Amelia Steele Dog Training

Hi, I’m Amelia!

I started my training journey back in 2018 when I brought home an 8 Week Old German Shepherd Puppy called Cassius. I’m not joking when I say I’d read every book, watched every training video and bored my friends to death with dog facts.

I thought I was prepared but turns out Cassius had different plans. When the training methods I’d learnt weren’t working and local trainers were recommending training tools that belong in the bin, I knew I could bring something more to the table. I spent all of my savings doing professional qualifications and after seeing how well Force Free Training worked with my dog, I wanted to share it with the world.

8 Years later, I've built a global platform to advocate for ethical training methods and accessible education. I’ve won awards and travelled the world helping pet parents and animal charities, which honestly is a dream come true.

You’re probably here, because like me, you want to do what’s best for your dog, because let’s face it, they’re not just a dog, they’re family. And I’m happy to say, you’re in the right place!

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Here’s what my client’s are saying.

Amelia is an excellent dog trainer. Her knowledge is extremely wide ranging and in our case she has helped our 4 year old Vizsla to get over a recent attack he had suffered. Eric had been attacked by another dog and was incredibly anxious in public around other dogs. With Amelia's guidance we have helped to grow Eric's confidence in public as well as our own with him as we were all on edge whilst on dog walks.
This management of him and our behaviour has been so helpful in helping us getting back to enjoying walking our dog again.
We contacted Amelia to help us with our then 6 month old German Shepherd. After literally the first session with Amelia, you could see the immediate improvement in Ghost’s behaviour. Since then we have worked on so many different things and we couldn’t be happier with the decision we made. Ghost is so well behaved in the house and learning so quickly how to behave out of the house with other dogs and people. We couldn’t thank or recommend Amelia enough!
With Sammy being our first puppy we knew we needed some help and training, not just for Sammy, but for us too! We had an initial consultation with Amelia who came to our home and answered all of our questions about owning and caring for a new puppy, providing really valuable advice which allowed us to get Sammy off to a great start with house training. We then did the puppy basics course and we have seen really great results, with many people commenting on how good Sammy is walking off lead, responding to recalls and directions. We would definitely recommend Amelia and will be looking at more training in the future. Thank you.
We cannot recommend Amelia highly enough. We had 6 sessions with our puppy Woody - they focused on lead work, recall, settling, separation anxiety and skills including stay, leave etc. We benefitted almost immediately, with Woody taking to Amelia really well: he clearly enjoyed the sessions as much as we did. Amelia was professional, knowledgeable and happy to advise in between sessions. Thanks Amelia!
Me and Sammy (my lovely Border Collie puppy) have been working with Amelia for a few months and it's been a great experience for us both. Amelia is filled with insightful knowledge on a wide range of topics surrounding dog training and behaviour. She can really bring out the best for not only your bond with your furry friend, but also ensuring that you have an amazing partner in crime who is attentive and extremely well trained. Sammy has come leaps and bounds since working with Amelia and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to anyone (I actually already have multiple times!).
Amelia is so patient, listens to you and really understands dogs! She connected with my puppy really quickly and made training fun for everyone, making sure she explained why she was using each exercise/technique so that you understood and could practice yourself. Would recommend her to anyone!
Amelia has helped us with our little pup from basic steps through to more advance commands and manners. We really like Amelia's style of training and our Sprocker puppy responds very well. Amelia is always on hand to offer advice, and gives peace of mind when ever required.
She deserves a medal for putting up with my worries and questions regarding our furbaby. 5+ Star rating!!!
Amelia has been working with my whippet puppy Pedro and myself for the past couple of months. We are both Loving the sessions! Pedro has a few ' puppy issues' recall, barking, general listening, but I can already see the changes in his behaviour even to the point I feel confident to let him off his lead whilst on my own.
I feel I personally get a lot out of each session, Amelia has to train me as well as Pedro.
It is obvious the passion Amelia has for her job and her positive training techniques are fab!
I would recommend Amelia to anyone with any puppy/dog issues.
Amelia has been an absolute dream to work with! She is incredibly knowledgeable, experienced and highly intuitive with dogs and their behaviours. Her techniques are logical and easy to follow, and her flexibility in approach (both online classes and in person) has worked really well for us - we would recommend Amelia to all puppy and dog owners looking for some friendly support with their dogs.

My Ethics

Judgement free sessions.

Being a dog owner in 2023, it can feel like you’re constantly being judged and shamed, even when you’re doing your best. So we’ve designed our sessions to be a judgement free space where our focus is to work with you.

Modern training methods.

We are dedicated to keeping up to date with modern, ethical training techniques. We focus on force free methods, that incorporate positive reinforcement and science based training techniques.

You may have been told that in order for your dog to learn, you have to be an “alpha” or “pack leader” and that you have to display your dominance. Well let me re-assure you in the fact that this is definitely not true. Thanks to modern science, we now know that the traditional “pack structure” we used to believe existed in wolves, isn’t quite true. They are actually much more closely aligned to human families, where the parents are in charge, and when they grow too old to look after the pack, their kids take over and so on. We also know that thanks to selective breeding, any form of pack mentality is long gone from domestic dogs. Dogs have been purpose bred to work which humans, which makes them extraordinary learners. Did you know that dogs are one of the best species at reading human emotions? Even more so than chimps!

Thankfully, modern dog training takes all of this into account. We have now developed an ethical and humane way to train dogs which focuses on the bond between humans and dogs, making things fun and motivational for both parties.

Where trainers used to believe that behavioural problems such as aggression were simply a display of dominance, we now understand that there are deeper causes to these behaviours such as fear and anxiety which means that trying to punish these behaviours is more likely to make it worse. That’s why our training methods focus on addressing the root cause and working through the underlying issue, so you know that you have a permanent solution for your dog, not just a temporary, quick fix.

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