Services for Dog Owners

In-Home Behavior Lessons are for problems of a more serious nature, problems that will require behavior modification to change the emotional responses and to learn new ways of relating to the normal events of day-to-day life. Behavior modification must be done carefully so that dogs are never pressured or over-faced with the triggers that cause them alarm, fear or stress.

Here are just some of the situations that call for a behavior modificiation approach:

• Anxiety-related behavior
• Aggression towards family or strangers
• Reactive outbursts at perceived threats (such as other dogs people, bicyclists, skateboarders, children and so on)
• Inappropriate behavior between dogs and children
• Fearfulness or shyness
• Lack of play or communication skills with other dogs
• Protectiveness over toys or food
• Sound sensitivities such as thunder, fireworks, leaf blowers, skateboards and so on.

IN-HOME INTAKE and ASSESSMENT
In assessing each family's individual situation, Your Dog's Personal Trainer will be the ears and eyes for your veterinarian. Veterinarians do not normally see the dog and the problems that take place in the home. By doing an in-home assessment, we will be able to give your vet a detailed history which includes the observations of a qualifed trainer and observer. In addition, Your Dog's Personal Trainer will video in-home situations to further help the vet staff rule out physical issues.

A complete physical exam by a veterinarian who has, in hand, a complete behavioral history and a qualifed trainer's observations, will allow youto be sure that there are no underlying physical problems. Underlying physical issues can obstruct the progress of your behavior modification training and even adversely impact the situation.

Intake Assessment, behavior history, video clips, and intake summary FAXED to the referring veterinarian, maximum of two hours - $100

• DOWNLOAD the Behavior History Form to your computer, save it, fill it out, save it and email as an attachment to Helix Fairweather. Be as detailed and specific as you can. Describe specific behaviors rather than interpretations.     .docx format .rtf format

• SCHEDULE (2) consecutive one-hour appointments.

• PAY WITH CREDIT CARD $100 for the Intake Assessment.
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Your Dog's Personal Trainer has made a commitment to the local veterinary community that we will follow best practices for working in concert with veterinarians to provide their patients and our clients the best of both professions. As a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner, this is part of the process of being a qualified, certifed trainer.

In-home Behavior Lessons are billed at $100/hour. If you choose to purchase your lessons in a package, paying in full before the first lesson, your cost will be less.

Following each lesson, Your Dog's Personal Trainer provides notes as to the work we accomplished, video clips of your work with your dog (when available), video clip examples of what you will work on next (when available). Email and phone support are available post-lesson too. Periodic follow-up reports will be sent to your veterinarian.

PAYMENT INFORMATION for In-Home Training Lessons will be sent to you by email once you have chosen your preferred lesson package.