About Canine Life Skills

What they do

Canine Life Skills is built around residential camps and publishes them by length, which makes it easy to compare against the other board-and-train operators in this metro: a 5 Day Starter Camp, a 10 Day Basic Home Manners Camp, a 20 Day Home and On The Go Camp, and a Puppy Head Start Camp for puppies of 12 to 16 weeks aimed at getting nipping under control. Refresher camps are published for dogs coming back to brush up or move on. Alongside the camps are one-on-one classes: weekly one-hour lessons that train the owner to train the dog, covering basic obedience, problem behaviors and off-leash skills.

The facility

The camps run on the business's own five acres, which the site describes as a park-like setting with wildlife as natural distraction while dogs are trained and walked daily, with 24-hour monitoring. The detail that matters most is the cap: the business takes only four campers at a time.

The method

The site is open about using a remote training collar in its programs and publishes a demonstration video of the equipment it uses, which is worth knowing before booking if you want a force-free trainer. Its own framing of the camps is that it teaches the dog how to do things and the owner then takes over to reinforce the training at home.

Who runs it

The site's own page byline is Angela Bentley, described as the owner of a full-service dog training company offering private training, bootcamp programs and puppy bootcamp. Separately, the IACP trainer directory lists Diana Korenak at this business, with its own domain and its Hillsboro city, and the contact scan found an email in her name on the site. Both people are recorded; neither is merged into the other.

Where

The business publishes a Klondike Road address in Hillsboro and says it has served the greater St. Louis area and the southern counties since 2007.