Welcome to Treasured Creatures Dog Training!
The TC Training Method
Treasured Creatures uses positive reinforcement methods and management strategies to train basic obedience behaviors and manners. My methods have the lovely side effect of making your dog love you even more! I do not use harsh punishment methods, as they can have unpleasant side effects, including damaging your relationship with your dog. If you’d like to learn more about my methodology and approach to dog training, click here.
The TC Training Method
The Treasured Creatures method is based on a scientific understanding of dog behavior and how training can change behavior over time. We use positive reinforcement and management to help you change your dog’s behavior in a fun and non-aversive way that helps you build a strong bond with your dog. Management, using the environment to restrict your dog’s choices, makes unwanted behaviors less likely and desired behaviors more likely. Rewarding desired behaviors makes your dog more likely to do them again.
My methods have the lovely side effect of making your dog love you even more! I do not use harsh punishment methods, as they can have unpleasant side effects, including damaging your relationship with your dog. If you’d like to learn more about my methodology and approach to dog training, click here.
Private Day Training
Treasured Creatures offers training programs customized to fit your goals for your dog’s behavior and your dog’s personality. Each session, an experienced trainer spends 80 minutes training your dog or training you how to maintain and progress your dog’s training. An experienced, educated dog trainer can get a higher level performance from your dog faster than a beginner trainer. You will then learn training skills with a dog who is already familiar with the behaviors. This program makes training your dog so much faster and easier!
Behaviors on Cue
- Name Response – Your dog will learn to respond to his or her name by turning toward the person who said it. Getting your dog’s attention is a vital part of basic obedience training. Once you have his or her attention you can ask for another behavior.
- Sit – Everyone knows this one! It means ‘plop your butt down.
- Down – This cue means ‘lay down,’ not to be confused with ‘off,’ a cue that means ‘four paws on the ground.’
- Stay – This cue means ‘hold position until released.’
- Place – This cue means ‘go to the mat and lay down until released.’ It works just like ‘stay’ but with a specific target for the dog to go to before holding position. This behavior will be useful for teaching your dog to be calm in a variety of situations. This behavior can be transferred from the mat to a dog bed.
- Free (release cue) – The word ‘free’ is the release cue for stay and place. Your dog will learn to respond to this cue by getting up and moving.
- Recall (come) – Your dog will learn to more consistently come when called.
- Leave It – This cue means ‘don’t take that thing you’re currently focused on.’ This cue can be used to teach your dog not to eat trash off of the ground, not to steal things off of counters, and to only take things from people when they offer them up.
- Drop – This cue means ‘spit out whatever is in your mouth.’
- Hand targeting – Your dog will learn to bump your hand with his or her nose on cue. This behavior allows you to control your dog’s movements and can be used to teach other behaviors that involve moving into position.
- Off – This cue means ‘put four paws on the ground’.
- Name Response – Your dog will learn to respond to his or her name by turning toward the person who said it. Getting your dog’s attention is a vital part of basic obedience training. Once you have his or her attention you can ask for another behavior.
- Sit – Everyone knows this one! It means ‘plop your butt down.
- Down – This cue means ‘lay down,’ not to be confused with ‘off,’ a cue that means ‘four paws on the ground.’
- Stay – This cue means ‘hold position until released.’
- Place – This cue means ‘go to the mat and lay down until released.’ It works just like ‘stay’ but with a specific target for the dog to go to before holding position. This behavior will be useful for teaching your dog to be calm in a variety of situations. This behavior can be transferred from the mat to a dog bed.
- Free (release cue) – The word ‘free’ is the release cue for stay and place. Your dog will learn to respond to this cue by getting up and moving.
- Recall (come) – Your dog will learn to more consistently come when called.
- Leave It – This cue means ‘don’t take that thing you’re currently focused on.’ This cue can be used to teach your dog not to eat trash off of the ground, not to steal things off of counters, and to only take things from people when they offer them up.
