Albert Einstein once said, “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

Our #1 goal in all we do is to enhance the human-canine bond by providing our clients with quality education and proper skills training to help build and maintain a loving, joyful and mutually respectful relationship.

This is why we approach each dog as an individual, and extend the same respect to the people who love them – whether we are working one-on-one, or in a group setting.

We are committed to using a gentle and humane approach. We focus on fostering behaviors that we want through positive reinforcement, using whatever technique(s) best motivates your inquisitive canine.

The specific training techniques we employ are all rooted in the scientific methods of animal learning. This approach is not new by any means. Positive reinforcement, reward-based training methods have been around for decades, used successfully throughout the world in a variety of contexts.

Unlike using an aversive approach, which increases the risk of potential harmful effects including injury to your dog, self, or other animals and people, decreased learning (due to stressful situation), and increased fear-related and aggressive behaviors, we’ve found the humane, force-free approach is both effective and easy to employ once you and your inquisitive canine are properly trained.

Our approach also focuses on prevention! Although we are “problem solvers” we are also “problem preventers”: we enjoy teaching dogs what we want, motivating them to make good behavior choices, thereby preventing having to fix things down the road. Starting out on the right paw from the beginning helps save resources – especially the emotional ones.