About Best Life Canine

Best Life Canine is a Winston-Salem training company whose stated specialty is "relationship-based training and lifestyle programs", led by Andrea Rigby, named on the site as Training Director and owner.

The four programs

Puppy Training, Basic and Advanced Obedience, Behavior Modification Training, and Dog Walking and Dog Sitting are the published services. The business describes its programs as covering puppy raising, basic obedience, advanced off-leash obedience and behavior modification, and says they are made for "real life" – training for life at home and for going out with the dog.

What it says it actually gets called about

The site lists the problems it works on in the owner's own language rather than in training terms: social anxiety, destructive behaviors, jumping on people, resource guarding of food, toys, people and space, "stranger danger", generalized fear, phobias, pulling on leash, refusing to come when called, reactivity to people, dogs and environment, obsessive tendencies, nervousness, separation anxiety and excessive barking. Its framing is that the common struggles are often not obedience problems at all but relationship and emotional ones.

Practicalities

Board and train dates are published in advance – the site was booking August, September and October at the time it was read. A page called Sophie's Story explains the personal history behind the business, and there is a client log-in, FAQs and a blog.