A Clever Canine

Specialties

Whether you are looking for Private Training, Group Classes, or Day Training — we make training your dog fun, easy and effective. Problem behaviors are easily modified and new skills quickly learned using only positive, humane, scientifically-​sound training practices based on learning theory and understanding of canine behavior.

We’ll teach you to teach your dog — or we’ll do the training for you. We do not use shock, choke or pinch collars. We do not use any verbal or physical reprimands. We do not use any fear or force based methods such as alpha rolls, scruff shakes, intimidation, leash corrections, or yelling. In fact, most of our training can be done off leash!

Modern behavioral science has proven that using punishment, or any aversive techniques, not only weakens the bond of trust between you and your dog, but also provides him with very little usable information. Punishing your dog tells him the choice he made was wrong, but doesn’t teach him what he should be doing instead.

You’ll be amazed to see just how easy it is to teach new behaviors that will replace those unwanted behaviors using only fun, force-​free methods and not by demanding it through intimidation, force, or physical abuse.

History

Established in 2008.

Anne Pantall is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-​KA) with over 23 years of training and teaching experience. She is passionately committed to using only positive, humane, scientifically-​sound training practices based on learning theory and understanding of canine behavior.

An animal lover all her life, Anne’s involvement in dog training began in 1991 when she took her Basset Hound, Ziggy, to training classes offered by her local dog club in Punta Gorda, Florida. Anne went on to put an AKC Companion Dog title on Ziggy and earned a second Companion Dog title through World Wide Kennel Club. Ziggy was also a Certified Therapy Dog and an AKC Canine Good Citizen.

Anne began working as an assistant instructor for the club in 1992 and taught her first class as an instructor in 1994. She was responsible for introducing the AKC Canine Good Citizen program into the club’s training program and was the evaluator for their first CGC test in June of 1995. That same year she also establish