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pleasantly independent - a handbook for separation anxiety in dogs
Does your dog struggle when crated, separated from you, or alone? Do they bark, whine, stress urinate or defecate, chew things, try to escape, or injure themselves? If so, your dog may suffer from confinement or separation anxiety or distress.
Our team of talented behavior trainers can help! Our owner and head trainer, Jenn Gavin, literally wrote the book ‘Pleasantly Independent’ for owners whose dogs suffer from these crippling anxieties. She developed a method for treating separation anxiety that does not just rely on desensitization for stopping the outward signs of anxiety. This method, outlined in her book has helped hundreds of clients help their dogs, overcome separation anxieties.
Many clients who have worked with other separation anxiety trainers, even very well known trainers, tell us they found our method to be faster and easier, with less recidivism.
purchase book $25
golden ticket program
At A Pleasant Dog, our mission is to improve the lives of people and animals through positive reinforcement training, education, and research. As part of this mission, we recognize that our services are financially out of reach for some families. We do offer scholarships and discounts as often as we can, but admittedly these scholarships come out of our own pockets, and profit margins in our industry are slim.
Enter the Golden Ticket program. If you would like to help make excellent training available to the underserved population, this is your chance to pay it forward! You can purchase a golden ticket in any increment, and we will apply your Golden Ticket gift to the bill of a dog and handler in need. Recipients will be selected by our leadership team as being underserved for financial or health reasons. And you will receive a thank you from our leadership team (and the good feeling that comes with paying it forward).
-NOTE: THIS IS NOT A PHYSICAL PRODUCT
If you with to support with an amount not listed on this page please don’t hesitate to email get@apleasantdog.com or call us
donations
If you wish to support our ongoing research to improve the lives of animals and their people. Your donation will be used to support our research and/or our scholarship program which provides training and free training services to the underserved population.
Please consider a donation to show your support of our efforts! - Donations here only accept paypal!
$29 will provide one hour of a senior researcher’s time to improve the quality of life of dogs and cats and their people
$49 will provide one half hour of training to a veteran or family living below the poverty line
$99 will provide one private lesson to a veteran or family living below the poverty line
$149 will provide one kid’s camp, attendance or group presentation on dog safety to the community
$199 will provide a six week group class attendance to a veteran or family living below the poverty line
$249 will provide a behavior consultation for aggression or severe anxiety to a veteran or a family living below the poverty line
$499 will provide five research hours with our whole study team; or an initial behavior session, two follow ups, and a skill drill to a veteran or family living below the poverty line
$999 will provide ten service dog coaching sessions to a veteran or disabled person training their own service dog