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.
Penny adores Aunty Sam
Penny is now nine years old. We started to take penny to Sam when she was a puppy and completed the puppy school training program which Sam presented brilliantly. We then continued the training with the bronze to gold training program that Sam was doing at the time. Which was very impressive and highly recommended. We also did agility with Sam which penny enjoyed very much. We also attended several workshops which Sam hosted which were very interesting. Sam is a very good trainer and highly respected and recommend. All the dogs adore her.
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!
Sam’s K9 Academy and Puppy School Flintshire
We took our puppy Martha to Sams 6 week puppy course. Sam is very knowledgeable and makes her classes fun whilst learning. She is happy to answer any questions you have and with her vast experience usually has an answer.Martha had great fun and is a well mannered dog now. I would highly recommend these classes definitely worth every penny .
