About Leanne Hoogwerf
Leanne Hoogwerf is the founder and head trainer at Super Canine. With extensive experience in assistance dog training, she understands the significant and life-changing role these dogs can play in supporting independence and daily life. Leanne is passionate about guiding individuals to raise and train reliable, highly skilled assistance dogs, and as a certified GHAD trainer, she is committed to creating positive, meaningful outcomes for people living with disabilities.
Services
Super Canine Services provides professional, ethical dog training programs specialising in assistance, therapy, obedience, and puppy development to help dogs and their families thrive together.
The Super Canine Assistance Dog Program is designed for individuals who wish to train their own dog as an assistance dog. Our training programs support teams working towards the Queensland Government’s GHAD Act (2009) Public Access Test (PAT) standard.
We provide tailored training to meet individual disability needs, guiding handlers through obedience, task work and public access skills to build a confident, reliable partnership in real-world environments.
Our Puppy Foundations develops confident, resilient puppies through positive, structured training that builds engagement, reliability and calm behaviour around people and dogs.
We establish strong obedience foundations and introduce early task skills to prepare each puppy for advanced training or future assistance work.
The Super Canine Golden Retrievers Breeding Program focuses on producing confident, reliable dogs with exceptional temperaments. Our dogs are health tested and carefully selected for stable temperaments and strong work ethic.
Puppies are raised in a loving family environment with early exposure to varied experiences, creating calm, resilient and adaptable learners with the potential to excel as assistance dogs, therapy dogs or outstanding companions.
Super Canine Therapy Dog Services assists you to train your own dog to become a calm, confident and reliable therapy dog, ready to support wellbeing, connection and positive interactions in schools, aged care, hospitals and community settings.
Client Stories
Anne, Hudson, Harlow and Honey
"Our dog’s lives, and by extension ours with them, have been greatly enhanced as a result of Leanne’s wonderful guidance and training.She has generously helped us to develop the skills to have raised confident, obedient and happy dogs that we can take anywhere.Her in depth understanding of dogs, her practical methods of training and extremely kind and caring personality make her an excellent trainer of both the dogs and their owners or handlers"
Sue and Penny
"My name is Penny & I am a Super Canine trained assistance dog.I first met Leanne at 6 months & she thought I would be a good fit for my handler Sue who has type 1 diabetes.I spent 2 months with Leanne where she taught me great foundation skills, my new name, recall,loose leash walking, not to "door barge" & being in a crate to sleep or travel as well as being polite to kids & other dogs. Leanne also started to scent train me which would become my most important job.All dogs are different & handlers require varied tasks from their dogs. Leanne's training is not "one size fits all". She is committed, passionate & invested in ensuring all her teams are winning. She trains the handler to train their dog creating a truly strong bond.I am now 3 yes old & have passed my 2nd year assessment I can alert my handler to a pending hypoglycaemic episode (day or night), carry shopping & washing, pick items up off the floor, empty the dryer & brace do my handler can get off the floor. I also know the difference between medicine & lollies & which cupboard to find them in.I love to go shopping or hanging out at lunch. I am a wiggly Labrador but once I have my vest on I am in work mode & focused.Myself & my handler highly recommend the training & support Leanne provides at SCAD & I love being a dog with a job."
Michelle and Sparrow
"Leanne from Super Canine is the best. For over a year now I’ve been able to get out of my home due to her expertise in training my French Bulldog Sparrow as my assistance dog. Without her I’d still be sitting in my home anticipating full blown anxiety and extreme stress at just going to the shops or even catching up with friends and family outside of my home. Leanne’s patience and always being just a phone call away has given me my independence back.
Thank you Leanne 🥰"
We’d love to hear from you.
Whether you have questions about our training programs, breeding program, or would like to discuss if Super Canine is the right fit for you and your dog, please get in touch.
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