The People Who Can Help You and Your Dog
Training with a CLEAR winner: Caroline Strainig
Caroline Strainig is the owner and senior trainer of CLEAR Dog Training and has been working within the business for many years. She has owned and operated CLEAR since October 2019, and during that time has helped train hundreds of family pets across Brisbane.
Caroline genuinely loves working with dogs of all breeds and backgrounds and is just as passionate about helping everyday family dogs as she is about high-level performance training. Her approach is practical, positive and focused on real-world results, always with the goal of building strong, happy relationships between dogs and their people.
Alongside her professional training work, Caroline continues to enjoy the fun and challenge of competing with her own dogs. In recent years she has achieved numerous national, state and Royal Show awards for excellence in Obedience, Rally Obedience, Dances With Dogs and Tricks. She has also previously competed in Agility and Flyball.
Australian Obedience Championships success.
Caroline loves working with dogs of all breeds.
Trip south to the NSW Dog Obedience Championships.
Her most recent major success was at the Australian National Dog Obedience and Tricks Championships in Sydney last year, where she competed four times for three national championships and one reserve championship. Highlights included Highest Scoring Border Collie in Rally Obedience and Highest Scoring Border Collie in Tricks with her young dog Lockie, who was only 14 months old at the time.
Caroline openly admits she still gets nervous competing and believes this makes her a better teacher.
“I love the challenge of training and competing,” she says, “but I also understand how hard it can feel when you’re being watched or trying to learn something new, so I am very empathetic with my clients.”
A lifelong background with animals
Caroline has worked with animals from a very young age, beginning her training journey with horses long before dogs. As a junior, she competed in equestrian three-day eventing and went on to achieve major success, including winning the Junior National Three-Day Event Championships of Great Britain and representing Great Britain in a friendly international competition in Ireland.
She also holds riding teacher qualifications, and her years in the equestrian world laid the foundation for her deep understanding of training, timing, feel and communication across species.
This broad background gives Caroline a unique perspective and a calm, intuitive approach to working with both animals and people.
Caroline is professionally qualified through the National Dog Trainers Federation of Australia as well as holding teaching qualifications with the British Horse Society, and brings decades of experience in animal training to every session she teaches.
Based in Wynnum and servicing inner Brisbane and the southside, Caroline offers one-on-one home training for puppies and adult dogs, as well as advanced obedience and behavioural support.
She believes great training is about more than commands – it’s about confidence.
Founder and consultant trainer: Oliver Beverly
Oliver Beverly, the founder of CLEAR, has now retired on a full-time basis but still acts as a consultant.
Oliver came from a traditional training background before discovering positive-reinforcment training.
"For 25 years I trained 'obedience' by punishing undesired behaviour out of dogs with 'push and pull' techniques - for much of that time I simply didn't realise there was a choice," he said.
"I stopped using a check chain, initially with hesitation and skepticism, only after noticing the consistently steeper learning curve of reward-based trained dogs and seeing the dogs and their owners enjoying training."
His most successful competition dog and much loved family pet, Millie, now sadly deceased, was entirely taught with positive-reinforcement methods.
"Unlike our previous dogs she never received a collar correction in her life," Oliver said.
Millie obtained her Master's title with the Agility Dog Association of Australia before she was 3½. In 2000 she was ADAA's Dog of the Year in the Mini class and in the International Agility Link Competition she was the highest placed Australian dog and ranked twelfth internationally. She won the Mini class in the Agility Dog Club of Queensland's Monthly Top Dog Competition in '00, '01 and '02 and for the same three years was a member of the Eukenuba Agility Demonstration team.
Millie was also used regularly in school education programs (see below photos).
Oliver is a Dog Obedience Trainers Association Instructor, has a Certificate IV in Behavioural Dog Training and am an accredited Delta Canine Good Citizen Instructor - the highest level of nationally accredited dog trainers in Australia.
While now formally retired, he still acts as a consultant occasionally and is very supportive of CLEAR's new owner, Caroline Strainig, who worked for Olliver for several years before taking over the business.
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