Pet Trainers in Baltimore, MD

I can't say enough good things about Dave Cochran from Show me your dog: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Show-me-YOUR-Dog-Training-LLC/388231417950953 He was especially helpful with dog aggression. We also did pack walks with Tecla's K9 Training Academy and that was really helpful too.

Pet-U-Cation will change your life! Just read their testimonials. Not only do you get a trainer, you become a member of a network of other dog owners who help extend the training and skills you learn with your dog. www.petucationtraining.com

Why? Salem's perfect! (she's certainly cute, anyway). In any case, you can contact Martha Garland, of "Pets in Stride," a dog walking business at petsinstride@gmail.com - she lives very near you, and while she's not a trainer, she could recommend someone good. Also, if you contact Good Doggie Day Care (info@gooddoggiedaycare.com) - where I bring Lizzy - they have dog trainers that they use.

A tail above. They are a husband and wife team that trained with Caesar Milan. They are local. Email:ann@atailabove.com, phone is 410-491-tail. Bill has done some work for them in the past.

he has been on channel 11 news on Saturdays along with Dr. Kim Hammond

YES, YES, YES..... Drew Sandberg. Tom walks our HOUND without leash 4-5 miles. If he sees a rabbit etc he doesn;t go after it anymore. He is such a well behaved dog now. HOUND that follows his nose does not anymore He listens to TOM and ME TOO! Seriously Kel Unbelievable change.

Sit Means Sit Baltimore did an excellent job! Look up their fb page

Mutt Magic with Aja Harris.. She is wonderful:) www.muttmagic.com

Mutt Magic! I also suggest Jill LaPorta she is the trainer we use for PAWS Rescue.

Chele McCabe is amazing!

Polite Pooches LLC in Forest Hill. Kathy is great. Look her up here on FB.

Polite Pooches with Kathy Forthman

Pauline Houliaras--know any colleagues in this area?

Crystal Smoot who can you recommend for dog training out your way

Crystal Smoot Christine Sandberg rescues in MD Christine Crystal rescues in WV in that area

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Congrats on your new pup! We used Pawsitive Paul in Remington and liked him, though he's expensive & I don't know if he does home training. Our vet also recommended Alisa at You Silly Dog, and I've heard several good things about her and she definitely does home sessions.

We spent 6 weeks in a "CCC" course out in Millersville (far, i know). Although we had a pretty different dog (Lab puppy constantly in "WAHOO!!" mode), it helped us with understanding dog psychology. At home when our dogs are relaxed they are great, but when out in public, if they slip into fear/anxious or wahoo mindset, they can't control themselves, could bite, can't be reasoned with, etc. unless you remove them from the situation, which sucks. So this course is basically about training and developing the "here and now" mindstate that can resist distractions which make it slip into fear/anxeity or wahoo, and stay "Connected, Cooperative, and In Control" (CCC). Also check out "Be the dog" book, which I thought was a good intro to dog thinking for me. Good luck! Dogs rule (so do cats tho) https://www.seespotgrin.com/ccc/

Unfortunately I don't know who to recommend but I can tell you one to avoid. We sent our 2 dogs to Downtown Dog Resort for a 2-week boarded training stay while we were on vacation - it made sense to us at the time because we liked the staff and our dogs went there weekly for daycare. They also used the typical language about positive reinforcement and reward being key. No worries, right? I highly recommend you do not do this. When we came back, the "training" was basically outfitting both our dogs with choke collars with metal prongs that dug into their necks if they resisted. One of our dogs was a puppy at the time (~8 months old) and re-training her with positive reinforced training took a lot of work after this. Our other dog was ~6 years at the time and already really well trained/behaved (but we thought a refresher couldn't hurt since we had to board anyway). I'm convinced this reversed so much of his progress. The "trainer" said our older dog was really tough to work with (for reference, this is a dog that was so well behaved, I used to forget and leave open bags of chips on the coffee table while at work and he wouldn't touch it). After realizing how they "trained" I can easily see why he was "difficult", no dog is going to suddenly think being choked is a great thing and will probably resist. Sorry for the story, i'm still mad about this despite it being almost two years later and we've been able to reverse any weird tendencies they picked up from choke collar training (no long term damage). Oh, the trainer also tried to do this thing where, later, when we took our dogs in for daycare (prior, we had bought a package of daycare visits and wanted to use them all) he told us he did some "retraining" and that we owed him $10 (or $20, I can't remember) in cash. I told him to never touch my dogs again and that ended.

Did you adopt from BARCS? If so they will definitely give you some pointers that might help for the more immediate future. I don’t know what she’s scared of but the general idea of training is consistency and positive reinforcement. Let’s say she is scared of a room. You might start by rewarding her for getting close to the door. Then when she gets to the door. Then on the other side of the door. Etc. If that sounds like a pain in the ass... well it definitely can be. The trainer may have other ideas for training depending on specific circumstances. Expect there to be “homework” that the trainer gives you. It’s important you do it. And it might seem like it’s difficult... some time it can be, but stick with it! Training dogs can be very frustrating.

[Best Friends Dog Obedience](http://www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com) are pretty good. They have a class that meets at Roland Park Country School which is pretty close to Hampden

Give K9 Koncepts a call - we were really happy with them.

Christine Sandberg -- Glen Highland Farm --even though in NY State -- would no doubt know someone (name is Lillie and she is wonderful) because she is a border collie rescue and would know those who train herding dogs all over U.S. -- worth a contact -- she took in the pups from the Spraker's NY case from this past winter . . .

Tammy Tucker trainer needed in ellicott city

Sally Zinkhan is a trainer in the Hunt Valley area. She is very experienced with herding dogs, has Boarder Collies & Corgis. She also trains dogs for agility & disc dog competitions locally & nationally. Has several world titles. http://www.baltimoredogtrainer.com/index.html#.VBSOx2K9KSM

Highly recommend Rob! http://www.eastcoastacademy.com/

Rosie Ru I talked to Mike from Blue Line K9 today and he was awesome. He was very helpful. I think in some situations he uses shock collar training which I don't like but I'm sure he does other training as well. Hope this helps. I'm not a fan of any type of electric fencing or shock collars. Although with some dogs they do work I'm just not a fan of the kind of training but what do I know!! Lol

J Walking! 443-939-2100