1) Dog Agility is fun for everyone! All dogs and all people, regardless of size, shape,
or age, can play the agility game. Agility teaches your dog focus, teamwork, and obedience skills. Come out and
play today!
2) Rally Obedience provides the skills your dog needs to go out-and-about with you.
As in agility, you follow a numbered course. As you heel from one sign to the next, you and your dog perform the designated
exercise. Your dog will learn to walk nicely with you, turn without pulling, come when you call, and stay in one place
while you move around. Rally-O builds enthusiasm for training because it is so much fun!
3) Private lessons, for dogs who may have issues, or are not ready for a class situation, may
be the answer. Perhaps your dog is young and needs to learn attention and focus. When a dog is
exciteable around other dogs or people, learning self-control before joining a group is important.
4) Home-visits allow you to address more serious behavioral issues. Aggression, fearfulness,
jumping up, house training, digging, barking are all behaviors that are wired into many dogs but are unacceptable to us.
Training the dog in the home environment can successfully address these troublesome behaviors.
Comments from clients:
"Melinda helped us explore every available option...[she] understood our affection for
our behaviorally challenged dogs [and] could not have been more helpful.
She is intelligent, patient, friendly, and very in tune to animal behaviors. We
loved her!" --Owner of agressive dog
"Very glad to have Melinda at our home and give us such good advice. Melinda was very personable
[and] very wonderful to deal with. The advice we were given worked out fine."
--Owner of fearful dog
[Melinda's] calmness really helped both dogs relax. [She] has a very nice, sweet way that puts
dogs and people at ease...easy to talk to and offered good suggestions...my dog is responding well..."
--Owner of fearful and aggressive dogs
Thank you so much, Melinda. You are so patient and kind to our dogs and to us. I am so excited
about this class. You are a great instructor. --Mother/daughter agility
students
