Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about our dog training services? Find answers below!
At Puppy Pros, we believe that dog training should be fun and accessible for everyone providing personalized training that fits seamlessly into your lifestyle. Here’s what sets us apart:
- Convenience: We come to you, offering in-home training sessions an field trips for your dog that fit into your schedule, whether you’re home or away.
- Reactivity Focus: We specialize in addressing reactivity and helping you achieve a well-behaved dog. Our training focuses on practical solutions tailored to your dog’s unique needs, ensuring a calmer and better behaved pet.
- Flexibility: Our in-home training sessions are designed to fit into your schedule, whether you are home or away.
- Extra Support: Each training session includes access to our weekly one-hour drop-in online sessions, ensuring you have ongoing support throughout your dog training journey and you can call, text or email us at any time.
- Ongoing Support: Access to 3 months of text/email/phone support after the program ends should a question come up in the future
- All Ages Expertise: We are skilled in training dogs of all ages, from playful puppies to older dogs needing new skills or behavior adjustments.
- Quick and Effective Results: Our training is designed to achieve results efficiently and effectively. The duration of training varies depending on your dog’s individual needs and progress, but my goal is always to meet your objectives as swiftly as possible, without compromising the quality of training.
Puppy Pros can effectively help prevent behavior problems in dogs through a combination of proactive training methods, early socialization, when possible, and consistent education for both dogs and their owners. Here’s how we tackle potential behavior issues:
Socialization and Exposure
For puppies, we encourage starting training as early as possible. Early socialization involves exposing your puppy to a variety of people, animals, environments, and situations, which helps prevent fear and aggression issues later in life. By gradually introducing these elements under controlled conditions, we help your dog learn appropriate responses and build confidence.
For older dogs, our training helps them learn to interact positively with their environment, other dogs, and people. Socializing older dogs can be highly beneficial building their resiliency and confidence, making them more adaptable and comfortable in different situations.
Consistent, Positive Reinforcement Training
Our training methods are based on positive reinforcement, rewarding dogs for good behavior, which makes learning a positive experience and encourages them to repeat those behaviors. This approach not only builds a stronger bond between you and your dog but also helps prevent the development of negative behaviors that often stem from fear or confusion.
Customized Training Plans
Understanding that each dog has a unique personality and set of experiences, we tailor our training sessions to meet the specific needs of your dog. By addressing your dog’s individual needs, we can focus on preventing behaviors that might become problematic, such as excessive barking, chewing, or aggression.
Owner Education
An integral part of our training involves educating you, the owner. By teaching you how to understand your dog’s signals and needs, we empower you to continue effective training and management techniques at home. This includes guidance on establishing routines, handling techniques, and strategies to manage or redirect potential problem behaviors.
Building a Foundation of Obedience
Starting with basic commands and gradually increasing to more advanced training, we help establish a foundation of obedience. This structure not only improves your dog’s discipline but also enhances their ability to focus and reduces impulsiveness, which can prevent many common behavioral problems.
Preventative Behavior Adjustment
For dogs that might already show signs of developing behavioral issues, we offer behavior adjustment training. This proactive approach addresses and modifies unwanted behaviors . We use gentle, effective techniques to reshape these behaviors into positive outcomes.
By integrating these strategies, Puppy Pros effectively helps prevent and manage behavior problems, ensuring that your dog grows into a well-behaved, happy, and sociable companion.
At Puppy Pros, we understand that life can get hectic, especially for busy families. That’s why we’ve tailored our dog training services to fit your lifestyle, ensuring that both you and your dog receive the best training experience without adding stress to your schedule.
Flexible Training Options
We offer flexible training solutions that cater to your needs:
- In-Home Private Lessons: Conducted in the comfort of your home at times that work for you, these sessions can be scheduled during evenings or weekends to accommodate your busy lifestyle.
- Training While You’re Away: For ultimate convenience, we can train your dog while you are at work or busy with other commitments. This service not only helps in teaching obedience and desired behaviors but also provides your dog with much-needed mental stimulation, socialization and breaks up their day, making the wait for your return less stressful for them.
Benefits of Our Approach
- Convenience: Schedule training sessions around your family’s routine, whether you’re at home or away.
- Effectiveness: With the whole family involved, training becomes more consistent and effective, leading to better and faster results.
- Stress Reduction: Our training methods are designed to be fun and engaging, reducing stress for both you and your dog and turning training into a joyful family activity.
- Personalized Attention: Each session is tailored to your dog’s needs and your family’s goals, ensuring personalized guidance and support.
At Puppy Pros, we’re dedicated to making dog training accessible, enjoyable, and convenient for busy individuals and families. Contact us today to find out more about how we can help you and your furry family member achieve your training goals together!
We love when whole families get involved. Family involvement is encouraged in dog training for several reasons, especially when it comes to safety, consistency, and building a positive relationship between all family members and the dog. Here’s a detailed explanation of why it’s important:
Enhancing Safety
Involving the whole family in dog training sessions helps ensure that everyone learns how to interact safely with the dog. This includes understanding dog body language, recognizing warning signs, and knowing the appropriate ways to approach and touch a dog. Training helps establish rules and boundaries that protect everyone, significantly reducing the likelihood of accidents or misunderstandings that could lead to bites.
Building Mutual Respect and Understanding
Training sessions that involve all family members help everyone learn how to respect the dog as a living being with their own needs and feelings. This is crucial for fostering a positive relationship between the family and their pet. By learning about a dog’s perspective, family members can appreciate the importance of treating animals kindly and with compassion. This mutual respect also helps build a stronger bond and enhances trust.
