About Dogboy NYC

Dogboy NYC has been training dogs and their humans since 2005 and is listed at 362 Furman St, on the Brooklyn Bridge Park side of Brooklyn Heights. It describes itself as down-to-earth, experienced and vet recommended, and works with a team rather than a single trainer.

What you can book

Private in-home training, puppy training, behavior training, online training and group classes. The problems it names are the ones a city apartment produces: apartment-training, calming aggressive behavior, and basic commands so that going outside stops being a struggle. Private work is described as personalized through behavioral analysis, operant conditioning and science-based learning theory, taught in the dog's own environment, and sold as individual sessions or discounted packages.

The class program

In-person group classes run at Wag Club in Brooklyn Bridge Park, organized around communication, socialization and humane technique. The published list goes past basic manners into introduction to agility, tricks and scent work, plus a Puppy and Wine social group – the enrichment end of a class calendar that most single-trainer practices do not have room for.

Who teaches

The testimonials name several trainers on the team, including Robert and Jacklyn, with owners describing work on barking, jumping up when greeting people, pulling on the leash, crate-free alone time and settling when guests arrive. Two veterinarians are quoted on the site, one of them noting that behavioral problems are the number one reason pets lose their homes and describing the puppy program as a foundation.