About The Heeling Shepherd

About The Heeling Shepherd

The Heeling Shepherd's headline is "Empowering YOU to bring out the best in your best friend",

"Offering comprehensive dog training in Grand Rapids, Michigan with a focus on making your dog make

sense!" The head trainer is named on the site as Sarah Sweet.

Approach

"Sarah utilizes an open minded approach to dog training, marrying a diverse set of skills to make real

behavior plans that work for real dogs and families. If you've ever felt left behind by your dog's

training plan, this approach is for YOU!"

The lineage is stated: "Apprenticing under internationally renowned Jerri Scherff of Tulsa Pack

Athletics, Sarah learned and adapted the Open Minded Approach, which 'focuses on humans, dogs, and

society as being one unit that benefits from the health of each individual pillar.'"

Day to day that runs as what the site calls the Daily Method: "clients have daily access to

communication, homework, video content, and check-ins from head trainer Sarah Sweet."

Services

– **Private Lessons** — "Our most popular service, private lessons offer customized dog training

delivered right to your door, because getting to the root of our training goals starts in the home.

Offering 4- and 7- lesson private training packages." The services page adds the specific skills:

"We offer private lessons for leash-walking skills, off-leash obedience, behavioral modification,

e-collar, invisible fence training and more!" The framing is owner-taught: "In private lesson

programs, I teach you how to train your dog!"

– **Virtual Consultations / Video Consulting** — "an accessible option for pet parents that want to

receive the same great training at a lower rate! Virtual consultations start as low as $75 per

session". Aimed at owners "Out of our service area", needing help between lessons, or with

scheduling constraints.

– **Pet Sitting Drop-In Visits** — listed as new: "you can now book a trusted, professional drop-in

visit for your pet". Visit lengths published are "15 minutes", "30 minutes", "45 minutes" and

"60 minutes", and "Before starting, we'll schedule a Meet & Greet".

The published list of what the video consultations cover is long and specific: "problem behaviors like

barking, digging, jumping, chewing, and begging", "polite leash walking", "potty training", "food

guarding", "mouthing", "fear aggression", "reactivity", "anxiety, fears, and phobias", "invisible fence

training", "off-leash training", "multi-dog households" and "canine good citizen preparation".

Getting started

A free consultation is published: "Schedule a FREE Consultation".

What clients say

Three testimonials are published. Trish D: "Dog training is about training the human to train his or

her dog and Sarah is very sensitive to the fact that everyone learns differently." Danielle S: "Sarah

gives clear directions on how to do things and her explanations for why it works and how it's viewed by

a dog helps it make even more sense… her education in veterinary medicine makes her an even more

valuable resource."