Professional Dog Training

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Your first session will be a complete 60-90 minute, in person and in-home consultation (within 45 minutes of our home location). 

Zoom calls are also available for consultations if you prefer. 

During our consultation, I will interact with your dog and assess your dog's behavior as well as discuss with you, what your goals are for your dog. You may expect the entire consultation to be mostly or all conversation and answering detailed questions about specific issues as well as coming up with a training plan and management plan to help you move forward. We will also discuss learning theory, training styles, tools and what is most comfortable for you and your dog.  No dog is the same. They all learn differently, so they should be trained considering their genetics, play style and the dog's individual personality.  

I believe that the more engaged your dogs are with you, the more they want to respond to you. I train predominately by using a balanced approach.  However, I will use a force free approach depending on the dog.  I use verbal cues, hand signals, treats, toys, and games to help teach, modify behavior and change bad habits.  My ultimate goal is to make your dog be the best version of themselves. 

I will be training you as the owner, how to train your dog, so you will learn all of these techniques to use on your own. I may take the leash to work with your dog during your sessions, but you will also be hands on making each of our sessions completely interactive. I can take your dog on solo sessions and transfer the information to you on what we have done, but I highly recommend being a part of each session.

I do consider breed-specific behaviors when training. This includes whether the dog was bred to hunt, pull, fight, guard, or has a strong prey drive (which you will see in most rescue dogs). Other factors include temperament, age, environment, sensitivity level, and behavior and training history. Most of my training is based on play, what drives your dog and your dog's biological needs.

I follow the saying; Be as soft as you can be, but be as firm as you must be to create a softer more cooperative mindset in the dog. I am very careful in my approach with dogs, but can push the envelope with them too. This is especially important when working with aversive techniques such as prong collars and e collars etc. It's very easy to be unfair. I am here to teach you how to be fair to your dog so your relationship builds instead of falls apart.  Your relationship with your dog is most important!

Alpine Dog reserves the right to refer cases out to other trainers or to bring in another trainer to co-train for specific cases.

In the case of extreme weather, Alpine Dog reserves the right to cancel any services that would put the health and safety of ourselves and our clients at risk.

Please notify us with 24 hours for cancellations so we can accommodate our schedule to allow for other clients. The first session missed will be waived. You will be charged half a session for the second session missed and for full sessions missed there on.

Are you thinking about getting a puppy and don't know where to start?  Do you want to rescue, or are you deciding to look for a breeder?  What supplies do you absolutely need?  What other things should you expect with bringing your puppy home?  Do you have another dog at home that you need to integrate your puppy with?  All of these questions will be answered and more!  This is a one hour consultation.  You have the choice in doing an in person meeting, or we can do this virtually via FaceTime or Zoom.  

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