• POTTY TRAINING - 1-1/2 Hour Session (approx.). Learn ethnology, psychology and behaviour of how to quickly and easily teach your puppy or older dog to eliminate exactly where you want, in their very own environment, in as little as 4 to 10 days, (depending on the age of the puppy).

• BASIC OBEDIENCE (in and around your home) - Series of 6, 1-Hour Sessions. I come to you! Learn how to use common obedience commands, verbal cues and associated hand signals, to open a clear channel of communication with your dog in and around the home. Gain insight into how dogs think, learn and how best to teach your individual pet, without the owner frustrations.

• ADVANCED OBEDIENCE (out in the real world) - Series of 6, 1-Hour Sessions. Take your training to the next level... Get your dog to respond reliably at distances and around common environmental distractions such as dogs, crowds, motor vehicles and other human powered vehicles.

• FOCUS TRAINING - Series of 6, 1-Hour Sessions, with Individual Attention for Your Dog. Have Tom accelerate your dog's learning process through physical exercise and training, which improves your dog's responses to you... Training can be while you watch, or are at work. Like "dog walking with training"! (Will meet the dog at any location needed Vet Boarding, Gloomer, Friend's house)

• TRICK TRAINING - Series of 6, 1-Hour Sessions. Pick and choose from a list of available behaviors. Learn to teach your dog useful tricks, some of which are important for Sight, Hearing, Movement Impaired Assistance Dog work, Therapy Dogs (Hospital Visitors), or just for your own enjoyment and fun. A terrific FUN series of sessions for kids 8 to 80!

• BABY PROOFING - Training As Needed. There are fun things you can do to make your dog safer around children. As an extension after the "Basic Program", there are concepts of management and preconditioning the dog to accept the novelty of a baby, while also training additional behaviors that will make your life simpler. It is best to start before, rather than after the baby arrives. Nip jealousy in the bud before it ever becomes a problem!

• AKC CGC PROGRAM (Canine Good Citizen) - Training As Needed. Build on your dog's on going training! Teach your dog the specific steps needed to pass the "American Kennel Club's" "Canine Good Citizen Award Program". Your dog can earn a certificate from the AKC, suitable for framing, and proudly wear a "CGC" Tag on his collar that proclaims to the world "I am a Good Citizen!"

• THERAPY DOG PREPARATIONS TO PASS TESTING - Training As Needed. Teach your dog to be a good hospital visitor around equipment, people, and noises. Learn as a handler team, how to train your dog to pass testing for "Therapy Dogs Internal."

• ASSISTANCE DOG TRAINING - Training As Needed. After Basic and Advanced Training, an Owner can pick from a large set of 500 training goals and determine what they need their companion to do for them. (Currently there no "Certifying Agency" that determines any individual dog's suitability as an Assistance Dog. The basic premise the Court will look at is... 1.) Is there a medical illness or disability of the dog owner, and 2.) Does the dog mitigate that illness. And this then protects your dog under federal law to accompany you anywhere you go as long as the dog is otherwise safe to be in public).

• AGGRESSIVE DOG PROBLEM SOLVING (Fear, Dominance, Territorial) - Training As Needed. Learn "Leadership" as a tool to show your dog acceptable alternative coping skills. Tom will take the extra step to teach biting, aggressive dogs can be off-leash and safe with other dogs and people. Learn what to do and why, to reduce and de-escalate confrontational situations before they happen. (An "Evaluation" is usually required before the initial Training.)

• MANY TRAINING OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR EXPRESS CONVENIENCE: – Can work with the entire family, evenings, mornings, midday. – Can work with the owner/dog handler team at home or park. – Can meet with the dog at any location and work while owner is absent (Progress            reports given).

• VERY VERY AFFORDABLE...

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