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Band of Canines — 5.0★ (10 reviews), Waverly Dog Trainer

Band of Canines

Certified★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 10 reviews
Waverly, WV area
Aggression & Bite PreventionBasic Obedience & MannersPuppy Training & Socialization
Waverly, West Virginia

Overview

FormatBoard & train, Group classes

About Band of Canines

Band of Canines is a dog training business working out of Waverly, West Virginia, in the Mid-Ohio Valley between Parkersburg and Belpre. It is a full-menu trainer rather than a single-specialty one: the services recorded against it run from puppy classes and the standard basic, intermediate and advanced obedience ladder through off-leash work, board and train, and private and at-home lessons, and on into specialist ground – rehabilitation for reactive dogs, service dogs for veterans, a therapy dog class, personal protection, and sport and scent work.

What this profile rests on, and what it does not

The service list above comes from the record the directory already holds for this business, compiled on 2026-09-09 from its own website. On 2026-09-17 that website could not be reached to re-read it, so this profile deliberately carries no prices, no quotations and no program lengths – only the kinds of training the business has been recorded as offering. It is worth saying why, because the alternative would have been easy and wrong: repeating a figure nobody can currently open the page to check is exactly the kind of detail that ends up being wrong on a public profile.

About the unreachable website

The site is not gone. Its domain still resolves normally on two independent public resolvers, and the failure is a connection timeout rather than a name that no longer exists – the sort of thing a network path or a host firewall produces, not a business that has closed. Nothing about the trainer's status should be read into it.

Location and reach

The business publishes no street address, so the directory record carries none. Its location is fixed by its own map coordinate, which falls in Wood County, West Virginia, in the Waverly area, and by its 304 area code – two independent signals that agree. The business is recorded as serving the wider Mid-Ohio Valley, including Belpre across the river in Ohio.

How to approach it

With no readable published menu at the moment, the sensible move for an owner is a phone call: ask which of these programs are running now, what they cost, and how long each one takes. If you are coming for one of the specialist tracks – reactivity work, a service dog for a veteran, therapy dog preparation or protection – ask specifically about that track rather than about training in general.

What they can help with

Early socialization, house-training and first manners for young dogs.
Sit, stay, recall and reliable commands, from beginner to advanced.
Reliable off-leash control: a dog that listens and comes back without a leash.
Your dog stays with the trainer for an immersive, multi-week program.
Help for dogs that bite, lunge or react out of fear or aggression.
Behavior modification for unwanted or problem habits.
Service Dog Training
Task training and public-access work for service-dog candidates.
Therapy Dog Training
Prep to visit hospitals, schools and care homes as a certified therapy dog.
Protection & K9
Protection and personal-defense work for suitable dogs.
Agility & Sport
Agility training: handling, obstacles and confidence-building.

Certifications & verification

GetDogSchool checks each credential against the official public registry. We mark Certified only what we could independently confirm. How we verify →
AKC CGC Evaluator
AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator; tests dogs for the AKC benchmark good-manners program. Confirmed in the AKC public registry.

Certified · AKC view entry ↗

Reviews

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 10 reviews · Google
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