Services
All of our training packages start with a convenient online Evaluation/Behavior Consultation.
These are offered via secured Zoom virtual video meetings with Stacy.
The Behavior Consultation/Evaluation is about an hour long and costs $190 or comes included in any package.
Expert Personal Training programs and Private Lesson programs also have virtual follow-up sessions that are conducted via Zoom. Ongoing consultation packages are also available for clients seeking greater convenience, or who are outside of the Silicon Valley area, through the Virtual Training program.
Expert Personal Training
Our in-person day-training “personal trainer” program is perfect for the busy professional or family who would prefer expert training over instruction, producing a well-trained dog quickly and without interrupting your busy schedule.
Private Lessons
Private Lessons are offered in-person, in central Silicon Valley/Santa Clara County, and virtually. Private Lessons are great for any person or family who wants one-on-one attention when learning how to train your own dog.
Puppy Priorities Package
Get the best of both worlds with both virtual and in-person learning to help you start your puppy off right! Get a headstart on important issues for puppy raising with our custom video series, followed by a virtual consult, where we’ll create a tailored training plan for your specific needs, then in-person lessons with Stacy to help you work through the plan successfully.
Expert Personal Puppy Socialization
If your busy schedule makes focusing on your young puppy’s needs difficult, or you’re just not sure you know what to cover, let me do it for you! I’ll introduce your puppy to a variety of people, animals, sounds, smells, sights, and situations – in a way that will leave a lasting, positive impression.
Outside the San Jose area?
Check out our Virtual Training option!
Other Services
Stacy also offers Pre-Puppy Consults, Maintenance Packages and Ongoing Training Discounts.
Pre-Puppy Consult
Looking for a puppy to add to your family, but not sure where to look? Or maybe you have pup picked out, but want to be ready to “hit the ground running” when you bring this bundle of joy (and teeth) home? The Pre-Puppy Consultation is for you! If you’re looking for a dog, I can help you figure out how genetics and breed specific traits (and their mixes) might affect your dog’s personality, trainability, and health; how to screen breeders, shelters and rescue groups for best practices; and look past appealing balls of fluff and big puppy-dog eyes to pick the right individual. We can also craft a plan to introduce your future pup to your home, family, and lifestyle; how to plan for socialization and foundation training, and how to prepare yourself for the common challenges of young puppyhood (like house-soiling, chewing, biting, barking, and more!).
Pre-puppy consultation: $100. Can be virtual or in-person in Santa Clara county service area.
Email Stacy at Stacy@wagntrain.com to schedule your pre-puppy consult and start your search for your new best friend off on the right paw.
Maintenance Packages
Dog training is never really done – like physical fitness, if you don’t keep up the practice, the behavior can deteriorate.
Sometimes just a quick reminder is all it takes. I can help keep up your dog’s progress with regular in-person Personal Trainer sessions. Maybe your dog’s garden of behaviors needs a little occasional weeding? Like a regular oil change, maintenance training can keep your dog’s behavior running smoothly! This is a “personal trainer” style service in which you, the owner, do not need to be present. Let me come in and “upgrade” your dog’s skills while you work, play, parent, or attend school! This service is for current or past clients of Stacy’s Wag’N’Train only.
- Package 1 – One one-hour appointment every week; $400/month or $1000 for 3 months (12 sessions – you save $200)
- Package 2 – One one-hour appointment every two weeks, for 6 months (12 sessions). $1000 for six months (you save $200) or $200/month
- Package 3 – One one-hour appointment every month, for 6 months (6 sessions). $500 for six months (you save $100) or $100/month
Ongoing Training Discount
Clients who have completed an initial training package are eligible for ongoing weekly or bi-weekly training sessions at 10% discount (if you sign up within one week of the final appointment of your initial package). Individual training sessions are $130 each (a 10% discount!).
Ready for the well-behaved dog you deserve?
We’re ready to help.
Reach out today to schedule a call to discuss what training your dog needs to become their best self!
Project tRade
How would you like to trade your old dog-training equipment for great discounts?
We want to swap great discounts on our most popular services in exchange for your choke, prong or shock collars, or any other qualifying pet gear. By participating in “Project tRade” you can earn up to 10% off our most popular services simply by giving us old pet gear* you have laying around. It couldn’t be easier!
What is “Project tRade”?
Project tRade is the Pet Professional Guild’s (PPG) international advocacy program that promotes the use of force-free pet training equipment by asking pet guardians to swap choke, prong and shock collars (and any other devices that are designed to change behavior through pain or fear). Because we want all pets and their guardians to experience the huge advantages and long-lasting effectiveness of force-free training and pet care, we will give you great discounts on our most popular, effective, fun and pain-free training and pet care services in exchange for your old gear.
Effective, humane animal training and pet care methods are the foundation of any animal’s healthy socialization and training and help prevent behavior problems. Since a wide variety of equipment and tools are commonly used when training pets, the pet-owning public needs to be aware of the potential problems and dangers some equipment may pose. Specifically, the use of collars and leads that are intended to apply constriction, pressure, pain or force around a dog’s neck (such as choke chains and prong collars) should be avoided. Distinguished veterinarians and behaviorists worldwide are joining the discussion and calling for the elimination of such devices from the training efforts of both pet owners and professionals.
What do the experts say?
Respected veterinarian and thyroid expert, Dr. Jean Dodds, recommends against choke or prong collars “as they can easily injure the delicate butterfly-shaped thyroid gland that sits just below the larynx and in front of the trachea. These collars can also injure the salivary glands and salivary lymph nodes on the side of the face underneath both ears.”
Bestselling author and canine behaviorist, Jean Donaldson, says: “These devices (choke and prong collars), when they work, do so to the degree that they hurt. With the advent of modern methods and tools they are irrelevant.”
According to veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist Dr. Soraya V. Juarbe-Diaz: “Using punishment to stop behaviors is not new. Notice I say ‘stop’ rather than ‘teach’ — I can stop any behavior, but I am more interested in teaching my students, animal or human, to choose the behavior I want them to perform because they can trust me, because I do not hurt them and they are safe with me, and because the outcome is something they enjoy.”
PPG thus encourages all pet owners and pet professionals to embrace modern, scientifically-based training techniques and tools, especially the latest generation of no-pull harnesses which are free of the risks posed by traditional collars and offer far more benefits. So swap your gear and help create a kinder world for you and your pet! To learn more, just visit PetProfessionalGuild.com.
*qualifying pet gear = prong collars, shock collars, pinch collars, choke chains, citronella collars and the like.
The following discounts will be provided on Expert Personal Trainer, Expert Personal Puppy Socialization, and Private Lesson services, for trading in any one of these pieces of equipment:
- Choke collars – 10% discount
- Prong collars – 10% discount
- Shock collars – 10% discount
- Electric-shock Scat Mats – 5% discount
- Electric-shock Bark Collars – 5% discount
- Electric-shock Boundary Fencing (“Invisible Fence” and the like) – 10% discount