FAQ's

None, as I am living on my own and always away travelling and getting back late at night, with more work to do. So regretfully I have no quality time to offer a dog!

Probably either a GSD or a border collie, possibly a boxer (great fun dogs but their slobber would make my housework chores even more arduous!)

A wonderful border collie called Rover (his photos are on my web site), who when I worked on farms and around horses in the early 70's was my constant companion. A rescue dog BUT what a marvellous friend and unbeknown to me a great tutor!
More recently a reject Labrador x Golden Retriever guide dog, as well as taking many dogs home with me for the weekend etc. when I worked for GDBA, surprise, surprise they tended to be the GSD's that I was training...they impressed the girlfriends...

Only 2 or 3 times over the last 5 years. A badly treated rescued GSD did bite me as I moved my arm too quickly as I picked my hat up off the floor.
The second occasion was a young Andrex type labrador, who suddenly went completely crazy (and I mean crazy!!) and tried to take my arm off (I then found out it had been doing the same to all the family!)..moral of story I ensure my tetanus injection is always upto date.
But I do not deal with the purely aggressive dogs in my normal line of work. I have to give a dog a reason to be bite me, usually my 'instant rapport' with them is the complete opposite.

Honestly no - if I do then it is usually for one of the following reasons:
1)a male puppy that I have trained at 16 / 18 weeks of age has matured and is going through' teenage' problems and has suddenly become difficult to control - he probably needs to be castrated rather than any further training from myself.
2)the clients have not had the time or opportunity to follow through on the behaviour change that they saw and actioned during our training time together. Sometimes I am afraid that this is down to laziness and lack of consistency on their part.