About Faithful Friends Canine Services

Who runs it

Faithful Friends Canine Services is run by Cassandra Lytle from a facility at 655 Glenwood Drive in Union. Her site describes a career change into dog training after working as a registered nurse teaching home hemodialysis, and says she has "over a decade of training dogs".

Method

The stated approach is LIMA, which the site spells out as "Least Intrusive, Minimally Aversive". She writes that most trainers reach for slip, choke or prong collars first and that for her "slip, choke or prong collars are my LAST resort", with positive reinforcement prioritized and pain and fear avoided. The tagline on the home page is "Building Bonds, Mending Minds, Changing Behavior".

Services

The menu lists obedience training, puppy training, problem-behavior consultation, remote lessons, therapy dog training, service dog training, boarding, and electric training options. The body of the page adds GPS fence or remote collar training and anxiety and problem-behavior work. One price is published: problem-behavior consultation at 40 dollars an hour at the facility, with everything else quoted after an initial evaluation.

Credentials the site claims

She writes that she is an associate member of the IACP, received a dog training certification from National K-9 in 2019, spent a year and a half precepting with a trainer of over twenty years, and is certified as a service dog trainer through the Animal Behavioral Institute. She also names classes taken with Training Between the Ears for aggression and anxiety cases. These are the site's own claims and we have not verified them against a registry.

Setting

Training happens at her West Virginia facility, with owners welcome to stay and watch or to leave the dog.