It was a childhood dream for us to have a dog as part of or family. This year in 2019, it has been the perfect year for us to get a dog. Preparations in getting a dog starts 6 months prior to selecting the dog. We signed up in Facebook pages for dog groups and visited dog parks to understand the life of pawrents and its commitment. Based on our research, we were committed to get a dog that is active, loving and who us to be his family.

Visiting numerous pet shops, we were surprised to see the dogs having its own personality and character, being social, playing around with each other and enthusiasm and vibes it brought when we entered Pets Arena. Dogs were given enough space to roam around and given sufficient care through helpers. We have selected the Pets Arena as our shop to get our pet as it is the best option compared to others.

We had shortlisted on few dogs at Pets Arena, but Archie is the one whom we chose over others. There were few criteria to choose the right dog.

  1. 1)  A dog shows interest to come to you for example: We spent at least 2 hours with Archie and he was with us through out the duration not even once he was distracted over something else.
  2. 2)  A dog is active like circling the cage before you pick up.
  3. 3)  A dog that is well taken care off. There was a side door, a link to its storage space, and dogsdoesn’t run away to escape.
  4. 4)  A dog that doesn’t seek your attention all the time. For example: When we were playing withother dogs Archie wanted our attention and showed his interest but didn’t claim for it.

We have planned to collect Archie one week later as we need to prepare our house. It is essential for your dog to have a welcoming environment such as its own place, a place where guests can play with your dog, other essentials such as food, water bowls, leash and mattress. The day of picking up your dog marks a critical day and would suggest to spend lot of time getting to know him.
First week with Archie was more or less we had spent the time with him. We slept near his crate, we have trained him to our schedule. It is necessary to plan the days activities of your dog and follow it diligently. A typical day looks like breakfast and morning walk, crate time pick him up after lunch, crate time, play time of about one hour and walking, dinner and play time and finally bed time around 10pm. Having a new dog is like having a baby and hence it is required to have lots of patience and understanding to train him. For example: I was thinking that dogs know naturally to play with a ball. The fact is that I had to play hit the ball to him hundred times for him to pick once and of course treat is a must when he picks. After few days of trial and error, he had learnt to pick a ball.
After two weeks of orientation with Archie, we had decided to get a professional trainer to assist in understanding the dog further. Joseph is recommended by Pets Arena is a AVA credited trainer having trained in Sweden.
Joseph gave a good perspective and taught us how to communicate with Archie. Our actions and instructions are to be clear and concise for the dog. We will need to stay calm and patience in terms of training a dog. Beagles being a greedy for food dog and the effectiveness in managing exercise and food consumption. A distinctive difference between training methods and its effectiveness such as positive and negative oriented training, benefits, drawbacks and usage of E-collar, being firm and effective in terms of instructions.
Being a first time pawrent, we tend to be lenient towards dogs but not focusing on discipline. Joseph being experienced in terms of training dogs for various purposes like military and household. He has guided us on when to be firm, when to be lenient and how to keep dogs control in an effective manner. We believed in building relationship with Archie and hence Joseph guided us on how to link the training and our relationship with Archie in building discipline and character.
We have seen a clear difference in Archie’s behavior and our relationship with Archie has strengthened significantly every week.

Hi Joseph, Leo is a very happy and active puppy. And generally listens to us, so no real complaints. A few things that we’d love for you to teach him:
1. He loves his walks, but has a mind of his own 🙂 will sometimes eat things, sometimes be galloping. Will be nice to teach him to walk with us properly 🙂
2. He is very friendly with people. But gets over-excited and then wants to jump on them when they enter the house (only for first 2 mins). Need to control that behaviour
3. He is a retriever only by name 😀. Doesn’t fetch a ball when we try with him
4. Does ‘sit’ properly. But need to work on ‘come’ ‘paw’ ‘down’ and ‘leave it’

I know you said you’d rather train us and believe me, you’ve done a good job. We understand him much better now. But will be nice if you could do these 4 things for us in the remaining sessions, and then we practice with him
From Leo’s Pet Owner

We got Abby from Pet Arena when she was 9 months old, which means she has a very steep learning curve for to live with us in a home environment. Up to that point, her life was in the shop. Thankfully, she was caged but left in a spacious confined space to play, jump and run.

We had five sessions with Joseph Yeo, with each session lasting for about 2 hours.

Joseph is indeed a very experienced dog-trainer. He was really good in engaging Abby right away when he stepped into our home and saw her. Abby loved to see him and was always jumping with joy when seeing him.

Joseph didn’t just teaching obedience, he taught a philosophy about having a dog as a member of the family. His tag line was: “It has been accepted that dog is man’s best friend. But the question remains is whether we are dog’s best friend!”

He was always advocating positive reinforcement training. He believed every dog has a unique personality and wanted us to bring out the best in Abby as we train and, more importantly, relate to her as a member of the family.

We are always indebted to Joseph’s many sound advice and tips.

Abby has indeed brought a lot of joy to the family. There are silly and smart moments that edged deeply into our family story.

Thank you, Joseph.

Blessings.

Peter, Diana, Joseph, Jeremy, and Jordan Chan

Dear Joseph,

Deeply appreciate & grateful for your professional guidance and patience for the past few days.

Have a nice day and keep in touch again! 😊

Thanks.

Best Regards,

Karen Lai

Happy teachers day Joseph uncle. You have given my mama and papa a knowledge on how to deal with me.
They have been loving pawrents. Thank you

Deeply appreciated your 6mth lessons – Learnt alot from you definitly –
Nice engaging you – Thanks for the small gifts – Will catch up wif you…
if anyone require a trainer will recommend you too. Thanks joseph 🙏

Jimmy & Family

Thank you and for the advices given for the last 5 sessions.
As a family we learnt a lot from you. 谢谢🙏

我家柯基宝宝Rex在到家三个月后,通过朋友推荐报名了Joesph的一对一上门指导课程。由于Rex比较胆小谨慎,课程刚开始进行比较慢,由于Joesph经验丰富,通过耐心地慢慢引导,Rex逐渐接受Joesph,并且愿意配合听从指令,学会随行,静坐,卧下等基础动作。我非常满意这个学习过程,而且从课上学到很多与狗狗沟通交流的方法,Joesph确实是一位很专业的训犬师 ,有机会我会推荐给其他有狗狗的朋友!

Joseph has been a great help in teaching us how to understand Goji, our golden retriever puppy, better. It has been a delight watching him ‘communicate’ with Goji and train her. He is very patient and dedicated to teaching us how to communicate with her too and understand her better — he always arrives early for class and ends class much later than than the stipulated timing of 1h long as Joseph shares with us his tips and gives practical advice for Goji, which makes us feel that Joseph is really dedicated to his craft. We have previously attended another puppy kindergarten class (6 sessions, same as with Joseph) but find that results are not as good as with Joseph as the trainers are unable to give practical advice that works on our easily-distractible puppy with a short attention span. As Joseph said, he doesn’t train the dogs as much as he trains the owners on how to understand and communicate with the dog better. Would highly recommend Joseph to anyone looking for an experienced dog trainer who will help your puppy in a humane and effective way!