Adelaide Canine Behaviour and Training
About Us
We all want to be able to take our dog out in public and enjoy the world together.
Wouldn’t it be great to have a fantastic relationship with your dog?
Let us teach you how to communicate with, and understand your dog.
Our proven TRAINING SYSTEM is all about life-skills and not focused only on obedience, or if your dog can do a trick in your home but couldn’t care less about you when out in public.
Through Adelaide Canine Behaviour & Training you can make a difference in your dogs life.
We will teach you how you are always communicating with your dog, every single day, through your words and body language and what you may be unintentionally saying.
Training should be around what your dog needs to be able to fit into our complex human world. Dogs have needs to thrive, not just to survive.
By utilising rewards and reinforcement based training we focus on the individual needs and welfare of dogs at all times.
Are you excited?
Our Head Trainer
Head Trainer, Dee McLean, is passionate about animal welfare and the dog – human connection.
Having grown up with dogs and being a volunteer rescue foster carer and coordinator, Dee decided that formal education would benefit her, the foster carers, and the dogs and clients she worked with.
She studied Canine Training and Behaviour with the National Dog Trainers Federation (NDTF) Victoria in 2014. From there, she has continued with an ongoing search for knowledge in areas of training special needs dogs, behaviour modification, and complex skills training and she strongly believes that learning never stops.
Having 5 dogs of her own, all adopted rescues, she has been able to utilise her skills and knowledge first hand in her day to day life.
- Emm - deaf and vision impaired koolie
- Snowy - deaf and vision impaired border collie
- Ozzie - blind koolie
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Spirit - one of her 'normals' border collie x kelpie
- Daisy - the second of her 'normals' maremma x
Dee always says “no 2 dogs are the same and each dog should be treated as an individual”. She is always there to offer that extra care to her clients, and gets such a thrill to see the look on her clients face when ‘the penny drops’ and their face lights up.
Dee is also the founder of her own rescue, Unbound Angels Dog Rescue Inc specifically for specially abled dogs.
She currently volunteers directly with several rescue organisations in South Australia. Dee also assist new adopters to settle their new dog into their family.
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
STSK9 Nino Drowaert - Puppy University
STSK9 Nino Drowaert - Positive Only Program
Positive K9 Training - Rules of engagement
Glenn Cooke - Canine Aggression Workshop
Pat Stuart - SA Seminar
Ben Geurts, Kaizen K9 - Dog Reacticity & Aggression
Ryan Tate - Scent Detection
Larry Krohn & Dr Ravi Lyer - Drivers
Ted Efthymiadis – How to Introduce Your Dog to a Baby
IAABC - Reactivity, Dr Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB
Louise Harding's Dog Training School
MEMBERSHIPS
- IAABC - International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants
- IACP - International Association of Canine Professionals
- PDTA - Professional Dog Trainers Association, Australia
- ABS - Animal Behavior Society
IAABC - Canine Fear-Based Aggression, John Ciribassi DVM, DACVB
IAABC - Desensitization and Counterconditioning, Dr Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB
IAABC - The Effects of Fear, Anxiety and Arousal on Learning, Dr Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB
IACP - Service Dog Basics
IACP - Train a Dog to be a Therapy Dog
The Canine Compnay - Building Engagement with your Dog
Omar Von Muller, Dog Talent Academy - Masterclass 5: Puppy- train your future winner
Dunbar Academy – Growl Class Demonstration for Reactive Dogs
School of Canine Science - Chemistry of Play
School of Canine Science - Building Blocks of Canine Cognition
Veterinary Behavior Medicine, Dr Maggie O'Brian - Owner Directed Aggression in Dogs
Larry Krohn - Canine Communication Masterclass
Clicker Expo 2025
Australian Institute of Animal Management - The Forensics of Aggression
Studied Cert III in Canine Behaviour and Training through (NDTF)