Diamonds in the Ruff
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About Diamonds in the Ruff
<h2>A full training menu, from at-home lessons to dock diving</h2>
<p>Diamonds in the Ruff is an Illinois dog training business whose site carries the tagline “Empowering Paws. Enlightening Minds.” and invites owners to “Elevate your training with education, and unlock your dogs potential.” The services page frames the offer as “an all encompassing dog training experience. From at home to on-site, we even offer board & trains for those tuff to crack pups,” and adds that competitive handlers can “try and set a new dock-diving record at our new pool!”</p>
<h3>What is bookable</h3>
<p>The published menu lists at-home lessons (“Connect with your dog at home and get most of your training in an environment your dog feels most comfortable”), on-site group lessons, board & train, day & train, dock diving, boarding, and four named group classes: Basic Manners, Canine Good Citizenship, Beginner Agility and Puppy Obedience. The site describes board & train as “three different courses, basic obedience (2 weeks), behavioral, & off-leash foundations (3 weeks).” The Canine Good Citizenship class is described as a six week group course that ends with the AKC CGC test, taken “with a certified CGC evaluator.” The Puppy Obedience class is a five week group class for puppies under 6 months old and “requires their first round of vaccines.”</p>
<h3>Prices the business publishes</h3>
<p>Diamonds in the Ruff prints its own prices. The services page lists at-home lessons “starting at $85”, on-site lessons “starting at $95”, board & train “starting at $40 per day”, boarding “at just $45 a day”, the Basic Manners, Beginner Agility and Puppy Obedience classes “start at $135”, and the Canine Good Citizenship class “start at $150”. The home page quotes on-site lessons at $85 and board & train at “$1500 -$1800”, so the two pages do not agree with each other; confirm current pricing with the business.</p>
<h3>Background the site gives</h3>
<p>The about page is written about Rachel and says the business name “comes from Rachel’s love of helping dogs in the shelter system,” that she “currently partners with Grundy County animal control where she fosters dogs and helps place them into homes,” and that she “has fostered over 100 dogs over the last three years.” The same page says she “began training and showing dogs when she was six years old,” started out in 4H with a Border Collie, and now competes “in disc, agility, obedience, and dock diving.” It describes her as “an AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator” who “has studied under both KPA and CPDT-KA certified trainers” — the site credits her with study under those trainers, not with holding those certifications herself. It closes by calling her “a relationship based trainer. Focusing on training both human and dog to strengthen their relationship.”</p>
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