Dog Training Services

Remember how happy you were if your parents gave you a dollar for every A on your report card? They made you want to do it again, right? That's positive reinforcement.

Dogs don't care about money. They care about praise ⁠— and food. Positive reinforcement training uses a reward (treats, praise, love, toys, anything they find rewarding) for desired behaviors. Because the reward makes them more likely to repeat the behavior, positive reinforcement is one of your most powerful tools for shaping or changing your dog's behavior.

Rewarding your dog for good behavior sounds pretty simple and it is! But to practice the technique effectively, you need to follow some basic guidelines. We have a variety of options to help you and dog build a beautiful bond with excellent communication! We work on a session based program. And the programs are designed to be convenient for you. Just remember that consistency is what helps you and your dog build that great relationship.

One On One Puppy Training

Over six-weeks, we will provide an opportunity to continue developing fundamental skills and good habits for adult dogs, as well as introductions for newly rescued adult dogs. We will work on helping your dog understand what is expected as a larger dog, utilizing already established skills, to continue to grow into a Great adult dog! The best age for this is 6 months or older. During this course, we will focus on:

• Introduction to basic commands like sit, down, recall by name and wait.

• Introduction to name recognition and attention skills.

• Crate training- Do’s and Don’t

• Learning behavior modifications for chewing, mouthing and jumping.

• Preventing resource guarding, leash reactivity, separation anxiety and skills to assist these behaviors to continue as the puppy gets older.

• Creating positive desensitization to differing body parts to help with grooming.

• Desensitization to differing items/people: people of differing heights. clothes, canes and walkers, umbrellas, and external noises like cars/trucks, vacuums, people at doors.

• Working on extended attention and focus on owners.

• Continuation of leave it and drop it.

• Discouraging jumping and working on polite leash walking, greetings with other dogs and people.

• Introducing loose leash walking and heel.

• Continued grooming and body check techniques.

• Continued desensitization to other people, heights, external factors and noises

One On One Advanced Dog Training

When your dog has graduated from the Adult training classes, their newly acquired skills can be applied to real life scenarios. We will build upon already established behaviors to transition them into your real life. This class will be open to adult dogs over 6 months and after completing the Adult training class. We will focus our attention on:

·      Ignoring enticing distractions such as other dogs, dropped food, and other potentially harmful scenarios.

·      Polite greetings with other dogs and people.

·      Continuing to expand on jumping, begging for food or chewing unwanted items.

·      Sitting and staying until recalled.

·      Loose leash walking, focusing on one side and heel.

·      Walking thru a crowd.

·      Allowing strangers to approach and pet.

·      Grooming acceptance