Mind Your Manners Canine Training- Dog Training and Boarding-Family Owned

We needed some help with our husky pup who constantly wanted to rip your arm out of you socket on walks, jump all over you and never listen or come when called. We live with an elderly person and have a baby on the way and needed some training for her desperately. Manchini and Shelly are awesome people and you can tell right away how much they love dogs and love what they do. We decided to enroll our pup in their board and train program. While it was hard to be away from our pup we don't regret it. We got a training session with Manchini and Shelly and it really helped boost our confidence with continuous training at home. Mind your Manners does all the hard work for you, but it's up to you as the pet parent to put in the work at home to continue with all the hard work your pup has putin at training.We couldn't be happier with the manners our pups has learned and we highly recommend Mind you Manners!

I brought two dogs to MYM whom I had rescued off the streets of Dushanbe in Tajikistan. I had found two families to adopt them in Vermont, but wanted to do as much as I could to ensure their success as pets. They were a little older than other pups I had rescued. They discounted their price for me and we decided for them to have 4 weeks of training since they were difficult for me to handle. They were nice dogs, but I am not a dog person. I rescue and rehab feral cats and expecting a dog to act like a cat doesn't really work. :) So I really didn't know how to discipline or train a dog. After three weeks, I called to confirm their pick-up and Shelley and Mancini (who does the training) asked me if they could keep them two more weeks because they took a long time to trust them. They also said that they would not charge for the extra two weeks! When I picked them up, they said that they would both make very nice service dogs! They offered to finish training them and find good service jobs for them. I felt like a proud mom whose kids had graduated with honors from college. Although I considered their offer at some length, I decided to go ahead and take them to Vermont to the two families that had waited for so long for them to get to the U.S. But I remain pleased to know that, if things don't work out with their new families, someone thinks enough of them to want to help them become service dogs. The dogs are now much calmer and respond well to NO. They now walk like the polite young ladies I had hoped they would become. Once I was trained in how to help them self-correct their behavior, they were heaven to handle. They are still learning and need reminding, but it's now a pleasure to take them on a walk. They have learned automatic sits and the chain collars make it easy to get them to self-correct whenever they get lazy. I also discovered, much to my amazement, that the chain collars, which I previously had not liked at all, force ME the dog owner to be more disciplined and attentive because I don't want to choke them, and this is definitely something that could happen if I didn't use the collar correctly, and pay attention at all times to how they are responding, and stop any undesired behaviors before they actually get under way. I loved the fact that they were trained in a home, and that Mancini and Shelly worked with them to get along with cats, because both homes where they are going have cats. I loved Shelley's and Mancini's enthusiasm and love for the dogs. When I watched them with Mancini, I was impressed at his training skills. Everything they taught them was done without bribing them with treats. Praise praise praise and setting clearly limits and behavioral expectations seems to me to be a more effective way of training than using treats as rewards. If you want your dog to be loved to pieces, and to become a well-mannered dog, and if you are willing to learn how to become a firm and loving dog owner, Mind Your Manners training is perfect. Shelley and Mancini, thank you so much for loving my dogs and turning them into well-mannered young ladies. Their new owners are going to be thrilled.