Puppies need to be taught how to successfully navigate life in an urban environment. Few humans are experienced at raising a puppy, and frequently feel overwhelmed evaluating training techniques while living with an infant dog who’s turned their world upside down.

Santa Monica Dog Coach’s Puppy Life Skills Program lays the foundation for a happy, well-adjusted canine companion while saving you time and the frustration of having to guess at what your puppy needs to thrive (and also be house trained!).

Meeting Puppy Needs

Puppies are learning machines! They absorb information quickly, and when it’s presented in a fun and relaxed way puppies get excited about engaging with their humans. Best of all, understanding and meeting a puppy’s innate canine needs makes them happier and easier to live with.

Building a Strong Foundation

Dee’s Puppy Life Skills program is all about creating positive experiences and teaching your puppy essential skills for urban human living, without corrections or coercion:

• Socialization: Gain confidence, reduce anxiety, and learn what to expect in public. Learn how to engage in healthy interactions with other dogs and people. Learn self-control in highly stimulating environments.
• Cooperative Care: Desensitization to handling for vet visits, grooming, and everyday care.
• Living with Humans: House training, crate training, preventing separation anxiety, polite greetings and curbing annoying and/or destructive behaviors.
• Urban Adventures: Puppies learn to walk with you, how to navigate crowds and noises, and how to relax in public settings.
• Clear Communication: Puppies and people learn cues (commands) and non-verbal communication in the (body) language puppies understand instinctively. Guardians learn awareness of when and what their puppy is “saying” to them.

The Santa Monica Dog Coach Difference

Dee’s background in film and video production is the secret sauce behind her amazing canine behavior transformations. Utilizing smartphone video and live, video-call coaching, Dee observes your puppy in their most natural state, in the environment where you spend the most time with them. Dee provide real time recommendations guidance based on the puppy you actually live with, and your daily interactions at home. This personalized, evidence-based approach results in far faster progress with results that last.

Ready to Raise a Well-Rounded Pup?

Contact Dee Green at Santa Monica Dog Coach to start your puppy’s Life Skills journey!

Life with a fearful, anxious or reactive dog can feel like a living in a pressure cooker. Meltdowns are common and unpredictable. An unexpected encounter can undo our best efforts at maintaining calm in our easily-rattled dogs. Even at home, peace can be difficult to find.

Santa Monica Dog Coach’s Life Skills program empowers dog guardians with the tools to identify what’s behind their dog’s emotional imbalance and how to best respond so healing can begin – all from the comfort and familiarity of your own home.

The Power of Live Coaching and Learn-At-Home Lessons

Virtual training has revolutionized trainer Dee Green’s behavior modification work with fearful, anxious, and reactive dogs. Why? Because people and dogs behave differently when they’re alone at home, in the very environment where most behavior modification takes place. Before smartphones and video calls, Dee could only guess at what was happening outside of lessons – a process of elimination that wasted a lot time and often caused frustration.

Today, through practice video analysis and live video call coaching, guardians are now able see exactly how their behavior influences their dog’s behavior, for themselves. Frame by frame we study both yours and your dog’s actions and reactions, track progress, and unlock insights that were unavailable before.

The Santa Monica Dog Coach Difference

Dee’s background in film and video production is the secret sauce behind her amazing canine behavior transformations. Via smartphone video and live video call coaching, Dee observes your puppy in their most natural state, in the environment where you interact with them the most. This allows Dee to provide real time recommendations and instruction based on the dog you actually live with. This personalized, evidence-based approach ensures the fastest possible progress and results that last.

Understanding Where Your Dog is Starting From

The transformation begins with a comprehensive Initial Consultation with behavior consultant Dee Green, conducted via a FaceTime, Zoom or WhatsApp video call. Dee asks a series of questions about your dog’s current behavior and their history. She also answers questions and makes recommendations for immediate relief, when appropriate.

Guardians are encouraged to submit video of their dog’s behavior prior to the Initial Consultation for maximum results.

