About Hudson Valley Dog Trainer

Hudson Valley Dog Trainer is a Westchester practice – the site's own title is "Dog Training in Westchester, NY" – and it has been running family manners classes and in-person private lessons since 2008.

Credentials, as published

Two are named and dated. The trainer is a Certified Fear-Free Professional and earned the CCUI certification in 2023. The framing throughout is science-based and, in the site's own phrase, "genuinely dog-friendly" – kind, clear and humane training that is meant to make learning fast.

What the lessons cover

Private lessons are conducted in person or over Zoom and are paced to the owner rather than to a curriculum, which the site presents as the point: they address the concerns you arrive with. The published range runs from getting a puppy or a new dog off to a good start through to more complex behavior work – being mannerly in the home, walking nicely on leash, "stranger danger", and dog-to-dog issues – plus recall, nuisance behaviors, impulse control, and work with rescue and shelter dogs.

Where the classes happen

Foundation agility classes are taught indoors at Port Chester Obedience Club in White Plains. That is the one fixed venue the site names; everything else is private, in-home or online.

The rest of the site

A large part of the site is a free resource library rather than a sales page – puppy resources, reactivity and agility resources, nose work for dogs, loose-leash walking, adopting adult dogs from shelters, canine conditioning and fitness, and a reading list. It is a fair signal of how the practice presents itself: teaching-first, with the classes as one route in.