About Canine Compass Dog Training

Canine Compass Dog Training is an in-home trainer working the greater Charlotte area, which its own site defines as most of Mecklenburg County, and it also names Matthews, Mint Hill and Harrisburg. The pitch is that dogs should be helped to adapt to the environment they actually live in, working through the problems they meet daily.

Programs

The core offer is in-home training booked after a free phone consultation. For owners who cannot commit to weekly lessons at home there is a Board & Train Hybrid: the dog stays with one of the trainers in a home environment for daily training and socialization, and the program finishes with a week of in-home training so the owner takes over what the dog learned. The site's most popular services are listed as manners and obedience, resource guarding, reactivity, service dogs, and work with families with children.

Method

The approach is described as drawing on applied ethology – the study of animal behavior in natural contexts – and using the dog's own biological systems and environment as training tools, with the starting question always being why the dog is doing what it is doing. The site says the business is insured and that its methods rest on over thirteen years of advanced animal training experience.

Credentials the business claims

The team is described as led by a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA), a Certified Family Dog Mediator and a Fear Free Certified Professional, and the site is candid that not all of its trainers hold those certifications yet and that they work under that supervision.