Training walks by trainers you and your dog trust.
Get the help you need from those that understand your reactive dog. Because sometimes it takes a village.
60-75 minute structured individual dog training walks across Sydney. We help support your dog's reactivity needs and improve their behaviour.
The dog-time-budget gap is real. We help you close it.
Most do-it-yourself training programs assume you have the time, the handler skill, and the bandwidth to do the between-session work yourself. For a lot of households with reactive dogs, that's almost impossible to complete.
Walk & Train is the answer. We deliver the behaviour-aware handling and build training skills while you're at work. Your dog learns from a handler who already knows their triggers, thresholds, and history. You get walk-by-walk updates so the work isn't a black box.
Sounds
Familiar?
Most dog walkers can't help your reactive dog. We can.
Walking your dog isn't the hard part. The hard part is reading what your dog needs in real time, picking the right route for their threshold, and actually moving the behaviour forward instead of just managing it.
A standard walker keeps your dog safe and tired. A doggy daycare adds chaos and over-arousal. Neither of those is a behaviour intervention, and neither is going to change how your dog turns up on walks with you.
Walk & Train is built around our training methods - M.E.T. (Management, Enrichment, Training), HEAL screening (health-first triage) and RZA (Reactivity Zones Approach) on every walk. Each walk has a plan. Each walk gets an update. Every clip you send between blocks gets a video review.
The goal isn't a tired dog. It's a dog who comes home regulated, with skills banking up between your training sessions instead of unravelling between them.
If we flag a clinical concern during the M.E.T. Assessment or in-block, we coordinate with your vet through our Patient Referral pathway.
Six weeks. Twice a week. One plan.
Quick eligibility check
A 60-second pre-screen works out whether Walk & Train is the right fit for your dog - postcode, temperament, bite history. If it's not the right fit, we route you to the program that is.
M.E.T. Assessment
Session 1, 90 minutes. Behaviour baseline, HEAL screen, plan design. The same Assessment carries into Reactivity Pathway or Essentials if Walk & Train turns out not to be the fit.
12 Walks Across 6 Weeks
Twice weekly, 60 minutes each. Each walk is a working session against the plan. Walk-by-walk portal updates and up to 2 video reviews per week of your home practice clips.
Week 6 Wrap
We review your dog's successes and continuity options - you can keep walking, or do an assessment for joining our Canine Adventures group walks. We'll give you more information about ongoing support.
"I highly recommend Pet Professor."
"I reached out to Pet Professor to give my Labrador, Lockie, some training. He is a big, strong dog and was okay but room for improvement. I was attracted to the flexible and easy booking of the group sessions so we could still go away on the weekends. Group classes are small and fun. Pet Professor focuses on keeping safe and good doggy manners which have proven invaluable."
"We also signed up for the walk and train package to deal with his leash pulling and eating everything on the street. I am very glad we did this as he is greatly improved in a short amount of time. It has taken the stress out of our walks – we couldn't have done it on our own."
"If you are reading this review then I would encourage you to contact Pet Professor. They have a huge improvement in my everyday life and I have a better bond with Lockie. My only wish is that I knew about Pet Professor when Lockie first came to us."
Ellen & Lockie
Format & pricing
This program exists for reactive dog owners whose walks have become unmanageable. For the households that can't safely take their dog out except to remote areas or late at night, who can't find a walker who can safely handle them, or who've had a group walk turned down because nobody wants the risk of a dog hurting themselves or someone else. Walk & Train bridges that gap.
Delivered Zone A only. Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Inner South, and St George. We confirm your postcode before booking.
Walk & Train (6-week block)
Zone A only
$395 - M.E.T. Walk & Train Assessment (paid before block)
$2,100 - 12 walks across 6 weeks (twice weekly, 60 min each)
Total
$2,495Afterpay, Zip, and PayPal Pay in 4 available. Card payments incur a processing fee.
Check if your dog's eligibleIs your dog a good fit for Walk & Train?
Walk & Train is an individual dog-walking program for dogs who don't always enjoy other dogs, or aren't comfortable in a social setting. Not every dog is a good fit, and that's not a problem. Some dogs need to build skills at home with their person first, and are better suited to private training.
These quick questions help us figure out the right path for your dog. About 60 seconds.
Your postcode
Walk & Train runs in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, Inner South and St George. Pop in your postcode and we'll check.
Questions people actually ask
- Because it isn't a walking service. The 12 walks are working sessions: each one targets a specific skill, with a portal update afterwards on what we did, what to practise, and what we noticed. Your dog comes back tired AND further along on the actual behaviour problem. A walker is paid to keep your dog safe. A Walk & Train block is paid to move the needle.
- No. Each walk is structured around the M.E.T. plan we built in Session 1 - usually a mix of loose-lead work, recall proofing, environmental exposure, RZA-aware decision-making, and decompression. We're not running your dog into the ground. We're giving them the kind of behaviour-aware handling that's hard to get right when you've already worked an 8-hour day and are trying to remember six things at once.
- Behaviour change needs frequency. Once a week is a maintenance cadence at best. Twice weekly is what's required for the skills to consolidate inside a 6-week block, the same logic as twice-weekly physiotherapy for a serious injury, not weekly check-ins.
- The value of the Assessment carries with you. If we surface something that needs Reactivity Pathway, Essentials, or another program instead, we roll that same M.E.T. Assessment straight into your next program as Session 1. Same clinical baseline, same behaviour plan, same fee already paid. You don't lose the work and you don't pay for the assessment twice. The whole point of the Assessment is to put you in the right program from the start, not to gatekeep this one.
- Twice weekly is the standard cadence for sustained behaviour change inside a 6-week block. If once-weekly is what you can commit to, please book a Scoping Call so we can talk through alternatives. There are options. They just don't sit on this page because the public Walk & Train block is built for the cadence that actually works.
Your dog doesn't have to live like this. Neither do you.
If you've read this far and still unsure, let's chat.
Marianne
The Scoping Call is a free, 30 minutes discussion with Marianne to help find the best solution for your needs. Because sometimes the right answer is, "see a vet or vet behaviourist first."