Renee and her pooch Jimmy
Walk This Way Canine Behavior Therapy’s group training classes are coming to Queens! Renee Payne has been teaching puppies and adult dogs (and their humans) how to behave in her Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn classes for nine years, and now she’s bringing her popular positive reinforcement classes to Long Island City’s Camp Bow Wow. Each course is one hour per week for four weeks and is open to puppies and adults. The curriculum covers basic commands (sit, down, stay, come, leave it, drop it, leash walking) and addresses good doggie manners (no mouthing, no jumping, house training).
Her next session starts in September 2011. Email Renee at renee@doggiecouch.com if you are interested in attending.
Level 1 Training for puppies & adults - $180 - 1 hour per week for 4 weeks --- These classes cover basic commands (sit, down, stay, leave it, drop it, come) as well as addressing good doggie manners (mouthing, chewing, jumping, barking, house training). Puppy class is for dogs under six months of age. Adult class is for dogs OVER six months of age.
START DATES:
- Sunday, September 18th — pups at 4pm & adults at 5pm We’re excited to add Sundays to our Camp Bow Wow class schedule! To kick things off, this round and this round ONLY will be $150! Sign up now — space is limited.
- Wednesday, October 5th — pups & adults at 645pm
- Sunday, October 16th — pups at 4pm & adults at 5pm
- Sunday, November 13th — pups at 4pm & adults at 5pm (off 9/27)
- Wednesday, November 30th — pups & adults at 645pm
• Level 2 Training - $180 - 1 hour per week for 4 weeks -This course takes what your dog learned in the Level 1 class and builds on that knowledge. We work to proof the stay and coming when called commands around distraction, teach your dog to do the sit/down/stay commands from a distance, make sure he’s listening to you even when he’s not looking in your direction, and stop a running dog in his tracks. These classes are open to dogs that have taken our Level 1 class, or that have been evaluated and deemed ready for intermediate training.
START DATES:
- email to get on the wait list
SEMINARS - all are $30 and one hour in duration
• Leash Aggression Seminar - Is your dog GREAT at the dog run and doggie daycare…but a bit hard to handle when he/she sees another dog on leash? Want to fix the problem? Or if you have a puppy, wanna PREVENT the problem?
- September 18th at 3pm (this seminar is outside)
- October 16th at 3pm (this seminar is outside)
More Info on Renee
She graduated from the Animal Behavior Center of New York in 1999, is a Professional Member of the Association of Pet Dogs Trainers, has been certified by the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers since their inception in 2001, and is a certified tester for the AKC’s Canine Good Citizen program. She has been interviewed by CBS News, Fox News, The New York Times, CNN, Esquire magazine and various other media outlets as a behavior expert.
Renee evaluates the adoptability of dogs with aggression problems for local shelters and rescue groups, conducts free agility and dog run etiquette seminars at local dog runs, and taught learning-abroad seminars and dog training certification programs to students from Japan for two years. She designed a written and interactive interview process for co-op buildings to evaluate potential canine residents, wrote several articles about dogs and kids for the Nick Jr. Channel’s website, and has contributed articles to numerous other print and web-based outlets on topics ranging from training and behavior problems to breed traits. Renee has run a dog trainer internship program since 2002, and conducts “How to Meet a Dog” seminars for young children at various facilities throughout the New York area—a topic she co-authored a children’s book about in 2009.
Walk This Way was voted into the top ten in Citysearch’s Best Pet Services, and works with The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC Animals.
Better schedule that vacation now!
shelter! Bobbi assumed operational control and ownership of the Freeport Animal Shelter in March of this year. She desperately needs money to remodel this facility and to keep the animals fed. As you know, Bobbi runs a No-Kill Shelter, so every animal is safe with her and always has a warm/cool safe place to sleep. Thank you all for helping out once again!
I also wanted to send you one last reminder to be careful when socializing your dog, especially during the summer. It is Canine Cough season. Fortunately, we haven’t heard of any cases recently. That’s a good sign! By this time last year, the doggie cold had been marching all over Queens and getting many dogs sick. The dogs that didn’t get sick were the ones immune to it, or those that didn’t have any exposure to other dogs. As you know, we feel that if dogs benefit from exercise and socialization, then a cold every few years or so is probably worth it. I don’t think we as adults would choose to sit in our apartment every day of the year because we could possibly get a cold. Moral of the story: let your dogs have fun and be healthy, but stay on the watch for any dog coughing so we don’t contribute to the spread of this cough.
know that Renee of Doggie Couch is taking August off and returning on Sunday, September 18 to begin the fall session of obedience training. I hope you’ll tell your dig doggetty friends about her as we love to support her hard work!
n December 2010, to celebrate our 10-Year Anniversary, we announced the winner of our “On Our Way Home Project,” a project aimed at providing assistance to shelters in need across the country. The winner, the Fallen Timber Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, located in Elizabeth, PA was the recipient of the program’s inaugural $50,000 grant! 
Male brown dog ticks and non-engorged female ticks are flat and brown. Deer ticks are tiny; you can barely see them if they haven’t had their ‘drink’ yet. As the female ticks fill up on your dog’s blood they start to look like gray beans about a quarter inch long. They have four small legs on each side near their mouth. The deer tick is known to carry Lyme disease and can be harder to find than the dog tick because it is so small. We have seen both types on dogs recently. 
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