Dog owners often wonder why they should invest the time and resources involved in training a dog properly.

At Great Dog! my job is to make you the trainer. The process of teaching and reinforcing instructions forms the architecture needed for behavior modification while providing structure and indentifying rules like "No jumping on guests" or "No begging at the dinner table".

Training plays a critical role in establishing a healthy relationship with your dog. Defining your relationship as well as opening communication between owners and their dogs. It's important that lessons are fashioned to you and your dog so that common sense objectives can be determined and achieved. The sessions are fun and build positive bonds that last with these amazing and intelligent animals.

  An important part of each week involves working with both the dogs
and the great group of volunteers at the Warwick Animal Shelter in
Warwick, RI. The shelter provides me with an opportunity to gain new
insight and develop new ideas. It's also a chance to help the dogs look
their best before the families thinking about taking one of them home.
Ironically, properly trained dogs rarely end up in animal shelters.
According to the ASPCA, approximately 8-12 million companion animals
enter animal shelters nationwide every year and approximately 5-9
million of them are ultimately euthanized. Many of the dogs represented
in this figure end up in these shelters for behavioral issues that would
have been avoided with early training or addressed with behavior
modification. If your dog comes from a shelter or rescue group ask about the discount for comprehensive obedience training.
Remember to Support Your Local Animal Shelter!
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