Dog Trainers in Nassau County, NY
Nassau County has a great many dogs and a great many businesses serving them, and it is one of the hardest places in the fleet to work out which of those businesses actually trains dogs. Many of the dog businesses a map search turns up across the county are something else entirely: veterinary practices, grooming salons, boarding kennels, daycare franchises, dog walkers, pet-food shops, rescues, breeders and puppy sellers, county parks and ordinary retail. The dog trainers among them are the businesses listed here. Thirty-three of those publish enough on their own channels to describe in detail, and this hub links every one of them.The shape of the local market is unusual and worth understanding before you start calling. Nassau has almost no training facilities. Only a few run a building you can walk your dog into for a class – a 4,200 square foot facility in Carle Place with an indoor heated pool, a pet resort in Franklin Square, and a daycare in Freeport that runs obedience alongside its playgroups – and a handful run a residency program. Everything else comes to your house. That is not a gap in the market; it is the market. Land is expensive, most homes have a yard or a quiet street, and the county is small enough that a trainer can cover it from a car. The practical consequence is that when you compare quotes here you are usually comparing in-home private lessons against each other, not a class against a facility.The second thing to know is that the county divides into working areas that behave differently, and most trainers publish which ones they cover. A South Shore trainer in Wantagh who lists Bellmore, Merrick, Seaford and Massapequa is telling you something real about drive time on Merrick Road; a North Shore company in Manhasset that lists Port Washington, Roslyn, Glen Cove, Sea Cliff and Locust Valley is describing a different corridor entirely. A couple of them publish their service towns by name, and one says explicitly that it shrank its territory because demand outran its calendar. Ask the question early – it is the single most common reason a promising first call goes nowhere.Prices are published more often here than in most metros, which makes comparison unusually easy. In-home evaluations range from free to a modest fee depending on the business, several publish an hourly rate for private work, and multi-session packages bring the per-session price down. Those are real published numbers from businesses inside this county, not estimates, and they are broken down on our Nassau County dog training prices page.What follows is organized the way an owner actually searches: by where you live, by what your dog is doing wrong, and by which trainers have published something specific about it.
- Top-Rated Dog Trainers in Nassau County
- What Kind of Training Does Your Dog Need?
- Training Formats and Typical US Dog-Training Prices
- Dog Training Schools & Classes in Nassau County
- How to Pick the Right Trainer
- Dog Training by Nassau County Neighborhood
- Nassau County Dog Training Resources
- Common Questions About Dog Training in Nassau County
- Start Here
This page is your starting point. Whether you need puppy socialization, basic obedience, off-leash training, or help with a serious behavior problem, we’ll help you understand your options, what to expect, and how to connect with the right professional in Nassau County.
Top-Rated Dog Trainers in Nassau County
Compare Nassau County’s top-rated dog trainers below — each listing shows real Google reviews and, where we’ve checked them, certified credentials, so you can reach out with confidence.
What Kind of Training Does Your Dog Need?
Before you start comparing trainers, figure out which category your dog falls into. This determines the type of training, the format, and the realistic timeline.
Puppy (8 weeks to 5 months)
Priority: socialization and foundation habits. This is the most time-sensitive stage — the critical socialization window closes around 16 weeks, and what your puppy is exposed to during this period shapes their temperament permanently. Group puppy classes are ideal. Read our full guide: Puppy Training in Nassau County.
Adolescent dog (5 to 18 months)
Priority: obedience and impulse control. This is the stage where most owners hit the wall — the cute puppy has turned into a teenager who jumps on guests, pulls on the leash, and has developed selective hearing. Group obedience classes or private lessons work well here. Consistency is everything.
Adult dog — new to training
Priority: basic obedience and household manners. It’s never too late. Adult dogs are often faster learners than puppies because they have longer attention spans.
Adult dog — specific behavior issue
Priority: targeted behavior modification. Reactivity, aggression, separation anxiety, resource guarding, excessive barking. These issues need a qualified trainer or behaviorist — not a group class. Start with a behavior consultation.
Any dog — intensive training needed fast
Priority: results on a compressed timeline. Board-and-train programs offer intensive daily training over 2 to 6 weeks — the fastest path to results when done right.
Training Formats and Typical US Dog-Training Prices
The formats below are the same everywhere; the figures are national ranges, not Nassau County rates. Prices vary by city and by trainer — confirm directly with the trainer before you book.
