Testimonial – Dog Training Dylan the Irish Red Setter

I discovered Damian whilst searching desperately online for help with my dog. I had taken in a 19 month old male Irish Setter (Dylan) the week before lockdown and whilst he was fantastic in the house (calm, gentle, quiet) I was seriously out of my depth on our walks. Dylan clearly had no respect for me and pretty much ignored me as soon as we left the house! He’d pull on his lead, ignore my recall off the lead and had enormous fun running the length and breadth of the park, chasing birds, playing with other dogs and only coming back when he was done – when the swifts arrived my life was officially hell. Enter Damian. He was fantastic. He explained where I was going wrong (yep – in just about every possible way!) and basically retrained me to retrain Dylan. It felt really tough at first just lead walking such an energetic dog – who then started trying to reassert himself in the house – but Damian was fantastic and led me through every step of the way. Short term pain for long term gain!! Straight away I had a dog who no longer pulled and four months later I let him off the lead yesterday at the park for the first time since training and he was amazing – stayed near me, responded well and I was told “what a well behaved dog” by another dog walker! It felt awesome!! I knew Damian was good judging by his testimonials on his website and here I am adding my own today. Add a genuinely nice guy with a wicked sense of humour (who can talk the hind leg off a donkey!) and you have an extremely effect yet fun answer to your dog training needs!! Thank you Damian – I can’t believe you have got me so far in such a short space of time and I’m looking forward to continuing my training and having lots of fun with Dylan off his lead!!

Posted: December 22, 2020