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Philippa Short firmly believes in a holistic approach to raising and training animals. She looks at all aspects of the animals life which might affect its ability to acheive its full potential, this includes breed characteristics, nutrition, health, age, sex, daily routine, medications, and family dynamics.

Philippa has trained extensively with Jack and Wendy Volhard in the USA and uses their training techniques and their holistic approach to helping a dog suceed. There are many reasons why dogs behave in a certain manner, Philippa is fully qualified to understand each dog individually and to look at what needs to be worked on in order for the training of that dog to be succesful. The training exercises are broken down into small pieces,so that the dog and owner are always placed in a positon of success.