Dog Training in Bridgeport, CT

If your dog meets the neighbor's dog in a shared corridor at six feet with no exit and loses his mind, pulls you through Black Rock past every other leash, barks at the hallway all day, or comes back from Seaside Park when he feels like it, you have a Bridgeport dog. Close quarters and a lot of other dogs give him plenty to react to.

In an apartment building, the dog's reputation is made in the corridor, and a dog who has never been shown that you handle the oncoming neighbor handles him the only way he knows. More room would not change that; a different relationship with you does. Shawn Hines has spent more than thirty years training dogs and more than fifteen running Best Buddy Dog Training, and he teaches Bridgeport owners how to be the person their dog defers to in a six-foot hallway.

Dog Training Problems We See in Bridgeport

The corridor

A shared hall gives a dog no room to get away from what bothers him, and a dog nobody is leading lunges. Walked by someone he obeys, he lets the other dog pass and keeps going.

Black Rock

The sidewalks are full of other leashes. A dog who pulls toward all of them is leading the walk. The dog you want passes them at your side without being told twice.

Seaside and Beardsley

Open ground by the water is where owners find out whether they have a recall or a habit. The recall is built on a leash around other dogs before it is ever trusted loose.

The Dogs in the Pictures

No dog in the pictures or videos here was bought or staged. Each one was trained by Shawn or lives with him now, and you will not find a treat or a remote anywhere in the frame. The videos and the success stories are the proof for anyone who wants it first.

In-Home Dog Training in Bridgeport, CT

Four private sessions with Shawn in your apartment, condo or house, in your building and on the streets you use every day make up the in-home program in Bridgeport, and the work in them is yours to learn, with Shawn coaching, so it does not leave when he does. Phone and video follow-up continues for as long as the dog lives, with nothing added for it; the price covers every dog in the house, up to five, with nothing added afterward; more sessions are part of the deal if you have followed the plan. The plan fits your dog and your home, not a template. Connecticut: $2,250.

Board-and-Train

Occasionally the right answer is time away from home. For board-and-train, the dog moves in with Shawn and his pack for four to six weeks and trains daily in parks, stores, and traffic. It is the answer for aggression, resource guarding, serious leash reactivity, chronic anxiety, and the dog who has already failed a program. Shawn handles pickup and return personally, and the three reintegration sessions that follow happen at your home, with follow-up that never expires. The cost is $2,500 to $5,000, set by the dog in front of us and settled by phone first.

Bridgeport Owners Ask

We are in an apartment with no yard.
That's not an issue. We begin inside, and then the hallway and the block are where the work happens.

He has bitten once.
Say exactly what happened on the phone so the first visit is planned rather than discovered.

Call Shawn

Phone (401) 536-7982. You will talk to Shawn, not a scheduler, and nobody is reading from a script. Tell him what you are dealing with and he will say plainly what he would do and the cost. Call weekdays 8 to 6 or Saturday 9 to 5, or leave a message and he will call back.

Who you are to your dog is EVERYTHING

Shawn Hines
Dog Trainer, Best Buddy Dog Training