- Drop – This cue means ‘spit out whatever is in your mouth.’
- Hand targeting – Your dog will learn to bump your hand with his or her nose on cue. This behavior allows you to control your dog’s movements and can be used to teach other behaviors that involve moving into position.
- Off – This cue means ‘put four paws on the ground’.
- Name Response – Your dog will learn to respond to his or her name by turning toward the person who said it. Getting your dog’s attention is a vital part of basic obedience training. Once you have his or her attention you can ask for another behavior.
- Sit – Everyone knows this one! It means ‘plop your butt down.
- Down – This cue means ‘lay down,’ not to be confused with ‘off,’ a cue that means ‘four paws on the ground.’
- Stay – This cue means ‘hold position until released.’
- Place – This cue means ‘go to the mat and lay down until released.’ It works just like ‘stay’ but with a specific target for the dog to go to before holding position. This behavior will be useful for teaching your dog to be calm in a variety of situations. This behavior can be transferred from the mat to a dog bed.
- Free (release cue) – The word ‘free’ is the release cue for stay and place. Your dog will learn to respond to this cue by getting up and moving.
- Recall (come) – Your dog will learn to more consistently come when called.
- Leave It – This cue means ‘don’t take that thing you’re currently focused on.’ This cue can be used to teach your dog not to eat trash off of the ground, not to steal things off of counters, and to only take things from people when they offer them up.
- Drop – This cue means ‘spit out whatever is in your mouth.’
- Hand targeting – Your dog will learn to bump your hand with his or her nose on cue. This behavior allows you to control your dog’s movements and can be used to teach other behaviors that involve moving into position.
- Off – This cue means ‘put four paws on the ground’.
Good Manners
- Loose Leash Walking – walk with the handler and keep slack in the leash
- Greetings – greet people politely without jumping, mouthing, or becoming overly excited
- Door Manners – wait for permission before going through doorways and before exiting a car
- Guest Manners – sit politely while guests enter the home and wait for permission to greet them
- Grooming Consent – accept grooming like nail trims, teeth brushing, hair brushing, and hair cuts
- Loose Leash Walking – walk with the handler and keep slack in the leash
- Greetings – greet people politely without jumping, mouthing, or becoming overly excited
- Door Manners – wait for permission before going through doorways and before exiting a car
- Guest Manners – sit politely while guests enter the home and wait for permission to greet them
- Grooming Consent – accept grooming like nail trims, teeth brushing, hair brushing, and hair cuts
Behavioral Issues
Treasured Creatures offers help with mild to moderate behavioral issues, including those listed below. If you are unsure whether your dog’s behavioral issues are moderate or severe, contact us so we can help determine that. If your dog’s behavioral issues are too severe for us to handle, we will refer you to a qualified behavior specialist.
Reactivity on Walks
Dogs who are reactive while out on walks lock in on something like another dog, a person, or a squirrel and then react explosively with behaviors like lunging and barking. Sometimes a dog’s reactivity seems to stem from over-excitement and a desire to meet/chase the object of interest, while other times it seems to stem from fear and a desire for the thing to go away.
Sound Reactivity
Dogs with sound reactivity are overly startled by certain noises and may take a while to recover from the scare. Sounds that often trigger sound reactivity in dogs are thunder, fireworks, and construction.
Resource Guarding
Dogs who resource guard show signs of stress when they have a valued resource and someone approaches them, touches the item, and/or touches the dog. This may include stiffening, widening of the eyes, grabbing the item and moving away with it, growling, snapping, and biting. Even if your dog’s resource guarding seems manageable, it can still lead to a bite incident if something unexpected happens such as a plate of chicken drops and breaks on the floor.
Reactivity on Walks
Dogs who are reactive while out on walks lock in on something like another dog, a person, or a squirrel and then react explosively with behaviors like lunging and barking. Sometimes a dog’s reactivity seems to stem from over-excitement and a desire to meet/chase the object of interest, while other times it seems to stem from fear and a desire for the thing to go away.
