3 Best Dog Trainers in Dartford

“Top Dog Training School & Home Boarding is a family-run business with a lifelong love, passion, and experience for working with dogs. Their school is designed to train well-behaved family pets and responsible local community members. Top Dog is not just a training school and home boarding—it is a large dog community that comes together to provide dogs with their daily needs. Top Dog Training classes offer real-life training that you can apply daily for you and your dog. They discuss and learn about real issues and the best ways to address them while gaining confidence to handle whatever comes their way. They run six-week courses at four venues (weekdays in the evening and Saturday mornings) and puppy and dog agility on Sunday mornings. They provide larger halls for indoor training and fantastic outdoor spaces.”

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“Wigglewags is an Award-Winning, established, and family-run dog training school in North Kent. The training school specialises in basic and advanced obedience, fun agility, and gundog skills. Michelle is the founder of Wigglewags and is a qualified Dog Training Instructor offering basic and advanced obedience courses, fun agility, gundog training, and flyball. They use positive reinforcement to achieve the desired behaviour for your dog. Wigglewags offers obedience training classes from the foundation stage to the gold level. Their Fun Agility Classes are non-competitive and low to medium-impact, making them suitable for any age or breed of dog with basic obedience. They use different agility equipment to teach the dogs in a fun and stimulating environment. All of the courses are aimed at the family pet dog rather than competition-based training, and therefore the atmosphere and environment remain friendly and fun for both the dogs and their owners. They offer their courses on a one-to-one basis.”

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“Optimistic Dogs-Dog Training is one of the top dog training service providers in Dartford. Caroline is the owner of Optimistic Dogs, and her mission is to help pet owners understand their dogs better. She goes above and beyond to teach them how to bond with their dogs using positive reinforcement and science-based, force-free methods that are fun for both dogs and humans. Caroline stays current with her learning and attends various courses throughout the year to grow her knowledge and pass this on to current and future clients. She is a puppy trainer at Puppy School and a professional dog trainer who provides game-based training for dogs of all ages, reshaping the dog's mind through 3-minute games so they can make the right choices. During her training sessions, she strips it all back and looks at the dog in front of her to see what the owners are doing and how they can help their dog. Caroline quickly establishes a rapport with any dog she meets, even if the dog is nervous, and she goes at the dog's pace, never pushing them. She supports all owners on their training journey.”

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