Reviews & Testimonials For Kirsty Dudfield

We engaged Kirsty because we were concerned about our ten month old lurcher’s prey drive. We have owned several lurchers over the years but never one with such a determined hunting instinct at such a young age, or where our usual recall efforts failed miserably 99/100. We were also finding that she was becoming increasing ‘unruly’ generally: pulling on her lead, demanding affection, siting on furniture (or laps) uninvited, etc. Kirsty enabled us to recognise the patterns in our pup’s behaviour and, via some surprisingly simple but immediately effective exercises, to take back control and to reinstate the proper pack hierarchy. We have been genuinely taken aback by how quickly these changes have taken place (including in our behaviour!) and how much more contented our dog is. Fingers crossed, once we’re confident we have absolute authority domestically, we will be able to transfer this control to the great outdoors.

Kirsty made us feel relaxed and certainly Harley responded straight away to her commands. We found very quickly, that, Harley worked very well and Kirsty was very patient in explaining all of the aspects of the training that we would be doing. Harley took to the new K9 bridle and is now walking to heel extremely well. She also ignores ( in the main) other dogs and people walking past her. We have also changed her food to increase her protein intake in place of the higher carbohydrates feed she’s been on.

Kirsty was very knowledgeable about all aspects of dog wellbeing and training. Even from just one lesson we are seeing the benefits. Kirsty approached things very methodically and gives you great tips to keep the training going. We have every confidence that she can make our dog /owner relationship much better.

It was a pleasure meeting Kirsty She was very professional, knowledgeable and clearly understands dogs. She was able to explain techniques well and demonstrated them in a way that was accessible and achievable. It was very helpful for her to watch us do the exercises and be corrected as needed. Her approach with Bruno was firm but loving as well which we appreciated. The way she explains techniques etc was so good, we both felt engaged as she 'trained us', we never felt talked down to. At the end of the first lesson both of us felt empowered and enthusiastic to teach our boy to behave better!

Kirsty was very friendly and professional. She took time to understand our dog’s history, issues and needs. Everything was clearly explained and demonstrated. We have seen a great improvement in our dog’s behaviour through understanding how our body language and vocal commands impact on his response.

Thank you Kirsty, our first lesson with the girls was brilliant. Informative and reassuring your support encouragement and guidance gave me hope and confidence for the girls. I’ve been working daily with the girls this last week and can’t wait to continue with our next session.

Kirsty was really helpful She listened to us and showed us what to do and explained it in a way we could all understand and gave us some tips and advice on children and puppies

Great help with understanding dog behaviour and I feel positive about making the necessary changes to my approach in relation to Cooper to hopefully change some of the negative behaviours that he has been exhibiting recently.

Kirsty was brilliant with Storm and Luna sharing her knowledge with us made things understandable and what a different we have and other people have noticed about the 2 Dogs. No pulling or Barking now I would recommend Bark Busters to any one . Storm is a border Collie Luna is a Labrador thank you Bark Busters.

Training was really good. The dogs were very responsive and have been after too. I am really happy with the whole experience.

We contacted Bark Busters as we needed help with our French Bulldog who was showing signs of worsening resource guarding/aggression and general behavioural issues such as lead pulling and jumping up. We were absolutely blown away with the training, knowledge and professionalism provided by Kirsty during our first session and how our dog responded instantly to the passive leadership techniques that Kirsty taught us. Kirsty spent 3 hours with us and we covered all of the behaviours we were concerned with, all of which have improved drastically since we introduced the corrective commands taught by Kirsty. After the first session Kirsty provided us with a written analysis of our dogs behaviour and the reasons for it, and detailed instructions of everything we covered in the session. This was super helpful as it meant we didn’t need to make notes during the session and could just focus on the training. We will be recommending Bark Busters and specifically Kirsty to everyone - fantastic value and money well spent.

Our trainer Kirsty was brilliant very knowledgeable patient and friendly . Very professional and has taught us and Bella techniques that have had immediate and positive results. Kirsty was approachable and friendly. We had Bella as a rescue dog from the dogs home and found we had challenging issues to address. Kirsty has helped us address these issues and we would not hesitate in recommending her