K9 Advanced brings dog and puppy training directly to your door in Great River, NY 11739. No group class, no weekly drive, no crating the dog in the car before the lesson even starts. We train in the room where the behavior actually happens, with the people who actually live there.
Over twenty years of training Long Island dogs, on leash and off, from eight-week-old puppies to adult dogs whose owners have already been told to give up on them. The consultation is free, and if we do not believe we can help you, we will say so rather than sell you a package.
Great River is a small wooded hamlet between East Islip and Oakdale, bounded by the Connetquot River, with the Bayard Cutting Arboretum grounds, Timber Point and River Road defining it. Properties run larger here and the streets stay quiet.
Quiet property tempts owners into dropping the leash long before the recall has been proofed. Great River backs onto water and woods, and a dog that will not come when called near a river full of deer and waterfowl is a dog you will eventually lose. Off-leash freedom here is built in stages and earned. It is never assumed just because the block is quiet.
We build the recall on a long line first, then proof it near the river, the wooded edges and the roadways, in that order and no other.
Your dog does not charge the door in a training hall. He does it in your Great River entryway, at a particular time of day, in response to a particular trigger. That is where the correction has to happen, and it is why in-home work beats a weekly class for anything that goes wrong inside the house.
If one person enforces the rules and three do not, the dog wins and everybody blames the dog. We work with every family member who handles him, teenagers and children included, on the same commands, the same timing and the same standard.
Once the foundation is solid, sessions move outside: sidewalks, pet supply stores, the vet, the groomer and the busiest parts of Great River. Obedience that only works at home is not obedience, it is a coincidence.
We are based in East Islip, minutes from Great River. That usually means a free consultation this week rather than a slot in three weeks, and it means we already know the streets and the distractions your dog has to learn to ignore.
Describe the behavior in plain terms, including the parts that are embarrassing. The more honest the description, the more useful the first visit is. It costs nothing.
We come out and read the dog: how he handles a doorway, a stranger, a leash and a correction. You will hear what is actually driving the behavior, including the parts of the household routine that are feeding it.
In-home sessions, a two-week board and train or a four-week board and train, priced and scheduled up front. If a cheaper option would serve you better, we say so.
Every program ends with you holding the leash and the rules. A dog trained for you but not with you goes back to his old self inside a month.
In-home training in Great River is priced per session or as a package, and the number depends on your dog, the behavior and how deep the habit runs. A puppy who needs manners and housebreaking is not the same job as a four-year-old dog with a bite history, and quoting them the same way would be dishonest. What we will do is come out, meet the dog, and give you a real number and a real timeline before you have spent a dollar.
Tell us what your dog is doing and we will tell you honestly what it takes to fix it, before you spend a dollar.
Serving Great River, NY 11739 and all of Nassau & Suffolk County
Yes. Every neighborhood in Great River and the 11739 zip code, plus East Islip, Oakdale, Islip and the rest of Suffolk County. We also serve all of Nassau County.
Great River is a short drive from our East Islip base, so in-home consultations here are usually available the same week. Call 631-405-4220 and we will tell you what is open.
Plan on about an hour per session, longer for the first visit, because we spend real time assessing the dog and the household before any training starts. Basic manners and obedience often land in a handful of sessions. Aggression, reactivity and years of rehearsed habit take longer. You get an honest estimate at the free consultation rather than a number invented over the phone.
Yes, and ideally the rest of the household too. In-home training trains the handler as much as the dog. A dog who only listens to the trainer is worth nothing to you the moment the trainer drives away.
Tell us exactly what your dog has done before we arrive, including any bite history, and we plan the introduction around it using a crate, a leash, a muzzle or an outdoor meeting. We work with reactive dogs regularly and we would rather over-plan the first five minutes than guess.
It depends on your dog and what needs correcting, and it is priced per session or as a package. The consultation is free and you will have an exact number before anything is booked.
In-home is the better fit when the problems are household problems and somebody is available to do the daily homework. Board and train is the better fit when nobody is home to do the repetition, or when the behavior needs breaking quickly. We will tell you which one applies to your dog at the consultation.
Not able to do the daily homework yourself? See our board & train program for Great River.
We cover Great River, NY 11739 in full, including the neighborhoods around the Bayard Cutting Arboretum grounds, Timber Point and the Connetquot River, the River Road, Montauk Highway and Timber Point Road corridors, the streets near the Great River station on the Montauk Branch, and every address inside the Connetquot Central School District. From our East Islip base we also work daily through East Islip, Oakdale, Islip and the rest of Suffolk County, and across all of Nassau County.
My techniques are proven and ensure that having a dog or puppy in your family can be an enjoyable experience for everyone.
At any canine age, I can work with any or all family members to housebreak your puppy, avoid destructive chewing, and teach basic commands such as come, sit, off and leave it.
Using a positive approach, I will display proper play techniques to avoid any aggression issues and get your puppy used to a leash and having food and toys taken away. A must for families with young children.
Don't have time to work with your dog every day? Not even sure how to get your dog to obey simple commands? That is where we come in.
Don't have time for in-person services? This convenient course series is a master class in canine behavior techniques that is user-friendly, highly effective and fun.
Please call now to schedule a FREE in-home consultation where we can discuss what training method and program works best for you.
