Personalized, focused training built around your real life. In-home, in-public, or wherever the struggle is happening. We work on what actually matters to you.
What’s Included:
Not just a walk around the block. These are 30 minute structured training sessions that teach your dog how to move through the world with better manners, focus, and self-control.
Best for:
Small, structured classes designed to help dogs and owners build real-world manners around distractions in a calm, supportive environment.
With a maximum of only 3 dogs per class, each team receives personalized coaching while practicing important social etiquette skills around other dogs and people.
These classes focus on teaching dogs how to remain engaged, responsive, and regulated without becoming overstimulated or chaotic. Which, to be fair, is difficult for both dogs and humans in public these days.
Best for:
Put your dog’s real-life manners and hard-earned skills to the test. As an AKC Approved CGC Evaluator, Michele offers official evaluations for puppies, family dogs and accomplished trick dogs.
Evaluations Available:
Each evaluation includes official testing, completed paperwork and brief feedback. AKC certificate and title-processing fees are paid separately to the American Kennel Club.
Understand what is driving your dog’s reactions and learn how to respond safely and effectively. We’ll identify triggers, reduce preventable stress, and create a realistic plan for your dog and daily life.
What’s Included:
Reactivity cannot be “fixed” in one appointment. This consultation provides the assessment, management tools and training plan needed to begin making responsible progress.
Structured social experiences designed to help puppies build confidence, communication skills, and healthy interactions in a safe, supervised environment.
These sessions are more than just “letting puppies run wild while owners nervously laugh.” Puppies learn through guided exposure, appropriate play, short training exercises, and positive social experiences.
Best for:
Guided social exposure and behavioral learning in a structured environment. These are not playgroups. These four-week sessions were designed to build stability, neutrality, and confidence.
Dogs Learn To:
Ongoing support when you need help through some sticking points. Quick 30 minute virtual lessons for troubleshooting, refining skills, and keeping momentum strong.
Best for:
A six-week foundation program designed to help you raise a confident, well-mannered puppy. Personalized instruction combines practical puppy training, responsible ownership and carefully planned real-world socialization.
What’s Included:
Available for puppies up to 1 year old. AKC certificate/title processing fee is paid separately to the AKC.
No cookie-cutter programs. Training is tailored to your dog, your goals, and your real life.
Training designed for real homes, real routines, and the people your dog lives with every day.
Manners that work beyond the classroom so your dog can succeed in everyday life.
Structure without fear. Guidance without chaos. Results that fit real life.
I was rehomed at two years old. My new family quickly discovered something important: I am a giant, lovable pansy. My breed is sound-sensitive. And suburbia felt like living inside a thunderstorm. I stopped wanting to go outside. I refused potty breaks. I stopped eating. My body was overwhelmed. Then my family learned about anxiety. About breed needs. About nervous systems. About medication. It isn’t for every dog. But with my trainer, veterinarian, and committed humans, we found what works for me. I’m still brave in progress. But now I can eat. I can step outside. I can rest. The safe space my family built for me didn’t just change my behavior. It gave me my life back
I arrived on Christmas Eve at ten months old, fully convinced I was the greatest gift this family had ever received. Turns out… I had that backwards. I came with big opinions, fast reactions, and a tendency to redline if someone so much as looked at me sideways. I guard what’s mine. I escalate quickly. I have a very large personality for a very low-to-the-ground dog. The truth? I’m insecure. Thankfully, my trainer isn’t trying to shrink my personality. She’s teaching my family how to speak my language, set clear boundaries, and help me feel safe without letting me run the show. I’m learning that not every moment is a threat. That I don’t have to defend everything. That leadership feels better than control. I still have spice. But now I also have stability. And that’s a much better gift.
I started training at five months old. I understood the assignment immediately. Sit? Done. Down? Obviously. Focus? I was born for this. I became the teacher’s pet. It was inevitable. The real challenge wasn’t learning. It was staying interested. Keep it fast. Keep it engaging. Keep it worthy of my intellect. And then there were squirrels. Outside the training arena, I may have briefly forgotten all prior education. Hypothetically. With patient guidance from my family, I’m learning that real skill shows up everywhere, not just in class. Enthusiasm is great. Impulse control is better. I’m still observant. Still ambitious. Still fluffy. But now I check in first.
For the first five years of my life, I was comfortably self-directed. Sitting? Optional. Lying down? Negotiable. Shaking? Let’s not be ridiculous. I had opinions. I shared them. Frequently. Usually at full volume. Then I started training. At five years old. Some might call that late. I call it experienced. I learned sit. Down. Shake. A few other crowd-pleasers that make my family look far more competent in public. But the real change wasn’t the tricks. It was clarity. I stopped managing the world with commentary and started looking to my people for direction. I’m a senior now. I still have thoughts. And occasional announcements. Especially if I’m tired or slightly peckish. But each day I choose calm a little more often. Turns out it’s never too late to learn. And it’s much easier to relax when you trust the one holding the leash.
