Press Release : It’s National Pet Week, celebrating the special friendship between pet and owner. But thousands of dogs end up in rescue centres every week!

Aggression, separation anxiety or just excessive pulling cause owners who love their dogs to despair, making many feel they have no option other than re-homing “man’s best friend”

But according to Annette Helder, who has just opened a branch of her famous Dutch dog school in Edinburgh,  this often means we’re just shifting the unwanted behaviour from our home to somebody else’s.  Or worse, many dogs end up being “put to sleep”  because their behaviour problems are seen as too difficult to treat.

Annette’s company, Quiraing Dog School (Scotland) helps owners tackle the problems before it is too late.  They use reward-based training techniques to build a bond of trust between the dog and owner, encouraging the dog to repeat good behaviour.  Unwanted behaviour is, mostly, ignored which quickly teaches the dog there’s no benefit in behaving badly. Dangerous behaviour has to be corrected, obviously, but  Annette firmly believes this can always be achieved without the use of choke chains, electric collars or other pain inducing systems.

As Annette says “It’s never too late to teach an old dog new tricks.”

Background
Annette Helder is a world famous doggy dancing trainer, breeder of the 2005 FHN Dutch Agility Champion and owner of the successful Quiraing Hondenschool.

After gaining her degree in Animal Management, Annette Helder decided to use her knowledge and experience as a qualified dog trainer to help others transform their dogs into happy, well-behaved pets. Having founded Quiraing Hondenschool (i.e. Dog School) in Haren, The Netherlands in 2001 Annette and her staff have helped hundreds of customers over the years through obedience classes, private training and behaviour consultations.

Annette has appeared in newspapers, radio and TV in countries all over the world as a doggy-dancing expert. She has now married a Scotsman and moved to Edinburgh where she and her husband will work together to expand their dog school internationally.

For more details please contact : Annette Helder

E:             info@quiraing.eu

W:            www.quiraing.eu/Scotland

T:         0131 466 8443