Training Based Upon Dog Psychology
Having a great relationship with your dog begins with effective communication and understanding.
In order to live joyfully with your dog, you first need to understand how your dog thinks and reacts. With that foundation, you’ll understand what causes certain behavior as well as how to change that.
Scott and Darcy want you and your pet to enjoy the best years that you’ve ever had. However, before you can reach that level of bliss, there are some things that you need to know about your furry friend. At Dog 2 Dog training, we believe in education for owners and pets to achieve a relationship that fosters mutual respect and effective communication.
With over 35 years of experience, our capable trainers can assist you on your journey to teaching your dog how to adapt to your lifestyle. Just as importantly, we will show you why your dog exhibits specific behaviors and what each of behavior means. For most gentle species, peace comes from empathy and understanding, and we will help you to understand everything that you need to improve your pet’s mental health.
Dog Trainers in Salt Lake City
From basic obedience to expert service dogs, and everything in between.
Darcy
Darcy is recognized as one of Utah’s premier dog trainers. Her years of dog training and breed evaluation skills give her an unparalleled ability to breakdown and explain the behavioral nuances of training in a variety of dog breeds. People love how Darcy is able to demystify dog training and make the training process effective and enjoyable for both the owner and their dog. She is straight-forward and gets right to the heart of the issue. Darcy is a Master Instructor and Master Judge, in addition to being our fearless leader!
Scott
Scott is known as one of the United States’ premier dog training experts. His breadth of experience has covered nearly all aspects of dog training…detection training (bomb, gluten, medical), service, support, therapy, obedience, behavioral, tracking, agility, and more.
Scott’s ability to teach with humor and compassion allows his clients to gain confidence in their handling skills, while simultaneously building an unshakable bond between owners and their dog. His understanding of dog psychology is nearly limitless, and he is eager to help people all over the world enjoy a better, more joyful relationship with their dog.
Mary
Before joining us, Mary started at Dog 2 Dog looking for help with her bull terrier, Lotte. She has since brought all 6 (SIX!) of her dogs through basic obedience.
Mary has worked as a veterinary technician over the past 15 years and has her own pet sitting business. Mary enjoys competing in obedience and rally trials with her dogs. Where you find Mary you will likely also find her her mini, Quincey, who loves training with her Pomeranian, Coraline.
Mem
Mem has always had a love for animals, especially dogs of all shapes and sizes. She is very knowledgeable in nutrition and the natural well being of the canine. She enjoys seeing the partnership and confidence between dog and handler grow.
Mem loves trying to use every opportunity as a training opportunity whether it’s visiting the stables or the local dog sporting events, she’ll be doing training. Mem is a certified instructor at Dog 2 Dog.
Heather
Heather joined Dog 2 Dog several years ago as an emotional support dog student with her companion dog Aria. She certified as an emotional service dog handler and takes Aria with her everywhere. Aria was a challenging pupil as a working dog. Heather showed remarkable skill in training and shaping Aria into an proficient service dog.
Heather has worked at the front desk for multiple veterinary clinics and currently works as a vet technician at Lone Peak veterinary clinic.
Heather is currently a certified obedience instructor at Dog 2 Dog.
Samantha
Sam is a highly gifted dog handler with an absolute passion for animals of every kind. She is an intuitive trainer with many years of exposure to the Dog 2 Dog training system. She is extremely proficient in working with people; This is valuable to us as there are always two sets of students…the dog and the humans. It is the humans that are often most challenging! Sam excels at this critical training.
As with all our training staff, Sam has what we refer to as “Good Hands”. She is gifted with the ability to soothe, steady and communicate with a dog.
What You’ll Discover
Donnelle & Kj’s Story
“We rescued a puppy in the spring who needed heart surgery. We discovered a few days after we got her she was deaf. Although I know a lot about dogs, I had not a clue how to train a deaf puppy. A friend highly recommended Dog 2 Dog. I’m so grateful for their expertise and highly recommend them. 8 months later, it is so fun to be ableDarcy and Scott have been the best blessing to us with these sisters we adopted- Maggie and Astraea. We have 2 older dogs but these two sisters were giving us a challenge. The difference is night and day from the 1st lesson (wild childs) to current is beyond any words. It really is just amazing what Darcy and Scott have taught us and our girls. I tell everyone I can about them. You guys are the best! Thank you Thank you! to take our pup on off-leash trails and have her full attention, to be able to relax knowing she is safe and has excellent recall.“
DONNELLE S.
We started with wanting to learn more about getting our dogs to a service dog level. We met Darcy and we told her that we had limited time as we would be moving for work. Darcy and her team had every confidence in the fact that we could accomplish our goal by the time we needed to leave. We get a CRAZY amount of compliments on our dogs behavior in public and even with our friends and family. Darcy and her team have absolutely changed our life and our pack at home. This will forever be my pack moving forward!!!!
KJ K.
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