Maher And Hound Dog Training & Behaviour

I was referred to Karen 2 years ago for help as I had recently adopted a second dog, a Romanian rescue Collie x Spaniel who was fairly feral. She regularly escaped from our garden, she was lead reactive to other dogs, couldn’t settle, and I had no idea what to do. Karen’s knowledge, patience, and infinite amount of wisdom gave me the tools to help Cora. My mind was blown because of the amount of useful things I learned, and still practice today. Karen inspired me to further my knowledge arou...

We came to Karen because we wanted someone who used positive techniques to help with our dog's resource guarding and separation anxiety. I'm so pleased that we chose Karen - she is hugely knowledgeable, patient, caring and understanding. We found it really useful to understand why Bertie was doing what he was doing and this, along with Karen's behaviour modification plans, means that we now have a dog who is totally happy being home alone, very rarely resource guards and, ultimately, is a ple...

Maher & Hound is phenomenal! It is hard to not write an essay on just how monumental Karen has been in our training journey. I recommend her to anyone who will listen! Our "pet gun dog" has transformed with the advice Karen gave us. We had our sessions over Zoom and Karen gave such clear, structured, and -most importantly- tailored advice. We had lots to work on but never felt overwhelmed as Karen was a pillar of support. Having a rescue dog with a working dog mentality meant that the more ...

Karen is fantastic with Cooper. We are constantly complimented on how he is 'such a well behaved dog' and this is down to Karen's way of teaching us how to work with him. She has this knack of talking through a particular thing, and before we know it, Cooper is sitting or lying nicely, dropping or leaving tasty things or running around an indicated tree. We've recommended her by word of mouth to many people that we've come across. Cooper loves going to a training session and has a great time...

We came to Karen with some challenges with our boisterous Beagle, mainly around barking and recall (or lack of!). Karen provided brilliant, realistic advice and as a result we have managed to calm our boy down on walks, reduce his barking and improved his recall massively. Karen is very easy to get along with and the sessions were fun for everyone including us. Her support is excellent not just at the sessions themselves but overall. Perhaps the best thing the training we had with Karen is th...