About Sam's K9 Academy
Sam’s K9 Academy Flintshire was establish in 2009 after Sam spent 2 years at collage and 3 years at university studying Animal Behaviour with a special interest in Canine Behaviour.
Over the last 14 years the academy has grown to offer training for puppies, adult dogs and behavioural cases. In 2018 alone we had over 400 dogs come to us for help on their training journeys and since 2019 we have been listed as one of the Three Best Rated trainers in Mold by an independent company.
Sam Davies BSc (Hons) Animal Behaviour and Welfare
Head Trainer
Sam began her professional training career by teaching Puppy School classes after being trained and assessed by well known behaviourist and author Gwen Bailey. This has now expanded into Sam teaching 13 classes a week for puppies and adults as well as working with difficult dogs on a 121 basis.
In 2015 Sam was independently assessed by both the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers (IMDT) and the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) and achieved on both Full Membership. Sam is always working on obtaining more knowledge and learning new techniques and regularly attends CPD training in subjects including Canine Body Language, Aggression and Rehab, Specialist Scent Detection, Tracking, Rescue Puppy and Resource Guarding.
Sam has worked with dogs from the age of 14 in numerous boarding kennels so has alot of practical handling experience with many different breeds. Sam grew up with a show cocker spaniel called Misty, at the age of 13 rescued a Shih Zhu cross called Rocky and started her training experience in local classes, at the age of 15 she rescued a 6 week old Lurcher called Molly and experienced many different dog sports and at the age of 18 she rescued a Saluki called Freddie who has been extremely mistreated. Freddie was very shut down when he arrived and would react extremely badly to people, Sam spent alot of time rehabilitating him to feel more comfortable and he is now a happy and content dog. Sam now lives with a Working Cocker Spaniel called Stanley, they enjoy trick training, shape training and agility training. She also has a Spanish rescue dog called Squishy who Sam worked with on a puppy rescue course and decided to bring her home. Stanley and Squishy work with Sam during one to one sessions to help nervous dogs.
To see Sam's Qualifications please click here.
Fun classes and Sam is super helpful!
We took our pup to 3 lots of Sam’s classes. They were welcoming and friendly. There was no pressure and Sam always had time to answer our many questions. Our boy absolutely loved being there and Sam is one of his favourite people now!
Fun and Functional
As a first time dog owner l have found Ysgol Ci a really friendly and helpful environment for Wiilow and I to train in. The content is relevant to day-to-day life with my dog and Sam keeps the classes fun and low pressure so we both love going. When a skill isn’t working for us Sam is always ready with helpful tip to get us through our stumbling block. Now looking forward to moving onto the Coleg Ci course for more reactivity training (other dogs are sooooooo exciting) and off lead work. Thank you do much. X
Sam’s training simply works
Kind and clever training methods that work with practice, plenty of help and support along the way to keep us humans motivated! thank you Sam.
