Owana Dog Training Services, LLC

04/22/2025

Joker working on the place cue and we established the remote collar training. In most cases I like to put the remote collar on after a day or two of them being here. Usually this means they understand the cues for the most part. Once it is on I will find the lowest setting they recognize. Once this is established I will do a handful of cues with the stim and be done for the day. Then the next day we will use it more frequently which is for almost every cue. After a few days we transition and only use it after we say no. This gives them a chance to listen without any pressure but they also learn that if they don't listen we as humans always follow through somehow whether that's with the leash, remote collar or our body language.

04/21/2025

Introducing Joker who is staying with us for a 2 week board and train. He of course has a lot of energy and is very much in his own head. His owners biggest concern is he is a huge puller on leash and barks at a lot of things he shouldn't. Let's get to work Joker!

04/16/2025

Ralph doing well with his public access training. He didn't bark at any suspicious people today and he is now hearing "off" means to avoid. Good job Ralph!

04/15/2025

Ralph, Teddy and chewy all getting along. Ralph gets to play for a bit and then we practice leaving everyone alone as part of his board and training he needs to be able to be called off of things. Teddy is just boarding and doing what he wants. Chewy is working on not having any accidents and is doing well.

04/10/2025

Ralph, Vinny and Teddy are all too fun to watch!

03/27/2025

Just some photos for the week.

03/22/2025

I get to work the board and train dogs with the boarding dogs and my own dogs. They offer a great distraction while I get them to listen while being pulled away to play I make sure they check in.

03/19/2025

Sometimes we play till dark and then some.

03/10/2025

We have Bane here staying for a 2 week board and train. He has resource guarding issues and has bitten. The goal here with Bane is to not only work him through all the obedience, loose leash walking, remote collar training and the behavior modification but to also make sure he doesn't bite again. He will get structure and we will hold him accountable for not listening to known commands and doing any unwanted behavior. It will really take predicting the future meaning we will always assume the worst so we can always be one step ahead and cut him off before anything bad happens. Can't wait to see what this meat head has in him!

02/25/2025

More fun in the snow

02/20/2025

Crazy dogs!

02/19/2025

We have Ralph, Maverick and Millie all boarding.

02/12/2025

Every now and then I like to look at my reviews to see what customers are saying and here is just one example.

★★★★★ "High praise for James. He helped my family with our three year old Wheaton Terrier. He was unruly, disobedient, and just barely feral. James spent two weeks intensively training my dog to truly be man's best friend. After training James provided intensive hands on owner training and...

02/04/2025

Amelia working on staying in place.

02/01/2025

Amelia is staying for a 2 week board and train to work on listening when in stressful situations. Can't wait to see how she does!

01/23/2025

Stopping Ranger from playing used to be a hard task but now it is simple. He understands "no" means to stop and pay attention. Not that he was misbehaving but it is good practice for those situational things such as bothering guests, jumping, puppy biting and anything else you can think of. You can now stop the behavior and give a new task to do. In this video we do "no" and then send to "place" to stop the behavior.

01/15/2025

Everyone is enjoying the nice day!

01/13/2025

Look at that face! This is Ranger staying for a 2 week board and train. He needs to work on his energy and when it's appropriate to play or relax. He's a big nibbler and jumper so we need to tackle that as well. However only really working with him a day he understands come, sit, down and place which is really good!