Are your dog's behaviors creating frustration in your life? Are you fed up, embarrassed, and at a total loss about what to do? So you feel like you and your dog are on totally different pages in the book of life? Are you afraid that you may have have made a mistake in getting a dog in the first place? Are you concerned that you may have to rehome your dog?
But are you also thinking - "I really don't want to learn to be a "dog trainer" - I just want to live peacefully with my dog!!" If so, you are not alone - and you have come to the right place!! We are the only certified provider of Family Dog Mediation Services in the Northern Neck.
With Family Dog Mediation Services, we will focus our lens on your dog's L.E.G.S. and explore how their Learning, Environment, Genetics and Self (life experiences) as well as evolution and the selections that humans have made over centuries of breeding dogs, have come together to create the single, unique, once-in-a-lifetime dog that is yours. You will gain a deeper appreciation about what makes your individual dog tick, what their experience of the world is what their needs and inner desires are AND we will help you get the behavior changes that you want and develop a new way of living together harmoniously with your canine companion, largely without teaching any formal "obedience" commands. This program emphasizes mutually enjoyable, cooperative living with your dog rather than "training" your dog.
Today's world has changed dramatically for us humans just in the last generation. Technology, housing, transportation, means of communication, life patterns, the nature of relationships and the sights, sounds and experience of our everyday lives have been transformed dramatically in a very short period of time. Now imagine how those changes have impacted the lives of our dogs. Think about how the life of the dog that you have today differs from the life of the dog you had as a child. The modern dog, like the modern human, is attempting to adapt to and navigate an ever-changing environment - and many are struggling to find their way, resulting in behavior that are problems foe their human caretakers. And most people have NO IDEA what to do about it!
In order to help the dog be more successful, we must first begin to understand WHY the problem behaviors are happening in the first place. We have to understand where they are coming from so we can begin to build the structure of a more cooperative and satisfying life together.
We will guide you and your dog to a meeting of the minds where mutual respect, appreciation, communication and life-style will help you and your dog chart a common course where what once were thought of as "behavior problems" melt away and are replaced by a more joyful, harmonious and peaceful life together.
Included in the Program: * L.E.G.S. Assessment * Breed/Genetic Profile * Personalized Life-Skills Plan * Everyday strategies to use for you and your dog * Personalized Activity Plan to allow your dog to express natural interests in acceptable ways * Helping your dog to learn to make good choices so you don't have to micro-manage him * Personalized help with common misbehaviors
Benefits: This program is all about learning to live with your dog in a joyful and mutually cooperative relationship that allows you to meet his physical and emotional needs in an ethical and humane manner, appreciate his uniqueness in all the world, and finally Delight in your Dog.
Most individuals and families meet the goals of this Program in 6-8 sessions.
