The People Who Can Help You and Your Dog
Training with a CLEAR winner: Caroline Strainig
CLEAR Dog Training’s new owner is no stranger to dog training – or the winner’s circle for that matter.
Before taking over from long-time owner Oliver Beverly when he retired in October of 2019, Caroline worked for CLEAR as a trainer for three years, helping dozens of Brisbane dog and puppy owners during that time.
Caroline has also had national, state and royal-show success with different dogs in obedience, rally obedience and Dances With Dogs and has competed at masters level in agility and flyball.
Her older dog, Adam, a chocolate border collie, is the national, state and EKKA champion in rally obedience and the current NSW open obedience champion. In 2017 he won an amazing four Queensland Dog of the Year awards.
Her young dog, Groot, a BC-cross rescue dog she has had for only nine months, recently won his class in rally obedience at the NSW State Obedience Championships – a remarkable transformation from failed cattle-herding dog to state champion in only nine months.
A few years ago, Caroline also trained a friend’s dog in flyball, and only six months after starting work the dog, Eve, helped her flyball team win a national championship.
In addition to proving her training expertise by competing, CLEAR’s new owner holds professional dog training qualifications through the National Dog Trainers Federation of Australia. She is also a qualified horse-riding instructor who represented Great Britain internationally in the sport of three-day eventing.
Based at Wynnum in Brisbane and servicing inner Brisbane and southside Brisbane, Caroline is available for one-on-one home training, catering for puppies as well as more advanced obedience training and/or behavioural trouble-shooting.
Caroline says working with pet dogs and their owners is the ultimate job as far as she is concerned.
“I find teaching really rewarding, helping owners build better relationships with their dogs, and seeing them start really enjoying spending time together as their communication and joy in training increases,” she says.
Founder and consultant trainer: Oliver Beverly
Oliver Beverly, the founder of CLEAR, has now retired on a full-time basis but still acts as a consultant.
Oliver came from a traditional training background before discovering positive-reinforcment training.
"For 25 years I trained 'obedience' by punishing undesired behaviour out of dogs with 'push and pull' techniques - for much of that time I simply didn't realise there was a choice," he said.
"I stopped using a check chain, initially with hesitation and skepticism, only after noticing the consistently steeper learning curve of reward-based trained dogs and seeing the dogs and their owners enjoying training."
His most successful competition dog and much loved family pet, Millie, now sadly deceased, was entirely taught with positive-reinforcement methods.
"Unlike our previous dogs she never received a collar correction in her life," Oliver said.
Millie obtained her Master's title with the Agility Dog Association of Australia before she was 3½. In 2000 she was ADAA's Dog of the Year in the Mini class and in the International Agility Link Competition she was the highest placed Australian dog and ranked twelfth internationally. She won the Mini class in the Agility Dog Club of Queensland's Monthly Top Dog Competition in '00, '01 and '02 and for the same three years was a member of the Eukenuba Agility Demonstration team.
Millie was also used regularly in school education programs (see below photos).
Oliver is a Dog Obedience Trainers Association Instructor, has a Certificate IV in Behavioural Dog Training and am an accredited Delta Canine Good Citizen Instructor - the highest level of nationally accredited dog trainers in Australia.
While now formally retired, he still acts as a consultant occasionally and is very supportive of CLEAR's new owner, Caroline Strainig, who worked for Olliver for several years before taking over the business.
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