Trainer: Sydney Coleman

"Fantastic session! A lot of info given and moves were demonstrated several times for us."

Angela
Trainer: Kirsty Dudfield

"Really happy,very proffesional,only been a week but vast improvements already."

Damien
Trainer: Kirsty Dudfield

"An excellent service. My first lesson with Sydney was productive and had immediate impact on me and my dogs. She was clear, patient, kind and explained the training systems comprehensively. Really looking forward to the next lesson and to helping us all love more happily in and out of the house."

Claire
Trainer: Sydney Coleman

"Amazing We had the absolute pleasure of meeting Sydney from Bark Busters yesterday for a three-hour session with our Golden Retriever, Dougie, and she completely blew us away with her knowledge and professionalism. She helped us understand exactly where we had been going wrong and gave us clear, practical techniques that we feel really confident putting into practice. Sydney was so knowledgeable, friendly and genuinely lovely to meet. Her positive energy made the whole experience really enjoyable, and we felt supported and encouraged throughout the session. We’d already started seeing results by the end of the very same evening, which was amazing. We’ve taken everything she taught us on board and feel really optimistic about continuing the training. I would totally recommend Sydney to anyone needing support with their dog as she was fantastic."

Julie
Trainer: Sydney Coleman

"Excellent service"

Louise
Trainer: Kirsty Dudfield

 

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