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ZiwiPeak and K9COMMS

When Sue Murray- K9COMMS rang me to tell me about her business I could hear the same passion in her voice that ZiwiPeak has for animals so I asked her to come and have a further talk and to experience ZiwiPeak first hand. 

Straight away I could see a fit between the two of us as Sue had the same ideals on nutrition for Dogs & Cats and could really understand how we had based ZiwiPeak on what a wild animal ie. the wolf would eat in the wild.   The other point that appealed was her working with Jan Fennell  the 'Dog Listener' as Sue identifies Jan's methods from the wolf pack when she rescues dogs or is taking her obedience classes.

From our initial meeting we have asked Sue to be part of the ZiwiPeak website so we can keep up with her wonderful progress.

I give you Sue Murray-K9COMMS.

My name is Sue Murray and  I would firstly like to thank ZiwiPeak for the opportunity to contribute to this website. 

I started up my business ‘K9COMMS’ which is based here in Tauranga, after returning from the UK having completed the Foundation and Advanced Canine Courses with the world renowned Dog Listener ‘Jan Fennell’. 

My business is built around Jan’s principles of showing that you are the leader of the pack, but doing so in a kind and gentle way with no need for gadgets, drugs or any harsh treatments of any kind.  Jan has modeled her methods on the wolf pack and how they elect their ‘Alpha leader’.

I now offer private consultations so that anyone who cares and wants the best for their dog, can learn this method too.  The result, A Stress Free Happy Dog.

I also work with one of the local vets teaching puppy owners how to implement this method through our ‘puppy classes’. 

I am able to speak from experience as some years ago I took into my care a ‘rescue dog’ as they are so commonly termed.  The problem was that I had no skills to cope with the myriad of behavioural problems she presented me with.  I was ill-equipped to show her that I could be the leader of her pack because I tried to communicate with her in my language and not hers.  That is where I was going wrong.

With the best of intentions, I sort the help of traditional obedience classes but they just didn’t teach me how to live with her in my own home, how to overcome those classical problems which I see at most consultations, the pulling on the lead, jumping up on people, barking, the list can be endless. 

I went down many avenues, all with the same result.  Some treatments I found too harsh, some I just hated but was told that ‘this will work’ and in the moment of frustration, I felt I had no choice. 

So I began a journey searching for something that did work and when I saw Jan Fennell on the television some years later, I just knew that this was it, a gentle way of getting your dog to co-operate with you because he/she wants to.

So now I have five dogs of my own and take in dogs from the Western Bay of Plenty pound which are going to be destroyed.  I do this through the Charitable Trust I have set up called  ‘K9COMMS  - ADOPT CHARITABLE TRUST’.

They live in my home with my very understanding husband, two young children, two cats and I also can see how they behave around our chickens and stock. This helps me to get to know them and place them in the right homes.   

I would like to thank ZiwiPeak for supporting this work by supplying the food and the treats I use as positive reinforcement.  To be able to feed these dogs, some of which come to me in such a terrible state, a high quality food such as ZiwiPeak, is a truly wonderful.   I like to feed my dogs the type of food a wolf would eat in the wild, i.e. a balanced real meat food, with bones,  instead of a food thats highly processed and full of additives and preservatives. 

I look forward to sharing more of my stories and experiences in the months to follow. 

You can learn more about this trust on my website www.k9comms.co.nz.

Thank you,  Sue.