About On The Spot Dog Training

Who they are

On The 'Spot' Dog Training LLC is a Springfield in-home training business. The About page says Lisa Smith established it in Springfield in 2002 and describes her as having 25 or more years of experience and having trained thousands of dogs; the home page puts the figure at over 28 years. Two colleagues are named. Frankie Micham is the chief group class instructor and group class administrator, joined the team in 2016, and her biography says she is a Certified Trick Dog Instructor through Do More With Your Dog and an AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator. Holly Small is listed as an assistant who came to the business first as a client and was trained up from there.

How the service works

The core of the business is private in-home training, and the site is direct about the shape of it – it describes loving to do what it does best, training your dog for you. Two separate programs are carried: in-home training for adult dogs and in-home training for puppies, the latter open to pups between eight weeks and five months and covering house training, chewing and nipping before moving to basic manners. Group classes run alongside for owners who want to train their dog themselves in company, and there is a practice-and-play group session open to current and previous in-home clients.

Service dogs

The site carries service dog training as its own service, described for people with disabilities who want to train a qualifying dog for full public access. That is a distinct line of work from the manners programs and worth asking about directly.

Area covered

The stated service area is Springfield, Nixa, Ozark and Republic, and the contact address published on the site is on S 13th in Ozark. An owner in Republic or Nixa is inside the normal catchment rather than at the edge of it.

What owners say

The testimonials the business publishes lean on the in-home format. One describes coming home from work to a trained dog. Another, from a couple who had already tried a different trainer, describes written homework assignments and being shown how to handle the dog. A third describes a two-and-a-half mile run on a loose leash after training.