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Understand your dog,
transform their behaviour
and enjoy your lives 
together

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Every puppy - and even every nightmare hound - is a dream dog waiting to meet you, and waiting to live their best life.   Our job is to make things easy for you and your dog, and help them feel safe, relaxed, and get everything right.  We set you both up to succeed.  The changes come fast and are long lasting - for both humans and dogs. 
 
With a background in human psychology and 40 years immersed in human and animal behaviour, some people call me the ‘dog whisperer’. My clients and their dogs continue to be my greatest teachers.

 

I work 1-1 with people and their dogs all over the world.  I teach and offer mentoring for people working with dogs, and I write and make social media content to teach humans about their dogs.  I also offer nutritional and natural health advice for dogs, cats and ponies.

Judy Comer-Calder
The Devon Dog Lady

DOG WHISPERER, BEHAVIOURIST & PSYCHOLOGIST

I don’t train dogs, I train people - to understand and communicate with dogs.  This is the most effective way to help our dogs with all of their behaviour.  

Humans and dogs come from different worlds - our psychology, how we communicate, and how we behave, are all completely different.  We are not born with an understanding of ‘dog’.   In fact it’s a miracle that both species manage to live together - and this is where things can get complicated..
 
The good news is that once we understand ‘dog’, we can see why our beloved dog is behaving in a given way, and how we might have been part of the problem.  We clarify exactly what we humans need to do differently, and then we make the changes.  When we transform our behaviour, our dog’s behaviour is also transformed.  

 

My work comes out of a lifetime of living with, and loving dogs - and a great curiosity about what makes them tick, and what makes the human and animal relationship work. For the past 25 years I’ve been helping owners understand their dog’s needs, build their relationships with their dogs, and guide their dog’s behaviour.  We set up both sides to succeed.

The Devon Dog Lady with 10 Dogs

Contact Me

If you think you’d like to do the five or six week course with me, you can book a short call to chat about how i can help you with your dog.  Contact me here, by email or Whatsapp on the phone number below.

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Jo, UK

Judy is an angel in disguise! We sought out help with our dog Jerry who we took ownership of at 10 months old. By 18 months old Jerry had developed leash aggression and even started to bark and jump at passing cars and random people. Judy has taught us how to turn all of these behaviours around using a simple leadership approach. We had to make some significant changes and at first we were apprehensive but we put our trust in Judy and it has paid off. Judy is a lovely, warm person with heaps of experience, she helped us to "think dog" and was supportive throughout the ups and downs of the process. We invested in 4 sessions and Jerry is back to being calm, chilled and enjoying his walks with us (his confident leaders) without the need to be "on guard" and feel the need to "protect us". I personally feel like I now have a better connection with Jerry and a much better understanding of his needs and in some ways a better understanding of my own needs which was a bonus gift! Absolute value for money.

What I've Been Up To Recently...

I write about dogs for national newspapers, regional and local magazines, and have had a weekly radio show about dogs on local radio. I work 1-1 with clients all over the world, and offer teaching and mentoring to people working with dogs.  I enjoy being invited to talk at events, and featuring on podcasts. At the moment I am writing a book about the human-dog relationship which will be published world-wide in 2026.

Walking the dogs and feeding - Judy style

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