Our Philosophy
At Pawsitively Canine, we train dogs with compassionate and humane methods. Our promise to you is that we will never cause fear, intimidate, or hurt your dog in the name of training, or ever!
Positive and force free training techniques work whether you have a new puppy or a dog with behaviour challenges. We want you to live a long and happy life together, doing the things you love with your best friend.
Upcoming Group Training
Thu, Jan 23KelownaJan 23, 2025, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.Kelowna, 3785 Casorso Rd, Kelowna, BC V1W 4M7, CanadaJan 23, 2025, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.Kelowna, 3785 Casorso Rd, Kelowna, BC V1W 4M7, CanadaCome and learn all the amazing things your dog's nose can do!! This is the sport of nosework, where we build on your dog's natural drive to search. It's fun and enriching! Dogs are run one at a time so fearful and reactive dogs are welcome. $225 plus gst 6-1 hour classes
Sun, Jan 26VernonJan 26, 2025, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.Vernon, 1053 Pottery Rd, Vernon, BC V1B 3A5, Canada
Sun, Feb 16Location is TBDFeb 16, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.Location is TBD
Interested in a class not listed here?
Private Coaching Sessions
Do you have a newly rescued dog that is fearful to the world, or you?!
Does your dog bark and lunge at other dogs, people skateboards and more…or guard his/her food, objects?
Let us help!
We have extensive experience and education working with PTSD, aggression, fear and reactivity. In fact, we love working with dogs like this and watching them flourish into confident, happy, family dogs!
We have 4 phases as we approach behaviour and create behaviour plans:
Assessment:
This is the initial session where we get all of the information needed to best help your dog. Background, health information (many behaviour issues are pain related!), past training experience, what your dog loves etc!
We also begin simple skills if possible.
Mitigation:
This includes environmental management. Trying to help prevent your dog from getting into situations where he/she feels threatened, fearful etc. We want your dog to stop practicing the emotion and the behavior as best as possible, by setting up the environment to help him be successful. This helps her feels safe and reduces all of those hormone levels that remain escalated every time there is a reaction!
We also talk about how to build confidence with enrichment and other skills.
Training:
This is the phase where we learn many skills that will begin to help your dog learn to feel different about the things that scare, frustrate or otherwise cause stress when he encounters them. We use force free, positive methods of course and work on the root cause of the emotions causing the behaviour.
We begin at levels your dog can handle, setting them up for success. Then slowly, we build on the skills from indoors, to outdoors, adding triggers and decreasing distance.
Implementation
This is real life implementation!
This is where we take you into real life situations and help you learn how to use the new skills you and your dog have learned!!
This is an incredibly important step, otherwise you have the skills (or your dog does too!) but knowing when and how to use them needs to be learned too!!
Pricing:
3 session package: (3-1 hour sessions)
$525 plus gst
Unlimited text, video and email support
Notes after each session including plan after first session
5 session package: (5-1 hour sessions)
Our most popular package!!
This package allows us to best support you and your dog in all 4 phases of the program.
$695 plus gst
Unlimited text, video and email support
Notes after each session including plan after first session
7 session package: (7-1 hour sessions)
$825 plus gst
Unlimited text, video and email support
Notes after each session including plan after first session
Day Training
Let us do the hard work for you!
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We know you are busy with work, kids, grocery shopping, and more!! Let us do the training for you! We can train behaviors faster because this is our expertise! We are experienced, certified and love what we do!
We come to your home or place of work and train your dog, while you carry on with life. We meet up at the end for a transfer skills session and you are set to continue to maintain these behaviors.
You will receive daily notes and videos of what we taught and how we taught them.
Puppy Program:
4 weeks
2-45 mins sessions per week
Notes and Videos provided after each session
1-45 minute transfer session with you at the end of the program
Cost: $999 plus gst
Adolescent/Adult Program:
4 weeks
2-45 mins sessions per week
Notes and Videos provided after each session
1-45 minute transfer session with you at the end of the program
Cost: $999 plus gst
Growly Hound Program:
For dogs that struggle with on leash reactivity to dogs, people, skateboards etc
For dogs with resource guarding or other owner directed aggression challenges
We have extensive experience working with reactive dogs, as a result, we can see results and changes faster due to timing and experience. Let us work with your dog and do the heavy lifting for you!
6 weeks
Behavior plan to help you and your dog be successful during this time and the future!
2-45 mins sessions per week
Notes and Videos provided after each session
45 minute transfer sessions with you every second week (total of 3)
Cost: $1699 plus gst
LISA DAVIES
CTC, KPA-CTP, CDBC, FDM
Certified Professional Dog Trainer
Family Dog Mediator
Certified Behaviour Consultant
Associate Nosework Instructor
Trauma Informed Pet Professional
Fear-Free Certified
I have been a professional dog trainer for over 20 years, working with just about every age and breed of dog. I am a certified behaviour consultant (the only one in the Okanagan), along with being certified by two of the top dog training/behaviour programs in the world. I am currently finishing my Nosework Instructor Certification through the NACSW.
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To continue to help dogs and their families, I am committed to continuing education through ongoing participation in seminars, workshops, cours and more, as the animal behaviour world continues to evolve.
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Most importantly, training to me is about giving our dogs more control and ways to communicate their needs with us through a wider behaviour repertoire. As a result, they can feel safe and we can offer them more autonomy. This is nowhere near the same as punishment based trainers that control dogs through fear, pain or intimidation leading to a "robot" dog. We want our dogs to be confident, and emotionally stable members of the family and we get this through positive, science based, force free methods!
I have a deep passion for working with dogs that have behaviour challenges, especially fear, aggression, anxiety and reactivity. The goal is to help these dogs learn to make better choices, resulting in a stronger bond with their humans (and dog friends too!)
Elizabeth
(BA -Psyc, PCT-A, DN-CET)
Firstly, I am so excited to announce an addition to our team!
Introducing Elizabeth!
I cannot say how blessed we are to have her, she is talented and just incredible in working with both people and dogs! She is a certified Professional Canine Trainer through Pet Professional Guild, which is a prestigious force free organization with rigorous testing requirements.
Elizabeth is also a pet Trick Instructor, an Enrichment Technician and is Trauma Informed and Culturally Safe Practices!
Welcome Elizabeth!
Elizabeth has been training her own dogs and assisted with force-free, positive training for over a decade.
Her degree and work in Psychology, passion for behavior mod and neurology has been a huge asset in helping others and working with her own fear-reactive dog.
Elizabeth teaches weekend group classes and private sessions with a focus on tricks, nosework and enrichment plans.
Read Elizabeth's Best in Show winning blog here!​
TESTIMONIALS
What They Say About Us
My husband and I were looking for a dog trainer for our pitbull (who's already an angel but just gets very excited with guests). Not only was she very friendly and positive, but she is also loving and knowledgable in what she does. Our pitbull is now VERY tame with our newborn son and behaves very well when guests are over. Another thing we loved about Lisa's method of training is that it's always been rewarding as opposed to bribe or strict training.
Tina N.
Lisa is wonderful- she is so great with all dogs - from little puppies to big, growly dogs. She takes the time to explain everything thoroughly - including helping to understand some of your dogs unwanted behaviours. She makes training fun for both you and your dog. Positive training is the way to go, and Lisa is the expert! She is very flexible and will do whatever she can to help you and your dog. Thanks, Lisa!
Chloe N.
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