Anya's Dog Training

Anya is a natural pack leader and such an amazing trainer. I was extremely impressed with how quickly she created a connection and how well my pup responded to her. Dogs love her!

Her training style focuses on positive reinforcement, rewarding desirable behavior with lots of praise and physical affection, and ignoring undesirable behavior. The best part about her training style, and what really sets her apart from other training options is that she works with my whole family too, not just our dog, teaching us how to best continue/reinforce what she has been working on with our dog. In the past when I have taken one of my dogs to training classes the dog will do great with the trainer and at the class but then then when we get back home or when I would try to practice what my dog learned it wouldn’t go nearly as well. So, the next class I would tell the trainer this, and the trainer would give it a shot and my dog would do exactly as asked. This can be very frustrating. Anya explained to me this can be because when a trainer works with a dog, from the very start, only the correct behavior is accepted from the trainer and with the trainer the dog is there to do one thing which is learn. The dog associates with this person/environment that if they do exactly as asked, they get rewarded with praise and affection. Whereas with myself, my dog has so many other associations and ways to get praise and affection the connection between what I am asking and my dog receiving praise might not be as strong at first. That’s why I thought it was great how Anya worked with the whole family and saw how we interact with our dog and how our dog responded to us. She helped give us pointers and explained how little things we were doing could be giving our dog mixed messaging and showed us little tricks to try to communicate more effectively in a way dogs understand better. She has helped us all become better pack leaders for our dogs. She said this also helped her see where she could spend more focus when working with our dog. And for me, the results speak for themself, I could not be happier.

I highly recommend Anya’s Dog Training to anyone looking to learn how to train their dog to be the best dog they can be. She will show you the way! More...