About Shepherds K9 Services

Shepherds K9 Services works from a Mariposa Road address in Stanley, in Gaston County, and is run by one named trainer. Its published position is that bad behavior is usually the result of losing focus on the basics, and that the trainer's job is to educate the owner and train the dog to understand each other.

What it works with

The site says it takes dogs of all ages and breeds with a wide range of behavioral concerns, naming fear aggression, anxiety and resource guarding, and that regardless of the dog's past the business evaluates it and builds a training regimen specific to that dog and owner. In-kennel training – the dog boarding with the trainer for the duration – is the format described by its own clients, with the trainer continuing to answer questions long after the program has finished.

Background

The trainer's published background is in protection dogs: she describes traveling the country competing in eventing with her horse and hauling her own trailer with a protection dog at her side, and says that gave her firsthand experience of what life with a protection dog needs to look like – how bomb-proof the obedience has to be, and how owners need to prepare their dogs for social situations and handle them in public.

The published way in is a consultation call.