Advance Behavioural Training

Everyone at ABT are truly superstars!! Like, legit superstars and heroes! My beautiful kelpie cross, Rudi, has been attending classes and daycare at ABT, and without fail, every single experience has been nothing short of amazing. Thanks to ABT, we've grown into better and more confident owners. Rudi has participated in K9 Kindy, Adventure School, Level 1 Obedience, and regularly enjoys Doggy Daycare. She’s currently thriving in Paws Unleashed. The growth in Rudi’s focus and overall well-being, especially her energetic kelpie mind, is a direct result of the enriching environment provided by ABT. We can’t thank you enough for everything you’ve done for Rudi. We’re excited for all the adventures still ahead, knowing she’ll continue to flourish in your care! Lots of love from Star, Jake, and Rudi P.S. ABT do birthday parties for dogs as well! With a doggy cake!!

Amy Van Dyk is an excellent dog trainer that helped me solve K9 ANGEL’s (Black and Tan Working Line German Shepherd) dog reactivity in 2013, helped with her preliminary training and to get up to par to sit her first Service K9 PAT test before our first flight to Los Angeles back in 2015. Amy’s positive, reward based methods worked excellent on K9 Angel and we never had reactivity after working through it with her back in 2013. Amy helped instil the preliminary foundations, and her methods of letting the dog emotionally understand that reactions are unnecessary actually solved K9 Angel’s dog reactivity in the long term. K9 ANGEL went on to become a globally accredited Service K9 with Assistance Dogs of the West (based in New Mexico) under ADI in 2016, a course with a 85% attrition rate for most dogs, requiring the highest level of obedience, skill and composure in the dog. Amy even helped us on call at the airport before boarding the flight to LA with creating her PAT test certificate according to the airlines guidelines, something we used throughout our time in LA. K9 Angel travelled across the USA and lived in Los Angeles for 13 months from 2015, in the middle of Hollywood Blvd, a high stress, high traffic environment and was exposed to multiple dogs daily. Because of her training with Amy who took the time to let K9 Angel understand the situation and not to react and what behavior to perform instead, she took these high stress, high trigger environments all in her stride, and we never dealt with reactivity after going through it in 2013. K9 Angel unfortunately E.O.W’d on duty in 2018 and is greatly missed, and forever cherished. I trust Amy with my dogs due to her expertise in dog behavior and real life experience in actually solving reactivity. So much so that we travelled from Canberra to Adelaide in October 2024 to do a one month bootcamp style training month with WOLF (Sable Working Line German Shepherd) to help solve his reactivity issues. Wolf tends to be suspicious of strangers but took to Amy immediately, and was super social and affectionate with her. Amy is the first trainer to have handled Wolf like she did in October since Wolf was a puppy. Amy is a natural with dogs and animals, she is especially gifted with working breeds. We made huge progress with Wolf in the month, having training every second day, sometimes twice a day, and Wolf truly enjoyed the sessions. I highly recommend Amy and the team at Advance Behavioural Training for anyone with a dog, especially a working breed, and Adelaide is lucky to have her and her facility! We only wish we had access to ABT in person as we would have progressed much further had we started off with them and had them local! Again, can’t recommend her enough for working line dogs especially! Attached are images of K9 Angel (black and tan) with some of her accomplishments, and K9 Wolf (sable)

All the staff at ABT are wonderful and helpful. Our Dog Noctis goes to daycare and has a blast it’s been fantastic for socialization, he’s completed level one and level two obedience, gone to birthday and costume parties and we always get lots of photos, feedback and support. Personalized care and help is a constant. They are also fast to respond to concerns. I would recommend them to everyone. Special mentions to the wonderful owner Amy who is a bright face that’s always present and trainers/daycare/admin attendants Ollie, Chantelle, Aiden, Lucy, Lily, Mignon, Cassie, Ashleigh, Victor, Courtney and Emma who always treat our boy like he’s the most special dog around.

ABT chaperoned our two dogs for our wedding. One of our girls is very anxious and her trainer, Aidan, handled her amazingly. I felt so comfortable leaving our girls with both of the trainers, and they took them home, gave them dinner and dessert (which was pupcakes supplied by them) and put them to bed. They also helped to get our girls to look towards the camera for photos, and they made sure they were safe and comfortable. It was a wonderful experience and took away so much stress from us. I couldn’t recommend this service more.

Thank you, Aidan, at ABT, for the excellent one-on-one training with our dog Winnie! Winnie is an anxious and reactive dog, so attending the usual puppy classes was challenging for us. While we've had great success with ABT's puppy classes for our other dogs, it wasn't as easy this time. ABT was very understanding and allowed us to transfer our prepaid fees to an at-home training session. This was exactly what Winnie needed. In just one 2-hour session, Aidan's positive and calming attitude as a trainer made a noticeable difference. We could already see the benefits! You were right Winnie was very tired after his training session. Highly recommend Aidan.

Excellent experience taking our 6 months old dachshund baby for the obedience training level 1. Highly recommend this place. Trainers are very professional, friendly.

ABT has been amazing for me and my first pup. K9 Kindy and the adventure classes have improved Caspers confidence, focus, and behavior in public and around other dogs. I'm so pround of his progress in such a short time. He started off very shy but after a couple classes, he was super excited for them and loved every second. The trainers are so supportive and knowledgeable, making each session fun and effective. Highly recommend ABT