Helpmydog Reviews 221

Not hub member, (yet). Loving the theory, loving the teaching and practicals. Need to watch all material over as so much to absorb but makes lots of sense to me.

Working with Tom has been a very pleasant opportunity. I would love to join the hub but we are seniors on a fixed income. But if you have the opportunity this will be a great investment for your furever pup.
I did the 2025 Challenge and have been so impressed with the explanations of why these communication are so important.

I have followed Tom and his teachings for years. I feel that he makes dog training accessible for everyone. I am an Expert member of the Hub and practice his method with my challenging, reactive dog. I recommend him to everyone I talk to about dog training. Does he do a lot of self-promoting in his courses? Yes, but I honestly believe that it is because he wants to help people improve their lives with their dogs. I understand, because it works!!!

I am a member of the HMD Hub and have also attended the free 10-day training plan, separation anxiety and Thrive in 2025 5-day challenge with Dr. Tom Mitchell and happily give these all 5 stars! Learning is easy and more fun with Dr. Tom Mitchell and the BehaVet team that also participate. Highly recommend any of the free training and the Hub where even more learning is readily available.

Help My Dog is absolutely amazing!! Tom is amazing and will over deliver at every opportunity!!
I have been a Hub member since the beginning as I love Toms teaching style along with his wonderful 10 Day Plan & Separation Anxiety course!!
They have just run a 5 day FREE course that has been an hour plus every evening as well as follow ups from another behaviourist from the team during the day too!! 💙🫶🏻🥳
If you’ve never looked, what are you waiting for!?! They have helped me so much with my crazy pair!!!

I have just completed the Thrive in 25 challenge. It was free but full of a wealth of helpful games and strategies which I have started to use with my complex little dog. I feel I have hope now, and have been inspired to join the hub to learn more and put it into practice. I loved Dr Tom Mitchell's and Dr Anita's down to earth, real approach, and also their humour but so practical and thought through. I have learned such a lot. Thank you.

I am a hub member, I have done the 10 day plan, the separation anxiety course and have completed the 5 day thrive challenge. The value I have received has been immense so much learning and practical help for my dog

As a HMD Hub member, my knowledge and practical skills I have gained to help my reactive terrier has been tremendous, life-changing in fact. Now as a professional dog walker I use these skills to help other dogs.

I joined the Five day thrive challenge and it was absolutely awesome. I can only recommend Tom Mitchell and the Behavevet Team. Thank you!

I started with the 10 day plan and it was so good, I joined the Help My Dog Hub, which has been a fantastic resource, with lots of different courses to help whatever struggles you're having with your dog. Very accessible, games based training and I'm seeing results with my three hooligans.

There is no where else to learn such valuable information to help your dog and you thrive in life. I am a founding Hub member. I have done the courses, 10 Day Plan, Separation Solid and other courses and programs. It is a wonderful place to be, everyone helps each other and no judgement. It feels like a family.

Just finished the Thrive in 2025 challenge. Was all free and amazing learning value as teaches great games and reasoning behind behaviours. Learned loads.

My wife, DONNA, is a hub member who does all the courses. It’s wonderful how well she has trained our dogs. I love walking them. It also keeps her busy so I can get some work done.

I signed up to the 10 day "help my walks are stressful" course. I can't deny that there are some handy tips in there, however it mostly seems to be a rather clever marketing scheme. They use these incredibly well trained dogs to demonstrate reward based training methods. None of which are exactly innovative and once I got to day 7 and he is talking about getting the dog to stand on a bowl to distract it from other dogs I thought this to be ridiculous as just training the dog to stand on a bowl is a whole course in itself but it is taught as if its the most easiest thing in the world! And then if I did eventually manage to get the dog to do that to use it in the street to distract from being reactive to other dogs!? Seriously? I'm not doubting the theory or psychology behind it I'm sure it is sound and that they know what they are talking about. But the practicalities? It was at this point the penny dropped and I realised, aside from the constant referrals to the help my dog hub, they are using these incredibly well trained dogs as subtle advertising to try and get sign ups to their subscription programme by imagining your own dog to be so well trained. Clever psychological techniques. It would be good if they used some untrained dogs to demonstrate how successful their techniques are, it would hold more weight. I'm sure they do get results. If you don't want to sign up you can learn the basic psychology in "Think dog" by john fisher. And there are free videos with the same techniques on you tube, from battersea and rspca etc. I'm not knocking it, I may yet sign up to the help my dog hub. But just beware with this initial course you are paying for one big advert.

Do I recommend Help My Dog?
It's a resounding Yes!!!
Dr Tom's teaching has helped me help my dog!
My dog's reactivity has greatly reduced, she can now pass strange dogs (on the opposite pavement) without any reaction at all.
She has even made a couple of canine friends.
I have the 10-day plan.
We've made huge Progress and had great fun along the way.
The plan alongside the FREE content on their FB page and in the podcasts is making a huge difference.
Thank you Help my Dog.

While there are some good techniques here, the 10 day "course" does not deliver anything beyond a few games. I thought it was oversold and overpromised as a training program, what it actually is seems to be is an upselling opportunity for all the other programs and add ons that will ACTUALLY give some training solutions. Classic web-based marketing.

Highly recommend HelpmyDog. I’d tried group dog classes and individual training with 4 different trainers and none worked.
I was resigned to the idea that my dog’s behaviour couldn’t be improved but tried Helpmydog as a final thing before giving up and living with it.
The changes in my dog are beyond anything I could have hoped for. We had some immediate wins and we’ve stuck at it for 6 months.
He’s now so much more confident and we can walk in close proximity to other dogs without the barking, lunging and crazy behaviour we had previously.
He’s a much more confident and happier dog (and this has been commented on by people who didn’t know we were doing any kind of training).
The future looks much more positive for us.
And all this was from basically playing (very carefully devised) games in short bursts so it doesn’t really feel like work at all and it’s easy to fit into a busy life.

If you’re questioning whether to give it a go - my advice would be to give it a try. You’ve nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Don’t waste your money. The “course” is really a marketing exercise to join a monthly subscription service. The training is all about continual rewards in simple games which are all similar. Most dog owners already know and use this and it works fine at home but not so easy when out walking. A very overhyped package

Help my dog hub

A fantastic resource for reward based dog training. A combination of simple games & how to level them up..

and

if you’re into it, the science of how & why they work.

A ‘geeks’ paradise , look out for the ‘lives’ teaching both available live & recorded for more in depth questions & answers & trouble shooting..

Backed up by a supportive Facebook community..

If you get overwhelmed by what’s available-
Ask the team or
ask on the Facebook page & you will get some help ..

Developing and adding more value all the time.. amazing 🤩

10 days to stress free walks

This course helps with so many other struggles apart from transforming your walks. Playing fun games each day helps build relationship between you and your dog and is so enjoyable you don’t realise it is working until you walk your dog through a really busy distracting environment as I did this morning and he stays close and focussed on you. A fraction of the cost of 121 dog training and lifetime access granted , what’s not to love ? This is a course you will want to revisit time and time again.
Since doing this course my dog wants to stay close and focussed on me, leash pulling is a thing of the past and the best thing- we didn’t even realise we were training !