Inclined Canine Academy

Mike and I started going to ICA puppy socials on July 11. Fig had the BEST time!! She and Benji were the first to arrive, they were running around, then came Cooper, he seemed very scared from the start and did not want to engage with other pups. We loved that trainers were there to help monitor behavior if necessary. If two pups were playing too aggressively,or if I pup was afraid they had a stick they used to get the pups to disengage and redirect. Fig has attended 3 socials and each experience has been positive where we learned something. One time another pit puppy was playing a lot with Fig, she was racing in circles, tumbling, fully engaged, then went to rest in the shade. She seemed done after 20 minutes, rather than keep her in the social to get my full 30 minutes we thought it best to leave on a good note. The last 2 weeks, August 15, 22 we brought our 2nd new puppy, Sage. At first she was shy (and this was her 2nd day with us), trying to figure out this area full of puppies, she quickly found that same pit puppy that Fig played with the week before. The recommendations from trainers to humans is to walk and socialize with other owners and not engage with our pups. We can check in with our pups as needed, but the goal of asocial is for puppy engagement. Our 4 year old Jelly, lost her big sister, Journey (75 pound lab/pit mix) on May 9 due to an unauthorized person, living with a small boarder, letting our dogs out of their kennel. Journey did not know this person and would not go back into the kennel, the woman went into the house and Journey was never seen again alive. She was killed by a hit and run off San Martin Ave near Center. To help Jelly gain some independenceand confidence we enrolled her in the 4 week training program. Rachel was her main trainer and we saw such growth in her over the month. We take Jelly on Saturday morning pack walks and small dog socials when possible. Our goal in training was to get a handle on Jelly's non stop barking when we talk to people on our walks, we didn't want her to get the small dog label of a yapper. She will go on her platform bed when we say 'place', she will sit/stay when we ask, we are able to go to a restaurant with her and Fig with no barking. ICA gave us great tools to help our dogs have a rich social life, now if it's up to us to continue the training.

The team at Inclined Canine Training has created a community with the knowledge, communication and all the tools needed to teach my dog to be a dog and to teach me how to help her and let her be a dog. Our dog was already been to training before and is a very well trained dog besides her reactivity towards other dogs. We were always hesitant to take her out with us. With the team at Inclined specializing in reactive dogs, this makes our dog Star everything we have hoped for her. We and Star both have the confidence to go anywhere together. 1000/10 would recommend Inclined!