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We Go Deeper Than Obedience
There's more to successful dog training than teaching your dog commands.
Think about a dog who gets so excited at the doorbell and almost knocks over Grandma. What about a dog who becomes frustrated the moment they can't have something they want?
Your dog can learn every command in the book, but those skills only go so far when fear, frustration, or excitement takes over.
Rather than approaching every dog with the same set of commands and expecting the same results, we use three layers of training to determine what your dog needs, where they're struggling, and how to help them make meaningful progress!
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Behavioral Preconditioning | REWIRE Method
This is the foundation of our approach.
We evaluate six essential behavioral capabilities: Regulation, Engagement, Willingness, Independence, Resilience, and Exploration.
Not every dog needs the same amount of each on. The skill is knowing what your dog needs most, when they need it, and how to adjust things along the way.
Through our REWIRE Method, we intentionally strengthen the behavioral capabilities that help dogs manage emotions, engage with their owners, build confidence, and navigate everyday life.
Resilience is about teaching a dog how to handle challenges, recover from setbacks, and develop confidence in their ability to work through difficult situations.
The goal isn't one who never gets scared, frustrated, startled, or overwhelmed. It's a dog who develops the coping skills to move through those experiences and recover afterward.
Resilience
Engagement training is about building a dog who genuinely wants to connect and interact with you.
The goal is for your dog to voluntarily look to you and seek out interaction, even when exciting, unfamiliar, or overwhelming things are happening.
Engagement
Willingness is the desire to try. Many dogs have low frustration tolerance, so when something confusing or difficult, they shut down, bark/lunge, panic, or don't try to problem solve.
Your dog will learn how to be more willing to keep trying without tipping into frustration or fear.
Willingness
Independence training is about helping your dog build security within themselves and confidence in their own choices.
The goal is for your dog to learn how to settle, move through uncertainty, and recover without needing constant reassurance.
Independence
Regulation is the dog's ability to settle internally. Many dogs have difficulty regulating after excitement, frustration, or anxiety.
Your dog will learn how to build true emotional and physical relaxation, so their body and brain can get back to neutral.
Regulation
Exploration is about helping a dog feel safe, curious, and confident.
Some dogs freeze, avoid unfamiliar things, or wait for their person to solve every problem for them. Exploration training helps dogs approach these situations voluntarily, rather than immediately avoiding them or becoming overwhelmed.
Exploration
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Obedience and Manners
This is where your dog learns the skills that make everyday life easier, from sit, down, and stay to leash manners, and come. We also address things that can make living with your dog frustrating, like jumping, excessive barking, counter surfing, and digging.
Obedience is a skill that develops through practice, consistency, and gradually increasing expectations. Depending on your dog's starting point and training program, that may mean establishing a solid foundation, improving consistency with familiar commands, or advancing those skills into more distracting, real-world environments.
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Behavior Modification | When Needed
Teaching a dog what to do isn't always the same as changing how they feel.
Imagine a dog who barks and lunges every time they see another dog on a walk. You could teach that dog to heel. That's valuable progress, but it doesn't necessarily mean you've addressed why the dog was reacting in the first place.
Maybe they're afraid. Maybe they're frustrated because they can't get to the other dog. Maybe their excitement escalates so quickly that they struggle to control themselves. Obedience can teach a dog how to behave in that moment, but it doesn't automatically change what's driving the behavior.
That's where behavior modification comes in. For some dogs, training needs to address more than the behavior you can see.
Not every dog needs this level of intervention. But for those who do, obedience is only one part of the work.
An Entire Team Behind You
Your Trainer Should Be Focused on Your Dog. Not Running the Entire Business.
At a lot of smaller dog training companies, the trainers are also the ones answering phone calls, handling sales consultations, scheduling appointments, preparing contracts, and keeping up with paperwork.
That's a lot of hats for one person to wear, and every one of those responsibilities takes time away from the work you actually hired them to do.
At Command Canine, we've built our company differently. We have a dedicated team handling the administrative and business side of things, so our trainers can focus on what they do best: training dogs and working with clients.
Having an entire team behind you goes beyond handling paperwork...
The Right Trainer for Your Dog
Our trainers bring different strengths, backgrounds, and areas of experience to the table. We take those differences into consideration when matching you with a trainer, so you're working with someone whose experience aligns with your needs and goals.
A Team That Actually Works Together
Our trainers aren't operating independently. They meet weekly to discuss cases, exchange ideas, and share their experiences. That means your trainer has access to perspectives and knowledge beyond their own.
Experienced Leadership and Ongoing Support
Our management team and Trainer Manager stay actively involved in supporting our trainers, reviewing progress, providing guidance, and helping them continue developing their skills.
You get the attention of a dedicated trainer, backed by the experience, collaboration, and support of an entire company.
We Take Professionalism Seriously
Being Good With Dogs Is One Thing. Running a Professional Training Company Is Another. We believe you deserve both.
You're trusting us with your dog, your time, and a financial investment.
You deserve to know exactly what you're getting into, what you can realistically expect, and that the company you're hiring will stand behind their work
We Set Realistic Expectations
We don't believe in promising overnight transformations or telling clients that every behavioral problem can be fixed in a few weeks.
Before training begins, we'll discuss your goals, recommend the program we believe is appropriate, and explain what we expect to accomplish.
We'll also be upfront about where your involvement comes in, because even the best training program requires consistency at home.
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We Follow Through on What We Promise
We believe clients deserve more than a dog who performs well for the trainer.
Depending on your program, that means daily progress updates, training videos, in depth, hands-on instruction for you, and follow-up support to help you continue the work at home.
We want you to understand what your dog has learned, how to maintain those skills, and what comes next!
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We Hold Ourselves Accountable
We believe a professional training company should stand behind its work, not simply move on once a program is completed.
That's why we've established our Command Canine Training Commitment.
If we fall short of adequately addressing an agreed-upon training priority, our management team will personally review the situation and work with you to determine the appropriate next steps.We can't promise that every behavioral problem will disappear, but we can promise to take responsibility for the services we provide and make a genuine effort to correct things when we fall short. We stand behind our training, and we believe you should expect us to.