Personalized Behavior Consulting

Do you need extra, individualized help with your dog’s barking problem? Call us. We can help you decide what’s best for your dog and walk you through the behavior modification plans in our book,Help! I'm Barking and I Can't be Quiet. As certified applied animal behaviorists, our extensive professional education in the science of animal behavior combined with years of practical experience make us the right people to help you find real answers.

We have helped hundreds of pet owners manage and resolve their dogs’ barking “issues”!

To schedule an appointment, call our office at 303-932-9095 or fill out our information form, and we'll contact you.

How can you work with me long distance? Don’t you need to see my dog in person?

We don’t need to see your dog barking in order to understand the problem. You will provide us with the behavioral descriptions we need to analyze your dog’s behavior and create a plan just for you and your dog.

In addition to in-person consultations, we’ve been conducting telephone and email consultation for years on barking and other behaviors with great success. We take an extensive history of your animal’s specific problems. We’ll use this to decide what information we need from you. We may ask you to send pictures, a video tape or other video media of your dog’s behavior.

During a consultation we will:

• Interview you so we can get to know you, your dog, and gather details about your dog’s barking behavior.
  
  
• Use this information to analyze your dog’s barking problem.
  
  
• Develop, explain, demonstrate (for in-person consultations) and write down a custom behavior modification plan for you.
  
  
• Follow-up with three months of telephone or email progress reports so we can help you implement the plans we’ve given you.

Telephone consultation
We can help you with your dog’s barking problem via a telephone consult. Requires 1 to 1 ¼ hours. Depending on the type of problem, we may ask you to send pictures, diagrams, or a videotape prior to the consultation. The fee of $195 includes 1 to 1 ¼ hours initial consult, written instructions, and 3 months of telephone follow-up. You will call our office, so long-distance charges may apply. If your consult goes over 1 ¼ hours you will be charged $125 per hour pro rated in 15 minute increments.

Email consultation
Email consultations allow us to help anyone, anywhere in the world who can read and write English. If a telephone consultation isn’t possible or convenient, an email consultation should be your next choice. Based on an initial assessment form you’ll complete, we’ll determine whether your dog’s problem is suitable for an email consultation. If it is, you’ll receive a detailed behavior questionnaire and may need to answer additional follow-up questions about your dog’s behavior. You’ll then be emailed a specific, detailed behavior modification plan and be entitled to 3 months of email follow-up with the behaviorist. Fee is $175, paid by credit card, before you receive your detailed questionnaire.

Brief telephone consultation
These consultations are designed for straightforward questions about barking behaviors that do not require much analysis. For example, you might have specific questions after reading our book, about how to apply our Five Step Positive Proaction Plan© to your dog’s problem. Or you might need suggestions about what to tell your neighbors about the behavior modification plan you are working with. Brief consults do not include written recommendations, handouts or follow-up. Fee is $35 for 20 minutes, additional time is charged based on $100/hour.

Office or in-home consultation
If you live in the Denver-metro area, or within driving distance, then you can have the advantage of meeting with us in person. We follow the same format as phone or email consultations, however we can also see your home and your dog, as well as demonstrate the techniques we want you to use. Fee is $300 for a 2 hour initial consult and 3 months of telephone followup. We'll determine the travel cost for an in-home appointment at the time of scheduling.

To schedule an appointment, call our office at 303-932-9095 or fill out our information form, and we'll contact you.