About Us

Our Motto

A dog is for Life - Not Just Lifestyle

Positive Response Dog Training is owned and operated by Dee Scott, a qualified National Behavioural Trainer with over 25 years of extensive experience in the dog world. She spent 6 of those years working as a Quarantine Detection (sniffer) dog Handler at Melbourne International Airport with her detector dog Phantom and training other handlers and their dogs. "Watching Border Security is exactly what my average day in the office was like". Dee has taught in many obedience clubs over the years, helping to introduce FLYBALL, a fantastic dog sport to Australia whilst living in Canberra and competed heavily in obedience, flyball and agility with her home dog Isaac. She has appeared on The Bert Newton Show and Channel 9, and in local papers and editorials.

What is Reward Based Training All About?

Reward Based Training is NOT just about food!

Reward based training or operant conditioning as its known is a method of learning that occurs when an animal makes an association between a behaviour (Sit) and the reward(food, toys, pat). The reward helps to increase the animals behaviour so that it earns as it learns.

We can find examples of operant conditioning at work all around us, such as children completing homework to earn a reward from a parent or teacher or employees finishing projects to receive praise or promotions. In these examples, the promise or possibility of rewards causes an increase in behavior. We can also use operant conditioning to decrease a behavior. Your dog jumps on you and it is removed from you and put outside. The behaviour (jumping) leads to the consequence (removal) and the behaviour decreases.

Dee and her staff are specialised trainers, working with a variety of issues using reward based training. Our staff undertake the complex national trainers course with Delta Society Australia. They are also mentored by Dee and undertake an inhouse training program prior to qualifying. This enables us to provide a high standard of service to the community with exceptionally qualified staff.

Dee brings a wealth of experience and formal qualifications to her classes

Delta National Accredited Trainer Since 2000 (www.deltasocietyaustralia.com.au)
Delta National Accredited Assessor
Accredited Detector Dog Handler for 6 years with the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service at Melbourne Airport
Instructor/trainer at Keilor Obedience Dog Training Centre, Victoria from 2000
Level 1 Instructor at the Companion Dog Club in Canberra from 1994
Train competition levels of obedience, agility and flyball
All levels of pet adult dog and puppy training
Specialises in behavioural training problems with adult dogs
Level 2 Reiki practitioner for you and your pets

Snapshot Of my life

Born and raised in a small country town called Cooma in the Snowy Mountains.
Started training dogs at 13 years of age when our family acquired our first German Shepherd puppy.
Committee member and Junior Trainer with Cooma Dog Club, NSW.
Moved to Canberra where I joined CDC Dog Club in Narrabundah. Instructed there for 5 years, coaching all levels of obedience and promoting a dog sport called flyball within the club. Competed in dog obedience, flyball and agility trials with my home dog Issac, always with very high scores, bringing home many trophies and prizes.
1998 moved to Melbourne to take up a position with Australian Quarantine Inspection Services as a Detector Dog Handler. Worked with detection beagles at Tullamarine International Airport.
Worked as an instructor and committee member for Keilor Obedience while living in Melbourne and completed an external course with Delta Australia, qualifying as a national positive motivational trainer.
Moved to Queensland where Positive Response Dog Training has been up and running since May 2005.