Let me help you enjoy a well-behaved
dog who’s fun to live with and easy to take places.

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2 Easy Basic Manners Dog Training Solutions—You Choose

Support Program

We’ll take a look at your basic manners training goals and craft a customized dog training plan. Then I’ll coach you once a week in the convenience of your home, setting you up with the week’s training tasks to move toward your end results.

90-minute Basic Training Consult:

$300

Includes training folder, treat pouch, clicker, and
sample treats to get you up and running.

6 Basic Manners Support Sessions:

$1050

Schedule every 1-2 weeks

Book your training consult now 

Questions first? Call or email me. 

Easy Way Program​

Prefer to skip the training part and get right to the results? We can do that. I’ll work with your dog several days each week, meeting with you to transfer my progress. You can watch me train or leave your regular schedule uninterrupted while I get the job done for you.

90-minute Basic Training Consult:

$300

Includes training folder, treat pouch, clicker, and
sample treats to get you up and running.

4-week Easy Way Program:

$3200

Includes 12 manners sessions, 4 transfer sessions, 2 follow-up sessions, plus 1 annual check-in session for life

Book your training consult now 

Questions first? Call or email me. 

Ready for a basic manners training solution?

Let's Get It Done!

Why dogs do what they do

It’s easy to attribute human motivation to dog behavior. It’s also counter-productive. Thinking about dogs in human terms leads to misguided (and very unscientific) concepts like dominance theory, and attributing notions like stubbornness, guilt, and revenge to canine behavior we don’t like. The truth is dogs are much more simple creatures than we humans, with much simpler motivations. 

In short, dogs do what works for them, and avoid choices that don’t get them what they want. If barking or jumping get your attention, they’ll bark or jump more often. If they find themselves consistently ignored when engaging in these activities, they’ll give them up to try something else. 

This is one of the secrets of good, easy dog training: Learning to actively reinforce dog behavior you like in order to see more of it, and making sure behavior you don’t like doesn’t work for your dog. It’s a simple concept that, used skillfully alongside actively teaching cues (like sit, stay, and come when called), helps create a beautifully-mannered canine companion.

Learn more about my training methods and also my credentials. 

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“Even our family [noticed] how much better behaved our dog [is]”

“Nick always had solutions to our problems, and when our dog had trouble with anything, he never gave up or got frustrated with us or our dog. What’s amazing to me is that after training with Nick our family even made comments on how much better behaved our dog became. I recommend him to anyone who asks.”
– Katherine and Jason McAdoo & Raynor in Cincinnati