Private Dog Training & Behavior Consults in Arlington, VA

Length: One 30-minute consult by phone.
Cost: $55
Prerequisite: None

           

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The trainer will review your registration, ask questions, and provide suggestions on next steps unique to your goals. This is a great option if you are unsure which direction to start. It is also helpful if you miss a group class or want additional individual time to discuss with a trainer, that perhaps a group class cannot accommodate. A phone consult can also be used as a good check in on progress, or if you've taken a break from active training and find some behaviors are regressing, a trainer can help you develop a plan to get back on a goal oriented path.

Length: One 60-minute private training session.
Cost: $180
Prerequisite: None

           

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- Have you recently brought a new dog into your home?
- Are you struggling with your dog's behavior?
- Do you want individualized advice and support?
- Are you unsure where to start, or what your dog needs?

Begin your training journey with a personalized consultation designed to set you and your dog up for success. During this one-hour session, we will discuss your goals and any current challenges. Your trainer will offer guidance about management and training exercises to begin addressing your and your dog's needs. You'll receive practical strategies and training exercises you can start using right away to help you manage challenges, build new skills, and strengthen your partnership with your dog.

After the session, you will receive a personalized action plan to help you confidently apply the strategies and guidance discussed during your consultation. This is a great first step for anyone seeking professional guidance, one-on-one support and coaching, and a personalized approach tailored to you and your dog.

Length: One 60-minute private training session.
Cost: $205
Prerequisite: None

           

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Description
- Have you recently brought a new dog into your home?
- Are you struggling with your dog's behavior?
- Do you want individualized advice and support?
- Are you unsure where to start, or what your dog needs?

Begin your training journey with a personalized consultation designed to set you and your dog up for success. During this one-hour session, we will discuss your goals and any current challenges. Your trainer will offer guidance about management and training exercises to begin addressing your and your dog's needs. You'll receive practical strategies and training exercises you can start using right away to help you manage challenges, build new skills, and strengthen your partnership with your dog.

After the session, you will receive a personalized action plan to help you confidently apply the strategies and guidance discussed during your consultation. This is a great first step for anyone seeking professional guidance, one-on-one support and coaching, and a personalized approach tailored to you and your dog.

Length: Package of four or eight 60-minute sessions.
Cost: See package options below
Prerequisite: None

       

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Description
This package includes four one-hour private lessons designed to support your dog's learning and strengthen your partnership. We'll focus on your specific goals, address current challenges, and provide personalized guidance on training exercises and management strategies. You'll learn practical techniques you can start using right away to build new skills, address challenging behaviors, and enhance your bond with your dog. This package is ideal for anyone seeking one-on-one coaching, professional guidance, and a customized approach tailored to you and your dog.

This package is designed to address challenges related to general manners, mild impulsivity, enrichment and development, or age-specific behaviors. For a puppy, your needs might be house training, nipping, and assured well-being. For a new adult dog, maybe it's leash manners, recalls, or acclimating to the home and bonding. You pick the goals, we present a path to get there.

For more complex behaviors such as anxiety, reactivity, fear, or anything related to intense emotions, we recommend registering for a Behavior Package.

Sessions can be held in the comfort of your home, which allows us to work in your dog's everyday environment, however we have a small travel radius for at home sessions. In many cases, our facility is the preferred location as it offers additional space, access to equipment and supplies, and a controlled training setting for particularly challenging behaviors.

Package Pricing & Registration

- 4 pack at Facility: $580
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- 4 pack at Home: $680
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- 8 pack at Facility: $1050
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- 8 pack at Home: $1250
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Length: Package of eight 15-minute virtual sessions.
Cost: $825
Prerequisite: None

           

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A dog that pants, drools, whines, or barks when you're not home is a dog that needs help. Your dog might be having the equivalent of a human panic attack every time you leave. There are many causes, taken from mom too early, lack of socialization, general lack of confidence. There is also an answer, the Separation Package.

With this package, you will meet with your trainer weekly for 15 minutes online to discuss how the past week went. Your trainer will provide you exercises in between the face to face sessions. The exercises will be based on the progress or the diversion of your dog over the week.

Length: Package of five 45-minute sessions.
Cost: $550
Prerequisite: None

           

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Dogs benefit from interaction with other dogs. While we don't recommend that experience involve getting tangled in leashes, we do want you to see what constitutes good and compatible play.

Does your dog have leash reactivity and no friends? Did a new love in your life just get a dog? This package is designed for you to introduce your dog and a partner's or friend's dog to ensure you can have playdates, and maybe more, in the future.

Over five sessions we will explore best practices for introducing your dog to this other dog. We will leverage the facility and its playgroup setups. We want to see the dogs playing with parallel activity and energy. Ideally, the dogs take their own breaks. If one dog taps out and the other doesn't understand, we interrupt so the tapped out dog's cues can be respected and preserved for future play. We will show you when or how to guide the dogs and specific body displays of each dog to indicate how the play is going.

Length: Package of four or eight 45-minute sessions.
Cost: See package options below
Prerequisite: None

       

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Some dogs, for a variety of reasons, may struggle to cope with the world and the things they experience. This may look like a dog that lunges, barks, growls, or bites. It may also look like a dog that flees, hides, trembles, and avoids. These behaviors may be challenging to live with. They indicate a dog in distress. This package is designed to help build confidence, resilience, and coping skills in dogs that struggle in our human-world.

