Tims Training Academy

03/03/2025

Reactive Dog Solutions
The Problems
If you have a reactive dog, you already know that ignoring the problem doesn’t work.
You also know that your dog is a good dog when they are not behaving reactively.

So many people tell me about the 90% of the time when the dog is great. They feel they need to justify loving the dog. I have seen this repeatedly. The thing we also know is, 10% of the time they are behaving reactively, if we don’t address it the behavior gets worse.
Why most people don’t get the help they need, typically comes down to 3 things.
1. They don’t know where to go for help.
2. The training is expensive.
3. Geographic access to the training is prohibitive.

This ends up with many dogs and people in bad situations. Dogs end up being isolated along with the owners. The dogs end up in shelters or rescues that make their behaviors exponentially worse.

As a trainer, I have been frustrated that we have not created better solutions that address the 3 reasons people don’t get the help they need (the dogs don’t get help either). I cannot duplicate myself to serve more people and traveling to homes takes away training time. We know how to address behavioral issues, just not how to address roadblocks to the training.

Solutions
1. Share this information so people know where to go for help.
2. Consulting and Training at every financial level without compromising quality of training/consulting.
3. Access to training/consulting online, over the phone, through emails, text and any other technology available.
I am now offering online reactive dog training class/consultation for just $15 per “student”. This will provide access to training at an affordable price. This will be like a group consultation as each attendee will have opportunities to ask specific questions and individual solutions will be offered.
I will also offer over the phone and online consultation for an hourly rate of just $30!! This is one on one time if done in your home would be $150.

This is just the start of doing things differently so I can have more impact and help more people and dogs.

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03/03/2025

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26/02/2025

Working with my friend Cowboy.

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06/10/2024

ATTENTION INDIANA K9 FRIENDS:
If you are interested in Search and Rescue or scent work and would like to help develop training and teams here in Indiana please PM me so we can get an idea of the level of interest.

06/09/2024

Meet Benny!! He is my new "Foster to train" he is available for adoption!!! He is one happy go lucky guy!!! Looking forward to getting to know him better.

06/09/2024

Loise was adopted yesterday. New foster came to me today.

23/07/2024

Asking for reviews and comments. Thanks

11/07/2024

Playgroups for shelters not only give dogs the mental stimulation and social interactions they need but they also allow people to see the dogs as they do what dogs do. I'm proud to be a friend of Elizabeth Reichanadter from Indy Humane and to see what she is doing to change dogs lives.

21/06/2024

Out on my walk and this dog is loose. Obviously someone's dog since he has a harness. He walks along with me but won't come close enough for me to catch him or read his tag.

I know I've seen him somewhere before but it has been awhile. He keeps following me and walking parallel to me, even waiting for me to catch up at times. We walk a full 1 mile back to the house and he just follows me right into the fence. I close the fence and he walks to the back door.

He finally lets me pet him. At this time I know I've worked with him before. His tag said Dutch and then I remembered I trained him at the house for a week last year.

Call the owners and they come and get him. Tag (Phone #) and chip your dogs so they never have to enter the shelter system in the first place. Dutch was happily reunited with his family and we were laughing about me being the one to find him.

02/06/2024

Of course Stevie B needs to check the whiskey selection.

01/06/2024

This is Stevie B. He is my new foster to train. You will be seeing a lot of photos and videos of him coming up. He is available for adoption.

Please share all of my posts about him.

01/03/2024

$20 for a 2 hour workshop!!! 765-208-5973 to sign up.
I will be covering
1. Managing the multiple dog home.
2. How to properly introduce a dog to your home. (with or without other dogs)
3. Keeping the progress towards better behavior.

It's going to be a great training with Tim in March!! If you came in January you were blessed to learn many great strategies to manage your pets unwanted behaviors. Please message us if interested in joining us! Only $20!

10/01/2024

We have some great things lined up for 2024, and we start with announcing dog training/education classes that will begin once/month with Tims Training Academy! Owner, Tim Harstock, is also a board member with Ambassadors for God's Creatures and we are excited to be able to offer these classes to the public. Please consider attending. These classes are not for you and Fido, but rather it's an opportunity to come and learn from an experienced trainer, and then ask questions specific to concerns and problems you might have about your dog.
I hired Tim to help me with my new puppy, Lucien, as I really doubted my ability to raise a puppy and manage his behaviors. Tim met with us and based on all I learned and the reassurance he provided, I felt much more confident about being a good dog mom to this crazy pup.