Who is the best dog trainer in Palmer, AK?
Brett Endes, The Dog Savant, trains Palmer 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 Palmer?
Puppy training, basic and advanced obedience, leash training, separation anxiety, and aggression and reactivity, all one to one in your own Palmer 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 Palmer
Dog training in Palmer, in your home
Palmer families get a trainer who works the real environment, the farm edges, the loose livestock, the wildlife pressure that turns a normal dog into a chaser. Brett builds the off leash control that makes that safe.
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.
Palmer specifics
What training a dog in Palmer actually involves
Palmer is farm country at the head of the Valley, and it is also where Mat-Su animal control physically lives. Since 2026-07-01 the Borough has run animal control for the whole borough, Palmer city limits included, out of the shelter just outside town. For dog owners the local pressure is not other dogs, it is livestock, farm edges and wildlife, which is a different problem and a different fix.
Who sets the dog rules in Palmer?
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Title 24, since 2026-07-01
What are the leash rules in Palmer?
Borough Title 24 applies inside Palmer city limits. Animal control powers transferred to the Borough's areawide powers on 2026-07-01, so the Palmer Police Department is no longer the route to animal services.
What Palmer does to a dog
- Working farms and loose livestock inside the normal walking radius
- Strong wildlife pressure where the fields meet the tree line
- Wind and winter road conditions that make a pulling dog a handler safety problem
- An animal control authority that changed on 2026-07-01
Where Palmer dogs actually go
- The Mat-Su Borough Animal Care shelter, E. Chanlyut Circle
- The single point of contact for loose or missing dogs, neglect and dangerous animal cases anywhere in Mat-Su since the July transfer. It sits just outside Palmer, which means response times here are the best in the borough and the paperwork is the same as everywhere else.
- The farm edges and field margins
- Livestock changes the stakes on a chase. A dog that runs deer or moose for fun will run stock the same way, and that is the version that ends with a bill or worse.
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Programs in Palmer
Palmer training, by the problem you are solving
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Ready to fix your dog's behavior?
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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