About SCS – Strategic Canine Solutions

What they offer

SCS – Strategic Canine Solutions is a dog training business at 1023 N Andover Rd in Andover, run by owner and training director Zane Nickel. Its booking page describes it as a dog trainer in Butler County and lists private sessions, online sessions, phone and video consultations, e-collar training, several board-and-train programs, and protection training, which requires a protection evaluation first.

Private sessions

Basic private sessions cover sit, down, place and recall, leash walking and pulling, focus around distractions, jumping and structure at home, and teach owners how to work with their dogs. Advanced sessions work on duration, recall under distraction, heel work in real-world settings, impulse control and, when a dog is ready, off-leash reliability.

Board and train

Standard programs of two or four weeks build obedience foundations; advanced programs of six or eight weeks add off-leash obedience and proofing. Behavior modification programs of three, five or eight weeks work on managing triggers, and gundog programs introduce field work, live birds, retrieving and gunfire. Each program ends with an owner transition and maintenance plan.

About the trainer

The about page says the owner has over 14 years of experience training dogs, including work with high drive working breeds in protection sports, IGP, competition obedience, nose work and tracking, and describes hands-on, informative coaching.