A Customized Approach

Learn-At-Home Lessons are tailored to your dog, your environment and your goals. Dee will develop a behavior modification plan that includes:

• Confidence Building: Nurturing your dog’s self-assurance at home and in the outside world, and empowering them with the skills to handle potentially stressful situations when necessary.
• Strengthening Your Bond: Nurturing trust, connection and cooperation between you and your canine companion.
• Clear Communication: Teaching you to “speak dog” through effective non-verbal communication, clear cues, and well timed rewards. Showing your dog what it feels like to be truly heard – priceless .
• Reducing Anxiety: Helping your dog feel calmer, safer and more at ease.
• Enrichment for Fulfillment: Harnessing the power of enrichment to satisfy your dog’s natural instincts, promote confidence, and expend mental energy.

Experience Lasting Change with Santa Monica Dog Coach

Santa Monica Dog Coach’s Life Skills program guides you and your dog toward a more harmonious life. You’ll gain the tools to better understand and meet your dog’s unique needs, communicate effectively with them, and create a safe and supportive environment where you both can thrive.

Do you dream about your dog happily walking with you, zero pulling and zero tension on the leash? No drama around dogs, kids, scooters, etc. Santa Monica Dog Coach’s Loose-Leash Walking Program is designed to achieve that and transform walks into enjoyable bonding experiences.

Learn to communicate clearly with your dog through the leash, fostering trust and confidence, and a joyful walking experience for both of you.

Teaching the Leash Conversation

Puppies and dogs pull on the leash because they never learned how to walk without pulling. When dogs without leash encounter common urban disturbances, many respond with barking and lunging because they feel overwhelmed.

Dee’s Loose-Leash Walking program teaches you easily communicated techniques that help you help your pup feel more secure, connected to you and truly heard.

Getting Started on the Right Paw

Your loose-leash journey begins with a video call consultation with dog trainer and behavior consultant Dee Green. Dee evaluates your dog’s current leash walking skills and learns about your leashed walking goals.

Key Program Benefits

• Clear Communication: Learn leash-handling techniques and how to communicate effectively with your dog in their native language.
• No More Pulling: Learn how to motivate your dog to walk with you without corrections.
• Strengthened Bond: Build trust and mutual understanding with each walk for a more fulfilling relationship.
• Improved Focus: Minimize the impact of distractions and help your puppy or dog learn self-control.
• Walk with Confidence: Enjoy walks with your canine companion in virtually any environment.

The Santa Monica Dog Coach Advantage

Dee teaches you and your pup her loose-leash walking method through video calls, written materials and video examples. She helps you turn learning into reality during video call coaching sessions that include frame-by-frame video analysis of yours and your pup’s movements, actions and reactions. This personal coaching approach yields infinitely faster and more sustainable results than traditional dog training.

Accelerate Learning with Play School or Day Training

Santa Monica Dog Coach’s private teaching options provide intensive, personalized support for your puppy or dog to reach their full potential.

One-on-One Tutoring with Dee

Your puppy dog will receive one-on-one instruction from Dee Green, an expert dog trainer and behavior consultant, in a controlled home environment. This allows for individualized attention and rapid progress toward your goals.

• Multiple teaching opportunities per session, with rest and play in between.
• Maximum of two students per session.
• Puppies and dogs learn new behaviors before their guardians, so humans aren’t trying to teach behaviors at the same time they’re learning them.
• Guardians receive regular text and video updates.
• Guardians receive personal video call coaching when it works for their schedule.

Understanding Your Dog’s Needs

Whether you have a new puppy, a dog with behavioral challenges, or simply want to accelerate your dog’s learning, the Play School and Day Training options start with understanding your dog’s unique needs and your goals for them.

The Day Training Difference

• Rapid Results: Immersive training sessions create a focused learning environment and maximize results.
• Expert Instruction: Dee’s canine behavior expertise ensures your dog receives the guidance they need and techniques you can rely on for lasting success.
• Positive Reinforcement: Science-based, force and coercion-free methods build trust and a happy, enthusiastic learner.
• Owner Support: Guardians receive updates via text, email and video, plus live video call coaching to reinforce your dog’s progress at home.

Ideal For:

• Puppies: Provides a solid foundation for house manners, socialization and leash introduction. Expedites behaviors that make puppies easier to live with in the first months in your home.
• Behavior Modification: Fearful and anxious dogs learn calming behaviors from Dee’s personal dogs and gain confidence being away from their humans.
• Busy Owners: Get dedicated instruction for your puppy or dog that fits your schedule.