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Do you know an organization that's providing low cost, inclusive dog training? We want to hear about it!

  • 1.  Do you know an organization that's providing low cost, inclusive dog training? We want to hear about it!

    Posted 02-03-2025 07:32 AM

    Hi folks, I'm co-leading a presentation at HSUS Expo this year about how organizations are providing low-cost or inclusive dog behavior services to help folks access what they need.

    If you work with (or know of) and organization doing this type of work, we want to hear about it! This could be a nonprofit like Every Dog Austin, or a trainer offering sliding scale pricing, or a shelter offering training workshops.

    Anything designed to help get dog behavior resources to the people who typically don't get access!

    bit.ly/dogtrainingorgs


    #Behavior,TrainingandEnrichment
    #Diversity,Equity,InclusionandJustice
    #EducationandTraining

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    Miranda Hitchcock
    MS Applied Animal Behavior, CDBC, CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA, Fear Free Certified
    Executive Director
    Every Dog Behavior and Training
    Austin, TX
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  • 2.  RE: Do you know an organization that's providing low cost, inclusive dog training? We want to hear about it!

    Posted 02-04-2025 10:22 AM

    Our rescue trains some of the dogs we foster in our rescue. If we foster them, we train with them.

    When one of our dogs are adopted, we offer training help at no cost to the adopters.  I also send video's of training with dogs to the adopters and give them support with training after adoption.  

    When we have dogs in foster care, we teach the fosters how to train with the dog so it is more adoptable. Leash training is a huge one.  The foster has to be willing to do the training to help with this.

    When we were planning and developing our rescue, it was solely based on the health/well-being, vet care, spay/neuter, and most importantly, positive reinforcement (no punishment) training for dogs. I do not have all the letters after my name as you do. I am only an AKC CGC Evaluator and a licensed Pet Partners Team Evaluator.  But, I believe that training of rescue dogs can help much more than people realize.  Especially if it has behavioral issues. I also believe that most "aggression cases" are an underlying medical condition, which we have found to be true in a number of cases.  

    I hope this helps.



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    [Kim] [Jackson]
    [AKC CGC Evaluator]
    [For The Puppies Foundation Inc.]
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