Our canine fur-kids are all adopted from various Animal Welfare charities.

• Flynn (on the left) was adopted when he was a puppy. Strengths: ball chasing.  Weaknesses: ALWAYS wants to chase a ball. Flynn spent nearly a year helping Fiona successfully complete her Canine qualifications at Unitec as her training buddy.

• Bailee (middle) is completely deaf and had been in foster care from the age of 5 months.  We adopted her when she was 2 years old along with a number of behavioural issues such as a strong prey drive towards cats and birds, resource guarding when it came to food and toys. We spent her first few months teaching ourselves sign language and then teaching her boundaries and 'manners' through positive reinforcement. 

• Luka  is affectionately referred to as our 'Little-Big dog'.  Luka came to us in a very sad state.  He was diagnosed with a serious case of mange and at the time an unknown ailment of a broken leg that had not been treated correctly when he was much younger. Luka also had a noticeable tendency to be fearful of sticks and brooms,  most likely the outcome of having been abused during an earlier stage in his life.  Today, Luka seems to forever smile and is a gentle teddy-bear that follows his brother Flynn everywhere.  

Flynn, Bailee & Luka are often called upon as K9 FUNdamentals team members to help us with training our clients dogs during controlled sessions. So you may come across either one of these fur-kids as part of the K9 FUNdamentals family.