Behavior packages include 45-minute private training sessions that are highly customized to your situation and your dog's needs. You'll learn practical techniques you can start using right away to manage and prevent reactive responses, learn how to predict your dog's next move and what triggers them, and start building confidence and adaptive coping skills for you and your dog.

We may use some exposure therapy and skirt the edge of being under threshold. Despite best efforts to keep the exercises within grasp of what your dog will accept without shutting down progress, your dog may get a bit worn out. These sessions are a bit shorter than general sessions, simply because we are working with emotional triggers and those will be more taxing and tiring for the dog.

Sessions can be held at your home allowing us to work in your dog's everyday environment, however we have a small travel radius for in-home sessions. In most cases, our facility is the preferred location as it offers additional space, access to equipment and supplies, and a controlled training setting for particularly challenging behaviors. However if your dog suffers from car illness, or has high anxiety with new surroundings, it is recommended we start at home.

Package Pricing & Registration

- 4 pack at Facility: $700
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- 4 pack at Home: $800
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- 8 pack at Facility: $1350
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- 8 pack at Home: $1550
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Length: Package of five or ten 30-minute sessions.
Cost: See package options below
Prerequisite: None

       

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Description
In an ideal world, a dog walker is able to come into the home, whether or not their humans are home. They would be able to do the same functions you would if you were home (release the dog from the crate, put on their equipment such as a harness, collar and leash) and be able to walk out the door together for a typical walk. When the journey has ended, they return home, take off the equipment, secure the dog, and leave the home.

However, if a dog is consistently challenged by one or more of the above steps, it is time to incorporate a professional dog trainer. With this service, the trainer's role is to develop a protocol for the specific walker, whether from Fur-Get Me Not dog walking service or other providers, to acclimate the dog comfortability with this particular walker. For example, some dogs might need a slow introduction to a new walker. The trainer will identify the triggers that are making your dog react in a particular way and provide a recommended protocol to keep the dog walker safe and ensure your dog is comfortable. Our ultimate goal will be to reach a point where your dog can retain dog walks, when previously it was difficult.

- Are you concerned that your dog won't be comfortable with a dog walker?

- Does your dog hide from visitors in your home?

- Is it difficult for others to walk your dog (e.g., dog walkers, friends, neighbors, family)

- Has your dog tried to bite a dog walker in the past?

- Is your dog reactive to other dogs and the dog walker is having difficulty walking the dog?

For each dog, the progression will be unique. The first session will usually be with the trainer. Subsequent sessions will be with the trainer alone, the trainer and the dog walker, or the dog walker will come alone. This is a sample schedule (if using our dog walking service, the cost to include our dog walker is covered in this package):

- 1st visit - dog, client, and trainer

- 2nd visit - dog and trainer

- 3rd visit - dog, client, dog walker, and trainer

- 4th visit - dog, dog walker, and trainer

- 5th visit - dog and dog walker

- conclusion - client and dog trainer phone consult

The solution path and pace of the training will vary by dog. Your trainer will take steps to increase the likelihood of your dog's success for a smooth transition with the dog walker. Your trainer will meet with you and your dog initially for history and observation. Once your dog is comfortable with the trainer, through the subsequent sessions, the trainer will be developing a protocol for entering your home, introducing the walker to your dog, and finally having the walker practice being alone with your dog. Some sessions may involve the trainer working remotely with the walker. The overall goal is to provide physical and emotional safety of all in mind.

Package Pricing & Registration

- 5 pack at Home: $625
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- 10 pack at Home: $975
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Length: Single 30-minute Continued Support Session
Cost: $95
Prerequisite: Returning clients, previously completed a package within the last 6 months.

           

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One 30-minute Support Session for returning clients that previously completed a package of 5 or 10 sessions.

- Did you complete a package with us in the past 6 months?
- Are you having difficulty acclimating your dog with a new walker since we last worked together?
- Do you want a refresher on protocols? (e.g. dog walkers, friends, neighbors, family)
- Has something changed since we last worked together?

Length: One 60-minute private training session.
Cost: $160
Prerequisite: Completed a (non-reactive) private package or group class within the last 6 months.

           

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This consultation is for returning clients that have completed a (non-reactive) private package or group class within the last 6 months. During this one-hour session, your trainer can refresh your knowledge of previously learned exercises, introduce additional concepts to advance your skills, and guide you through the next step in your training journey.

- Have you reached a plateau in your training?

- Are you struggling with new or continued behavior challenges?

- Are there additional skills that you would like to learn?

Length: One 60-minute private training session.
Cost: $185
Prerequisite: Completed a (non-reactive) private package or group class within the last 6 months.

           

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Description
This consultation is for returning clients that have completed a (non-reactive) private package or group class within the last 6 months. During this one-hour session, your trainer can refresh your knowledge of previously learned exercises, introduce additional concepts to advance your skills, and guide you through the next step in your training journey.

- Have you reached a plateau in your training?

- Are you struggling with new or continued behavior challenges?

- Are there additional skills that you would like to learn?