About Canine Karma

Reconnecting Owners and their Dogs through a Foundation of Trust and Respect

Canine Karma is owned by Oliver Seymour, who has turned his lifetime passion for animals into a flourishing career helping owners and their dogs in the UK.

Oliver began his life with a dream of wanting to be a professional footballer and whilst trying to reach that dream, he tried his hand at many different jobs including estate agency, floor fitting and green keeping!

Eventually Oliver made it to semi professional football, but just didn’t feel it was right for him. After a few seasons he quit football altogether and was lost for a while, before finding a video on YouTube, labelled The Dog Whisperer.

Since then, his interest and passion for dog behaviour and psychology has become his life!.

After endless hours watching videos, studying books, going to seminars and helping friends and family with their dogs through the knowledge he had gained, Oliver joined a local doggy daycare centre in Hertfordshire.

It was here that Oliver started off as a dog handler – dealing with twenty to thirty dogs daily – where his knowledge of dog behaviour took a huge learning curve, because he was being taught by the best teachers of all… the dogs themselves!

Oliver soon became the Head Behaviour Expert for the whole company – dealing with case after case of problem dogs.

After working for nearly two years and gaining an incredible amount of experience in dealing with all types of dogs and owners, Oliver decided to take the plunge and head out on his own…

…and start Canine Karma…

...Oliver is on a mission to help owners and dogs all across the UK, to reconnect through a foundation of trust and respect and really teach owners about dog psychology...

Starting Canine Karma...

Canine Karma - Dog Daycare, Training and Boarding

All of Oliver’s drive comes from his hero, Cesar Millan (The Dog Whisperer), and he has based his whole approach/relationship with dogs around Cesar’s own.

In November 2016, Oliver was lucky enough to get the opportunity to fly to Miami and partake in Cesar Millan’s personal course, The Fundamentals Of Dog Behaviour and Training 1. It was a five-day course where you become a student of Cesar Millan and learn the foundations of dog psychology from The Dog Whisperer himself.

In November 2017, Oliver got another fantastic opportunity to enrol in Cesar’s second course, The Fundamentals of Dog Behaviour and Training 2. 

This course was an intense four-day workshop focusing on a real in-depth look at dog behaviour, and more importantly, human behaviour. This course was taught by Cesar Millan and his head trainers and was located at his dog psychology centre in Santa Clarita. 

Oliver came away from this course with a completely different outlook on life and exclaimed it was ‘life changing’ for him.

While gaining infinite amounts of knowledge about dog psychology, Oliver got on so well with one of Cesar Millan’s head trainers (Todd Langston), that he got invited back out to Florida in April 2017, to shadow Todd and help him with some exceptionally difficult dog cases, dealing with dogs which had extreme aggression all the way down to extreme fear.

Oliver was also asked to assist Cesar Millan on his European tour, Once Upon A Dog 2017. The show was at Hammersmith Apollo and Oliver was asked to help backstage, handling dogs and helping the head dog handler and Cesar’s personal head trainer, Colleen Steckloff (owner of LAk9s and one of America’s top dog behaviour experts).

During the show Oliver formed a relationship with Cesar – and even found himself having a drink with him and his crew at their hotel after the show.  Oliver’s dream had turned into a reality!

Now Oliver is on a mission to help owners and dogs all across the UK, to reconnect through a foundation of trust and respect.  He wants to really teach owners about dog psychology so they can better understand why their canine might present a specific behaviour, and how to change it to something they desire. 

Oliver’s ultimate goal is to create a community where everyone is dedicated to doing the very best for their dogs and understanding dogs on a psychological level and he wishes to facilitate this approach by creating doggy daycare and dog boarding centres like never before to help as many people and dogs as he possibly can.

Canine Karma - Dog Daycare, Training and Boarding

Our Dog Boarding facilities cater for all types of dogs and your stay will be personalised to your, and more importantly your dog’s, needs.

Our Dog Training sessions focus on connecting owners with their dogs and instilling skills that will stay with them once our trainer leaves.

Canine Karma - Dog Daycare, Training and Boarding

Our Dog Daycare facilities have everything to to fulfill your dogs mentally and physically, resulting in them being happy and content.

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