Our Refresher Session is 1 hour, in-home & intended to review & strengthen previously learned skills you are looking to improve. This option is great for clients who have worked with us previously, or current clients who want to add on more sessions to their package.
In our 4 session Essential Foundations package, we cover fundamental training skills that are important for your canine companion to learn. Here are the topics we cover together when you enroll :
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Focus & Engagement
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Engage Disengage (reorienting attention to you from distractions)
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Drop It
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The Zen Game (Leave it)
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Recall
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Stay/Wait
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Relaxation & Settling
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Polite Greetings with Dogs & People
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Go to Mat
Our Advanced Foundations package consists of 5 sessions that focus on further full proofing foundational skills your dog know, ideal for dog parents who want to be able to bring their dog for adventures in the city. This package is ideal for those who have completed the Essential Foundations with us. Bundle offer of $200 off for booking both packages! Our sessions will incorporate working around public distractions, increasing engagement with you & recreating daily life scenarios so your dog can succeed in real life. This package is for you if you would like to :
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Improve your dog's engagement & focus on you outdoors
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Work on real life scenarios like settling at a park, cafe or patio
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Improve your dog's neutrality around distractions
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Teach your dog to be confident in well mannered in public pet friendly establishments
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Teach your dog polite greetings, or to be able to ignore other people & dogs
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Further solidify cues such as down, stay, recall, sit, & heel in the outside world
What is Included?
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The Essential Foundations package 4 x 1 hour private training sessions
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The Advanced Foundations package 5 x 1 hour private training sessions
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Initial Behaviour Consultation available either in person, virtual or a phone call
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Comprehensive Training Plan customized to you and your dog
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Client Email Support for any questions, updates or video feedback
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Summary Write Up of each session with training exercises to practice
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Video resources and exclusive handouts
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Ongoing support available during and after training together
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The Dog Mamaa certification of completion
Testimonials
Lena & Bao
"Gabrielle is an amazing dog trainer. I have a Chow Chow and. needed help on his loose leash walking and disengagement skills. Her expertise, empathy and patience really helped me as a first time dog mom. I appreciate the time she took to explain the exercises and made sure I knew how to do them properly so that I could train my dog on my own. She's incredibly responsive to any questions I had and was a phenomenal resource. I can't say thank you enough for empowering me to be a good dog mom!"
Faisal & Chai
We absolutely loved working with Gabrielle, who did an amazing job training our golden retriever, Chai. She really has a knack for communicating with dogs and their owners.
Gabrielle's lessons were clear and her clicker training method worked wonders. She helped us understand how to better communicate with Chai, which has made a world of difference.
The lesson plans were easy to follow, and Gabrielle was always patient and encouraging, even when we had questions or needed extra help. Chai responded so well to her training, and we're thrilled with the results.
What set her apart for us was the fact that we could email her questions at any time and she would help us with detailed responses right away. A terrific teacher!
Anna, Bruce & Alfie
Gabrielle was a pleasure to work with, and both of my dogs loved her. She was able to provide a lot of support and left copies of lessons behind, which was very helpful for me, as I was able to reference them later on. Both of my dogs had different issues that required work, and we were able to alternate and focus on one dog at a time. The in person training itself I think is very valuable as it allows for Gabrielle to not only work with your dog, but you as well. Also it provides a great opportunity to further strengthen the bond with your dog. Lastly, Gabrielle had a lot of great tips and suggestions to provide to me in regard to each of the dogs individual issues, which I found extremely useful. Overall, I found the training to be very insightful and beneficial. Not only do I feel more confident in continuing the training with my dogs and strengthening the skills learned, but it allowed my dogs to develop a great foundation to build upon as well. Thanks Gabrielle :)
Private Training Clients
Ready to Get Started?
The first step to embarking on our training journey would be a to book a behaviour consultation held via phone call, virtual or in person. This allows us to gather all important information & get to know you and your dog in order to offer valuable training tips & create the most effective training plan. It is $50 for the phone call or virtual, or $80 for in person. The fee is then credited towards your training package if you choose to proceed working together.
Package Rates : Refresher Session $145, Essential Foundations $450,
Advanced Foundations $550