Samantha Carlo Pessotto

Katie is great at explaining how body language has so much to do with training, we don’t always have to use commands.

Katie had patience to help my children understand the training also, we have done both personal and group training. She is very knowledgeable about dog health, diet and needs, I would recommend her services.

Charlie Bain

Katie’s approach to dog training is well informed, targeted and focused on safe and sustainable ways for building trust, respect and communication between people and their pups. She has helped me to better understand Peri and her responses to different situations and to develop ways that help my very excitable pup to settle and focus back on me. The classes are well worth attending just for the opportunity to expose Peri to highly stimulating situations where the other dogs are under control and owners are accepting that Peri is learning. Katie is always happy to listen about the various growth stages we are working through and to support us with relevant advice and training ideas. I would highly recommend Hargy Hounds.

Karina Granucci

came to Katie with my 3yo German shepherd Bruno. He had become quite reactive while walking past other dogs and was doing a lot of lead pulling when we went on walks. After doing a few private lessons, we started learning some key tips to help with him keeping focus on me and after a few more lessons he is able to walk past other dogs. We are still doing lessons and learning new things and we’re very appreciative of Katie for all her patience and hard work with us!! Definitely recommend her!

Gemma Giblett

I’m so glad I found Katie, she’s incredibly knowledgeable and has taught my family heaps with reading our dogs body language. We are thoroughly enjoying puppy school and the structured lessons with my 11yo gaining so much confidence handling both dogs.

Katie came and did a private lesson with me to get me started with training my dog Bruno to become a truffle dog . She gave me some great ways to connect with him and also some ways to help him get the confidence to finding hidden treats . Highly recommend Katie .

Teresa Deadman

Katie has been absolutely amazing with both Sam and I she has shown me how to understand Sammy’s behaviour and how to calm and help his reactiveness, in just 2 private lessons we are both more relaxed on our walks and sams responses to dogs and other reactive issues have started to reduce so much. I have also done the dog school with Sam and it is such a calm and controlled environment that Sam even calmed down and enjoyed the lessons even with the other dogs around, highly recommended Katie and her knowledge.

Vikki Brown

Sharing a review about Katie at Hargy Hounds is so easy to do. Katie has been wonderful coaching my hubby and I on how to be the best fur parents we can be for our little blue heeler. Katie has taught us so many new things within a a short time and we are seeing such posive benefits. I especially love the mental stimulation toys, especially for a BLuey they are challenging her in all the right ways. I cannot wait to learn more from Katie and see the pay-off in how happy our little furgirl is. Thanks Katie

Katie came out to our home to help us start our two young Labrador puppies off with their training as we had missed puppy school due to puppy illness in the car! We didn’t want to fall behind. Katie was so helpful and informative. The puppies adore her already. Katie sent through a follow up sheet detailing all that we had discussed which is brilliant because the session was intense and I didn’t take everything in. We will be attending puppy school with her in future and can’t recommend her highly enough.

Erin Whiteley

I had Katie out yesterday to help with my 2 dogs. I have a 6 year old kelpie x who has high anxiety due to past trauma and also our new addition, a 10 week old American staffy x pup.
Katie had my anxious girl eating out of her has and following commands. I was show some tips to help with her and how to give her, her space.
I was also shown how to look out for body language of my older girl so I can recognise when the pup is getting too much for her and when I need to intervene.
Katie was a pleasure to have come out to our home and help me with my dogs. I highly recommend her, her skills and knowledge. Thank you for all you help.

Jody Millar

Katie has helped with my dog that can be reactive to other dogs. She has created a safe space for my dog to learn to relax around other dogs. My dog has improved greatly with Katie's training.

Esther Mills

Katie's guidance has been great as we navigate training of our rescue pup. She's offered very simple, but effective advice on all aspects of training and development. Highly recommended

Rachel Mott

From the minute Katie walked in the door she had our pup listening to her every move. Being first time dog owners we didn’t really know a lot about training a dog and how to tackle challenges. Katie was able to show us easy to follow steps that we immediately implemented and our pup has responded extremely well to. We would definitely recommend Katie.

Julia Sykes

This is a great place to go to learn some skills on how to create a well behaved dog. Classes are great for socialising dogs and well structured. It’s a very supportive and non-judgemental environment. I highly recommend!

Jenny Nimmo

We booked a one on one session with Katie / Hargy Hounds to come to our home, as we have an anxious 2 year old toy poodle cross (Coco) and we felt that we needed extra help with her. We are familiar with Katie's training methods from her fortnightly dog school classes and like her gentle approach. An incident between Coco and myself just a few days before our scheduled appointment left me shattered and feeling like a total failure as a paw parent. Katie was able to show us that with lots of positive reinforcement and encouragement we can identify and manage Coco's stress and anxiety. And most importantly for me, she confirmed that we still had that bond which I thought had been broken. We're not out of the woods yet, but feel very positive and confident that we can all have a more relaxed, stress free life now! Thank you Katie and we look forward to the next session

Stewart Thomas

Highly recommend Hargy Hounds Training / Jessarene Dog Training. if you have a very anxious and reactive dog then you need Katie!!! Katie's knowledge about canine behaviour and her training techniques have been amazing for our Border Collie Mia who prior to become a part of our family spent her time alone in a backyard being controlled by a shock collar. Mia is now able to go in the car and walk on a lead all thanks to Katie and her ongoing training of Mia and support of us! we hate to think where Mia may have ended up if we did not have Katie and her training in our lives!!