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We Can Ease Your Dog's Panic
These behaviors are typically due to a panic disorder caused by fear, stress, or low confidence. Most often, the dog is trying to communicate that he is very unhappy, but the owners aren't aware, and keep putting him in negative situations. This can cause the dog to lash out, such as by gnashing teeth, biting, barking, or crying. This can lead to a frustrating life together, and can cause some people to ultimately surrender their dog to a shelter or rescue. We want to help you avoid this outcome!
Resolving these issues can also unlock your dog's ability to learn manners and listening skills, such as loose-leash walking. It is very difficult to perform these skills when panicked. By relaxing your dog's mind, an entire new world of possibilities can be opened to you.
By going through our Behavioral Modification program, your dog will have the best chance at overcoming these challenges, and living your best life together.
Tucker Pup's offers comprehensive training programs to help your dog overcome behavioral challenges such as:
- Leash reactivity to humans or dogs
- Separation anxiety
- Resource guarding
- Fear aggression
- Nuisance barking
- Elevator anxiety
- Noise phobias
- Barrier aggression / reactivity
- Any other challenge related to fears, anxieties, reactivity, or low confidence
We Can Ease Your Dog's Panic
Resolving these issues can also unlock your dog's ability to learn manners and listening skills, such as loose-leash walking. It is very difficult to perform these skills when panicked. By relaxing your dog's mind, an entire new world of possibilities can be opened to you.
By going through our Behavioral Modification program, your dog will have the best chance at overcoming these challenges, and living your best life together.
Reviews
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Deliverables
- Dog Diagnostic: We can conduct a Dog Diagnostic where we observe the behavior, ask you questions, and analyze your home environment. If you live within our travel boundaries, your trainer will come to your home to analyze factors that may be impacting your dog's behaviors. If you live too far away, you can come to our Training Center, we can use Zoom or similar tool to get a sense of your dog's home situation, or you can create a video that we review together.
- Training Sessions: We will have regular meetings to discuss your dog's behaviors and our recommended strategies. In our sessions, we will be working with your dog on situations and strategies that are geared towards resolving the behavioral challenges.
- Home Exercises: We will give you home exercises to work on, so your dog can learn through repetition.
- TrainTrack™: you will have access to TrainTrack, our proprietary online system for accessing your homework exercises, videos, handouts, and a documentation of our recommendations. You can access TrainTrack from any device including your mobile phone.
- Logging Tools: We will give you tools for logging your progress at home. This can be very helpful for spotting trends or identifying factors that are impacting your dog's behaviors.
- Video Analysis: Throughout the program, you can upload videos to us of your dog exhibiting the behaviors, and your trainer can analyze them in order to give you feedback.
- Post-Training Checkins: You can have multiple checkins over Zoom, a phone call, or meeting at our facility for up to a year after the program ends, to ask questions and confirm that you are on the right path.
Location
We can work at our training facility, at your home (if you live within our travel boundaries), or a combination of both. Our training facility is located at 1046 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL. This is in the West Loop, around the corner from our pet resort.
Working in our training facility has many advantages. For example, we have equipment such as cones and different walking harnesses, multiple private lesson rooms, different treats, other dogs and people who could be involved in a session, and more.
Positive Reinforcement
We only use positive reinforcement to achieve results. This means we desensitize your dog through rewards and praise, in order to create repeatable behaviors such as self-control and self-soothing. Our methods are based on science, are used worldwide, and can work wonders. We do not use shock collars, prong collars, choke chains, yelling, and other negative methods, which can typically make the situation much worse. Think about it: if you were afraid of snakes, do you want someone to help you get over your fear, or just yell at you to not be afraid anymore?
We Instill Trust, Not Fear
Cailin Patracon, CPDT-KA, CPT
Dog Trainer
We asked Cailin's help in training our dog, Molly, to use a ramp to get into our car and for tools to reduce Molly's reactivity to other dogs on the elevator as well as during walks. After a second session, Molly used the ramp to get into and out of our car like a champ. Cailin gave us several approaches to manage Molly's reactivity -- which we are using and are making a difference. Cailin is a very effective trainer-- great with our dog and patient with us. She doesn't over complicate but looks for the most straightforward and effective method to get the job done. We were extremely happy with her training, are very likely to use her again and will gladly refer her to others.
- Barbara Shomaker
TrainTrack™ Online Portal
Re-Watch Training Exercises on Your Device
Tucker Pup's offers a proprietary online system called TrainTrack™ that revolutionizes the way dogs are trained.
The trainer will show you the exercises in person, then you can access TrainTrack to see the homework and other helpful information. Many exercises include videos, and all of them include instructions. It also includes handouts and a documentation of what you covered. This is incredibly helpful because there is a lot of information to take in, and it can be hard to remember everything that was demonstrated and discussed.
In addition, you can log your progress on TrainTrack as you are working on your home exercises. This can be invaluable for ensuring that you spend enough time, in various settings, for your dog to learn the methods thoroughly.
For private lessons, you can even upload videos to your trainer, and they can watch them in between sessions to help provide advice.
TrainTrack works on any Internet-connected device, so you can use it on your mobile phone, even when you're on a walk or working outdoors.
TrainTrack is used for all of our training services, including private lessons and classes.
To access TrainTrack, you must log in to our website. On your Customer Center, you will see the link to TrainTrack towards the top of the page.
The trainer will show you the exercises in person, then you can access TrainTrack to see the homework and other helpful information. Many exercises include videos, and all of them include instructions. It also includes handouts and a documentation of what you covered. This is incredibly helpful because there is a lot of information to take in, and it can be hard to remember everything that was demonstrated and discussed.
In addition, you can log your progress on TrainTrack as you are working on your home exercises. This can be invaluable for ensuring that you spend enough time, in various settings, for your dog to learn the methods thoroughly.
For private lessons, you can even upload videos to your trainer, and they can watch them in between sessions to help provide advice.
TrainTrack works on any Internet-connected device, so you can use it on your mobile phone, even when you're on a walk or working outdoors.
TrainTrack is used for all of our training services, including private lessons and classes.
To access TrainTrack, you must log in to our website. On your Customer Center, you will see the link to TrainTrack towards the top of the page.
Pricing and Payment
Individual lessons for behavioral modification range from $175 to $200, depending on the trainer. If we need to come to your home, there is a $10 additional fee per lesson, plus any parking fees that may be incurred.
Payment Options
- You can try a lesson before moving on with the entire program.
- You can pay over time.
- You could pay with PayPay Credit, enabling you to pay the balance in six months with zero interest, then monthly payments after that if necessary. You can easily apply through our website and gain acceptance from PayPal in a matter of seconds.
We can receive payment by credit card, cash, or check.
