A cattle dog mix sits on the sidewalk before a crosswalk, they're wearing a harness and looking up at the camera with their mouth slightly open during their dog training walk in Parma, Ohio

Our Training Walks Teach Your Dog To Love Sticking With You!

Anyone Can Walk Your Dog To Tire Them Out, But Our Service Improves Your Dog’s Walking, Positively

Our Personalized Dog Training Walks are designed to help your dog get consistent work on walking nicely so that you don’t get pulled down the street! 

The number one reason we see dogs having a tough time walking nicely is because they don’t understand what we want and they don’t have the foundations or reward history to do it! That’s where our Walk & Trains come in.

During these Day Training appointments, a trainer comes to your house to take them on either a 30 minute Walk & Train or a 60 minute Walk & Train. These appointments are an easy, fun, and effective way to help your dog learn what we want them to do on walks. We have the patience and practice to teach them what we want to see!

We don’t use or rely on aversive tools to help them. Instead, we build up a foundation of attention and patterns to make it extremely rewarding to stick with the person holding the leash and we send you videos and photos showing you the process so you can practice it as well!

The benefit of this program is the repetition. Your dog gets consistent, scheduled practice on their walks with our trainer rather than just being tired out during a walk where they spend the majority of their time pulling and lunging at the end of the leash. In addition, you get the knowledge of how to teach them to walk on a leash nicely.

A brindle pit mix with a pink collar and an easy walk harness sits on the side walk while looking up toward the camera during their dog training walk

Who Can Benefit From Personalized Dog Training Walks?

  • Does your dog pull on leash?
  • Does your dog drag you down the street during your walks?
  • Does your dog spend their whole walk pulling to get to new smells?
  • Do you have a puppy who has never been on a leash before?
  • Are you looking for someone to tire your dog out while you’re at work?
  • Does your dog lunge or bark to see other dogs or people?*
  • Does your dog lunge or bark to make other dogs or people go away?*

Then our personalized Dog Training Walks might be a good option for you!

These appointments are appropriate for most dogs, but they do go at the dog’s pace. If your dog is reactive or fearful, we do NOT force them into situations they can’t handle, as that will only hurt them in the long term. That might mean that we walk the same, short path multiple times during your dog’s walk or that we only walk your dog at times when it’s less busy to start with, but, what you’ll see, is that as we continue, your dog’s confidence and handler focus will grow.

*While we do specialize in helping reactive dogs and we do walk reactive dogs, we do require a Behavioral Modification Consultation before any Walk & Train appointments. This is because in order to fully help your dog with their reactivity, management and work outside of your dog’s walks is essential. For your reactive dog to improve, you need to understand how and why we train your reactive dog the way we do (positively and slowly!) and we need to be sure that you’re ready to follow our guidelines.

What Do You Work On During A Walk & Train?

Teaching your dog to walk near you and not pull on leash can be a complex process. It involves impulse control, attention, confidence, body awareness, and more! That’s why we spend our time during your dog’s Walk & Trains building these behaviors up.

We use dog training pattern games to build value in sticking with you and to help your dog understand where we want them (we’re not looking for a heel during this, our walks are for our dogs to enjoy, we just don’t want to be yanked down the street!).

In addition, we work on polite greeting patterns to teach our dog how to access exciting new smells and objects they want to check out, WITHOUT them having to pull on the leash to get there. These also help build confidence in more timid dogs and help them learn that interacting with new things can be fun, but if they get overwhelmed they can move away rather than bark!

We also work on teaching your dog that paying attention to you, even in exciting environments, is fun! We work on movement games with a variety of ways of reinforcing them to build engagement with you!

We also build up impulse control, recall, and behaviors such as sit to ensure that our dogs can make safe choices as needed and to ensure we have a way to help them out when needed.

 

A large, light colored golden mix lays on his back on the grass with his mouth open and a look in his eyes that says he's going to start rolling around intensely after his dog training walk in Parma, Ohio.
A German Shepherd sits while looking out over a park with her tongue hanging out while wearing a blue collar during an Adventure Day Day Training appointment at a park in Columbia Station, Ohio.
A rough collie wearing a harness lays in the grass about twenty feet from the gravel parking lot behind them. They're wearing a blue harness and looking away from the handler, over a field in the Rocky River Metroparks in Rocky River, Ohio
A small golden puppy in a harness sits on the grass while looking up at the camera while the leash goes off screen to their owner who is standing behind them during their dog training manners consultation in Parma, Ohio
A white husky, lab mix is laying on a concrete surface and looking up at the camera with perked ears that slightly droop at the tip and a slightly open mouth during her Day Training Homeschooling appointment in Bay Village, Ohio.
A white and light brown speckled cattle dog mix sits on the sidewalk at a street corner before crossing. They're wearing a harness and looking up at the camera with their mouth slightly open and their eyes squinting during their dog training walk at their Day Training appointment in Parma, Ohio.
A young working line Belgian Tervuren is standing to the left of their handler who is holding the camera and off screen. He is looking up at her with his mouth slightly open, his ears perked, and his eyes on her.

Enroll Your Dog In One of Our Dog Training Walk Packages Now!

We offer both 30 minute and 60 minute Walk & Train Packages where we walk your dog either 2 days per week or 3 days per week. In addition, we offer a 3 month From Puller to Polite: Loose Leash Walking Program that utilizes Day Training, Walk & Trains, and Consultation appointments to help your dog learn to walk on a loose leash in different environments!

If you have a reactive dog, you MUST sign up for a Behavior Modification Initial Consultation before beginning your dog’s Walk & Trains.

 

Please note that when there’s adverse weather or it gets too cold, we will either reschedule or work inside rather than outside for everyone’s safety.

 

Enroll your dog in one of our dog Walk & Train Packages by clicking here!