Professional dog and puppy training services by DognPooch—personalized programs to build obedience, confidence, and a stronger bond with your furry companion.
Training two dogs together can be tough. We know. Even when we train dogs that aren’t ours, it can be challenging to train more than one at a time. We recognize that many owners have two dogs. And that two pups seem to like to teach each other bad habits. Much like kids. The older…
Wondering about best puppy training practices? It’s puppy week again at DognPooch and we are completing a Board & Train for three new pups. Our featured pup this week is Coco – a 16 week Corgi who is doing awesome with her training. It made us think: what are some best puppy training practices that…
Before and After We enjoy sharing a lot of our dog training success stories, but we realize that you never get to see the dog when they first come to us. Part of this is because it is difficult to record a misbehaving dog and still try to work with him. Here we tried to…
Starting with a new dog…. There are lots of ways to approach dog training, but we like to start each dog at the beginning no matter their training background. This way all our dog trainees go through the same program, only some will progress faster than others. Our system includes introducing them to the prong…
E-Collar Training is an Amazing Training Method We understand that most people are a little hesitant to start training their dog with an e-collar. This can be for a variety of reasons: misconception of how it works, lack of understanding of proper use, using poor quality collars that have caused damage, and the idea that…
It is definately puppy season as we’ve had quite a few puppies to train over these last few weeks! It’s awesome to see so many owners taking the opportunity to get their pups off to a great start. And…that got us thinking – what are some must-have tools in your dog training tool box? 1.…
It’s Puppy Training Season! We have had an influx of puppies this month at DognPooch! It’s always great to see owners starting their pup’s life off with a great head start through a training program. The amazing thing about our dog training is that it can be done at any age from 4 months old…
E-Collar Puppy Training A lot of people wonder how early you can begin training your dog. The answer is as early as possible – the minute you bring him home. It doesn’t matter if it is a puppy or an older dog, you are teaching him new information the minute you put him in the…
Mo, the mini Australian Shepherd, was one of our dog trainees from Atascadero this last week that learned some basic obedience. Sometimes we have a ton of large dogs – lots of German Shepherds and Labs – and other times we have lots of sweet little dogs. (We know that Mini Shepherds are necessarily little,…
Every once in a while we get a special dog trainee at DognPooch. We happened to get one of them this week. Meet Fitz – a very special dog who is deaf and doing great! This is his progress after just 24 hours of training. We worked with him to develop hand signals and to…