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Eastside Dog Services

Helping your dog thrive through science based training! Eastside Dog Services provides a variety of customizable options for your canine companions!

Our goal is to get to know your dog and understand their needs. We want to be a part of creating and maintaining a healthy routine for your dog! Sometimes that includes walks, playtime, feeding or cuddles- we love it all! We provide you with the peace of mind that your best friend is well taken care of.

11/25/2025

Adolescent dogs are my specialty! Love those teenagers! They have wild brains and can have big behaviors too! But they won’t out grow these things without work!

Now is the time to do learn to ignore work and help create a more neutral mind and a more thoughtful dog! We do this with controlled exposure, distance and repetition of noticing things and releasing focus.

If you need help with your adolescent dog give me shout! I’d love to help bring some calm to the chaos!

11/19/2025

Meet Cashew! Our newest client, she’s SUPER CUTE! 8 mo old Frenchie that just landed at her new home in Rochester! She needs training with all the basics from potty and crate training to basic cues like sit & down as well as some help adjusting to her new surroundings!

Last night we started with some potty training work, and crate training. Introduced the proper ways to teach sit & down.

Like & follow for updates on Cashew!

11/18/2025

Practice on a leash, long leash if you’re ready. But the most common mistake is letting the dog ignore you and be rewarded by the environment, so use that leash until your overly confident or forever because following the law matters.

Reward all check ins! Volunteering check ins is good recall! They build a baseline that helps us read our dogs ability to listen and rewarding them build value in you so your dog will be more likely to listen when you need them to.

Have multiple cues! Controversial opinion!!!!
Cues can get over used and you don’t want to repeat them, recall is anything that gets your dog to you so I use their name and reward if they come to me, I use “Here” and reward when they respond by moving towards me and I use “touch” for them booping my hand and reward for that as well. Now I have a recall tool box!

Practice in variety of environments to your dogs ability! They need to practice all over the place to be good around a variety of distractions! Use that long line and get out there!

11/15/2025

Does your dog need help with leash skills? Don’t wait until spring to start!!

This is scout’s second appointment and he started due reactivity towards people and dogs and pulling on the leash including screaming!

We can make a big difference before spring and get you and your dog ready to handle the amount of distractions that spring time brings if we start now. Behavior just gets more difficult to modify over time so don’t wait! DM for a consultation today!

11/14/2025

What’s different about working with me in private training?

1) ongoing support for every stage of your dogs life and to meet your goals!

2) longer packages help make solid progress and improve your understanding of how to troubleshoot situations with your dog.

3) flexible schedules including evening and weekend appointments

4) I continue my education to give you up to date scientific information

5) I send Notes!! Every session. A plan at the beginning is our road map, from there you get follow up notes each session and on-going recommendations when we finish our package!

6) I care about you and your dog! I’m a total empath and I want to see you and your family and dog succeed.

7) I love working with the whole family, kids and all! Kids ask the best questions and help me hone my teaching skills!

8) I can meet you where your having the most challenging time and bring those class skills to life at home and in the park!

9) text me anytime! I love to keep in touch with my clients, I want to help with your challenges and hear about your successes!!

Are you ready to change your dog’s behavior for the better? Ready to build a bond of love that will get you results? DM me to set up a consultation!

11/13/2025

All of these are common feedback I hear but they indicate a slight misunderstanding of the training in the person and to me sound like it’s being successful!
1) if the dog gets the game - excellent! We are trying to teach “a game” and their role in it. For example when there’s a knock at the door - GAME ON! Go to your bed and get a treat! Winner!!

2)Yes of course they just do it for the treats, everyone needs motivation and pay offs! If we do this right and for long enough you can skip the food rewards and lower the value sometimes but don’t stop paying all together bc your dog will stop working for you. You probably quit a job with crappy pay too!

3) working the system- lovely! You can’t game a system you don’t understand!! If your dog is gaming the system let’s figure out if it works for us or if we need to make an adjustment. But that shows comprehension 🥳

11/11/2025

So many people wait too long to try get their dog’s attention. I did it here! No one is perfect and every dog is different. We still had to move and reward for release of focus.
Some tips here-

When their ears perk - you start working! Don’t worry about what they are looking at!

Distance matters work farther away and being successful is better than failing close up.

When your mark or name isn’t working - MOVE FAST! Build that space before it’s too late!

Build your marker with all sorts of stuff, not just triggers anything your dog notices from people to squirrels can be marked and rewarded.

11/10/2025

You can get ahead of reactivity in your puppy. There are predispositions of course, but there’s plenty of good habits you can start right away that will help prevent reactivity and if it did start you would way ahead in the training!

1) just watch the world but reward them consistently for giving you attention. Let them take in all the distractions from a distance, only interacting with you and getting rewarded for it! This is setting the foundation to make you the center of their world the coolest thing in every environment which is needed to keep their attention later in life!

2) Yes they stop barking/pulling etc when you say hi… but if you allow that to get them the greeting they will repeat that behavior and increase it when it doesn’t work. So get their attention then greet! Calm greeting are what we want!

3) only let them say hi to 1 person (and dog) each outing or 90% of the world should go by them and only interact with 10%. We don’t want to set up the expectation that they get to greet everyone that goes by so do this from the get go!

11/08/2025

Graduation day for Raleigh!!! We started out with a goal of recall and quickly realized he needed to work on being calmer around distractions and have better leash skills in a distracted environment in order to build up to recall work. Luckily he’s young and loves to work and train! His parents are great learners too!
We have worked on in 8 sessions -
🐾Leash skills & attention to handler
🐾Calmer behaviors around distractions, both sitting still and walking.
🐾Recall in the yard - WAY BETTER! Impressive 🥳
🐾Desensitization to bikes & runners - looking great from a distance.
🐾Place cue - increasing impulse control
🐾wait at the back door
🐾Play & settle

Raleigh has shown lots of improvement and growth, and his parents have the tools to keep it going! I’m sure I’ll work with them again as he progresses to his new goals but they got this!! Go Team Raleigh!!

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Rochester, NY

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+15856905300

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http://www.DogsROC.com/

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