private lessons
Private lessons can take place at your home or a location of your choosing in Helena, Montana or the surrounding area (see below for other areas that we service). The best place to meet is the place where you are having the most difficulty!
COMMON LESSON TOPICS:
We are known for accepting dogs that are labeled as more "difficult" or "aggressive". Please don't hesitate to reach out for fear of being judged. While we don't offer 'board and trains', if you are looking for more intensive behavioral rehabilitation, we can happily refer you to other trainers. SERVICE AREAS: Our main service area is Helena, MT but we can also meet you in Townsend or Boulder for no extra charge. For travel outside of those areas, we charge $.50/mile. We are more than happy to travel to Deer Lodge, Butte, Whitehall, Great Falls, Missoula, Bozeman and so on. We have fairly regular training days in Butte and are often able to split the travel fee between multiple client. To set up a lesson, follow the link to our email below! |
FREE Phone Consultations
Have a question or a pressing matter? We are happy to offer advice over the phone for any situation you may need immediate help with. This is a free service! Please start by emailing, and we will schedule a phone call from there. We really do just want to help. It is common for us to give phone advice for pressing matters-including aggression, rehoming, bite incidents, and other behavioral questions.
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scheduling
We pride ourselves on having prompt response times and flexible scheduling. We can almost always get you in for a consult. Any day of the week, both daytime and evening hours are usually available.
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Butte training days
About once a month, we make a trip to Butte in an effort to provide consistent training opportunities for dogs in the Butte community. Combining multiple lessons into one day helps keep cost lower as the travel fee can then be split between 3-5 people, instead of 1 person having to pay the whole fee.
We keep a list of Butte clients who are interested in lessons local to Butte. If you would like to be on the list, please reach out via email: [email protected]
Any time we get a request to come to Butte, we then email everyone on the list to see if they would also like to sign up for a lesson that day. Group classes and group lessons are also an option if you need more practice around distractions.
Our next Butte training day is Monday February 10th, 2025
We keep a list of Butte clients who are interested in lessons local to Butte. If you would like to be on the list, please reach out via email: [email protected]
Any time we get a request to come to Butte, we then email everyone on the list to see if they would also like to sign up for a lesson that day. Group classes and group lessons are also an option if you need more practice around distractions.
Our next Butte training day is Monday February 10th, 2025
Recent Training Inquiries
Here's a list of some of the pet training inquiries we have received recently. We hope this will give you an idea of what types of requests are common.
- New malinois puppy
- Retriever mix, car pacing
- New adoption-german shepherd/heeler-recall, cat intro, door greetings.
- German shepherd puppy-basic obedience
- Ridgeback, bite history, confidence building
- Airedale-recall, off leash training
- Rehoming german shepherd.
- Reactive, bite history border collie/aussie
- Reactive german shepherd
- Recent adoption, german shepherd
- Doodle siblings, recall, separation anxiety
- Reactive malinois, fear of the vet's office
- Rottweiler resource guarding
- Aggressive dog affecting the owner's ability to take dog to work
- Integrating new dog into the house, aggression
- Private lessons for tracking
- Private lesson for nose work.
- Exposure, socialization, and reactivity for a terrier.
- Aussie-loose leash walking
- Pitbull terrier-puppy basics.
- Puppy basics
- Black lab-rehoming assistance
- Rottweiler-resource guarding/rehoming questions