Welcome to SitDropStay
Dog Training Gold Coast
Transform your dog with our in-home and private dog training, puppy training and dog behaviour services. Anna is SitDropStay’s dedicated dog behaviour specialist on the Gold Coast, offering dog owners professional, mobile coaching in all areas of dog training and behaviour.
We had an incredible experience with SitDropStay and can’t thank Anna enough for her professionalism, knowledge, and expertise—covering everything from breed and behaviour to diet, training, and overall well-being of our puppy. Jordana D – Gold Coast
Meet Anna – Your Gold Coast Dog Trainer
For over 15 years, Anna has been helping dog owners create calm, happy, well-balanced dogs. She understands that a dog’s behaviour is not limited to their intelligence or trainability, but is also shaped by their attitude, environment, emotional state and relationship they have with their owner. Rather than focusing solely on obedience commands and “training”, Anna works with you to develop a deeper willingness to cooperate within your dog and helps them feel safe and understood. This creates a dog who looks to you for approval and chooses to follow your guidance naturally so you aren’t always having to rely on treats and corrections.
Anna’s one-on-one, real world training is designed to blend into your everyday life. She consistently achieves results where other methods have failed, giving owners practical and common sense strategies they can implement immediately.
Learn to speak dog and develop the qualities your dog looks for in a leader. Our authentic approach aims to educate and empower you, not just focus on your dog.
All dogs, all ages, all breeds, all issues.
Anna can help with any dog behaviour or dog training issues such as:
- Hyperactivity
- Anxiety
- Recall
- Destructive chewing.
- Dog aggression.
- People aggression.
- Lead pulling.
- Separation anxiety.
- Begging.
- Chasing.
- Jumping up on people.
- Mouthing, nipping and biting.
- Digging.
- Walking off leash
- Reactivity
- Excessive Barking
- Puppy Training Issues
We Come to You
Anna offers professional training services across the Gold Coast, including Coomera, Surfers Paradise, Nerang, Coolangatta, Mount Tamborine, and the Ipswich area.
How We Work
1. We offer an introductory phone consultation with our Gold Coast based dog trainer, who will ask you some preliminary questions to find out what your individual goals are.
2. We arrange to come to you for an initial 2-2.5 hour consult at a time that suits you.
Our Gold Coast trainer will come out to your home or other place of your choosing, to conduct a two hour, one on one session that is tailored to your specific needs. Taking into consideration your current lifestyle, who else is in the family, your dog’s temperament and the outcome that you want to achieve, they will put together a formula that’s right for you.
3. If any further consultations are required, we then offer one hour follow-up consults. Your trainer will come back to see how you and your dog are responding to the changes and make relevent adjustments for best results.
What Is The SitDropStay Dog Training Gold Coast Difference?
- Our focus in on creating a calm, happy and co-operative dog
- The state of mind your dog is in when it receives a reward is more important than their physical action
- Rather that focusing on using treats we empower you to to use your voice, body language and energy to naturaly manage and direct your dog.
- We do not train in ”drive’ or ‘high energy’ as this is counterproductive for a family dog
- Our training is personalised and based on your dogs specific needs and temperament
- No unnecessary training that you will never use in your day to day life
- We use the language your dog understands
- Loving leadership and connection are emphasised as powerful tools that can impress and motivate your dog to cooperate.
Testimonial
Anna is a miracle worker!! She immediately identified the real issue with our dog and gave us practical ways to improve his behaviour, there was an instant improvement with his behaviour from that very day and he has continued to improve as we’ve stayed consistent with his training every day. He used to pull so hard on his leash that everyone hated walking him, today during our walk, a few times he got a couple of steps ahead and before I could even correct him he dropped back to my side by himself, this is only a week and a half since Anna saw us. I honestly thought before this that our dog was untrainable. Absolutely worth every cent!!!!! Belinda S – Gold Coast
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Your Specialist Dog Trainer In Gold Coast
Anna Hopkins
Having always had a dog as part of her family growing up, Anna developed a long lasting love of dogs as a result. She believes that understanding how to interact with your dog determines whether you share a beautiful, respectful connection, or the relationship is an unruly, out of control, challenge for everyone involved. When she met George and learnt about the SitDropStay dog training philosophy, it simply made sense as a practical, sensible and natural approach to establishing clear communication between owners and their dogs.
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