Services

CSI has been providing highly professional dog training and behavioural consulting services to the dog owning community for for over 18 years now.

We work with all sorts of dogs and their owners to help them achieve their dog training or behavioural modification goals.

From developing puppies to their fullest potential, to dealing with highly problematic behavioural issues, and everything between.

If you’re looking for professional coaching to help you and your dog achieve more, CSI should be on your short list.

Problem behaviour comes in many shapes and forms, and can result in frustration, upset, and even legal or health concerns for yourself and your dog.

It’s very common for problem behaviour to be driven by an emotional component.

Early intervention is always desirable, though we often work with dogs that have very difficult backgrounds and histories, including multiple documented bites to dogs and humans.

Our process allows us to drill down and look for root causes, as well as to find flexible solutions to reach your desired training outcomes…and improve things for you and your dog along the way.

Ideally we can change the way your dog feels about a given situation, we can change the way he acts.

Timid dogs can learn to act more bravely, anxious dogs can learn to cope with stressors in a more healthy and productive way, and most fearful dogs can learn control their world without using aggression or threat displays.

Together we’ll form an Action Plan – breaking bigger goals down into smaller chunks that reduce frustration, speed learning and help you and your dog ‘see the light at the end of the tunnel’.

From basic obedience training to advanced off leash obedience in challenging environments, our dog training services can be tailored to suit your individual dog, your unique requirements.

Personalised coaching means you can expect faster results, less wasted time, reduced frustration, and a greater chance of success into the long term. It also means that what we teach you is as flexible as how we teach it to you and your dog.

You’ll be surprised at what you and your dog are capable of achieving together with the right input, oversight and instruction.

It’s a fact that a well-trained dog is far more able to be included more broadly in the life of you and your family’s active lifestyle.

Well trained dogs are easier to manage, their performances more predictable and reliable, and their owners are able to help them successfully navigate much more complex day-to-day situations.

Our strong background in creating high performance obedience and working dogs means that we’re more than capable of helping you to achieve the more basic outcomes most folks want for their pet dog.

But if you want more for you and your dog – we’ve got you covered.

Puppyhood is all about development – It’s an opportunity to truly make the most of the puppy you’ve committed to raising.

The aim of puppy development is to build a happy, confident and stable adult dog. It’s about having the greatest possible positive influence over the way your puppy sees, feels and responds to both you and the wider world.

Learning how to build, train and manage your puppy towards these outcomes is a wise investment that will offer you and your dog lifelong benefits.

Guide and shape your dog towards being a motivated, happy learner with a winner’s attitude with CSI.

If your dog is negatively impacted by the environment around it then it’s very easy to see those countless hours you spent developing your pups ability to do beautiful obedience work come to nothing.

This means that when you need your dog to focus on a skill or task it can invest 100% of it’s efforts on that, rather than being worried about noises, novel situations, people, other dogs, etc.

CSI place a huge emphasis on empowering our clients to do this essential work well, and in turn develop their pups to become robust, resilient, emotionally stable adult dogs.

Our Temperament Evaluations and Reports are well respected within the dog training community, as well as by Councils, Courts and Tribunals. They have even helped to set legal precedent.

Our evaluation process allows us to develop a professional opinion about your dog and his behaviour, which we can then share with (and explain to) you in the context of your concern or situation.

We also offer a variety of formal reporting solutions ranging from a basic emailed summary through to quite detailed documents, such as those used for serious legal defences.

For those dog owners that are seeking a different focus in their training, we are able to provide a wide range of more specialised dog training services.

Over the last 16+yrs we’ve worked damn hard to develop specialist skills and knowledge across a variety of areas relating to dog training and dog behaviour.

If you’re looking to do more with your dog, or to invest some time and effort into some of the more technical or artistic areas of dog training, then CSI are a fair chance of being able to help you realise those goals.

If you don’t see what you’re looking for on this page, be sure to reach out and ask the question.

CSI Training Center – Boronia, VIC 3155

We operate Melbourne’s only dedicated indoor dog training centre, which offers some great advantages to our clients (and their dogs).

Our dog training center is an easily controlled, neutral environment which of great advantage when evaluating or training dogs for behavioural issues, as well as general dog training.

We are conveniently located, and the training center allows protection from bad weather, as well as some creature comforts for dog owners .

We also deliver dog training seminars and workshops at our center, a number of which are aimed at pet dogs and their owners.

In-Home Behavioural Consults or Dog Training:

For some dogs with certain types of problems, our in-home dog training and behavioural consulting services offer the greatest value.

Before we suggest this service we will communicate with you to make sure that this service will best suit your needs.

In-home dog training or behavioural consults are typically available Mon-Fri, with some flexibility in these available times depending on existing client commitments.

Online Consults – Phone, Skype, FaceTime

We service clients across Australia, and also internationally, using online communication.

For some clients this solution can be very convenient and effective, offering them just the help they need.

There are some cases where we don’t believe that we can offer significant value coaching or advising in this format, and there are also some behavioural issues that cannot be responsibly addressed in this way.

For these reasons we consider each application for this service on a case-by-case basis and only commit where we feel it will offer value to a potential client.