Think Dog!
Practical Course
Join our acclaimed ThinkDog! practical course in October
This is the final opportunity for 2026
A truly immersive hands-on training experience – with real rescue dogs.
Taught by leading behaviour experts, Sarah Whitehead and Jo Smith.
Train at the famous Battersea Dogs’ & Cats’ Home, Old Windsor, Berkshire.
Places are strictly limited to just 9 people for each date.
“The practical course at Battersea was excellent.
Being an absolute novice at dog training, it was all new, so I learned loads and met other lovely dog trainers. It was hugely informative and enormous fun. Sarah and Jo were brilliant instructors.
I highly recommend this course.”
Jenney Klose
Stop learning dog training. Start doing it with real dogs
A truly immersive experience. Work hands-on with real rescue dogs and after just two days you’ll leave with skills that most trainers never get in a lifetime.
- Confidently assess any dog within minutes, even ones you’ve never met before and have no history of.
- Train complex behaviours that most people struggle with – and be able to teach them to others immediately.
- Handle and train dogs you have never met before using positive methods, safely, confidently and professionally.
- This course really is unique. We cover HUGE amounts of behavioural AND training information that will blow apart many of the concepts and methods that are commonplace, but are ineffective or downright wrong!
Is this course for you?
- Perhaps you have already studied dog behaviour and training, but you haven’t handled real cases yet?
- Maybe you are already training, but feel like you could do with a confidence boost and some new ways of handling and training dogs?
- Perhaps you are an experienced trainer but need a bit of up-skilling and 1-1 coaching from a leading expert who’s known for her positive, fun and remarkably effective mentoring skills?
Join Sarah and Jo and only 8 other participants. It’s enlightening, inspirational, motivational and…brilliant fun!
Final dates for 2026 :
15 & 16 October 2026
Stop learning dog training. Start doing it with real dogs! In just two days:
- Confidently assess any dog within minutes, even ones you’ve never met
- Train complex behaviours using positive reinforcement and UNDERSTAND the process so you can subsequently train anything you want to
- 1-1 coaching from Sarah and Jo on the course – we are as kind to you as we are to the dogs!
- Learn transferable skills that you can apply immediately after the course
- Change the way you train for the better!
