About Hendersonville Dog Training

Hendersonville Dog Training is a small business whose own words are "We call the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina our home and operate out of Hendersonville, NC", and whose stated mission is making well behaved dogs the norm.

Who runs it

The owner-operator introduces himself on the site as Nick Cummings. His account says he graduated from Western Carolina University with a criminal justice degree and spent eight years at the Fletcher Police Department, and that training his own rescue dog, Mark, with his wife Rachel is what convinced him to try dog training as a career. He credits an old friend and experienced trainer, Brad Howell in Greensboro, with helping him start.

What the training looks like

The published approach is balanced and deliberately simple, focused on "leash walking, command response, and off leash reliability with the use of a mini educator". The business's own posts show the day-to-day work: long-line sessions building recall, place command at home and in public, crate manners, loose leash walking, and settling calmly at a skate park or a brewery patio. Board and train appears in those posts as a program the business runs.

Where the work happens

The published address is on Willow Road in Hendersonville, and the posts place sessions around Hendersonville, Laurel Park and Flat Rock as well as on local hikes.