About Us
Annie - British Mantrailing Academy Expert Instructor
Annie achieved the Skills for Justice Award as a trailing handler with her wirehaired vizsla Billy and since achieving the award, she has helped train many other teams to operational standard and continues to upskill to be involved in future deployments.
She has been an active part of the search and rescue community for a number of years and assists with training their dog team.
Not only a gifted handler she is outstanding in customer care skills and has successfully been training mantrailing teams since 2020.
Annie has Propet First Aid, is First aid trained and has enhanced DBS certification.
Andy - British Mantrailing Academy Sport Instructor
Andy is a sport instructor with The British Mantrailing Academy and is active in search and rescue.
Along with his dog Minx, he completed the Skills for Justice Trailing Dog Handler Award through The British Mantrailing Academy, becoming an operational standard team. Andy now continues with regular CPD to maintain this high standard.
He has a career as a professional educator in the UK and spent two years training secondary school teachers in Uganda where he also indulged his mountaineering passion built in Europe and the Himalayas.
This experience enables him to understand the needs of people wanting to learn, giving him a friendly and flexible approach that helps handlers to achieve their goals and build relationships as a team.
Andy is first aid trained and has enhanced DBS certification.
Debbie - Assistant Instructor
Debbie has had dogs all her life and is currently doing advanced handler training with her two-year-old wirehaired vizsla, Willow.
She is a qualified canicross instructor, where her extensive experience of working with many breeds gives her an understanding of how they work, and that every dog and handler need their own approach.
She has a natural ability to get the best of those who train with her and loves seeing people succeed.
She is first aid and canine first aid trained
Why Us?
Having worked and trained with mantrailing experts from several methodologies, we are fortunate to be able to draw on that to give the most appropriate training for you and your dog. Not all dogs (and people) learn the same way and unlike some, we are not tied to one approach.
To be able to give professional training we only take small groups so we can give personal training, enabling you and your dog to be the best you can be.
We train teams in the same way as we do for search and rescue and believe in honest feedback. However, training should be fun as well as helping you reach your goal.
Introductions
Rather than have an introduction only session, introductions are available when the venue is suitable and they are held in a normal training session. They are done this way so you can see how more experienced teams work and get to chat with the others there. Everyone is really friendly and will happily answer any questions you may have. Once you have completed an introduction then you are ok to come to other training sessions, though we would will guide you as to which would be best.
Book a place when you see there is an intro option listed. Once booked, we will be in touch to give information about what to expect and answer any questions.
If you would prefer, we are happy to do 121 introductions, please get in touch for more infomation.
Rather have a chat before booking? Please contact us. We're always happy to answer any and all things about trailing.
mantrailingdogswales@gmail.com
Workshops for existing trailing teams
We are always pleased to see new teams no matter where or who you’ve trailed with before.
Being adaptive trainers who have observed many methods of mantrailing , we will be able to show you techniques and approaches that you may not have seen from your previous trainers.
Rather have a chat before booking? Please get in touch. We're always happy to answer any and all things about trailing.
mantrailingdogswales@gmail.com
One to Ones
For complete flexibility we are able to offer 121 sessions.
Get in touch and we can talk over what would you would like.
mantrailingdogswales@gmail.com
Hosted Workshops
We are also available to come to you and give workshops for your group/clients.
Give us a shout and we can talk over what would suit.
mantrailingdogswales@gmail.com
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