About Keene Kanine

Keene Kanine is Maureen Keene's in-home practice on Florida Street in Long Beach, working across Nassau County since 2011. It publishes the longest service list of any trainer in this metro – sixteen named training pages – and two of them, psychiatric service dog training and separation anxiety training, are rare locally.

The full published list

Aggressive dog training, anxiety, barking, boot camp, canine behavior modification, dog training classes, heel, leash, obedience, potty training, psychiatric service dog training, puppy training, separation anxiety, service dog training, socialization and therapy dog training each have their own page. Dog walking is offered alongside.

How the site says to decide you need help

Rather than a course ladder, the site publishes a diagnostic list of behavioral signs, and it reads like a trainer's intake sheet. Just got a dog – the site notes that most humans do not think like dogs, so communication problems exist immediately, and that this matters most for a first-time owner. Aggression toward people or other dogs, which the site says can be traced to a cause and answered with a program that alters the response. Not housebroken, where the site makes the specific point that impatience often teaches a dog 'I'm not allowed to poop'. Fear of strangers entering the home. A dog that cannot be walked on a leash without a struggle. Jumping on people including children. Excessive barking, which the site attributes in part to a dog that believes it is doing a security job.

The case the site makes for training at all

The home page argues that training can start at any age, that dogs are always learning, and that anxious or timid dogs in particular benefit. It frames training as building a shared language that prevents behavior problems caused by a lack of knowledge, and as something that improves a dog's confidence and mood and reduces stress-related behavior.