Chosen by CBS News as one of the best puppy training schools in Los Angeles!
If you are looking for puppy training near me, you have found the very best puppy training Los Angeles California has to offer.
You and your puppy will learn more in one week (or longer!) than you ever thought possible!
Learn how to choose a dog and puppy trainer, and how we teach and apply compassionate, humane, and the most up-to-date scientific research in positive reinforcement puppy training, behavior, and ethology. For many people, adopting or buying a puppy is a new experience, or maybe you just haven’t had a puppy to care for in a long time. Learn all there is to know about puppies, proper husbandry, socialization, play, nutrition, developmental stages, and upbringing to avoid costly behavior problems down the road. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
Overview of Fun Paw Care’s Positive Reinforcement Puppy Training Los Angeles Options
(Jump Down List)
Option 1: Puppy Boot Camp (Boarding & Training)
Option 2: Dog Behavior Modification, Troubleshooting & Obedience Training (Members Only)
Option 3: Online Puppy Training Classes & Answers to All Pet Questions
Read on to find out more about each of our 3 specific puppy training services.
When should you start training? Yesterday! There is no “too early” to start training; the earlier, the better. Here are just some of the many areas our Certified Puppy Behaviorist and Trainer will discuss and teach:
- Proper Socialization and play
- Teaching puppies not to bite
- Teaching puppies not to bark
- What to buy before getting your puppy
- Puppy potty training
- Crate training
- Body handling
- Pen setup/doggie den
- Independence training, to stop separation anxiety before it begins
- Finding the best playgroups, classes, and partners
- Using the correct puppy training equipment, leash, collars & harness
- Puppy dog food, treats and nutrition
- Husbandry
- Gentling
- Teaching a puppy to love their toys
- Enrichment devices and activities
Contact Fun Paw Care to see what the best puppy training in Los Angeles can do for you.
There are many things to think about when bringing home a puppy for the first time. The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB) says that early socialization is essential to a happy and well-adjusted puppy. We have been puppy training near you for decades and are here to guide you through every step of the training process.
The age of 3 weeks – 13 weeks is a sensitive/ critical learning period. Research shows that behaviors learned during this time frame have a tendency to stick throughout the puppy’s life more than at any other age. It is therefore critical to put your pup on the path to success and to train, educate, and socialize a puppy within this highly influential time frame.
For all of your pet behavior needs, Fun Paw Care will be there to teach your family and your puppy all there is to know about puppy training and behavior. You can rely on Fun Paw Care to offer the most up-to-date scientifically proven, positive reinforcement, gentle approach to start your relationship off on the right paw for the rest of your puppy’s life.
Training is vital for a well-balanced, healthy, long, and happy life with your pup. Do not let distance stop you from receiving a world-class education and master trainer. Fun Paw Care’s trainers will travel to your home or will video, telephone, and/or teach remote puppy classes for out-of-town families. Fun Paw Care’s Certified Dog Behavior Consultants and Certified Professional Puppy Trainers provide a sophisticated and safe one-on-one service in the privacy of your own home.
We apply all of our skills and decades of experience to help train your puppy no matter how old they are. We are Fear-Free Certified Puppy Trainers and our puppy training services use force-free, gentle positive reinforcement puppy training techniques to help your pet behave better and become more responsive.
Pet parents are also taught how to communicate with their puppies, so that all training may be reinforced at home, and the person-puppy relationship can grow stronger. Learn why we never recommend choke chain, prong collars, or shock collars. Or if your puppy is now an adolescent, adult or senior dog, please visit our dog training page to learn more.
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Puppy Boot Camp Los Angeles
(In a Certified Dog Behaviorist/Puppy Trainer’s home facility)
If you don’t have the time, skill, or expertise to train your puppy, Fun Paw Care’s Puppy Boot Camp is the best in the business at puppy training and solving puppy behavior problems.
Fun Paw Care’s world-renowned Puppy Boot Camp has been used by hard-working professionals like yourself, celebrities, and politicians alike. To see what makes Russell’s boarding and training camp for puppies unique, optimal, and effective at puppy training, behavior modification problems, and assessing a puppy’s emotion, cognition, nutrition and puppy training problems, please visit our dedicated Dog Boot Camp page for many more details about our elite and exclusive puppy boarding and training program.
Los Angeles Puppy Behavior Modification, Trouble Shooting & Obedience Training
(In parent’s home & designed for puppies in their neonatal, transitional, socialization, sensitive, and integration periods, from 1-21 weeks and for puppies in their juvenile period and older, ~21 weeks +)
Other trainers and behaviorists come to Russell to solve difficult and complex behavior and training problems. As a Certified Dog Behaviorist, Trainer, and Nutritionist, Russell utilizes his vast experience, knowledge of the science of learning, ethology (scientific knowledge of species-specific behavior) and cognitive ethology to help pet parents improve their puppy’s behavior.
