Your house. Your rules.
Now your dog knows them too.
Veteran-owned, military-trained dog training — in your home, across Polk County. Obedience, puppy basics, and the real problems that make people give up: pulling, barking, jumping, bolting out the door.
I come to you. First call is free and I'll tell you straight whether I can help.
Straight with you, up front
I'm Dan. I trained dogs for the United States military — scent dogs working specific and fresh scents, cadaver dogs — and I've trained service dogs for people in wheelchairs and for people who are blind. The military doesn't hand out a framed certificate for that work, so you won't see one on my wall. What you'll see is how your dog behaves after a few sessions.
No franchise behind me and no made-up reviews on this page. Just someone who shows up at your house, works with your actual dog where the problem happens, and tells you the truth. If your dog needs more than I can give, I'll say so on the first call and point you somewhere better.
What I do
Prices are what I start at. Packages come down per session, and nobody pays for a session I don't think will help.
In-home basics
Sit, stay, down, leash manners, recall, housebreaking. For puppies and for grown dogs who never got taught.
$85 first session · 4 sessions $300
Behaviour problems
Pulling on the leash, barking at everything, jumping on guests, door-bolting, separation trouble, leash reactivity.
$95 per session · plan after the first visit
Puppy start-right
The first weeks done properly: crate, toilet, biting, handling, meeting the world. Cheapest training you'll ever buy, because it prevents the rest.
$250 three sessions over three weeks
Service & task training
For people with disabilities: mobility work for wheelchair users, guide work, scent alert. Coaching you to train your own dog, or a full plan. Real task training only — no vests or paperwork for pets.
Free consult priced per plan
Board & train
Your dog stays with me and comes home with the work already in. Limited spots — ask me on the call and I'll tell you if yours is a fit.
Ask priced per dog, per plan
See it work
Real dogs, real houses, filmed with the owner's say-so. No actors, no other trainer's footage.
How it works
Free call
Fifteen minutes. You tell me what's going wrong, I tell you honestly whether I can fix it and what it'd take.
First visit
I come to your home and work with your dog where the problem actually happens — not in a classroom across town.
You get the plan
Simple homework you can actually do. Ten minutes a day beats an hour on Saturday.
We keep going
As many sessions as it takes and no more. I'd rather you tell a neighbour about me than buy a package you don't need.
Where I come to
In-home training across Polk County:
- Lakeland
- Winter Haven
- Auburndale
- Bartow
- Plant City
- Mulberry
- Lake Wales
- Haines City
Further out? Ask anyway — if it's close I'll come.
Let's talk about your dog
If I don't pick up I'm with a dog. Leave a message and I'll call you back the same day.