Highly highly recommend Holistic Hound Dog Training!

Lorri really has changed our lives for the better, the amount of progress we have made with our doggo Dig is incredible, giving us so much confidence and hope for a more relaxed, happy future for us all!

Sharing a bit of history to give you an idea of where Dig has come from.

Digger due to unfortunate circumstances didn't have much socialisation at all as a pup, during the early stages of life when it is so important to expose your pup to everything and everyone. After struggling at puppy school with reactive behaviour, through professional advice he became a bubble boy, isolated from his fears/all situations that would cause a blow up and heavily medicated.

Fast forward a year or so, he developed fear aggression towards people and other dogs, still struggling from over reactivity, over arousal and fear of new locations. He was so uncomfortable with everything outside of the house, anybody that would come to the house, approach him, other dogs walking on the other side of the street. His body would stiffen, heckles up, screaming and lunging at other dogs to the point where people would come outside of their houses, thinking there was a dog fight. An incident of snapping and lunging at the vet. Not only showing reactive behaviour to others but also to us when we would discipline him, he would redirect onto us, meeting his intensity with ours, over aroused and would start to jump and nip causing bruising.

We were so lost, lost all hope, in a really bad space not knowing what to do next.

Then we met Lorri, on the first meet, Dig lunged and snapped at her, Lorri kept her cool and to our surprise she was willing to help us out, help Dig overcome his fears. So grateful for her taking us on board!

Our first few sessions with Lorri were all about ecollar conditioning and making sure we were using the ecollar correctly, a priceless piece of the training puzzle, the ecollar was perfect to be used to communicate with Dig without us having to raise our voice, keeping our verbal cues very neutral so we didn't cause Dig to ramp up. We also worked on food drive and making the food reward as positive as we could, making it the main drive for change.

The first month of learning the basics, introducing a very strict structured routine at home, lots of crate training, crate chill time, we saw immediate results at home, his manners improved 10 fold and he became a lot more attentive. Group classes have been a huge part of Digs success, initially super stressful as Dig was very uncomfortable around other people and other dogs but The Best training opportunities for Dig.

Our one on one training has been great with Lorri, specifically tailoring it to what Dig needs to work on, not having any time restraints, not feeling rushed, Lorri makes it feel very relaxed. Lorri even organised a few other clients and her beautiful helper dogs to help Dig out when we got to the point of introducing socialisation. We've still got a way to go with human aggression but Lorri is sticking by us to help Dig get through it.

We've just successfully had a session at the dog beach with no blow ups, showing very polite behaviour, curious and interested in the dogs playing in the water. Incredible to start seeing his behaviour change from fear, reactivity and intensity to a lot more calm, interested, playful behaviour.

Over the moon with where we're at, on a great path, seeing great progress and witnessing Dig become this happy boy that loves life.

Can't thank Lorri enough for her time, patience, persistence, care, knowledge, motivation and drive to help struggling dogs and their humans, it's her passion and she's changing lives.