About Cheap Tricks Dog Training

What they do

Cheap Tricks Dog Training is built around group work at a deliberately low price point, and its class names say what each is for: Learning the Basics for sitting and walking, Dissing the Distractions, Handling My Canine, and dog field trips. Private training is published for one-to-one help, and there is a six-session package. An Open Gym session lets owners bring a social dog to play and mingle, free for members and priced monthly for non-members, with a brewery next door.

The approach

The business's stated position is that the ultimate relationship with a dog comes from teaching owners how to communicate the assignment before implementing a consequence. Its classes are short-term by design, and it argues that working a dog in the very situations that trigger its behavior, while it observes the dogs around it, produces small wins faster.

Who runs it

The about page introduces the owner in the first person as Kristen. She writes that she got her first dog twenty-five years ago and was clueless about how she was affecting its behavior, and states her life goal as giving dog owners affordable, accessible resources so that fewer dogs are re-homed.

What it is not

The site is explicit that it is not about coddling; it positions itself on faster results, less money, flexible schedules and a supportive community.