Top 5 Dog Trainers in Pudsey

Nelly is an absolutely fantastic dog trainer. She has a great knowledge and understanding of the needs and struggles of our Vizsla puppy. Nelly thinks on the spot and adjusts to the situation really quickly. After addressing some of our initial challenges, she often changes up her plan for the session depending on the bits that Marvin is struggling at the time. Marvin still has its challanges, but we can definitely see a big improvement since we started training with Nelly. We're confident he'll become a great dog with Nelly's help and we can't recommend her enough

Had a few Agility lessons with Nikki and find her to be very knowledgeable and patient.

Our trainer Nelly was absolutely amazing, very knowledgeable and our puppy loved her. The advice she gave was targeted to our individual needs and we have started our training journey. We will be returning and highly recommend.

Nikki is a fantastic dog trainer and also organises additional guest training sessions. The recent training with Emma Pullen was fab picked up some very useful tips on trust building with my cocker spaniel Maverick!

We signed up to the 6 weeks 1-1 training with our dog shadow and wow what a fantastic experience. He went from being anxious, nervous around other dogs, over stimulated with other humans and very excited on the lead. He struggled to settle and struggled in day to day life. Flash forward 6 weeks with Lauren and he is a happy doggy who is more settled, has a much improved recall, is comfortable in new situations and all together less anxious. He has progressed so much in 6 weeks and we cant’t wait to continue his training. Lauren made learning with shadow so easy, personalising the training to his needs and adapting it to his reactions. We have loved the sessions and I know shadow has too. It has helped him become so much more relaxed and has learned some amazing new skills to help with life when it gets too loud. Thank you so much Lauren we are very excited to come to group classes now and continue to progress with our training 😊

Just completed a 6 week private package with focus dog training. Lauren has been amazing with my French bulldog silva and we have all learned so much! I did not think it would be possible to see a difference in her such as pulling on walks or reactive to other dogs but she has. We still have a way to go but all the tips and tricks will definitely help us keep building on enjoyable walks together. Thank you!

We’ve had a really good experience with Focus from the start. Both Rach and Lauren have been super flexible with us which has been great and very much appreciated! You can tell just how much they actually care about the dogs too. Lauren has been a fantastic trainer. We’ve gradually built upon foundational skills over time. After each session she provides feedback and some homework which is great. We’ve seen a HUGE improvement in Cooper’s lead walking, and his engagement with us on walks. We’ve learned what does and doesn’t work for Cooper, and my confidence with knowing how to deal with tricky situations on walks has definitely grown. I’ve gone from not wanting to walk him on my own through fear of him being reactive, to being able to walk him on lead in public spaces and getting him to engage with me. We use the techniques taught by Focus daily and we’re happy with Coopers progress so far. We’re hoping with consistency he continues in the right direction 😊

Lauren has been amazing. We went into this process a bit sceptical but we have learnt things we never could have done reading articles on the internet. We have a deeper understanding as Lauren is full of knowledge and is super efficient during her sessions. They were also really understanding and flexible as we had a few personal issues so had to change a few sessions. Maggie (our 9 month old Cavapoo) has really enjoyed the sessions, and when Lauren was here was the perfect dog! We will continue to put in the hard work as can see the potential and changes in Maggie already.

Wonderful trainers. Really good and helpful advice about dealing with my reactive terrier Jeff. Could not recommend them highly enough.

Sally is great at building confidence, not just mine, but also my dogs confidence has improved and his behaviour is now much calmer. Lots of tools to help manage different dog behaviour problems tailored to each dog. Sally makes you feel so comfortable even when you think your dog is the worst ever, I come away from her sessions feeling much more at ease and able to deal with my dogs issues. A really good dog trainer, I can highly recommend.

Sally has helped me with both my Spanish rescue dogs. My eldest had a recall issue and sally gave me the tools to help, and a valuable insight that I needed to make my walks 50/50 lead and off lead to create interaction and a bond out on walks other than him satisfying his hunting instinct. My youngest dog is quite nervy and skittish. With sallys help, we’ve walked Leeds city centre, travelled on a train & a very busy bus station. 100% recommend 🧡

We contacted Sally to help with one to one training of our staffy, as he was always very keen to pull on the lead and reactive to a selective number of dogs. Sally showed us ways to help in a constructive way, giving advice on changing from a harness to a lead and collar (which made a huge difference). She explains things from a dogs prospective, which makes sense to humans! This shows its mainly the human that needs the training! 😂 A variety of training sessions are available, next up for us is a group social walk and maybe a pub meet up. For anyone looking for help with their dog, I would thoroughly recommend Sally. Thanks Sally!

Had amazing results with our dog from one session - worked on anxious barking and behaviour when guests come to the home. Really happy and would (& have) recommended sally to friends.

Since starting walks with Akamaru last year, Emily has been nothing short of amazing every step of the way. The care, enthusiasm, and professionalism put into her time spent with Aka could be seen from the first day, just from how excited he was to see her again. Emily has also provided wonderful advice and support with his training, which was especially appreciated as he definitely went into adolescence with a bang! She always takes the time to plan out walks between different locations, so Aka has a great, safe, and fulfilling time. We also appreciate the post walk updates and pictures so we can really see how much he enjoyed, evidence attached!

I‘d give Emily 17 out of 5 stars if I could! She is incredible with Boomer, knowledgable and curious and patient. I’m not exaggerating when I say he ADORES her. Boomer has learned so many things from walking with Emily and has loved every second of it, learning new tricks, learning to walk better and more recently, not being overly bothered by other dogs, all thanks to Emily and her tireless enthusiasm for him and his wellbeing. Cannot sing her praises enough!

Emily has been walking our cockapoo, Teddie since September and she has worked magic with her! Teddie is a keen squirrel hunter and often gets distracted/doesnt listen, Emily has worked really hard with Teddie on recall! Emily really cares about the pets she looks after ❤️ 🐶

Emily is a star. Jeff loves going out on his group walks. Cannot recommend tails and trails enough.

Emily is a fantastic catsitter! She takes great care of our indoor cats Jiggy & Sushi and is reliable, punctual and communicative. The daily updates and photos are really reassuring when we're away. So glad we found Tails & Trails!