Dog Training in Manchester, NH

If your dog barks at every door that opens onto the long brick corridor in the Millyard, drags you down Elm Street past every other leash, or treats his name as optional at Livingston Park, you have a Manchester dog. If you are on two acres off Goffstown Road the symptoms look different and the cause is the same.

Manchester has mill apartments and two-acre lots within ten minutes of each other, and the same dog fails in both: the one with nobody to defer to. In a corridor that shows up as barking at every door; on an acre it shows up as a recall that stops at the trees. Shawn Hines has spent more than thirty years training dogs and more than fifteen running Best Buddy Dog Training, and he teaches Manchester owners how to be the person their dog defers to, whichever kind of home they have.

Dog Training Problems We See in Manchester

The Millyard corridor

Long, brick, and loud, with every door opening onto it. A dog who announces each one is working a shift nobody gave him. When the shift is yours, he lies down, and the corridor goes on without him.

Elm Street

The downtown sidewalks are full of other leashes and patio tables in season. A dog who pulls toward all of it is leading. Walked by someone he respects, he passes it at your side.

Rock Rimmon and the rail trail

Open ground is where owners find out whether they have a recall or a habit. The recall that holds when the deer moves was built on a leash, around distractions, first.

The Dogs in the Pictures

The dogs in the photographs and videos on this site are Shawn's own students. They are dogs Shawn trained or is training, shown doing what trained dogs do, and nobody is holding food off camera or a remote in a pocket. The videos show it and the success stories say it, if you want proof before you pick up the phone.

In-Home Dog Training in Manchester, NH

The in-home program in Manchester is four private sessions at your home, on your street and in the places the dog actually fails, and you are the student in them as much as the dog is, so the training stays with you. Lifetime follow-up by phone and video is included at no extra cost, one flat price takes in up to five dogs in the same household, and there is nothing hidden in it; more sessions come with it if you have followed the plan and need them. A plan is put together for your particular dog and household. In New Hampshire, the cost is $2,250.

Board-and-Train

For the dog with a history, Shawn offers a longer program. Board-and-train means four to six weeks under Shawn's roof, in his pack, tested in public before the dog comes home. Shawn collects and delivers the dog himself, then returns three times for (optional) reintegration sessions in your house, and the follow-up after that has no end date. The dogs who need it are the aggressive, the guarding, the severely reactive, the anxious, and the ones who have bitten. $2,500 to $5,000, depending on the dog, agreed before anything is scheduled.

Manchester Owners Ask

Our building has rules about the common areas.
Tell Shawn the rules on the phone and the plan works inside them. A dog who is right in the hallway is right everywhere else.

He is fine with us and terrible with everyone else.
He has sorted out whom he has to listen to. Everyone in the house gets the same plan, and he gets one set of rules.

He is only bad when other dogs are around.
Then the other dog has his attention, and you do not. That is what changes.

Call Shawn

Pick up the phone and call (401) 536-7982. You get Shawn, not an office, and the conversation is free. Tell him the problem, and he will tell you the plan and the price. He answers weekdays from 8am to 6pm and Saturdays from 9am to 5pm; otherwise leave a message.

Who you are to your dog is EVERYTHING

Shawn Hines
Dog Trainer, Best Buddy Dog Training