Julie Kubik

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Julie is a lovely, warm person who is clearly an animal lover. She adored our puppy and spent time understanding him and then training him. It was wonderful to watch and learn, our first leash training at the park was unforgettable. I would highly recommend her.

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Julie came to our house today and gave us some great tips and rules in managing our cocker spaniel Buddy’s behaviour! She also went on a structured walk with us to the park and gave us some more tips that were extremely beneficial to Buddy! We have already noticed a slight difference in Buddy’s behaviour and will continue to carry out these rules! Thank you so much Julie x

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Julie was enthusiastic, friendly, warm and gave us very good insight into the dog behaviour and loads of good tips. It was a pleasure working with her.

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Julie came to our house and spent three hours working with us and our dog. She was absolutely amazing, we literally cannot believe the difference she has made. She left us with lots of really useful tips and techniques which we are still using and we are seeing daily improvements in our dog. Julie is fantastic - we cannot recommend her highly enough!

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TLDR: Please avoid, especially if you have an anxious or fearful dog. Me and my partner reached out to Julie after recently adopting a young dog who is very anxious and fearful of roads, hoping to get some advice around helping the dog settle in and feel more confident. We chose her because all of her reviews were 5 stars and glowing with praise. The main advice Julie gave was that we have to assert ourselves as alphas to make him feel more safe, and that we need to expose him to stressful situations but remain calm and positive - if we act like he is in danger then he will think he is in danger. Her advice kind of made sense to us but also it was at complete odds with our experience so far: We tried exposing him to the roads and being calm and positive and he got worse. We scaled back the amount of time outside and took him home when he became panicked and things improved. We told Julie this repeatedly but she simply would not accept, and said that we were the problem and being soft. When we tried going on a walk outside using her methods he was the most frightened we had seen him. We challenged her again and she was short tempered and even swore at me. At the end of the 4 hours our dog was clearly tired and wanted to be left alone but regardless Julie sat in his bed and held him up so that we could take a photo of them, presumably to help her business, which we both found very uncomfortable. Since the session our dog has been noticeably worse. He no longer comes down the stairs by himself for walks, and has been more distressed once outside. After doing more research around dog behaviour we learnt that the advice she gave has no basis in reality, but are in fact outdated myths which have been debunked by research. We were simply seeking to help our dog the best we could and fear we’ve gone in the wrong direction because of Julie’s intervention. I'm not usually one to give 1 star reviews but I really don't want anyone with an already traumatised dog to unwittingly cause that dog even more harm. Dog training is an unregulated industry, please be careful out there!