The easy way to
a friendly dog
Living with a dog who barks, growls, lunges, or snaps at family members, guests, or strangers? Have there even been bites?
Living with a dog who barks, growls, lunges, or snaps at family members, guests, or strangers? Have there even been bites?
Let me help you enjoy a relaxed canine family member
you can trust around other people, too
2 Easy Aggression Training Solutions—You Choose
Support Program
We’ll take a look at your 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 Aggression Training Consult:
$300
Includes training folder, treat pouch, clicker, and
sample treats to get you up and running.
8 Polite Dog Support Sessions:
$1400
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 Aggression Training Consult:
$300
Includes training folder, treat pouch, clicker, and
sample treats to get you up and running.
4-week Easy Way Program:
$3200
Book your training consult now
Questions first? Call or email me.
Ready for a training solution to aggressive behaviors?
Let's Get It Done!
Call 513.497.8847 or email
Why aren’t all dogs friendly all the time?
The most common cause of aggressive behavior is under-socialization. As a left-over mechanism for survival in the wild, a dog’s genes tell them to be wary of all new things once adulthood arrives. So dogs who were not positively exposed to a wide array of people during puppyhood—a process called socialization—often grow up to be fearful around people different from those they were raised by. And unfortunately fear often leads to aggressive behavior, such as barking and lunging, in an attempt to move “scary” people further away. Fortunately, under-socialized dogs can learn to be more comfortable around all people through positive training.
Aggression can also be situational. If a dog feels threatened or frightened, say by an over-exuberant child or an adult physically punishing the dog or a scared stranger who kicks at him, he may use aggressive behavior (barking, growling, even snapping or biting) to defend himself. Often this leads to regular proactive behavior—the dog might lunge or growl every time he encounters a child or the adult who punished him, in order to avoid a similar situation. Unfortunately, this self-defense strategy can bloom to include all children or adults or strangers—a phenomenon we call generalization.
Finally, some aggression is just in the genes. Resource guarding, such as growling to protect a food bowl, good chewie, or favorite toy, is an innate behavior fueled by survival. It makes sense to defend one’s food in the wild. Not so much sense to defend one’s food from the person who gave it to you in the first place, of course, but the dog is just doing what nature instructs.
Thankfully aggression in any of these forms can generally be successfully addressed by changing the underlying emotional cause of the aggression—feeling fearful or threatened. To achieve this turnabout, as with any training I do, I use only the most scientifically-sound, positive training methods. I want you to feel good about your results whether you choose to train with my support or have me do the training for you. And if the job is to help your dog feel more positive about a particular person or people in general, it stands to reason that punishment-based training will be counter-productive to our aims.
Learn more about my training methods and also my credentials.
