Who is the best dog trainer in Girdwood, AK?
Brett Endes, The Dog Savant, trains Girdwood dogs in your own home. 30 years of experience, more than 20,000 dogs trained, and a specialty in the aggression and reactivity cases other trainers decline. Programs run $295 for the initial 90 minute workshop up to $1,995. Call or text (907) 203-0788.
What kinds of dog training does Brett Endes do in Girdwood?
Puppy training, basic and advanced obedience, leash training, separation anxiety, and aggression and reactivity, all one to one in your own Girdwood home rather than in a class. Aggression and reactivity are the specialty and the cases other trainers decline. Every program includes lifetime phone, text and email support. Call or text (907) 203-0788.
Serving Girdwood
Dog training in Girdwood, in your home
Girdwood dogs live around trails, tourists, and a lot of other dogs in a small footprint. Brett's balanced program handles the leash reactivity and over arousal that come with that, so the walk into town stops being a fight.
Brett Endes specializes in aggression, separation anxiety, leash pulling, puppy foundation, and rescue rehabilitation. Whether you live in a downtown high rise, a suburban home, or a Mat-Su Valley ranch, Brett trains your dog in the actual environment it lives.
Girdwood specifics
What training a dog in Girdwood actually involves
Girdwood was its own incorporated city until 1975, when it was dissolved into the new unified Municipality of Anchorage. It is still 35 miles down the Seward Highway from the Bowl, and its trails cross municipal land, Chugach State Park and Chugach National Forest, which is three different landowners with three different sets of rules inside one valley. Add a resort town's summer crowds in a very small footprint and you get dogs that are constantly over threshold.
Who sets the dog rules in Girdwood?
Municipality of Anchorage, Title 17, with Alaska State Parks under 11 AAC 12.130 and Chugach National Forest land in the same valley
What are the leash rules in Girdwood?
Anchorage Title 17 control at all times in public. In Chugach State Park, a leash no longer than nine feet in developed facilities and under control on trails and in the backcountry. Trails in the valley also cross national forest and private land, so the governing rule changes with the ground you are standing on.
Where can a dog be off leash in Girdwood?
None designated. Girdwood has no Municipality off leash area, and the nearest one is the 35 mile drive to the Anchorage Bowl.
What Girdwood does to a dog
- A resort town duty cycle: crowded and loud all summer, quiet and dark all winter
- Trails crossing municipal, state park and national forest land inside one valley
- No designated off leash area closer than the Anchorage Bowl, 35 miles away
- Heavy dog to dog traffic in a very small walkable core
Where Girdwood dogs actually go
- Winner Creek Trail
- A segment of the Iditarod National Historic Trail on Chugach National Forest land out of Girdwood, which means it is neither Anchorage parkland nor state park. Busy with visitors through the summer and narrow enough that there is nowhere to step aside with a reactive dog.
- The Girdwood valley trail network
- The Municipality's own Girdwood trails mapping notes that these trails cross a mix of private, municipal and other ownership. For a dog owner that means the rule you are under can change inside a single loop.
- The town core in summer
- Tourists, other dogs and outdoor tables compressed into a few blocks. A dog that has never been taught how to be still around strangers has no way to cope with it.
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If you are dealing with reactivity, anxiety, or control issues, the first step is a simple phone evaluation so we can map out a clear plan. Real world results, permanent change, 30 years of doing this for families and their dogs, now in Anchorage.
You'll be saying, who's a good boy? in no time.
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