About
Pamela Hindes.
Pamela Hindes is a Certified Canine Behaviourist and Master Dog Trainer.
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She has spent over a decade not only resolving a variety of canine behavioural issues but also helping engender relationships of mutual understanding and trust and creating strong bonds and rewarding relationships between owners and their canine companions. She also focuses on helping rebuild those relationships that have become strained or fractured.
She not only holds professional dog training qualifications but is also a Full Member of the Canine and Feline Behaviour Association and can take veterinary referrals through your insurance company if your pet insurance cover incorporates behavioural issues.
Whether you are starting on the journey of life with your canine companion, or if you are some way along the path, there will be one commonality. It takes ‘two to tango’ in any successful dog/owner relationship.
It was from this insight that she set out to develop a method of canine behaviour modification that incorporated not only various strands of tried and tested science but also helped people reach out for a deeper connection.
From this, her Mutual Understanding and Trust Training ('M.U.T.T')™ evolved, which is fundamental to all behaviour modification advice and training she provides.
Dogs are wonderful sentient beings with whom we are privileged to have a special relationship, and remembering this is at the heart of everything we do.
Meet Pamela
She has lived with and owned a wide variety of dogs throughout her life, from tiny terriers to gun dogs, with her current pack of 4 consisting of two Basset Fauve de Bretagne and two Tibetan Mastiffs.
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Pamela has extensive canine behavioural experience, having been for some time the dedicated behaviourist for the Tibetan Mastiff Rescue, Independent UK. She continues to provide support for the breed through a dedicated support Facebook forum she has created. She has had considerable hands-on experience with day-to-day behavioural and aggression issues with a variety of breeds, from the more diminutive in stature to the more substantial.
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Pamela spent 20 years of her life as a practising solicitor, while working with dogs remained merely a hobby. Everything changed when she experienced difficulties with training issues with her first Basset Hound. Unable to find a professional trainer who had a good understanding of the breed and their inherent behaviours and who followed her fundamental philosophy that ‘it is all about the relationship, get that right and with the right motivational training techniques everything else follows,' Pamela commenced on a journey that now some years later, continues.
Pamela commenced her academic study and practical training with the Cambridge Institute of Dog Behaviour and Training (CIDBT), one of the most respected educational institutes of its type in the UK (which is one of the few academic study providers fully accredited by the UK Kennel Club).
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She has had the benefit of being trained by, in her view, some of the best behaviourists and trainers in the UK and by the most wonderful canine companions (Bertie, Scrumpy, Yogi, Tashi and those that went before them) and has obtained Master Dog Trainer Status ith the Guild of Dog Trainers, which is not easy as the Guild have very stringent requirements for allocating Master Trainer status, both in respect of experience and qualifications.
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As part of her canine behaviour studies, she has also undertaken and obtained certification in canine behaviour, including Common Behavioural Problems, Advanced Dog on Dog Aggression and Advanced Dog on People Aggression.
Pamela is not pursuing an Advanced Diploma in Canine Behaviour with the Canine and Feline Behaviour Association. Each course involves substantive study and many months of work; it has taken five years of study, not only academic but also practical, to reach this point. Alongside her ongoing professional accreditation studies, Pamela ensures she keeps abreast of the latest scientific studies in respect of canine behaviour and also matters relating to their health and welfare.
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Pamela, both in respect of her studies and client cases, always endeavours to go above and beyond what is required; she is passionate about not only our canine friends but also improving our understanding of and relationship with them.
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She fully understands the pressures of modern family life and all that it entails. She understands the laws and liabilities relating to dog ownership, and she takes all of these things into account when working with her clients to find workable solutions for them and their specific circumstances and lifestyle.
