Ace Trainers

Jo Burt (CAAB MAPDT)

Ace Dog Training was established in 2007 and has been supporting many people in their journey training their puppies and dogs.

I studied at Southampton University gaining a degree level in Applied Animal Behaviour. This qualification as well as experience I gained from various courses gave me the acceptance into the Association of pet dog training (APDT), an amazing organisations with valuable ethics in dog training and that all important communication with people.

My love for dogs and training was prior to Ace, with my Black Lab and Golden Retriever, training them both as gun dogs. In 2010 I retrained my Golden Retriever in agility at the age of 7 and he competed for 4 years. They have both passed over rainbow bridge.

My passion for agility grew with my 2 toy poodles who both competed at the highest level in agility with Max competing twice at Crufts, Max is now retired and Gem has also also passed.

I now compete with both my collies. Flick at the highest level, he was reserve for the team GB 2023 and team Wales reserve for 2025. Fly my younger collie is doing well and now loving the sport and great fun to train.

Leah a collie cross poodle has joined our family and enjoying all her training and has just started competing she is one to watch.

Lisa Dunwell (ADTB)

I am an approved instructor with the Academy of Dog Training (ADTB) and a diploma with merit in dog grooming.

I teach Tuesday evening puppy and further obedience classes for Ace as well as running my own dog walking and individual dog training business.

I have some experience training rescues as 2 of my own lurchers were rescue dogs. Percy and Trigger. Percy has now passed. Trigger has taught me so much and has grown is so many ways. My new addition is Gamble my collie, he is great fun to train, he has some fun tricks and he is also training in aglility