Canine Dimensions

Canine Dimensions is the BEST dog training company in South Jersey. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the number of choices in dog training in our area, so we made a few mistakes when we began our search. Our main issue with our adopted dog Rollie was aggression to people visiting, and aggression to people we would meet on walks. He is a big dog (65lb) and although he had never managed to get close enough to bite, he definitely would have, if he was not on the leash. So first we tried one of the (cheaper) trainers in our area, she had pretty good reviews and charged around $ 100 a lesson. We soon learned why it was so inexpensive — she met Rollie and said this was going to be very long project — and could not say for sure how many visits she and her clicker and bag of food treats would take to «rehabilitate» him. I didn’t like the clicker theory, or the potentially never ending visit schedule, so we said goodbye to her after the second lesson. Then a friend recommended Canine Dimensions. Let me warn you they are NOT cheap. But they quote the total price up front, and they provide as many lessons as you need for 6 months. But the biggest difference was immediately apparent as soon as we met Phil, their head trainer. We call him our «dog whisperer» because he read Rollie like a book, was able to get him to calm down and work with him hands on (without clickers and food) after only a few minutes. By the end of the lesson Rollie was actually letting him pet him, which has never been possible with any stranger our dog has ever met. Next lesson we worked on leash walking (our biggest issue) and Phil taught us all the things that WE were doing wrong, sending the wrong messages on the walk, and taught us that Rollie would be taught to focus ONLY on us during a walk. This has made our walks relaxing, calm and fun again. We never thought that this would happen so quickly. He is a different dog now on his walks. We are delighted with the progress we have made so far and I would highly recommend Phil and Canine Dimensions to anyone with a nervous, anxious or aggressive dog.