Dog Training in St. Charles, MO
Power Up Your Dog Training
Ready to power up life with your pups? Join us for a manners class, fitness session, or dance your way there with canine freestyle!
Dog Training Services
Power Up Your Pup’s
Manners
We can help you teach your dog a number of useful behaviors. These include recall, sit, stand, down, settle, and many more! Let us know what you need to work on most with your pup and we will help your dog understand what you want.
Power Up Your Pup’s
Fitness
If you have been told your dog needs to lose weight or you are noticing your dog is losing muscle mass, we are here to help! With a note of physical clearance from your veterinarian, we will provide strengthening exercises that you can do at home.
Power Up Your Pup’s
Freestyle
Combine obedience, tricks, and dance to create fun routines with your dog that you will be able to perform for titles in multiple organizations. We can guide you from the very basic behaviors to being ready to enter in a trial.
About Power Up Pups
We want to help you and your dogs succeed with whatever your goals are through positive reinforcement based training. We think that dogs should not have to experience pain or fear when they are learning what we are expecting of them.
We teach dogs in small steps so that they learn and grasp concepts faster. We understand dog body language and can use that to give recommendations on what to do to help your dog learn best.
Our goal is to provide you with the tools you need to help give you the life you envision having with your dog.
Liz is amazing at breaking training down into small steps. She is also good at offering options based on how your particular dog learns. For example, I was trying to teach Trooper to side-step towards me by watching training videos and following steps shown on the videos. None of it was working for Trooper. Liz watched what I was doing and from there was able to break it down into small individual movements based on how Trooper would best learn. We worked on one movement at a time and within a few weeks, Trooper was side-stepping like a champ!
Patience was my biggest challenge. I want Trooper to learn tricks and techniques without breaking them down into small individual pieces. Liz taught me to practice one small step at a time and reward and celebrate before moving to the next. This has made a tremendous difference for both Trooper and me.
Liz understands and is knowledgeable about so many aspects of dog training, from obedience, exercise, trick training, freestyle, agility, rally, scent, etc. She uses all of this knowledge when training. For instance, one of our moves in freestyle is backing up. Lately, Trooper didn’t seem to enjoy backing up like he did in the past. Liz suggested that we work on some strength training for his back leg muscles and showed me some exercises. It seems to be working!
— Joanne and Trooper