About Gentle Canine Fitness and Training

What they offer

Gentle Canine Fitness and Training focuses on a healthy, happy relationship between owners and their dogs, looking after the dog's physical and emotional wellbeing alongside the household's needs. Its trainer is a licensed veterinary technician with a long-standing interest in behavior and a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner, with Fear Free and canine fitness training credentials.

Lessons

Services are currently private or semi-private sessions held at a veterinary clinic in Bangor, or online; semi-private sessions let two or three people share the cost. Lessons can cover manners such as sit, recall, down, stay, leave it, place and leash manners; puppy life skills such as early manners, socialization and confidence with new sounds and places; and mind and body enrichment including agility, rally obedience and exercise and enrichment plans.

Challenging behaviors

The trainer also works on leash problems, jumping, non-aggressive reactivity, mild separation anxiety, potty training, resource guarding, impulse control, fear and barking.

Approach

Training uses positive reinforcement only, without shock, prong or harsh corrections.