About Best Friend’s Dog Training

This is Best Friend's Dog Training's Farmingdale location, on Marine Street, with its own published phone line. The business has trained dogs since 1999 and states a reputation for handling and rehabilitating dogs other trainers refuse – it says other trainers call it in to consult on their own difficult clients.

What is on offer at this location

The published menu is the company's full one: board and train in two, three and four week programs plus custom specialty programs; house breaking; group classes; in-home private training; a therapy dog and CGC certification path; and a service dog program for PTSD and diagnosed anxiety. The Obedience Lab and the MuttManners Academy are published as separate pages.

The residency, and who the site says picks it

The board and train is aimed at owners without the time to train consistently, owners going away, owners who are pregnant, and owners with a dog physically stronger than they are. The stated outcome is a dog reliable on and off leash and steady with the doorbell.

The certification programs

The therapy dog and CGC program coaches the handler as well as the dog – visitor etiquette, reading stress signals, professionalism on visits. The service dog program is task-specific: interrupting panic attacks or flashbacks, deep pressure therapy, and creating a public buffer, on top of public-access obedience. It usually runs four to eight weeks.