Rina

Rina brings twenty seven years of experience and a background that few trainers can match for depth. She specialises in obedience and in rehabilitating dogs with anxiety or aggression issues, and her route into the field came through veterinary medicine rather than training alone. She started as a veterinary technician and majored in pre veterinary studies at the University of Maryland, which gave her a genuine grounding in the medical side of canine health as well as the behavioural side. That combination matters more than it might appear.

Rina also served as an animal control officer, a role in which she rescued and trained shelter dogs to improve their chances of adoption. That work exposed her to dogs in the worst circumstances they encounter, and it shaped a practical, unsentimental understanding of what genuinely helps them. Dogs sit at the centre of her life, and she has spent years studying behaviour and positive reinforcement techniques. Her belief is in a relationship where humans and dogs live happily alongside one another with real mutual respect, and she is clear about the two things she considers essential to a dog's happiness, which are consistency and exercise. Owners tend to find that message a useful corrective, because both are within their control and both are frequently the missing piece in a household that has started to struggle.