Group classes
Best for socialization and foundation obedience. Meet once a week for 5 to 6 weeks with other dogs. Most affordable option. Typical US range: $150 to $300 for a full course.
Private lessons
One-on-one with a trainer at their facility or your home. Best for specific goals, reactive dogs, or customized plans. Typical US range: $100 to $175 per session (facility) or $125 to $200 (in-home).
Day training
Your dog goes to the trainer during the day and comes home at night. Great for working professionals. Typical US range: $75 to $125 per day.
Board and train
Your dog stays with the trainer for 2 to 6 weeks. Most intensive option. Typical US range: $1,500 to $6,000+ depending on length and complexity.
Behavior consultation
A diagnostic assessment for serious behavioral issues — a professional evaluation that produces a treatment plan. Typical US range: $200 to $400 for the initial assessment.
Dog Training Schools & Classes in Nassau County
Looking for a dog training school or group obedience classes in Nassau County? Plenty of local trainers and facilities run weekly group classes — a structured, affordable way to cover socialization and basic obedience alongside other dogs. Browse dog obedience classes in Nassau County, or use the trainer directory above to compare every dog school and trainer in the Nassau County area by specialty, reviews and price.
How to Pick the Right Trainer
Choosing a dog trainer is a lot like choosing a doctor — credentials matter, but so does communication style, philosophy, and whether you trust them with someone you care about.
Training methodology
This is the most important factor and the one most people skip. Dog training ranges from purely positive reinforcement (rewards only) to balanced training (rewards plus corrections). There is no single “right” approach — but there IS a right approach for your dog. A fearful rescue needs a different approach than a confident, drive-y working breed. Ask every trainer what tools and methods they use, and don’t commit until you understand and agree with their philosophy.
Credentials
Look for recognized certifications — CPDT-KA (Certified Professional Dog Trainer), KPA-CTP (Karen Pryor Academy), IACP, AKC CGC Evaluator, or for complex behavior, a CAAB or veterinary behaviorist. Credentials aren’t everything — some of the best trainers built their skills through decades of hands-on experience — but a trainer with no credentials AND no verifiable track record is a risk.
Transparency — red flags and green flags
Red flags: won’t let you observe a class or tour the facility, gets defensive about methodology, guarantees specific results, pressures you to sign up immediately, or trash-talks every other trainer. Green flags: welcomes questions, offers to let you observe a class first, gives references, is honest about what training can and cannot achieve, and tells you upfront if your dog’s issue is outside their expertise.
Dog Training by Nassau County Neighborhood
The Nassau County metro is large, and driving 45 minutes for a weekly class isn’t sustainable for most people. Here’s a quick overview of training availability by area:
The Five Towns, Valley Stream & the Queens border
The county’s southwest corner – Cedarhurst, Lawrence, Woodmere and Hewlett, then Valley Stream, Elmont, Franklin Square and Floral Park – is the most urban part of Nassau and the part that behaves most like the city next door. Streets are narrow, houses sit close, and a dog here meets strangers, delivery traffic and other dogs on leash several times a day, which is why so much of the training sold in this corner is reactivity and leash work rather than off-leash recall. The training supply reflects the density: a certified behavior consultant based in Cedarhurst who specializes in separation anxiety and works force-free, a mobile trainer that describes itself as a Valley Stream based mobile service and comes to the house for housebreaking and leash manners, an in-home practice in Floral Park that trains the whole family alongside the dog, and in Franklin Square three very different options within a mile of each other – a thirty-year in-home practice that refuses treats and e-collars on principle, a dog training club, and a full pet resort on Hempstead Turnpike whose training is run by an AKC evaluator. If you live here, the one thing worth checking before you book is whether the trainer’s territory stops at the Queens line, because several of them work both sides of it and several deliberately do not.
Central Nassau: Mineola, Garden City, Carle Place, Westbury & the Hempstead corridor
This is the county’s administrative and retail middle – the courthouse and hospital cluster in Mineola, the Roosevelt Field retail belt, the Hempstead corridor, and the residential ring through West Hempstead, South Hempstead and Uniondale. It is also where the county’s only real training buildings are. The 4,200 square foot facility on Voice Road in Carle Place is the outlier in this whole directory: obedience, agility and dog sports, canine fitness with treadmills, and an indoor heated pool used for year-round swimming and post-surgical conditioning. Near it sit an in-home practice on East Jericho Turnpike in Mineola that runs a certified separation-anxiety program by video, a thirty-year trainer in West Hempstead whose named specialties are obedience, new puppy training and aggression and who teaches a weekly advanced group class, a small-breed daycare on Woodfield Road that adds training packages, and a well-reviewed trainer in Uniondale. Central Nassau is the part of the county where it is genuinely worth driving to a facility rather than waiting for a trainer to drive to you, because there is somewhere to drive to.
