About Wag the Dog NYC–Urban Dog Training

Wag the Dog NYC works from 212 S 2nd St in Williamsburg and serves Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and parts of Queens, with remote consults available internationally. It describes itself as positive reinforcement training for dogs and cats.

Who runs it

Inna Krasnovsky is a CPDT certified pet dog trainer and a dog and cat behavior counselor with twenty-eight years of experience. Her route in is published: several years working at veterinary hospitals led to an interest in animal behavior and then a job in the behavior department of the ASPCA, where she spent years in the behavior department and the animal shelter learning about dog and cat behavior and the treatment of behavior problems. She describes that shelter experience as invaluable to her private practice, and her training as geared toward results and toward teaching owners how to communicate with their animals.

Group classes

Three are published: Puppy Manners, Basic Manners and a Reactive Dog Class. A dedicated reactive dog class is not common – most trainers handle reactivity privately – and for owners whose dog cannot yet cope with a normal group setting it is the difference between having an option and not.

Private work

Private puppy behavior and training, and private basic manners training for adolescent and adult dogs. The stated specialisms for difficult cases are aggression, reactivity, separation anxiety, fearful dogs and dogs described as out of control and unruly.

Cats too

The practice works on cat behavior as well as dog behavior, which matters in a borough where the same apartment often holds both, and the site invites questions about a new kitten keeping the household up at night alongside its puppy potty-training questions.

Remote work

Many behavior problems, the site says, can be addressed through remote consults and virtual coaching, and this is offered to dog and cat guardians anywhere in the world.