Professional Dog Training & Consulting Services
Dog Training and Behavior
Sentinel Pet Care is more than just your dog walker and pet sitter. With over 30 years experience caring for and training companion animals, we offer our clients a unique combination of experience and service. We’ve helped our clients resolve behavioral issues, understand how their dogs think, and consulted with our clients about proper nutrition, healthy pet food choices and healthcare solutions. If you’re an active client you’ve probably already taken advantage of these services. For those of you who don’t need our pet sitting or dog walking services, here are some of the things we can help you resolve with one-on-one training or consulting.
We don’t teach parlor tricks, we don’t use clickers and bribery, we teach our clients the fundamentals of how to understand their dogs by teaching you how dogs interact with each other. We help you understand pack behavior and dynamics, the human psychology and its impact on your relationship with your dog, and we get to the actual root of problems rather than treating symptoms. We teach our clients how their dog thinks, or more accurately, what their instincts tell them to do and how to understand their language. Here are a some of the typical issues we see that we can help you resolve:
- critical things you need to know to get your new puppy off to the right start
- crate training/”house breaking”, soiling in the house
- leash training and proper and safe handling techniques and equipment
- what is your dog “thinking”?
- pack mentality and why you must understand it
- how to have a healthy, balanced relationship with your dog
- anxious behaviors
- not following commands
- how to get your dog to trust and respect you
- the esoterica of what your dog is trying to teach you
- and much more…
In each session we will focus not only on resolving your current issue, but we will go much deeper to the foundation of the problem and teach you how to understand your dog and how to think like a dog so that as you encounter new challenges, you’ll be prepared to handle them and understand why. Most people try to resolve behavior issues by using either bribery (clickers and treats) or by attempting to project human psychology onto their pet. Since you’re reading this, you have probably figured out that both of these methods do not work. We’ll help you cut through the pop-dog-psychology on YouTube and get right to the heart of the issues and inside your dog’s head. Each training session is one-on-one, at your home so we can focus on your specific issues and to be sure that you walk away having a completely new understanding of your dog and a new degree of control over every situation.
Initial Lesson
in person 1-to-1- get your dog (and you) off to the right start
- as much time as necessary until you’re comfortable you understand
- telephone follow ups as needed
Follow Up
in person 1-to-1- reinforce what you’ve learned
- troubleshoot any problem areas
- telephone follow ups as you need