Michael specialized in obedience training and helping to build the skills necessary for off-leash adventures. You'll find Mike riding the trails or swimming in the ocean on the South Shore of MA with his dog Enzo.

A Note On Obedience Training:
The emphasis in obedience training is on teaching your dog to respond to commands and learning where boundaries are set. When a dog completes this type of training, the dog parent may expect their pup to reliably and predictably respond to basic commands like, “come.”

The very name of this type of training implies that the dog will learn to comply with a verbal command or hand signal given by a trainer, owner or handler. Obedience training can require a great deal of time, and it always demands consistency. Of course, some dogs seem to respond more quickly and readily to obedience training than others.

Obedience training is a valuable tool for dogs and owners who want to build a lasting and meaningful relationship between a leader, the human, and a follower, the dog. Through the training, the pup learns compliance behaviors that give him a positive reinforcement.

Camryn is a talented trainer and owner of The Foxy Dog, a boutique training service on the South Shore of MA. Camryn is happiest on the trials with her 3-legged friend, Bailey (AKA Miss Boops🐶).

The Foxy Dog also specializes in exposing dogs to life outside their neighborhood through a structured day program involving hikes, agility, impulse control, and frustration tolerance.

A Note On Behavior Training:
This type of training is most frequently used to deal with bad habits that may have been formed over the course of years. However, it can be useful and effective for younger dogs that seem to have some habits that their pet parents would like to modify.

Unlike obedience training, the goal of behavioral training is not to get the dog to comply with a command. Instead, the focus is on rehabilitation or the rewiring of the dog’s responses to certain conditions or stimuli.

For instance, imagine that you dog has serious separation anxiety. Whenever you must leave him alone for a few hours, he acts out by chewing on miscellaneous items or with otherwise inappropriate behavior.

Taking this dog to behavioral training will teach him to respond differently when he next finds himself alone in the house. Essentially, the dog responds with the learned behaviors from his training when he is left alone without anyone there to provide commands or direction. The dog probably even thinks that performing the learned behavior was his own idea.