Top 10 reasons to choose Santa Barbara Pet Services' Professional Dog Training program:
1. Sessions are fully self-paced to fit
your schedule. We would rather you take extra time if needed to successfully master each weeks objectives. For example, you
cannot teach your dog the sit stay in week three, if you did not have time to teach them to sit in week two. You are required
to work with the dog 25 – 30 minutes per day for 6 days before the next session. We teach handling techniques to the
owner, which are also written down for future reference.
2. By completing the 8 sessions, you have trained your dog as if they are going into
the obedience show ring, raising the bar of what can be expected of your companion creating a special bond and enjoyable relationship.
By working with your dog through each of the exercises, the dog gains a great deal of respect for you as the pack leader.
3. Nathan has been working with this same method of training for going on 15 years
and has instructed the training of approximately 2000 dogs. He has worked and titled dogs through the Utility level of
training for competitive obedience, which is the highest and most prestigious of obedience competition. At this level, the
basic training (Novice) truly seems novice.
4. Each week you will receive a written step-by-step guide as a reference for practicing
during the week. The training method used (Keohlor method) has been used successfully on over 100,000 dogs without the use
of treats, clickers, or other forms of bribery. This results in a very reliable and solid working dog or companion.
5. By completing the training course, you have gained a knowledge and art of techniques
of successfully training a dog. Keep the written training lessons and apply them to dogs you may have in the future.
6. If you have multiple dogs, enter the dog with the most problems and apply the handling
techniques learned to the others with no extra cost. Dogs love to compete for your attention, so work them in front of one
another and switch off. Keep them at the same pace as you move through each session successfully training the entire pack.
7. If you have multiple friends that would like to buddy up and train their dogs,
this would increase motivation and divide up the cost. Ex. Four friends, A, B, C, and D each have one wild Retriever
and would like to enroll in Santa Barbara Pet Services’ private dog training course. An acceptable, low cost, and schedule
friendly way of reaching everyone’s objectives would be for the friends to divide the training fee into four. Friend
B, C, and D would then pay Friend A their part. Friend A would then pay Santa Barbara Pet Services as if it were one dog entered.
This unilateral contract (promise for an act) would be between Friend A and Santa Barbara Pet Services. Friend A is entitled
to 8 sessions of training. Friend A would then have to make a separate contract with Friend B, C, and D to include them in
the sessions bought by Friend A. Friend A would be responsible for scheduling a time where each friend can maintain progress
as they move through the course. The only reason we don’t offer to teach group classes to the public is because of scheduling.
By putting one person in charge of a group’s schedule nobody legally gets left behind and set up for failure.
8. By completing the Novice level training course, your dog will have fulfilled the
requirements to able to compete for the first level obedience title. (CD)
9. By properly training your dog, you have made a noble contribution to those around
you. This is a major step in becoming a responsible pet owner, which is always appreciated in the community. An uncontrollable
dog can be very dangerous and is quite rude especially to those of us with trained dogs.
10. We start dogs as young as 2 months of age. It is much easier to train a dog when
its mind is blank. The puppy will then come into the world only knowing how to be good and obedience is just the way of life.
For those of you with the giant breeds, it is much easier to train a 20-pound puppy than a 200-pound dog.