Encouraging Proper Communication
Dogs communicate differently from humans, and misunderstandings may lead to negative interactions. Family-oriented training helps everyone learn how to effectively communicate with their dog, using commands and signals that dogs can understand. This clear communication prevents frustrating situations for both the dog and the family and aids in smoother interactions. Children, in particular, benefit from learning how to communicate with dogs, which helps improve their interactions and understanding.
Consistency in Training
Involving the entire family ensures that everyone is on the same page regarding the dog’s training. Consistency is key in dog training; when all family members use the same commands and follow the same rules, it helps the dog learn and adhere to the desired behaviors more quickly and effectively. Consistent training also helps proof a dog’s behavior, ensuring that the dog learns to listen to all family members, not just the one who focuses most on training. This means that the dog is more likely to respond well to everyone in the household, making day-to-day life smoother and more enjoyable.
Making Training a Fun Activity
When training is a family activity, it becomes more enjoyable for everyone, including the dog. Fun training exercises that involve games and rewards can make learning more effective and engaging for all family members. This not only improves the dog’s obedience but also enhances the bond between the dog and the family, making their interactions more positive and rewarding.
Long-Term Benefits
Educating all family members on proper interactions with dogs not only impacts their current relationship with their pet but also teaches valuable lessons for the future. These lessons in empathy, responsibility, and care extend to interactions with other animals and even with people, contributing to the development of more compassionate and responsible individuals.
By focusing on these areas, Puppy Pros aims to create a safe, consistent, and enriching environment for both the family and the dog. This approach not only addresses the immediate goal of preventing accidents but also fosters a lifelong love and respect for animals.
Puppy Pros training stands out through several key features designed to ensure both effective training and a positive experience for dogs and their owners. Here’s a breakdown of the main aspects that highlight the uniqueness of our training programs:
Fun Dog Training Games & Field Trips
We believe that learning should be fun! Our training includes a variety of dog training games and field trips for your dog that make the process enjoyable for both the dog and the owner. These games help teach skills such as impulse control, obedience, and agility while keeping the dog mentally stimulated and eager to participate. Games are a fantastic way to build a dog’s confidence and enthusiasm for training.
Personalized Training Approaches
Understanding that each dog and family is unique, we tailor our training programs to meet the specific needs and goals of each client. We assess each dog’s personality, learning style, and behavioral challenges to create a customized training plan. This personalized approach ensures more effective training outcomes and satisfaction among our clients.
Emphasis on Creating Happy Homes
Our ultimate goal is to create harmonious living situations where both pets and their owners are happy. This means not only addressing the dog’s behavior but also educating owners on how to maintain and reinforce training at home. We provide tools and techniques that owners can use in everyday life to ensure their home remains a joyful and stress-free environment for their pets.
Continuous Support and Resources
Our program includes ongoing support throughout your training and for 3 months afterward. You’ll have access to help via phone, text, or email, plus a weekly Yappy Hour — a live, drop-in video or call-in session. This hour is dedicated to answering your questions, providing advice, and reviewing your dog’s progress. It’s an opportunity to connect with me directly and learn from others, ensuring you have the guidance needed every step of the way.
Focus on Safety and Positive Reinforcement
Safety is a priority in all our training sessions, particularly when children are involved. We teach safe interaction techniques to ensure children know how to approach and handle dogs respectfully. Additionally, our methods are rooted in positive reinforcement, rewarding dogs for good behavior, which fosters a positive learning environment and strengthens the dog-owner bond.
These key features of Puppy Pros training not only set us apart but also ensure that our clients receive the highest quality service aimed at creating lasting positive changes for both dogs and their families.
We are committed to providing the highest quality training to ensure the best possible outcomes for you and your dog. To maintain the effectiveness of our program, we have established the following cancellation policy:
Cancellation Policy:
Once you book an appointment with us, we reserve that time exclusively for you. Consistency and commitment are crucial for successful dog training, which is why we do not allow cancellations except under emergency situations. Cancelled appointments will be automatically charged and rescheduled to ensure you and your dog receive the full benefits of our training plan.
Reason for Policy:
Allowing cancellations can undermine the training plan and the progress your dog can make. If we determine that your goals require six sessions and only five occur, both the training outcomes and our ability to achieve job satisfaction are compromised. Therefore, our policy aims to ensure all planned sessions are completed for the best results.
Exceptions:
We understand that emergencies happen. If your dog is sick or experiences an accident, we will consider these situations as reasonable exceptions. However, we reserve the right to determine what constitutes a reasonable exception to avoid abuse of the policy.
Our primary goal is to help your dog succeed and to provide you with the support needed to achieve that success. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation with this policy.
If you have any questions or need further clarification, please feel free to contact us at: 321-334-2934
Yes, we do offer a money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied with our training program. However, the refund will be prorated based on the number of classes taken. You will be charged for the sessions that have already occurred, and the remaining balance will be refunded to you. Our primary goal is to ensure you and your dog have a positive and effective training experience, and we are committed to addressing any concerns you may have throughout the program.
We do not offer guarantees on our training programs. Each dog is a unique, living being with its own personality, learning pace, and behavior. While we employ proven training methods and strive for the best possible outcomes, the success of the training depends on various factors, including the consistency and commitment of the people who continue training their dogs outside of our sessions.
Our primary goal is to achieve customer satisfaction by providing high-quality training and support. We are dedicated to helping you and your dog succeed, and we will work closely with you to address any challenges that arise during the training process.
We are here to support you and ensure the best possible experience for both you and your dog.