Baltimore Dog Training Services

Positive Reinforcement Dog Training – Build a Strong Bond with Your Pup 🐾✨

Remember how great it felt to earn a reward for good grades? That’s the power of positive reinforcement — and it works wonders with dogs too! Instead of money, dogs respond to praise, treats, love, or toys — anything that motivates them.

Positive reinforcement dog training uses rewards to encourage good behavior, making your dog more likely to repeat those behaviors. It’s a simple yet powerful method for shaping or changing your dog’s actions, and it strengthens the bond between you and your dog.

While rewarding good behavior is straightforward, it’s important to follow some key principles for success. At Happy Dog Baltimore, our training programs are designed to be convenient for you and effective for your dog, offering personalized, session-based training that helps build excellent communication and a happy relationship.

Consistency is key to creating lasting change and a strong bond with your dog. We offer a variety of training options to suit your needs and help you both succeed.

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