Six steps from your first message to your first consultation. Most people are through the first four within a fortnight.
Message me, email, or WhatsApp. Tell me your dog’s name and what has been happening.
A questionnaire about your dog: their background, routine, health, and what you are finding hard. It takes a little while, and it is the reason our first conversation starts somewhere useful instead of at the beginning.
With your permission I’ll contact your vet for your dog’s history. Behaviour and physical health are rarely separate, and I’d rather know before we start.
Once I have read your form and your dog’s records we’ll talk for twenty to thirty minutes. If your case is outside what I do, I’ll say so and point you somewhere better.
Ninety minutes to two hours, in person, usually at home and out on a walk. I meet your dog, film how they move, and see the behaviour where it actually happens. Afterwards you get a written Target Action Plan.
The plan is the beginning, not the end. You’ll keep a diary in the app, and you can reach me between sessions.
Complex behaviour is not solved in one session and I won’t pretend otherwise. Your plan shows which stage you are in and what has to happen before the next one. Most clients have several threads running at once, so progress on one never waits on another.
I meet your dog at home and out on a walk, and film how they move. A physiotherapist reviews the footage. Anything physical goes to your vet before we go anywhere else.
Start your diary in the app. Record the ordinary days as well as the difficult ones.
Your Target Action Plan: what I saw, what I think may be going on, what would prove me wrong, and what has to happen before stage two.
Changes to environment, routine and rest that take the pressure off while any veterinary work runs its course. Most early relief comes from here, and almost none of it looks like training.
Log in the app most days. This is where the diary earns its keep: stabilising is slow, and the record is how you see it working on the weeks it doesn’t feel like it is.
My comments on your entries between sessions, and an updated plan as the picture changes.
Structured work on the behaviour itself, now we know what we are building on.
Work through the exercises I send. Film your attempts. I would far rather see thirty seconds of you trying it than read a paragraph about how it went.
Exercise handouts, and my review of your videos with adjustments where something needs changing.
The things you actually wanted. Guests in the house. A holiday. A walk you can enjoy.
Keep recording, in the situations that used to be hard.
A comparison against stage one. The same dog, the same walk, months apart, side by side.
How long each stage takes depends on your dog. I’d rather move at their pace than promise you a timetable I can’t hold.
Every package includes the first consultation, the video and physiotherapy review, the Target Action Plan, app access, and liaison with your vet. Choose on how much follow-up and ongoing contact you want.
*Mileage may be added on in-person visits.
*Mileage may be added on in-person visits.
Built around what you need
If neither package fits, we’ll put something together on the discovery call. You pay only for what you use.
*Mileage may be added on in-person visits.
No shock, prong, choke or intimidation. Ever. Read my code of ethics.
Some cases sit outside what I do. I’ll tell you on the call and point you towards someone better placed, at no cost.
Based in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, covering Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland. Mileage may be added on in-person visits.
Life happens. Please give twenty-four hours’ notice to reschedule.
Very often, yes. Dogs hide discomfort well, so pain shows up as behaviour long before it shows up as a limp. Reactivity on the lead, reluctance to be touched, irritability with other dogs, refusing food near a trigger and broken sleep can all have a physical driver. Every first consultation includes video of how your dog moves, reviewed by a canine physiotherapist, with findings written up for your vet.
A trainer teaches your dog to do things such as recall, loose lead walking and settling. A behaviourist works on why your dog feels the way they do, which is usually what has to change first.
Core support is £250 and Extended support is £400. Both include the first in-person consultation, the video and physiotherapy review, a written Target Action Plan, app access and vet liaison. Additional sessions are £100 for a 90-minute in-person visit or £25 for a 30-minute conversation. The discovery call is free.
Longer than one session. Complex cases usually run over months rather than weeks, particularly where a physical cause needs veterinary investigation first. The work runs in four stages and your plan shows which stage you are in.
Never. Flo4Paws is a fully force-free practice — no shock, prong, choke, slip leads used as punishment, or intimidation of any kind.
Based in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, working across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, including Radcliffe on Trent, Bottesford, Saxondale, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray and Oakham.
Yes. Dogs that bark and lunge are usually frightened rather than dangerous. Some cases sit outside what I do; where they do, I will say so on the free call and point you to someone better placed, at no cost.
Not before you get in touch. If your dog has not had a check recently I will encourage one, and with your written permission I will contact your practice for their history.