Dog Training in St. Charles and St. Louis, MO
Power Up Your Pup’s Training
From conquering fear to happier vet and grooming skills – we’ll guide the way!
“Liz has provided many techniques and strategies to help me… Strategies have included helping my dog overcome fearfulness of places and objects, starting with basic skills the dog can do and gradually building into more complex tasks”
— Morgan and Milo
Dog Training Services
More than training sesions – real partnerships for real success!
Power Up Your Pup’s
Confidence
Building a trusting relationship is one of the main goals of dog ownership. Sometimes things don’t go to plan and dogs become fearful of even the people who are caring for them. Fear appears in a dog’s behavior in reactivity, hiding, cowering, and other ways that may go unnoticed to pet owners. Fear can cause dogs to be destructive, bite, bark, and not provide the companionship we imagined when we got our dogs. Good news! There are ways to make our dogs feel safer in their world. Connect with us to get started!
Power Up Your Pup’s
Behavior
We offer classes to work on pet manners, CGC and CGCA skills, tricks, and musical freestyle! Occasionally, we offer rally classes when there is interest. Musical freestyle is a sport where handlers choreograph routines of heel work and tricks to music for live or video performance for titles. It can provide an engaging and fun activity for you and your dog. CGC and CGCA are programs run through the AKC to test your dogs skills and manners and earn titles! Reach out if you are interested in any of these activities.
Power Up Your Pup’s
husbandry
Do you get nervous about taking your dog to the vet or groomer because they snap or have bitten when people handle them? Would you like to be able to do trim your dog’s nails or give your dog a bath without a fight? We can help! Check out our cooperative care program, which is conveniently done with virtual sessions so we can work wherever you are! We will teach you to work with your dog to accept handling in a safe and comfortable method.
About Power 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