Puppy behavior modification is appropriate for all behavior problems, in particular, mild to serious types of behavior problems and disorders. Our training methods are humane, non-confrontational, force-free, and are designed to decrease household stress and improve the human-animal bond.
Russell uses positive reinforcement puppy training when teaching. During each customized visit, a Fun Paw Care Certified expert puppy trainer will socialize your pup to their new environment by introducing sights, sounds, noises and smells in your home. Russell uses food rewards when teaching your puppy because that is the most proven, humane and effective way to train a puppy.
Additionally, Russell focuses on husbandry, nutrition, enrichment, play, and early-stage, time-sensitive, biological growth and developmental periods with regard to emotion, cognition, social and physiological functioning. Each of these stages is a period of time when puppies are particularly sensitive to environmental influences.
As a puppy behavior, training, and nutrition expert, Russell has helped thousands of puppies (and their parents) get through the challenges of puppy potty training, socializing, teething, biting, barking, leash skills, and more. We will also begin to introduce the fundamentals of sit, down, stay, and come.
Your puppy will learn clicker/marker training, an operant conditioning method that creates a reward-based relationship. Clicker/marker training opens up the lines of communication between the pet parents and the puppy thus fostering understanding, clarity, and the development of the family relationship.
During this time, a puppy’s social behaviors begin to take on an adult form that primarily involves the maturing of motor capacities. We recommend this fun, and effective training method for all puppies, especially puppies that demonstrate nervous tendencies or those that need to build confidence.
Clicker/marker training is also great for teaching functional skills and tricks such as Sit, Stay, Sit – Stay, Down, Down – Stay, Come, Loose Leash Walking, Heeling, and Play Dead (Lateral Down-Stay).
Moreover, Russell educates pet parents on how to recognize, handle, and modify their body language, behavior, energy, and antecedent arrangement (environment) which helps your puppy learn expeditiously in a fun environment.
Fun Paw Care’s scientific approach, gentle, force-free methods and positive reinforcement puppy training combines operant conditioning, classical conditioning, counter conditioning, systematic desensitization, habituation and is successful in treating mild and severe cases of socialization, fear-based, aggression and problem behaviors such as:
- Teaching puppies not to bite
- Puppy separation anxiety/problems when home alone
- Puppy house training (potty training/house soiling)
- Puppy leash pulling
- Destructive behavior indoors and/or outdoors
- Begging for food (during mealtime, etc.)
- Puppy bolting out the door
- Puppy jumping on people
- Excitability
- Puppy aggression
- Resource guarding (toys, food, bed, room, etc.)
- Puppy general anxiety
- Puppy fear, phobia or anxiety of noises, people, other animals, objects, storms and/or walks
- Puppy obsessions (vacuums, mailmen, UPS trucks)
- Puppy barking
- Wheel Phobias (bicycle, skateboard, rollerblades, car, etc.)
- New pet consultations (dog-dog, dog-human, & dog-cat introductions)
In addition, some of the techniques, protocols, and skills we will teach you are:
- How to detect signs of puppy aggression
- How to stop puppy aggression
- How to solve puppy leash aggression
- Puppy aggression training toward other animals
- Puppy food aggression
- How to solve puppy behavior problems
- How to solve puppy resource guarding
Sign up for our expert private one-on-one puppy training classes to solve your puppy behavior problems today!
Puppy Training Los Angeles Prerequisite:
- Completed at least one week of Boot Camp
- Enrolled in Russell’s exclusive Members-only Club
*In addition to the one-hour session, you receive a detailed puppy training and behavior analysis plan with abundant supporting resources
*Members Only
Online Puppy Training Classes
Do you live far away from Los Angeles? Distance shouldn’t stop you from solving your puppy behavior problems or prevent you from attending our puppy training classes.
We have the best trainers in Los Angeles CA but whether you live in Beverly Hills, Malibu, Santa Monica, Greater Los Angeles California, or overseas, we can help with all of your training and behavioral needs.
For pet parents who have multiple residences or live outside of LA, We travel around the world making home visits and also offer remote training via telephone or video chat for those extra busy clients. We walk families through the same instruction that we would provide if we were in your home doing a first-class, private one-on-one puppy training Los Angeles or behavior modification consultation.
1 Hour – $495
(In addition to the one-hour session, you receive a detailed puppy training and behavior analysis plan, with abundant supporting resources.)
*Platinum Club Members receive complimentary Phone/Video Consultations
