St Paws Training Academy

St Paws Training Academy - Dog Training in St Albans, Hertfordshire

Lisa Sinnott is an award winning dog trainer and behaviourist. She has studied dogs extensively – completing a postgraduate diploma in clinical animal behaviour with the University of Edinburgh Royal Vet School. She offers one to one training and behaviour services in Hertfordshire and is the founder of the Polite Pup Club – a vault of online courses, worksheets and live sessions with Lisa to help you navigate life with your new puppy.

Lisa has over 7 years experience working with different dog breeds, finding out about their behaviour and what makes them tick. She understands the motivation of behaviours and the emotion behind them. By changing the emotion, or channelling it in a different way, the dog will change their behaviour.

 Lisa can help you bring out the best in your dog, enhance your bond and this makes sure you have the happiest of lives together.

Lisa works with all breeds of dogs, at any life stage. Her extensive studies at University and experience mean she has an understanding of laying the foundations with new puppies, to teenage dogs with selective deafness or more acute behavioural challenges such as dog to dog reactivity.

Qualifications
Candidate Member of the Fellowship of Animal Behaviour Clinicians (FABC)
Provisional Member of Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC)
Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Animal Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

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The Polite Pup Club
The polite pup club is an online vault full of resources for solutions to all your training challenges including pulling on the lead, jumping at strangers, not coming when called, stealing balls, and barking. As well as this it helps prevent problem behaviour - you don't know what you don't know. It gives guidance on car travel, harness choices (there are over 200 on Amazon!), setting a puppy up for being alone and avoiding reactivity.

 This can be a great resource for vet teams, day cares and dog walkers who have puppy clients too. Sadly, due to huge brain changes, adolescence is a time that many dogs are rehomed to a rescue centre. Not because they are naughty and bad or unloved but simply because it is a difficult and challenging time.. laying the foundations in puppyhood can help set people up for success later.

There is a plethora of information on the internet (and people in the park always like to give their two pence worth!) and it can be hard to know what to do for the best. As I have studied at University and worked with so many dogs I'm here to help and support you.

It was designed to have all the resources you need to ensure you have a happy and emotionally resilient dog and help you get through the wonderful but sometimes overwhelming puppy experience.