WELCOME!
You are most likely visiting our website because you need help with your dog in one form or another. Maybe you have a new puppy and wish to start off on the right foot before behavior problems arise. Or you might have an adolescent dog that is beginning to become a little more than you signed on for. You might have a dog with serious behavior problems that you or other canine professionals haven’t been able to successfully address. Maybe you are looking for fun activities to learn with your dog in order to keep him or her healthy, active and achieve a deeper bond. In all cases Canine Solutions Training Services is qualified and ready to help. The text below may help you to better comprehend our unique and successful approach.
Real world training experience:
Chris Fraize has over 20 years of real world canine experience.
Mr. Fraize has competed and placed in national obedience trials, personal protection trials, weight pull competitions, agility, dock diving and many other dog sports competitions. He is a certified decoy (the bad guy that gets bitten) for the National Association of Protection Dogs and K-9 Pro Sports, a certified judge and helper for the Federation American Bulldog and the National Working Dog Association as well as winner of the 2000 Dog Sports Open Magazine Decoy competition. Mr. Fraize was also presented the chairman’s award by the Working Dog Foundation (New Hampshire Police K-9 Academy) in 2006 for outstanding service in canine training. In 2007, Mr. Fraize served as the head trainer for the Farmington New Hampshire Police K-9 unit, coaching handler Chief Scott Roberge and K-9 “Connor” to a USPCA certification with a nationally qualifying score.
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Excellent problem solving skills:
A great dog trainer should be a eager problem solver. Dog training isn’t something one can learn to do well by reading a book or taking an online course. It takes years of hands on application with many successes and even more failures along the way. The problem solver values failure as a teacher and mentor. It is our opinion that far more can be learned through a personal failure than can be learned through a quick success. Failure is the best road map to success. Failure shows you what needs to be addressed so you can move closer to success. We teach you and your dog how to learn from your failures and achieve success you never though possible. The art of problem solving is the art of dog training!
Ability to correctly interpret canine and human behavior:
All of our training philosophies are rooted in what we like to call, “The training triangle”. The points of the triangle are; The dog, The owner and The trainer. Our trainers are experts at understanding what your dogs are trying to communicate to you through body language (the canine language). Our trainers are also very good at understanding human communication and body language (You probably wouldn’t want to play poker with a staff member!). Because they are adept at reading behaviors in both canines and human beings they can easily see where the breakdowns in inter-species communication between you and your dog are occurring. The skill of reading human/canine behavior is the exciting process of inter-species communication or dog training. Understanding dog behavior is the fastest way to a healthy, happy more controlled canine family member.
Honest assessment:
When a dog owner calls or comes into our facility for a professional evaluation we assume that they are looking for just that, an honest, professional evaluation. This evaluation can be enlightening for many and emotional for others. Either way, at the beginning most folks are blissfully unaware that they are the cause of the problem behavioral issues that they are experiencing with their dog. Some find this fact difficult to believe. Our trainers with give you an expert, honest, straight forward evaluation of your dog, how your interactions with your dog are enhancing or diminishing your canine relationship. Then we decide on a plan of action that is taught here at CSTS and implemented by the owners in the real world. Call for a professional evaluation today (207) 206 6284.
Custom training plan:
All of our custom training plans are structured to give the owner the opportunity to gain the skills necessary to achieve a happy and harmonious relationship with their canine partner. We are not cookie cutter trainers. We do not subscribe to gimmick methods or collars. Our custom training courses are based on real time balanced based behavior training and the training triangle. Our highly qualified trainers create a custom program designed to teach and assist you and your dog in eliminating problems based in confusing or conflicting inter-species communication while reinforcing desired behaviors leading to better inter-species communication, interaction and control for you and your family companion.
Results:
We have trained national champions in many different disciplines of canine competition. We have successfully rehabilitated problem dogs that other trainers had given up on. The problem dogs we have helped have been Police K-9 national qualifiers, weight pull national champions, therapy dogs, agility dogs and we are extremely proud to have even more successful rehabilitated problem pet dogs. They key to these outstanding results were the owners. They were trusting, committed and eager to learn and apply their training consistently, clearly and confidently. These clients realized early on that they had to change themselves in order to get more than they had before. Just like anything worthwhile in life, success is based on effort. If you put in little effort, you get minimal results. If you put in maximum effort, you usually get more than you wanted! Dog training and behavior rehabilitation is the same way. You are responsible for your results. We instruct, coach, and support. The rest is up to you. If you want the dog of your dreams, we can get you there. Please remember, we don’t train dogs. We help dogs with human problems.
Please enjoy the website and don’t hesitate to give us a call if you have any questions at (207) 206 6284
Safe training,
Chris & April Fraize
