Your dog isn't the problem.The advice you're getting is.

You book your six sessions whenever suits you — weekly, fortnightly, or faster. The plan stays open for two months, and every session is 40 minutes on video with the same behaviourist. A prescribed drill routine sits between each one.

The gap is the point: a dog consolidates a new behaviour through short repeated practice, not through a long conversation, so every off-day carries a specific drill of 5 to 15 minutes that the next session is built on.

Six private 40-minute video sessions with a professional dog behaviourist, one-to-one — not a group class and not a recorded course — plus five prescribed drill routines for the days in between. Alongside the calls you get a written behaviour assessment after session one, a personalised day-by-day plan, WhatsApp support between sessions, session replays, and IncrediPets app access with the diet chart and progress tracking.

One dog, one behaviourist, for the whole programme.

You run one specific routine, usually 5 to 15 minutes, and send a short clip to your behaviourist on WhatsApp. Drills are deliberately small because the aim is repetition below your dog's reaction threshold, not a long session that pushes it over.

The clip is what the next session is built on, so your behaviourist adjusts on evidence rather than on what should have happened.

For most household behaviour problems, yes, because the person who has to change the behaviour is you. Barking, mouthing, anxiety, jumping and leash pulling are maintained by daily routines, and a behaviourist watching your actual home on video can spot the trigger, the reinforcement and the timing error faster than in a one-off visit.

What video cannot do is physically handle your dog, which is why bite-history cases go to our at-home programme instead.

We do not take active aggression with a bite history, especially in large powerful breeds such as Rottweilers, German Shepherds, Pitbulls and Huskies. Bite risk is not a training variable — one failed repetition can hospitalise someone, and aggression is often medical first, with pain, thyroid dysfunction and neurological problems presenting as sudden aggression.

Those cases need a veterinary behaviourist and hands-on management. We do take early-stage reactivity, resource guarding, growling and puppy biting where there is no bite history.

The at-home programme sends a professional trainer to your door and runs 12 to 144 sessions of hands-on work — that is the right choice for structured obedience and for severe behaviour cases in the 15+ cities we service. The online programme is behaviour coaching for you, the pet parent, on the specific problem in your house, and it is available anywhere in India.

If your dog needs hands-on work, your behaviourist will tell you and we will move you across.

Reschedule at least 24 hours ahead and there is no charge — the rest of the plan shifts with it. Missing a drill day is not fatal either; your behaviourist will usually repeat that drill rather than move on, because the sequence matters more than the calendar. The programme stays valid for ten weeks, so travel or illness does not cost you a session.

A phone with a working camera and a stable internet connection. That is it. It helps if someone can hold the phone during the practical parts, or you can prop it up so the behaviourist can see the room and your dog together. No clickers, no special collars, no aversive equipment of any kind.

Positive-reinforcement methods grounded in animal-behaviour science. Three mechanisms do most of the work: a marker delivered within half a second of the behaviour, desensitisation worked below your dog's reaction threshold, and reinforcement thinned to a variable schedule so the behaviour survives without treats. No punishment, no fear, no aversive equipment.

Barking is a symptom, and the fix depends on which of four causes is driving it: alert barking at the door, demand barking for attention, boredom barking, or anxiety barking when alone. The method is the same shape in each case — identify the trigger, work below the distance or volume at which your dog reacts, and reinforce an alternative behaviour such as going to a mat.

Shouting adds arousal and usually makes barking worse, because to the dog it reads as joining in.

Separation anxiety is panic at being left alone, not disobedience, and it shows as howling, destruction near exits, pacing or soiling within the first thirty minutes. It is treated with graduated absence work — leaving for a duration short enough that your dog stays calm, then extending in small steps.

Punishment for the destruction makes it worse because it adds fear to an already fearful state. Severe cases need veterinary input alongside behaviour work.

Puppy biting is teething and exploration, not aggression. It peaks between 8 and 16 weeks and fades by 6–7 months with the right handling. The method is bite-inhibition work: redirect onto an appropriate chew, and the moment teeth touch skin the game stops, so the puppy learns biting ends the fun. Punishment adds arousal and usually makes mouthing worse.

From 8 weeks, whatever the breed. The primary socialisation window closes around 16 weeks, and what a puppy calmly meets before then shapes how it reacts for life. For large breeds it matters more: they gain 3–4 kg a month in year one, so a habit manageable at 10 kg is a physical problem at 30 kg.

Yes. Adult dogs often learn faster than puppies because their attention span is longer. Older dogs need more repetitions to overwrite an established habit and shorter sessions for joint comfort, but the learning mechanism does not expire with age.

A new behaviour like going to a mat on cue usually appears within two to three weeks of daily practice. Changing an established emotional response — fear of the doorbell, anxiety when you leave — takes longer, typically six to ten weeks, because it has to be rebuilt below threshold and then proofed in real situations.

The programme builds the mechanism and the habit; you continue the maintenance plan after it ends. Owner consistency is the single biggest variable.