About Ryan For Dogs

Ryan For Dogs is a Long Island City business run from Jackson Avenue, and its own site describes it primarily as a local dog walking service with training and boarding also available. It is a small operation, and the honest description is that walking is the main product and training is a real but secondary one.

The training menu

The services page lists training as its own column, and the items under it are specific rather than decorative: walking without pulling, basic obedience, separation anxiety, housebreaking, and tricks and advanced commands. Those are the problems a Long Island City apartment owner actually brings to a trainer, and they are published as bookable rather than described in general terms.

The walking and boarding

Walks are run in small groups. Boarding and sitting are offered for owners who are away. Published hours are Monday to Friday and Saturday 11am to 6pm, with Sunday and additional times by appointment – which is worth knowing, because it means training sessions are scheduled around a walking route rather than an all-day class calendar.

Background

The About page states that Ryan first began working professionally with dogs in 2000, first as a dog trainer and then as the owner of Ryan For Dogs, and that the walking service has been open for twenty years. The site also keeps a press page with interviews and profiles, and a gallery of the dogs on the route.

Who it suits

A household in Hunters Point or Court Square that needs a midday walker who can also work on pulling, house training or an anxious dog left alone in a small apartment is the natural fit here. An owner with an aggression case should look at one of the borough's dedicated behavior practices instead; nothing on this site claims that work.