Services Offered
Please visit the "Services Offered" for more details and pricing. Below is what I am currently offering in the JHB Northern Areas:
- Pet Sitting Services
- Behavior Consultations
- At-home based personalized Training
- Dog Walking and Exercising
- Kennel Recommendations
- Veterinary Clinic Referrals for Specialist Care
- Breeding Advice and Recommendations
- Breed Advice and Recommendations (when you are thinking of getting a new dog / puppy)
- Training Referrals
- Dog Grooming Services (Specialists in Golden Retrievers)
- Dog Food Supplier (Raw Food and Kibble)
About Us
Training Tails is held in partnership - Ulrike Schmidt and Arnel Maclean. Below is more information about us, our training and experience:
About Ulrike Schmidt:
Ulrike has been involved in dogs for over 30 years. She has been training dogs and exhibiting dogs for over 20 years. Ulrike currently owns 6 Golden Retrievers and still actively participates in Conformation Shows, Obedience Shows and Field Trials.
Ulrike resides in Lanseria area and provides training services throughout JHB Northern and Western Areas on a full time basis.
Her Qualifications Includes:
Her Experience Includes:
About Arnel Maclean:
Arnel has been involved with dogs all her life. Currently she professionally show and exhibit Golden Retriever dogs on a part-time basis. She stared with my first dog, Shiraz - a beautiful German Shepherd that she competed in agility, obedience, tracking and protection work with. Currently she resides in Fourways and owns 4 Golden Retriever dogs. Arnel trains dogs and consult for behaviour issues on a part-time basis in the Fourways area.
My qualifications includes:
- Puppy Socialization and Behaviour - Edupet
- Basic Animal Behaviour (Dogs) - Ethology Academy
- Animal Assisted Activity - Ethology Academy
- Advanced Animal Behaviour (Dogs) - Ethology Academy
- Instructors Course - McKaynine Training Centre
My Experience includes:
- 10 years' Training Experience Professionally
- 30 years' Handling Experience (training my own dogs)
- 10 years' Behavior Consulting Experience
- 20 years' Experience Competing
We ALSO offer personalized training and training classes in the Fourways, Lanseria, Bryanston, Chartwell, Paulshof, Dainfern, Randburg and surrounding areas.
I also offer show training classes as well as grooming classes for anyone wanting to start with showing / exhibiting their dogs.
About Ulrike Schmidt:
Ulrike has been involved in dogs for over 30 years. She has been training dogs and exhibiting dogs for over 20 years. Ulrike currently owns 6 Golden Retrievers and still actively participates in Conformation Shows, Obedience Shows and Field Trials.
Ulrike resides in Lanseria area and provides training services throughout JHB Northern and Western Areas on a full time basis.
Her Qualifications Includes:
- Canine Behaviour and Psychology, Compass UK / Petsense RSA, 2018/9
- Animal Reiki Course, Udemy 2019
- Inside your Dogs Mind, Victoria Stilwell UK Feb 2019
- Judges Course Setting Workshop, TFTA, Jan 2019
Her Experience Includes:
- Exhibiting Show dogs for 25 years and assisting dog owners with showing their dogs
- Training for and competing in Field Trials since 25 years
- Obedience training (participated) since 20 years
- Trainer with Highveld Club, Bryanston, Puppy Socialization Classes since 2017, moving to obedience levels 1,2 and 3 in May 2019
- Chair for Golden Retriever Club of Transvaal
- Club Representative on DOGSPC (District of Gauteng and Surrounds Provincial Council (Canine shows and Sports)
- Active member of Golden Retriever Club Gauteng since 1995 (Subcommittees Field Trial)
- Registered with the ABC (Animal Behavior Consultants in South Africa)
About Arnel Maclean:
Arnel has been involved with dogs all her life. Currently she professionally show and exhibit Golden Retriever dogs on a part-time basis. She stared with my first dog, Shiraz - a beautiful German Shepherd that she competed in agility, obedience, tracking and protection work with. Currently she resides in Fourways and owns 4 Golden Retriever dogs. Arnel trains dogs and consult for behaviour issues on a part-time basis in the Fourways area.
My qualifications includes:
- Puppy Socialization and Behaviour - Edupet
- Basic Animal Behaviour (Dogs) - Ethology Academy
- Animal Assisted Activity - Ethology Academy
- Advanced Animal Behaviour (Dogs) - Ethology Academy
- Instructors Course - McKaynine Training Centre
My Experience includes:
- 10 years' Training Experience Professionally
- 30 years' Handling Experience (training my own dogs)
- 10 years' Behavior Consulting Experience
- 20 years' Experience Competing
We ALSO offer personalized training and training classes in the Fourways, Lanseria, Bryanston, Chartwell, Paulshof, Dainfern, Randburg and surrounding areas.
I also offer show training classes as well as grooming classes for anyone wanting to start with showing / exhibiting their dogs.