Sound Reactivity
Dogs with sound reactivity are overly startled by certain noises and may take a while to recover from the scare. Sounds that often trigger sound reactivity in dogs are thunder, fireworks, and construction.
Resource Guarding
Dogs who resource guard show signs of stress when they have a valued resource and someone approaches them, touches the item, and/or touches the dog. This may include stiffening, widening of the eyes, grabbing the item and moving away with it, growling, snapping, and biting. Even if your dog’s resource guarding seems manageable, it can still lead to a bite incident if something unexpected happens such as a plate of chicken drops and breaks on the floor.
Sound Reactivity
Dogs with sound reactivity are overly startled by certain noises and may take a while to recover from the scare. Sounds that often trigger sound reactivity in dogs are thunder, fireworks, and construction.
Resource Guarding
Dogs who resource guard show signs of stress when they have a valued resource and someone approaches them, touches the item, and/or touches the dog. This may include stiffening, widening of the eyes, grabbing the item and moving away with it, growling, snapping, and biting. Even if your dog’s resource guarding seems manageable, it can still lead to a bite incident if something unexpected happens such as a plate of chicken drops and breaks on the floor.
Separation Anxiety
Dogs with separation anxiety will show signs of stress as they watch their owners perform the activities they typically perform before leaving the dog home alone such as putting on shoes, grabbing keys, and bustling around. They may leave sweaty paw prints on the floor, pant, drool, yawn, or whine. Once left alone, their anxiety will intensify, and they will exhibit stress induced behaviors such as barking or yelping, digging or biting at doors or windows, destroying furniture, soiling the floor, and biting/scratching at their own body.
Stranger Anxiety
Dogs with stranger anxiety exhibit signs of stress around people they aren’t familiar with. Some dogs with stranger anxiety will cower, hide, and try to escape. When that doesn’t work, they may exhibit aggressive behaviors like growling and even biting. With these dogs, a bite incident is less likely if unfamiliar people keep their distance. Other dogs with stranger anxiety will growl, stiffen, stare with wide eyes, and may even move towards the unfamiliar person who is causing them anxiety, making a bite incident more likely.
Stranger Anxiety
Dogs with stranger anxiety exhibit signs of stress around people they aren’t familiar with. Some dogs with stranger anxiety will cower, hide, and try to escape. When that doesn’t work, they may exhibit aggressive behaviors like growling and even biting. With these dogs, a bite incident is less likely if unfamiliar people keep their distance. Other dogs with stranger anxiety will growl, stiffen, stare with wide eyes, and may even move towards the unfamiliar person who is causing them anxiety, making a bite incident more likely.
Stranger Anxiety
Dogs with stranger anxiety exhibit signs of stress around people they aren’t familiar with. Some dogs with stranger anxiety will cower, hide, and try to escape. When that doesn’t work, they may exhibit aggressive behaviors like growling and even biting. With these dogs, a bite incident is less likely if unfamiliar people keep their distance. Other dogs with stranger anxiety will growl, stiffen, stare with wide eyes, and may even move towards the unfamiliar person who is causing them anxiety, making a bite incident more likely.
Crate Anxiety
Dogs with crate anxiety may resist entering their crate. Once closed inside, they will exhibit signs of stress such as paw pad sweating, panting, drooling, yawning, biting or pawing at the bars of the crate, soiling the crate, and vocalizing with whining, yelping, or barking. Some dogs with crate anxiety are even afraid of the noise the crate makes when touched.
In Home Day Training Prices
| Number of Sessions | Price Per Session | Total Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $90 | $90 |
| 4 | $85 | $340 |
| 8 | $80 | $640 |
| 12 | $75 | $900 |
| 16 | $70 | $1120 |
Contact Us
Call or text us
+1 614-535-6689
Email us
sydney@sydneystreasuredcreatures.com
Contact Us
Call or text us
+1 614-535-6689
Email us
sydney@sydneystreasuredcreatures.com