About Wiggle Butt Academy

Positive reinforcement training in Plano

Wiggle Butt Academy is a positive reinforcement dog training team that runs group classes in Plano on Wednesday evenings and serves the DFW Metroplex in person, with virtual sessions anywhere. Founder and lead behavior consultant Nicole Kohanski (CTC, CDBC, CBCC-KA, Dip CBST, CSAT, FDM) leads a team of Fear Free Certified trainers and behavior consultants holding CPDT-KA, CBCC-KA, IAABC and Family Paws credentials. The team teaches dogs to respond to voice and hand signals, using markers and consequences the dog likes, and calls its approach kind training without fear, force or pain.

Programs

Services cover puppy programs, manners and obedience, reactive dog training, fear and aggression cases, resource guarding, separation anxiety with a Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer, board and train, day training, special needs boarding, nosework and support for families with babies and toddlers. Group classes include puppy, amateur agility, manners, Pattern Games and Canine Good Citizen prep and testing.

Pricing

Private sessions are billed per hour: $155 with a Fear Free certified trainer and $180 with a certified behavior consultant. Initial consults usually run 1.5 hours. Board and train is $1275 per week, boarding $85 per night per dog and day training $180. Travel fees may apply by location.

What owners say

One family wrote that their dogs "are friends now, which I truly never thought was a possibility!"