Dog Trainers for Puppies and Adult Dogs

Please send any changes/updates to Mary Dickinson Wood at Goldiva Goldens, www.k9goldens.com or email in to k9golden@maine.rr.com

 

Maine Obedience & Agility Trainers:

 

June & Stephen Cawood, www.maranathakennels.com . 26 Junes Way, West Buxton, ME 04093-3251. Telephone: 207-929-5941 E-Mail:  cawood@sacoriver.net

My daughter, Lauren Faulhaber works here. June is field training Ivy, Blossom, Sushi, Seaweed, Taima and Eris for JH & WC titles. They also do drop off obedience training where you leave your dog for a month of training if puppy owners have failed at training their dogs properly or to work on particular training issues. Maranatha offers boarding & grooming. Take accept visa/mc for all of the above.

 

Diana Logan, North Yarmouth, ME, 207-251-9144. www.petconnectionmaine.com Diana offers personal training in your home or in classes at Planet Dog. I have known Diana for years and she has worked well many of our puppy buyers. Email is petconnectionmaine@yahoo.com.

 

Pet Positive, Sherry Britton, on Brackett Street, Gorham, www.petpositive.net  Sherry is great! We have used her for 5 of our dogs in obedience training. We trained Taima, Seaweed, Sushi, Kylee & Blossom with Sherry. Email: petpos@rcn.com . Phone (207) 741-2091.

 

My Wonderful Dog, 54 Cove Street, Portland, Maine 04101. 207-780-9792. Elsa Larsen, President. elarsen@wonderfuldogs.org.  www.wonderfuldogs.org  My Wonderful Dog specializes in the training of service dogs for people with disabilities. We charge a fee for service for our dogs. My Wonderful Dog guarantees follow-up for the working life of the dog. In addition to our service dogs, we offer services for the pet dog owner which include: basic obedience classes, puppy kindergarten classes, a reactive dog class, a 4 week recall class, puppy playgroups and seminars featuring some of the country's top trainers. In the summer we offer teen camps where kids from 11-14 can come and learn the joys and challenges of training a service dog. My Wonderful Dog uses reward based training only.

 

 

Tracy Shaw, www.diamonddreamdogcenter.com in Alfred, Maine. Tracy offers: dog training, breed handling, dog grooming, doggy daycare, cat boarding, cat grooming. 185 Mouse Lane, Alfred, ME phone:(207) 490-6542 E-mail: dddc@adelphia.net

 

It’s A Dog’s World, 3 White Birch Lane, York, ME 03909. Phone 363-0099

Breed Handling, Training, Agility & Daycare.

 

K9games, Ginny Seavey, Bowdoinham. Agility, Obedience, Private Lessons & group classes. http://home.gwi.net/~k9games/. (Brunswick/Topsham area) Phone: 207-666-5882 Email: k9games@gwi.net

 

C and D Obedience, Donna Cassista, Gardiner (Augusta area). 207 377 2436: Located in Gardiner (for the most part) with 17 years teaching experience offering Beginner, Advance, Puppy, Competition Obedience, Rally and Show handling. Donna is also an AKC Rally Judge. Email:Magicshelties@hotmail.com or website:www.cdobedience.com

 

Robert & Lynn Boulier "Making a Difference in living with Autism"

Tail Waggin Training Center Inc, 84 Brann Road, Levant, ME. We train service dogs for the handicap and specialize also in kids on the spectrum. We have a training facility where we offer classes and we do in home training as well. We also offer support and consultation to individuals who choose to owner train there service dogs.  (Bangor area) 207-884-7017 Email: Glofiredachy@adelphia.net

 

Sue Westlake, 1513 Main Street, Readfield, ME.  Email: westlake@gwi.net 685-4510. Sue teaches obedience for Adult Ed at Maranacook High School Monday nights during the school year. She also teaches at Winthrop Veterinary Clinic on Tuesday nights year-round. She also does private lessons.  http://www.wwoadogs.com/tag.html  

 

Barbara and Gary Simons, HighQ Agility Services, 14 Norris Ave, Bar Harbor, Me. (207) 288-3805 HighQ@Prexar.com Agility trainers, offering lessons in Searsport, Prospect and Ellsworth Maine, the lessons are all positive reinforcement, and are small groups. Offering lessons from basic beginner lessons to advanced competition, and also offering a junior handlers program. Barb is a WMAS certified agility instructor who competes at the Nationals levels in the U.S. and Canada, Gary is the secretary and newsletter editor for the Eastern Maine Agility Club. Also offering trial superintendent services, and seminars.

 

 

Field Training

 

June & Stephen Cawood, www.maranathakennels.com . 26 Junes Way, West Buxton, ME 04093-3251. Telephone: 207-929-5941 E-Mail:  cawood@sacoriver.net

My daughter, Lauren Faulhaber works here. June is training Ivy for a WC & WCX. We’ll send other dogs out this spring with her. Dogs can come home on weekends after the first month.  They also do drop off obedience training where you leave your dog for a month of training. Maranatha offers boarding & grooming too.

 

Kim & Corey Trafton, www.fryemountainretrievers.com, Belfast, ME. Kim put JH titles on Emma, Kylee, Forest and 3 legs on Blossom to be finished in ’06. They take dogs from Jan-May or May-September. Kim & Corey have moved to GA permanently if anyone wants to send dogs down during the winter months for training/titles.  Cell phone: 207-323-1483. fryemtn@yahoo.com 

 

Frances and Stefan Plessner, Puddleduck Retrievers, www.puddleduckretrievers.com email address puddleduck@fairpoint.net, 134 Higgins Hill Road, Morrill, ME 342-5888. My breeder friends Chrissy Beaulieu and Denise Blanchette have both used Frances and are quite pleased with her methods.

 

David & Susan Robichaud, Dixmont, ME. 234-4092. Email: wassookg@uninets.net. Website:  www.wassookeagretrievers.com. 108 acres fields, woods and a series of ponds designed specifically for retriever training in central Maine. They have a new, fully equipped training facility for year-round field drills, hunt tests/WC, obedience and show handling work, puppy & young dog head start programs. They also offer boarding specializing in Retriever breeds.

 

 

Out of State Trainers:

 

Yankee Golden Retriever Club Puppy Kindergarten, Acton, MA http://www.yankeegrc.com/training.html

 

Especially for Pets, 81 Union Avenue, Sudbury, MA 01776.  (978) 443-7682

Their website is: http://www.especiallyforpets.com

 

Nashua, NH is www.riversidek9.com - I have really enjoyed working with them.

(Liz Christofferson)

 

Canine University, 71 Clinton Street, Malden, MA, 781-324-3722. www.canineuniversity.com. They do clicker-training and have come highly recommended from a couple of buyers. Doggie Daycare, private coaching & advanced coursework, puppy workshops, puppy parties.

 

Canine Mastery, Positively a Dog School, 102A Pond Street, Seekonk, MA 02771, 508-399-5867. Instructors: Kathy Buckley, Ann Chace, Joyce Gauthier, Jan Johnson, Erin Schaefer, Jan Thomas, Kathleen Walsh. Classes in Puppy Kindergarten thru Basic Obedience, Breed Handling, Obedience, Agility, Flyball

Website: Canine Mastery...Positively A Dog School!

 

www.americank9country.com  

 

Striker’s daughter Stella is taking Puppy Kindergarten at Waggin' Tail Dog Training Center, Westford, MA with puppy owner, Jean DiCearse. The instructor is Sandy Madden and the website is www.wtdtc.com .