Training more than 10,000 dogs since 1996, we’re home to some of the most experienced dog trainers in Victoria. From aggression to fear, anxiety, and uncontrollable over-excitability, we aim to create meaningful change in your pet’s behavioural patterns and daily life.
We focus on teaching dogs to understand commands and respond reliably under everyday distractions, using proven methods like The Pattern Learning Training Method and Canine Good Behaviour Shaping, which have been refined over decades to deliver lasting results.
Contact our friendly team to learn more!
The trainers here are working boarding school dogs within close proximity to their own dogs who are all in off lead drop stay. These boarding school dogs all began their courses with different behaviours issues & goals. Ranging from fear based aggression, anxiety around new people and dogs, aggressive behaviour towards other dogs on lead, to over excitement and uncontrollable behaviour when there was something more interesting to do than listen to their owners.
Proven Dog Obedience Training with Tangible Results
At Alpha Boarding School, obedience training is practical and effective under common day-to-day distraction. Our 20-day course ensures your dog develops real-world skills that transfer to home, parks, or public spaces.
Course Highlights Include:
- Pattern Learning Training Method: Consistent obedience commands that can be applied under common distractions.
- Canine Good Behaviour Shaping: Setting new rules for good behaviour and boundaries at home
- Precedential Learning Principles: Laying a foundation for long-term behavioural improvement.
Throughout the course, your dog learns to focus amid distractions like cats, chickens,other dogs, or environmental triggers, using practical and effective methods in controlled scenarios. We also simulate real-life situations to prepare your dog for unexpected encounters.
In our purpose built manners room – learning to wait for an invitation though a doorway
“Every interaction with your dog is important so the methods used to teach them must be practical, positive and relevant to all real-life scenarios”.
Common Behavioural Issues We Address
Our trainers specialise in serious behavioural rehabilitation, including:
- Food and resource guarding
- Aggression towards people or animals
- Separation anxiety and fear-based reactions
- Destructive behaviour and excessive barking
- Over-excitability and poor self-control
When you book your pet in with our dog trainers in Victoria, every course is customised to your dog’s individual needs in order to achieve measurable progress that owners can maintain after the course.
What We Offer as Your Dog Trainers in Victoria
We believe that MORE full-time trainers, MORE training, FUN and play time, HIGHER standards, and effective obedience/behaviour shaping techniques all equal More PRACTICAL and POSITIVE outcomes!
Course Inclusions:
- Professional training by skilled Boarding School For Dogs instructors
- Daily structured obedience and behaviour sessions
- Socialisation in controlled environments
- Boarding, feeding, brushing, hydrobath, and blow-dry before handback
- Australian-made Blackdog lead, training halter, and off-lead training collar
- Digital handback manual and stylish photos in timber and magnetic frames
- Comprehensive 3-hour handback session for owners to learn techniques tailored to home
- Post-course phone support and optional discounted membership for follow-up training
Behavioural Shaping Exercises Covered:
- Not jumping on people or furniture unless invited
- Waiting calmly at gates and doors
- Remaining calm indoors and around distractions
- Reinforcing good manners and obedience at home
These dogs are waiting to be invited through the gate. Once individually invited they come through on command.
The Owner’s Role in Successful Training
Our course is designed for committed owners. Training continues at home and the three-hour handback session equips you with all the strategies and skills to maintain and expand your dog’s training. We teach practical, realistic techniques for daily life so that behavioural improvements continue long after your dog leaves our facility.
You will learn:
- How to settle over-excited dogs using tonal conditioning
- How to teach new rules and boundaries effectively
- How to generalise training from kennels to home and public spaces
Our trainers remain a resource post-course, giving advice as needed and guiding you through any challenges that arise.
This dog is working on her off lead manners and obedience in our manners room – under the distraction of one of our resident Kitty Cats Jensen.
These dogs live in an apartment so their owner is using boundary training to assist with safely traveling in the elevator.
This dog is learning self control & overall manners around food on a coffee table.
Dogs of all ages can learn not to barge out an open gate – in this picture the Beagle is 3 months old, the Kelpie is 1 year old and the Rottweiler at 10 years old.
The trainers dogs are waiting at the gate for their turn to be invited through. They help the trainers throughout the day teach the other dogs to listen under distraction.
Booking Your Dog’s 20-Day Transformation
Course Fee: $2,500 per dog
- Working multiple dogs from the same household does not include discounts, as customised training strategies are required when working them together.
- Dogs living separately but attending together are trained as two individuals with separate handback sessions.
Requirements:
- Minimum age: 20 weeks
- Up-to-date vaccinations (C5)
Booking Process:
- Call (03) 8756 8900 (option 2) or email enquiries@alphaboardingkennels.com.au
- Discuss your dog’s individual behavioural needs with a professional trainer
- Receive detailed guidance on what to bring and how to prepare for the course
- Schedule your dog’s 20-day course and handback session
This ensures a structured, practical, and personalised experience that maximises results for both dog and owner.
This dog is demonstrating calm controlled behaviour and manners under high distraction of both the cat wandering past and the child having a meal nearby.
She is also demonstrating a calm wait for permission to enter the lounge area (internal house boundary) without the need for a commonly used “baby gate” room divider.
This dog is also demonstrating calm controlled behaviour inside the home whilst the baby is playing nearby.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
We have trained well over 10,000 dogs over the last 25 years – we receive so many referrals from those who have already successfully used our methods. Our services are in high demand and we are inundated with enquiries, and we take the time to discuss everything in detail with each and every dog owner needing our help.
To that end, you will probably need to leave us a message when you call as we are on the phone helping owners all day long. We will generally have spaces to get your dogs in relatively quickly once we do talk, and will call you back as soon as we can.
Proudly Serving Dog Owners Across Victoria from Our Macclesfield Location
- Dog Trainers Bendigo
- Dog Trainers Geelong
- Dog Trainers Victoria
Other Service Available in Victoria
Frequently Asked Questions
Dogs must be at least 20 weeks old.
Yes, with consistent application. Dogs will test boundaries initially, but owners learn strategies to maintain and improve upon the obedience and manners learned on the course.
We don’t rely on food rewards. Techniques like Pattern Learning and Canine Good Behaviour Shaping create genuine understanding and reliable behaviour in real-world scenarios.
Aggression, separation anxiety, excessive barking, destructive behaviour, food guarding, and over-excitability, among others.
Our purpose-built facility in Macclesfield serves all of Victoria, including Melbourne and Geelong. Call (03) 8756 8900 (option 2) for directions and to discuss your dog’s needs.