About Calm Family Dog Training

Balanced training in San Marcos

Calm Family Dog Training is a San Marcos dog training and rehabilitation business led by owner and head trainer Susan Cole, who customizes training plans around each family's problems. It promotes itself as voted Best Dog Trainer in Hays 2020 & 2023. The focus is educating owners and dogs to build balanced relationships through structure, leadership and obedience, with common goals like ending leash pulling, begging, counter surfing and jumping on visitors.

The trainer

Susan describes herself as a balanced trainer who communicates both yes and no. She came to training through Pepper, a reactive cattle dog mix she adopted and learned to manage with the help of balanced trainers, then began helping neighbors, family and friends. She completed T3: Train the Trainers with Jeff Gellman, Sean O'Shea and Tori Smith, and Dr. Ian Dunbar's SIRIUS Dog Trainer Academy.

What to ask

Ask which training programs are offered, whether sessions are at your home or elsewhere, how long a program lasts and what it costs. The local line is 737-471-CALM (2256).