Our Approach

Teach people what really matters.

 

We train you for real life with your dog.

And we are award-winning, Vet recommended, and integrative. We offer a flexible, relationship-based approach to training. ‘Cause you are a real person with a busy life, doing your best to understand this weirdo you love so much.

We use play, body language, food, hand signals, words, movement, hands-on touch, and equipment to communicate with and guide the dog.

We will be honest and tell you what is really going to work, like really work, verses “do this 10,000 times” and give you guilt-inducing, impossible-to-follow protocol that you will never implement and make you feel like a failure before you even start, (in fact, we can skip that part altogether).

We provide training programs for a large spectrum of needs, and our passionate team ensures that every dog and their human’s individual needs are met, regardless of where they are in their journey.

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Meet your dog training dream team

  • Leigh

    Founder
    My superpower is helping people ”get” their dogs. I’m here to teach you to do the work that matters to build a life you love with your dog. Moments when people connect, and dogs are gotten by their owners, are my soul food. My life with dogs is my resume, learn more about me here.

  • Katherine

    Operations & Outreach

  • Rachel

    Farm Dog Program Manager

  • Chelsea

  • Samantha

  • Laura

  • Brian

    Boarding School Program Manager

  • Emily

  • Enrichment Caregiver

    Pam

  • Janet

  • Josh

  • Lo

  • Ashlee

    Day School Program Manager

  • Oli

  • Lani

  • Britt

We spend hours a day observing, teaching, and learning from the dogs we get to call students. Together we have over 40 years of combined experience, working with thousands of humans and dogs since we began in 2003- companion, stray, purebred, rescue, mutt, street dog, puppy mill, fighting ring busts, feral, wolf hybrid- and a few horses. Our team is really committed to two things: bringing humanity to the dog training experience and results. As good as we are with dogs, we know that an educated and empowered human is our end game. And a life you love with your dog is pretty high up there too.

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