About Walk This Way Canine Behavior Therapy

Who they are

Walk This Way Canine Behavior Therapy is a behavior practice run by Renee. Its own short history is the most useful thing on the site: it opened in New York City in 1999 and served Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens until 2019, at which point it moved up to the Catskills. That is two decades of city casework now being applied on the western side of the Hudson.

What they offer

The published work is dog training and behavior modification rather than a class-first curriculum. Board and train is offered for puppies under six months of age, with limited board-and-train options for adult dogs. Group classes run, and the site's own topic pages cover the everyday problems that bring people in — curbing a dog, dog-run manners, ringing a bell to go outside, and reactivity.

Where they travel

This is one of the few listings in Greene and Columbia County that publishes its travel radius town by town. The site names Hudson, Rhinebeck, Germantown, Kingston, Catskill, Saugerties, Woodstock, Cairo, Athens and Coxsackie, plus what it calls "all of the little towns in between." If you are on either bank between Catskill and Rhinebeck, you are inside it.

The city connection

The old client base has not been dropped: the site offers transport for board-and-train dogs from New York City and Westchester, which makes the Palenville base a realistic option for a downstate owner who wants their dog somewhere quieter for a residential program.

Getting started

The site's instruction is to use the contact page with questions, and it points readers to a separate page about Renee for background before booking.