The western South Shore: Long Beach, Island Park, Oceanside, Lynbrook, Baldwin & Freeport
The barrier beach and the bay towns behind it are their own world, and the training here is shaped by two things: water and boardwalk. The Long Beach boardwalk, running the length of the city’s beachfront, is the most heavily used leash-training surface in the county, and it is where a South Shore trainer will take a puller once the basics hold at home. Freeport’s Nautical Mile and the canals behind Baldwin and Oceanside add boat traffic, gulls and a lot of foot traffic in summer. The supply is deep here. Long Beach alone has a sixteen-service in-home practice that publishes everything from housebreaking to psychiatric service dog work, plus a second training business on East Fulton Street. Freeport carries four: a family training center that dates itself to 1976 and runs day-school and overnight programs, a neighborhood trainer working from East Merrick Road, a pet hotel on Guy Lombardo Avenue that has been in business more than forty years and teaches all levels of obedience alongside boarding, and a daycare on West Sunrise Highway with its own training page. Baldwin holds a board-and-train kennel, and the walking-and-training company that started on the streets of Lynbrook covers the whole strip. It is one of the densest clusters of trainers in Nassau.
The eastern South Shore: Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh, Seaford, Massapequa & Massapequa Park
East of Freeport the South Shore turns into the classic Nassau grid – postwar blocks, deep back yards, and Merrick Road running the length of it. This is where the county’s in-home training industry is thickest, and where trainers most often publish an explicit list of the towns they will drive to. Wantagh alone holds an in-home company that says plainly it has no facility and then names its twenty service towns, and a one-person practice that trains, walks and coaches online. Bellmore has two: a trainer working from Lorraine Street and a location of a business that has trained dogs since 1999 and runs board-and-train, therapy-dog certification and a PTSD service-dog program. Massapequa and Massapequa Park add a family in-home and stay-away business that publishes a lifetime training guarantee, a conditioning-and-behavior practice on Rose Street, and a twenty-year in-home trainer on Wilson Street who also teaches pet CPR. Cedar Creek Park in Seaford and the Town of Oyster Bay dog park in Massapequa give this end of the county the two busiest off-leash spaces in Nassau, which is both an opportunity and, for a reactive dog, the exact place a trainer will tell you to avoid until the work is done.
The North Shore Gold Coast: Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn, Glen Head & Glen Cove
The north shore is the wealthiest part of the county and the part where dog services are bought as a package rather than one at a time. The pattern is visible in the supply: the largest business here is a pet-care company founded in 2009 that sells dog walking, cage-free boarding and training together, publishes an evaluation fee and per-session package rates, and names thirteen north-shore villages it serves. Around it sit a certified trainer in Port Washington who has been working since 2005 and whose whole method is summed up as training the owner to train the dog, a board-and-train practice in Glen Head that talks about concepts rather than commands, a very heavily reviewed training business in Great Neck, and – the unusual one – the Port Washington campus of a national rescue organization, which runs a paid behavior clinic staffed by certified trainers and publishes an hourly rate for private aggression and reactivity work. That last one matters for the whole county: it is the only place in Nassau that publishes a price beside the words food aggression, possession aggression and territorial aggression.
The midsection and the Suffolk line: Levittown, Hicksville, Bethpage, Jericho, Plainview & Farmingdale
Nassau’s middle band, from Levittown east to the Suffolk border, is the county’s most suburban stretch and its least served by local trainers – not because demand is low but because almost every trainer working here is based somewhere else and drives in. A few businesses do publish an address in this band: a training company on Loring Road in Levittown, a trainer on Farmers Avenue in Bethpage, and a Farmingdale location on Marine Street of the same long-running business that operates in Bellmore, running board-and-train, group classes and its certification programs. Everything else is coverage from the South Shore or from Carle Place. If you live in Plainview, Syosset, Jericho or Hicksville, your realistic options are the in-home trainers whose published territory reaches you, and the published-territory question is worth asking on the first call. Note also that a Farmingdale address is a Nassau address at ZIP 11735 and a Suffolk one at East Farmingdale, which is a distinction that catches out map searches constantly.
