FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Our in-home sessions are $120/hour. Training packages are sold in bundles, and price out to $100/hour. For dogs that need training, but do not have any behavior issues, we can offer our junior trainer (working toward CPDT-KA certification) at $65/hour and $200/4 hours. Semi-private BAT classes are $150/4 weeks. There are only two dogs per class in the beginning levels. Off-leash puppy classes are $165/6 weeks. Class sizes are kept small, to allow for individual attention and safe play.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Continuing education is crucial to being a great trainer. All of our trainers regularly attend local seminars (usually given by national speakers) and professional webinars, and attend national or international conferences when possible. We accrue Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to maintain our professional certifications. Recently our puppy trainers attended Grisha Stewart's online course for puppy training. Last fall, our head trainer attended an equine world clicker conference in the UK, which included notable dog trainer Kay Laurence. Our reactive dog trainers keep current with Behavior Adjustment Training through in-person seminars as well as CEU-approved webinars. We keep current on new research and methods in applied animal behavior, and incorporate it into our training process.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
My first dog, Petra, was a beautiful Belgian Malinois rescue. She was everything I wanted - but she also had serious aggression issues, due to lack of socialization and a genetic component. I studied very hard to learn what I could do to help Petra. I was angry that she got the "short end of the stick", and I wanted to help her, and dogs like her. I especially wanted to help prevent these issues in the first place.