Equestrian travel
Vonfidel Ranch
Riding holidays, horsemanship training and trail rides in Sri Lanka. Small groups, carefully matched horses and routes chosen for the riders, horses and conditions. Visits are by reservation.
Visit Vonfidel RanchVONFIDEL
The company behind Vonfidel Ranch, VONFIDEL K9 and Cognisive.
Our businesses work in equestrian travel, specialist canine consultancy and strategic advisory. Each serves a different need, with its own expertise and client relationships.
Our businesses
Strategic advisory
Cognisive
Strategy, experience architecture and operational systems design. The work examines how an organisation operates, then improves the decisions, procedures and customer experiences behind its service.
Visit CognisiveSpecialist canine work
VONFIDEL K9
The canine practice from which VONFIDEL began in 2009. Selected specialist consultancy continues alongside existing client commitments and a public archive of training methods and field knowledge.
General dog-training intake is closed.
Explore VONFIDEL K9In development
Lakewood Mounted Estate
A forthcoming equestrian estate in Sri Lanka, planned around riding, horsemanship and estate stays.
About Lakewood Mounted Estate
Our beginnings
It began with canine work.
The VONFIDEL name began with the canine practice in Sri Lanka in 2009. It drew on fidelity: the trust built between dog and handler through clear communication and consistent work.
Equestrian travel and strategic advisory followed. The businesses now serve different clients, while the K9 archive preserves the work from which the name grew.
Journal
The VONFIDEL K9 Journal
Writing from canine practice, on temperament, training and the responsibilities of the handler.
Suitability before protection
Why ambition must follow temperament, control, environment, and handler responsibility.
Read articleWhere training actually fails
A closer look at the systems around the dog and the conditions that determine whether training holds.
Read articleRecovery is part of the training
Restraint and recovery reveal whether a dog can return to a stable state after pressure.
Read articleContact VONFIDEL
For company enquiries, write to VONFIDEL. For riding, canine work or advisory engagements, contact the relevant business directly.