Nassau County Dog Training Resources
Beyond professional training, Nassau County has some excellent resources for dog owners.
Parks and off-leash areas
- Eisenhower Park & its dog park, East Meadow / Westbury — Nassau’s flagship county park, and the dog park inside it at 576 Salisbury Park Drive is the busiest public off-leash space in the county – 457 Google reviews at a 4.3 average, which for a fenced dog run is a very large sample. The park itself is enormous, with long looped paths, sports fields and open lawn, and that is the part a trainer will actually use. The value here is not the enclosure; it is the walk in from the parking field, where you can rehearse loose-leash walking past joggers, strollers and other dogs at whatever distance your dog can handle, then leave. If your dog is in a reactivity or recall program, ask your trainer before using the fenced run: an off-leash park is where owners most often discover a problem rather than fix one, and the density here is high enough that a bad encounter is easy to arrange by accident.
- Cedar Creek Park, Seaford — 3340 Merrick Road, and the busiest park on the eastern South Shore – 1,331 reviews at 4.6. It runs along Seaford Creek with paths, playing fields and a boat launch, and it is the default outdoor classroom for the Wantagh, Seaford and Massapequa trainers. Two things make it useful for training rather than just exercise. The first is variety inside a short walk: water, open field, wooded edge and a paved loop, so a single session can move a dog through four distraction environments without a drive. The second is the wind off the creek, which matters more than owners expect – scent work and recall both get noticeably harder here on a breezy day, and a trainer who knows the park will use that deliberately rather than fight it.
- Wantagh Park & the Wantagh Park Dog Run, Wantagh — 1 King Road, on the bay at the foot of the Wantagh Parkway, with 2,467 reviews at 4.7 for the park and a separate, separately reviewed dog run inside it (303 reviews, 4.7). The split is the point: you can work the waterfront path, the marina edge and the ball fields on leash and treat the fenced run as an optional reward at the end, rather than as the destination. The bay setting brings gulls, boat noise and a steady breeze, all of which are genuine training distractions rather than nuisances. Parking is generous outside summer weekends, and the flat, wide paths make this one of the better places in the county to work an older or recovering dog.
- Christopher Morley Park, Roslyn / North Hills — 500 Searingtown Road North, 932 reviews at 4.4, and the north shore’s counterpart to Cedar Creek. It has the most varied terrain of any park in this list – real hills, wooded trails and open lawn – and the climb is the useful part. A dog that has worked up and down the slope before the distraction training starts is a different animal to handle than one straight out of the car, which is exactly why north-shore trainers use it. It sits close to the Long Island Expressway, so it is one of the easier places for a trainer covering Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn and Great Neck to meet a client halfway.
- Town of Oyster Bay Dog Park, Massapequa — Clocks Boulevard at East Pine Street, 246 reviews at 4.4, and the main fenced off-leash space for the far South Shore. It is a town facility rather than a county one, so the rules and hours are the town’s, and it is worth reading them before a first visit. As with Eisenhower, the honest training advice is the same: a dog park is an excellent place to maintain a solid recall and a poor place to build one. If your dog is currently in a program for reactivity, resource guarding or leash lunging – three cases several Massapequa-area trainers publish work on – treat the perimeter path as the training ground and the gate as something you earn.
- The Long Beach boardwalk, Long Beach — A continuous boardwalk running the length of the city’s beachfront along the Atlantic, and the most useful single stretch of leash-training surface in Nassau County. Dogs are allowed on the boardwalk outside the summer beach season under the city’s own seasonal rules, which change year to year and should be checked before you go. What makes it valuable is that it is a straight line with predictable, repeating distractions – cyclists, runners, other dogs, wind and surf noise – at a density you can choose by picking your hour. A dog that will hold a loose leash from Neptune Boulevard to the west end at eight in the morning is a dog whose training has actually transferred out of the living room, which is the whole test.
These parks are great for socialization practice AFTER your dog has a foundation of training. Taking an untrained dog to an off-leash park is asking for trouble.
Veterinary behaviorists
For complex behavior cases that may require medication alongside training, ask your primary vet for a referral to a veterinary behaviorist serving the Nassau County area.
Dog Trainers by Community in the Nassau County Area
Looking for a trainer in a specific Nassau County-area community? Here are the local options town by town.
