New Service at Cotati Dog Boarding

Why Should You Train Your Dog?

• Helps with solving behavior problems.
• Your dog learns useful commands.
• Helps your dog understand their place in the family "pack".
• Your dog learns to respect and trust you as the leader.
• Helps your dog become more confident and predictable.
• It's the best gift you can give your dog.
  

Dog Camp:
Have your dog trained while they board or come to day care. Your dog will work with our professionally certified trainer as well as playing with their friends. The best of both worlds – individual attention plus lots of exercise and fun will help your dog have a well rounded stay while you are away. Programs offered include:

Doggie Tune-ups

• Have your dogs known commands tuned up.
• A few sessions will refresh your dog’s skills that may be rusty or need a little fine tuning.

Introduction to Basic Obedience

• Basic obedience skills introduced to your dog.
• Minimum 2 weeks of boarding required to complete program.
• Basic skills introduced include: walking on a loose leash, sit, down, stay, come.
• 1-2 transition sessions with owner required to teach owner what dog has learned.

Advanced Obedience

• Basic obedience skills your dog has been taught are advanced to the next level.
• These may include: long distance recall, sit and down at a distance, hand signals, automatic sits, formal heel, off leash control, bed (target a specific bed/mat to lay on out of the way), wait, and leave-it.
• Minimum 2-3 weeks boarding required depending on skills wanted.
• 1-2 sessions with owner required to teach owner what dog has learned.

Can also be done while your dog is at Day Care with a minimum of 3 days scheduled per week for a period of 3-4 weeks depending on skills requested. Specific program to be scheduled ahead of time with trainer.

Meet the Trainer: Joellen Luttrell, Certified Instructor/Trainer

Joellen brings her lifelong love of helping people together with her dedication to training dogs with proven techniques that both you and your dog will enjoy. A certified assistance dog trainer who has spent much of her life energy developing and perfecting her techniques while working at premier assistance dog organizations in the country. These include Canine Companions for Independence, Guide Dogs for the Blind and Dogs for the Deaf. For more than 12 years her specialty has been training dogs in special and advanced skills, in addition to basic obedience and problem solving. Over her career, she has successfully trained and placed hundreds of dogs.

Her sensitivity to your dog's personality and temperament, coupled with effective training tools, will help you and your dog to live happily and obediently together!

Joellen’s Training Philosophy:

Training should be fun for both the human and the dog! Positive reinforcement methods are used to bring out the natural ability of each dog and train them new skills based on their individual personalities. In her experience she has found that dog’s love to learn. Once a dog “learns how to learn” they enjoy the “training” just as much as we do. Opening up this form of communication with your dog then allows you to shape the behaviors you like and eliminate the behaviors that are unwanted. Dog’s learn through association: i.e. do what is pleasant and avoid what is unpleasant. Working with a professional trainer can help to lay a solid foundation for the owner to work from and allow you to develop a happy and healthy relationship with your lifelong companion.

Call or email Joellen to schedule training for your dog
707-849-3459
dogtrainingbyjoellen@comcast.net

Training fees are paid directly to “Dog Training By Joellen” and are separate from the boarding fees.

Private In-home training is also available in Sonoma County

“He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.” --Unknown