City Dog Training, LLC

Private Lessons and Services

In-Home Lessons*

Private, in-home lessons are available to you for basic obedience or behavioral training. In-Home lessons include ->

  • Single Visit Consults or
  • Initial Assessment and Training Plan (2 hours)
  • Additional 1 hour lessons with you and your dog addressing your specific training needs
  • Easy, clear homework sheets to help you practice during the week
  • Flexible schedules

Help with issues such as:

  • “He Used To Be So Perfect!” – Dealing with Adolescent Dogs. (Read more)
  • New Puppy Homecoming and First Lessons (Read more)
  • Teaching your Puppy about the Vet and Groomer
  • Manners and Basic Obedience
  • Rescue Dog Reentry (Read more)
  • Leash Pulling
  • Leadership Coaching and Restructuring
  • Door Greetings
  • On-walk Greetings
  • Tricks! Have your dog close your fridge for you, run to his place when asked, get your glasses or find your keys!
  • Leash Lunging and Reactivity
  • Fearfulness and Anxiety
  • Incessant Barking
  • Vet Visit Desensitization
  • Body Handling and Nail Trimming Desensitization

* Private lessons are sometimes held at City Dog’s facility in Charlestown, with arrangements being made ahead of time with the client. The training space can allow some exercises not easily accomplished in a home setting, and more initial success for dogs uncomfortable with visitors to the home.

$100 per hour

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Time Crunch Training ®

Personal training for your dog. We’ll come to your house and train your dog while you’re at work or, if you’re able to be there, while you watch and participate. We’ll work on basic manners and or specific behavioral issues for a 2-week or 4-week session, 3 to 5 times a week, depending upon the program chosen and your dog’s specific needs. Time Crunch Training is suitable for ->

  • Puppies
  • Newly adopted rescue and shelter dogs
  • Burgeoning or long standing behavioral issues like barking, jumping, destructive chewing and pulling on leash
  • Basic obedience and manners.

In addition to the initial 1 1/2 hour consult and one-on-one training of your dog, you will be given a private training lesson at the end of the session so that you can practice and perfect all the good things your dog now knows!

Please call for prices.

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Phone Consultations

Phone consults can be very helpful in addressing behavioral concerns, forming training and behavior modification plans, talking through housebreaking or manners issues and discovering patterns that may be interfering with training. Phone consultations are given in 1/2 hour increments and exceed no more than 1 1/2 hours at a time. Subjects via phone consult can include –>

  • Leadership Coaching and Restructuring
  • Finding the appropriate trainer or behaviorist in your area
  • Housebreaking Issues
  • “Separation Anxiety” Issues
  • New Puppy Preparedness
  • Pulling on Leash
  • Barking

$35 per half hour. Phone Consultation waiver must be e-mailed back to City Dog Training prior to consult.

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New Puppy

Raising a puppy is one of the most joyful, challenging, frustrating and exciting aspects of dog ownership. From crate training to housebreaking, manners and walking on leash to medical issues, teething and growth stages, there is much to learn (and to be learned) when dealing with a new puppy. In addition to  enrolling in a good puppy kindergarten (Marjie can steer you towards good ones in your particular area), private lessons can be a great way to get the support and sanity check many new puppy parents need.

He Used To Be So Perfect!” – Dealing with Adolescent Dogs.

There is an inevitable point in time when your perfect puppy turns into a perfect maniac, and it’s called adolescence. Dealing with an adolescent dogs requires the same patience, skills and tactics as dealing with adolescent humans – but without language. What could go wrong? Marjie will help you set up new or improved strategies, rules and limits as well as play and fun-time exercises to get you through this part of dog parenting. Relax! It’ll all be over by the time your dog’s 3 or 4…

Rescue Dog Reentry Training ® – Teach your rescue or shelter dog how to behave in his new home

Rescue and shelter dogs need some special considerations to help them learn how to behave, relax and adjust to their new surroundings. Marjie will help you and your new dog learn to understand each other, help set up a training and management plan geared for success and positive results, and help you avoid many of the pitfalls that new dog owners frequently face. Available to rescues, shelters and new adopters of rescue and shelter dogs, this as-needed service provides new placement structure for dogs and their humans. From basic skills to default calming behaviors and new, better manners, these 1 hour private sessions cover whatever the dog and handler need to aid in more successful placement of the dog.

Please call about our Rescue Dog discount

Kids & Dogs

Managing and incorporating kids and dogs can be complicated for even the most experienced dog owners (and parents)! Marjie can help you on an individual basis with issues such as a suddenly boisterous toddler chasing an aging dog, rowdy play that’s headed for trouble, coping skills for the family and the dog, new dog coming into a home with kids, and new baby coming into a home with dogs. 

My Dog Scares Me

Aggression is a serious issue, and one that needs to be addressed carefully and with particular skill. If your dog makes you uncomfortable when he’s with you, around other people, other dogs, when he’s eating or has a bone, or in various surroundings, Marjie can help you asses the situation. Should you then choose to proceed with training and behavior modification, Marjie either work with you or steer you towards other professionals who will be the most appropriate and effective for your particular situation.