Dog Trainers in Freeport, NY
- De Marinis Dog Training & Behavior – Professional Dog Trainer & Behavior Consultant — 5.0★ (148)
- Angel’s K9 Services, LLC — 5.0★ (32)
- Cue 9 Animal Behavior Training — 5.0★ (11)
- Neighborhood dog trainer — 5.0★ (10)
- dog training by danny — 5.0★ (3)
- Malibu Pet Hotel | Pet Boarding — 4.7★ (97)
- Have Leash Will Train — 4.7★ (14)
- Pup E Club USA — 4.6★ (62)
Dog Trainers in Bellmore, NY
- Dog Trainer Pat — 5.0★ (12)
- PetSmart Dog Training — 5.0★ (2)
- Diamond in The Ruff Dog Training Inc. — 4.9★ (38)
- Best Friend’s Dog Training — 3.5★ (16)
Dog Trainers in Port Washington, NY
- Alex Himel Certified Master Dog Trainer — 5.0★ (44)
- Click For A Treat LLC – Dog Training — 5.0★ (14)
- Lindsey’s Dog Training & Walking — 4.6★ (10)
- North Shore Animal League America — 4.1★ (2769)
Dog Trainers in Hempstead, NY
- GR Pet Services — 5.0★ (113)
- Forge Canine Consultants — 5.0★ (2)
- Harold Hamilton – Master Dog Trainer — 4.7★ (46)
- Long Island Dog Trainers – Aint Misbehavin’ Canine Academy — 4.7★ (3)
Dog Trainers in Franklin Square, NY
- Nassau Dog Training Club — 5.0★ (6)
- Planet Pooch — 4.9★ (767)
- Alpha Dog K9 Training — 4.9★ (141)
Dog Trainers in Massapequa Park, NY
- MadKat Dog Training — 5.0★ (132)
- One Companion Dog Training — 5.0★ (52)
- USA K9 Dog Training
Dog Trainers in Wantagh, NY
- Sublime K9 Dog Training – Long Island Dog Training — 5.0★ (119)
- Petco Dog Training — 5.0★ (1)
- Conor’s Canines LLC — 4.8★ (32)
Dog Trainers in Baldwin, NY
- K9KEY — 4.9★ (159)
- Petco Dog Training — 4.4★ (7)
Dog Trainers in Carle Place, NY
- The Martial ARFS Dog Training & Fitness Center — 4.6★ (221)
- Petco Dog Training — 3.8★ (4)
Dog Trainers in Farmingdale, NY
- PetSmart Dog Training — 5.0★ (1)
- Best Friend’s Dog Training — 4.6★ (9)
Dog Trainers in Levittown, NY
Dog Trainers in Long Beach, NY
- SOS K9 Training — 5.0★ (102)
- Keene Kanine — 5.0★ (9)
Dog Trainers in Massapequa, NY
- The Perfect Pup — 5.0★ (236)
- Petco Dog Training — 4.0★ (3)
Dog Trainers in Valley Stream, NY
- PetSmart Dog Training — 5.0★ (1)
- Tall To Small Dogs
Dog Trainers in West Hempstead, NY
- V.I.P. Small Dog Sitting — 5.0★ (41)
- Educated Paws Dog Training Services — 4.7★ (3)
Dog Trainers in Oceanside, NY
- Divine K9 Coaching — 5.0★ (17)
- Petco Dog Training — 3.7★ (3)
Dog Trainers in Bethpage, NY
- Canine Commander Dog Training — 5.0★ (24)
Dog Trainers in Cedarhurst, NY
- Positive Canine Training and Services, LLC. — 5.0★ (24)
Dog Trainers in Floral Park, NY
Dog Trainers in Glen Head, NY
- Gold Coast K-9 Inc — 5.0★ (10)
Dog Trainers in Great Neck, NY
- Top Dog Training — 5.0★ (323)
Dog Trainers in Lynbrook, NY
- UpDog Pet Services — 5.0★ (36)
Dog Trainers in Manhasset, NY
- Dan’s Pet Care — 4.9★ (298)
Dog Trainers in Mineola, NY
- Michael’s Pack Dog Training Center — 4.9★ (145)
Dog Trainers in South Hempstead, NY
- Happy Paws K-9 Academy — 5.0★ (3)
Dog Trainers in Uniondale, NY
- Pure Bread Training — 5.0★ (131)
Dog Trainers in Elmont, NY
- Cebu Dog Trainer — 5.0★ (78)
Dog Training by Specialty in Nassau County
Nassau County-specific guides for each type of training:
- Puppy Training
- Puppy Socialization
- Dog Obedience Classes
- Aggressive Dog Training
- Off-Leash Dog Training
- Separation Anxiety Training
- In-Home Dog Training
- Service Dog Training
- Therapy Dog Training
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Common Questions About Dog Training in Nassau County
How many dog trainers are there in Nassau County?
