Providing the Support You Need to Live a Healthy Life With Your Dog


The Secret to Living a Happy & Healthy Life With Your Dog?

C.A.R.E.

- Communicate - Advocate - Relate - Enrich -


The reality is that the way we live with our dogs has evolved and changed more in the past 20 years than it did the previous 200. This is putting more and more pressure on our dogs and us as caregivers and the fact is that that traditional information and methods of living with our dogs is not only failing to set people up to succeed but is compounding issues deeper and deeper into society.

The number of dogs that are suffering with stress, fear, anxiety and frustration is on the rise but the longer people continue to try to address these issues with outdated practices, the more dogs will suffer.

This is why we have created Canine C.A.R.E.givers

Our goal is to provide a platform that people know they can turn to for reliable advice that has a deep understanding of dog behaviour and how we can support it in the modern world.

To CARE is to not look at our dogs behaviour as something that we must correct, it is to look at how we can be the best versions of ourselves as we support our dogs through the realities of life in a modern world.

We are asking you to COMMUNICATE with your dogs. This means more than obedience and commands. When we communicate with our dogs we must do so with clarity, kindness, patience and empathy.

We are asking you to ADVOCATE for your dog, for yourself as a caregiver and for the wider community of others and their dogs. This means taking responsibility for where we take our dogs, who and what they are exposed to and for how long and not putting the blame and responsibility back on them.

We are asking you to RELATE to your dogs. Putting ourselves in our dogs shoes and relating to how they might feel in this human world. A world in which the way we treat our dogs and involve them in our lives has changed more in the past 20 years than it did the previous 200.

We are asking you to Enrich your dogs lives and really understand what enrichment is. If we learn what the enrichment needs of our dogs are and how to meet them we will begin to meet their fundamental needs. We will see a decline in unwanted behaviours and resolve them with understanding and care.

We have years of experience helping real caregivers just like you in real life situations with exactly this. This community is here for us to care for you, for you to care for each other, all in support of caring for our best friends, our dogs.

Meet Dom & Ian

Co- Founders Ian Shivers and Dominique Hone

Dominique Hone and Ian Shivers of The Dog Brigade and Bondi Behaviourist respectively have a combined 27+ years experience in the industry of dog training and behaviour, having helped over 6000 clients to date, have teamed up to create Canine C.A.R.E.GIVERS An online learning and support platform for anyone with a dog in their life. Driven by a common goal of improving the quality of life for our dogs and those that care for them. We strive to do this by spreading current and practical information on humane methodology of training dogs, dog psychology, husbandry and reducing the amount of punitive methods, aversive techniques and outdated theories that are still pervasive in the culture of living with and training the beloved dogs in our homes.

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Andrew Matos - I couldn't recommend Dom and Ian of Canine C.A.R.E.givers more highly! Their combined wealth of knowledge and gentle (force free and positive!) approach to raising healthy and happy dogs is unparalleled in this industry. Undertaking their Dogs Unpacked course has helped me immeasurably in understanding the how and why of my dogs behaviour and has changed our interactions with them in such a positive way. If you're looking for high quality dog trainers, seeking to learn more about dog behaviour or just searching for positive dog training content ...you have 100% found the right place and will not be disappointed!
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