About Wags & Wiggles Positive Reinforcement Dog Training

An in-home practice across three towns

Wags & Wiggles Positive Reinforcement Dog Training has no training premises and does not pretend otherwise. It is a traveling practice, and its own page title states the catchment plainly: "Dog Trainer – Massena, Potsdam, Canton, NY." Sessions happen in the client's home, with a virtual track running alongside for owners who would rather work remotely, and the business also offers help "for newly adopted dogs adjust to their new home" – a service that matters in a county whose shelter, a few miles up the road in Potsdam, rehomes dogs year-round.

What is taught, and what it costs

The published service list is short and specific: puppy training, basic obedience, advanced skills, advanced manners, tricks, private in-home sessions, behavior consultations, leash work and troubleshooting, plus virtual sessions and virtual packages.

Unusually for this county, the prices are on the site rather than behind a contact form. A private in-home session is 65 dollars plus tax for the first hour and 45 dollars plus tax for any follow-up, and covers basic obedience, troubleshooting and hyperactivity. Behavior consultations are priced separately – 50 dollars plus tax for an hour or 28 dollars plus tax for thirty minutes remotely, and 85 dollars plus tax for the first in-person visit with 45 dollars plus tax for follow-ups, at an hour and a half. Virtual session prices are described as varying by package.

Behavior work is the specialism

The behavior consultation is where this practice puts its weight, and the published scope is explicit about the hard cases: "This service is for dogs of all ages with a wide range of behavior issues. Fear aggression, Separation anxiety, Hyperactivity, Cognitive dysfunction." The in-person version names the same ground – fear-based problems and aggression, separation anxiety, and cognitive dysfunction – and the remote version adds "separation distress / general anxiety" alongside basic obedience, advanced skills and advanced manners.

Cognitive dysfunction is a geriatric condition rather than a training problem, and seeing it listed points at the second half of the trainer's background.

The trainer

Brenda Nezezon is named on the site as the trainer. Her published biography reports five years of dog training and more than twenty years as a veterinary technician: "Brenda loves dogs of all shapes and sizes and is passionate about helping them become the best dog they can be." The experience above is the business's own account of itself; ask which bodies issued any credentials.

Where it works

The business names three towns rather than a street address. It travels to clients across that area, so ask whether it covers your town.