This directory lists 56 dog trainers across Nassau County. That is far fewer than a map search returns, because many of the businesses a search turns up in the county are veterinary practices, grooming salons, boarding kennels, daycare franchises, dog walkers, pet-food shops, rescues, breeders, parks or ordinary retail rather than trainers. Most of the trainers listed publish a town; the rest are county-wide mobile practices that publish no address at all, which is normal here and not a warning sign.
Why do so few Nassau trainers have a facility?
Because the county is built for the opposite model. Only a few run a building you can take a class in – a training and fitness center in Carle Place, a pet resort in Franklin Square, and a daycare in Freeport – and a handful run a residency program. Most of the rest train in your home. Several say so on their own sites in almost the same words: one Wantagh company writes "we do not have a facility" twice on its home page. In practice this is an advantage for most owners. The behavior you want fixed – the door-bolting, the counter surfing, the barking at the mail carrier – happens in your house, and it is genuinely easier to fix there than to fix in a training hall and then transfer home.
What does dog training cost in Nassau County?
More Nassau trainers publish prices than in most places, so you can compare before you call. Evaluations run from free to a modest fee, several practices publish an hourly rate for private work – among them the Port Washington behavior clinic and a Nassau-and-western-Suffolk practice – and a north-shore pet-care company publishes multi-session packages that lower the per-session price. Group classes are the cheaper route where you can find one, but they are scarce in this county. Ask each business for its current rates on the first call.
Will a Nassau trainer actually come to my town?
Ask on the first call, and expect a real answer – this is the most common reason a promising enquiry stalls here. Nassau trainers publish their territories more precisely than trainers in most metros, and the lines are drawn around drive time rather than around the county border. One in-home company publishes twenty named service towns and states openly that it reduced its territory because demand outran its calendar. Another publishes Nassau, four named western Suffolk towns and five named Queens neighborhoods, and offers to refer you to a trainer elsewhere if you fall outside. North shore and South Shore practices rarely cross the middle of the county for a single lesson.
My dog is reactive on leash. Who in Nassau handles that?
Some Nassau businesses name leash reactivity as its own case on their own channels – an in-home behavior consultant covering most of Nassau and Huntington, and the behavior clinic at the Port Washington campus of a national rescue, which lists leash lunging alongside food, possession and territorial aggression. A wider group of Nassau trainers publish aggression or reactivity work generally, so the practical answer is that supply exists but is thinner than the demand a dense, sidewalk-heavy county generates. Our leash-reactive dog training page explains what to ask for, who locally is a genuine fit, and when a drive into the city is worth it.
Is there protection or personal-defense dog training in Nassau County?
It is specialist work and hard to find here. Look for a business that names protection work, personal defense, bite work, or a sport-protection discipline such as Schutzhund, IGP, French Ring or PSA on its own channels; a K9 name alone is not the same thing. You may need to travel outside the county for it, and any legitimate provider will want a temperament evaluation before discussing a program at all.
What should I ask a Nassau trainer on the first call?
Five questions cover most of it. Which towns do you actually cover, and does that include mine? What does the first session cost, and is the evaluation separate? Do you work in my home, and do I need to be present the whole time – several local practices require it and say so. What happens if the problem is bigger than the package I bought? And, for anything involving aggression or a bite history, what is your relationship with a veterinarian, because the better Nassau practices will want medical causes ruled out before behavior work starts. Trainers here answer these readily; the ones who will not are telling you something.
Are the ratings and review counts on these pages real?
Yes. Every star rating and review count shown on a trainer’s card and profile is live Google data for that business, pulled and refreshed rather than typed in, and it links out to the source. Everything written about a trainer in their profile comes from that business’s own website or its own Google listing – their programs, their published prices, their stated methods, the credentials they claim. Where a business’s site could not be read, we say so on the profile rather than inventing a description, and where a credential is claimed rather than confirmed against a registry we label it as claimed. Nothing on these pages is a paid placement.
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