Dog Training Bolton & Wigan & Home Puppy Behaviour Classes

Hi, I'm Neil Price of Bark Busters Home Dog Training Bolton and Wigan. I am your local behaviourist therapist and trainer. If you’re reading this, you either share your life with a dog already or are thinking of rehoming one or even getting a puppy to add to your family. It may be that your dog has a few issues, or is even a diamond with rough edges, but whatever the issue I can help. I love helping people to understand and rehabilitate their dog and rebuilding their relationship into a strong bond of mutual respect. If you are frustrated, or at a loss how to change your dog’s behaviour problems, such as barking, hyperactivity, aggression, jumping up, pulling on the lead or separation issues, chewing, digging, recall, play biting or just wanting to give your puppy the best opportunity to be a great family friend to your children, then I’m here to help.

My career with dogs took a while to happen, but there have always been dogs in my life. I grew up in a farming community and my love of nature and animals came from there. Helping my dad with herding the sheep, watching how brilliantly the working sheepdogs helped reduce the workload was an inspiration. As well as the working dogs, we always had other dogs in the family, so my desire to work with animals and specifically dogs, was a true ambition.

It was no surprise that although I initially started my working life in horticulture, travelling to Holland frequently, I still managed to have dogs. Two lovely German Shepherds who were looked after by family whilst I was away on business. They were very responsive and were a joy to train. 

My wife and I had various rescue Border Collies, Buster, Abbie, Max, Tilly and Jazz and we were also long term fostering two more for a dear friend. Then we adopted Gemma. Wow, she was a difficult girl! She was a very nervous anxious young 15-month-old Border Collie and had been showing serious aggression to people and dogs, hence her owners had felt obliged to shut her away most of the time reducing any socialising to a minimum and we discovered she wasn’t house trained either. I was determined to help her and took her to training classes, but wanted to understand her more, so took and passed with merit, my Diploma in Canine Psychology. It certainly helped me with Gemma, but made me even more determined to make a career with dogs as the focal point.

A good friend mentioned Bark Busters Home Dog Training to me, and I realised after meeting with them, this was my dream job and I now work with dog owners like you in and around the Bolton and Wigan area. Training was intense, but enjoyable and I learned the kind, gentle techniques which are so well suited to calmly help dogs and their owners. I demonstrate the training techniques and then coach you to be able to carry on the training daily, to further the improvements experienced at our first lesson.

I was able to fully rehabilitate young Gemma. We had a great time competing in agility and before she retired, we were able to achieve national level in Kennel Club agility competitions, obtaining the highest KC award of Agility Warrant Gold. I was very proud of her!

In addition to helping families with their dogs, I am also a KC Agility judge and I give my time free of charge to Cheshire Dogs Home, working with the difficult to rehome dogs to ensure that they can find their forever homes.

If you are looking for dog training near you or if you are not fully enjoying your dog, are feeling challenged by unwanted behaviour, would like to be able to enjoy your walks on and off lead, be able to trust your dog to respond when you call them back to you, never have to worry about leaving your dog at home knowing that there will be no toilet accidents or destruction, not having your arm wrenched by a lunging dog at people, cars, bikes or other dogs, neighbours complaining about excess barking, then call me and with our unique written Support Guarantee, you will have the peace of mind that any further visits will be free of charge.

If you are looking for puppy training classes near you, then why not consider my home training. Group training classes can be very stressful for your pup and if they become disruptive in the classes you can often be asked to leave. My lessons are informative and provides puppies with the very best start in life.

My home puppy training classes cover topics such as:

• Best toileting habits
• Appropriate diet and good food manners
• Recall - coming when called
• Gate and door control
• Sit, stay and down training
• Correct holding of the lead and walking
• Walking to heel
• Distance control (staying with you when there are other distractions)
• How to successfully socialise your puppy
• How to de-sensitise, for example, vacuum cleaners and car travel etc…
• Protecting your puppy from being overwhelmed by people or other dogs
• Accustoming to handling, bathing and grooming
• Bad behaviour prevention and management, e.g. jumping up, mouthing, play biting and chewing etc...