About Us
Welcome to Kate Bowsher Dog Training. Me and my team are very proud to offer, fun friendly training for dog owners from a purpose-built facility in the beautiful Beenham countryside. Established in 2019 the schoool has naturally grown through client recmmendations and collaborations with other local professionals to now provide a huge range of activities, and expertise.
As a training school we aim to offer a family friendly, real-life environment for owners to learn how to get the best from their dogs. All of the courses and workshops are tailored to your dog, with a very high instructor-student ratio we ensure you get the most out of each session.
Our team have worked with a huge variety of breeds and types of dogs, in both pet and working roles. As a result we are able to tailor our methods, courses and exercises to complement your dog's instinctive needs and use them to your advantage. Gundog, protection, herding and inuit breeds all have tendancies which unless nurtured can cause major problems. We teach you how to use appropriate instinctive behaviours as reward for your dog, which builds incredibly strong relationships between the owner and the dog and gets amazing results. Whatever you want to achieve with your dog, one of our team can help.
Our Facilities
All of our classes take place at our own venue in Beenham which is part of a working farm, with retail and industrial units. Although indoors, our training centre can be chilly in the winter so please wrap up warm!
Our outdoor training areas are almost unlimited in variety, and superb for socialisation, confidence building and training against real-life distractions.
A semi-secure, floodlit carpark area is our go-to area for outdoor area on dark nights, for easy distractions.
Our secure paddock is used predominantly for agility, but is also great for recall training, and livestock manners, with cows and sheep next door.
The Parkland is our most popular training area. 100acres of private farmland with a variety of tracks, waterways, open grassland and unlimited natural distractions. The landscape is scattered with deer, ducks, pheasants, partridge, kites and lots and lots of smells! We use this area for all of our gundog classes and as much as possible for general training, scentwork and outdoor workshops.
The farmyard is a maze of interesting areas for practical scentwork and confidence building.
Our Team
Kate Bowsher
I have a passion for super-active (some would say crazy) dogs and all the challenges they present. In eight years of professional training, I have gained a wealth of experience from general pet training to specialist training for Police or Gundog work. I am an accredited member of The Association of Pet Dog Trainers (01235), an organisation which ensures high standards of care, welfare and service to the training industry.
When I am not training, I work full time on the family farm, compete in scentwork trials, pick-up on a local shoot and enjoy hiking.
Sam Lomas
Sam has been a part of the training school from day one. Sam has a huge range of experience working with dogs in kennels, the show ring and shooting field. Sam instructs most of our courses and workshops. He has a particular soft spot for working gundogs spaniels in particular as well as lurchers and greyhounds. Sam is often found getting sneaky cuddles from the locals in the pub (the four-legged kind of course!)
Suzi Stebbings
Suzi assists with admin, communication and training. Owner of a working cocker spaniel, she enjoys working Buster’s mind with sniffer training, blowing off some steam on long ridgeway walks and making the most of dog-friendly pubs.
Samantha Wood
Samantha has a real passion for helping owners and their dogs. Having been a dog owner all her life she understands the need for good training. Either assisting or training her own dog Texas (Goldador) she can be found at the training centre most days! Texas loves his scent training and is working on finding lost cricket balls!!! Outside of training she loves walking Texas with friends and watching her son play Cricket.
Jules Clapham
She currently has a springer spaniel and two working sheepdogs. Jules teaches regular scentwork, agility courses and 1-1s for us, and is a mentor for our instructing team.
Jules has a keen interest in agility and has competed at KC G7 and UKA Champ. She is currently one of only six Accredited Instructors with the KC for competitive agility. She is trained and mentored clients from foundation stage all the way to crufts. She is a KC approved Agility Judge, a scentwork UK Level 4 Instructor and Detection Dog Trials judge. She has recently launched the ScentOps Trials program, operational style scentwork trials for every dog.