Mike Wombacher has been involved with dogs for over forty years, nearly thirty of them as a professional trainer. During this time, he has performed around 40,000 private consultations covering the entire spectrum of dog behavior, from the mundane to the bizarre. In addition, he's had tens of thousands of puppies come through his training programs over the years. He has also trained other trainers and is currently the training director at Alpha Dog Lodging in Mill Valley, one of the Bay Area's premier boarding & training facilities.
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Classes & Private Instruction
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Mike offers three levels of puppy classes designed to take your pup from his first moments with you all the way through adolescence and into adulthood. This program is designed for new puppies of less than four and a half months of age (though we do make age exceptions for small breeds.) It is split into three main areas of focus.
Philosophy
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Mike's goal is to provide you with the most up-to-date, integrated and common-sense approach to dog training possible. He has deep working knowledge in a range of approaches and from them has crafted a flexible program that is committed to helping owners in a sensible, fast-paced way that draws on the best of everything in line with the needs of their dog.
Boarding & Training
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We offer intensive yet flexible boarding and training programs in conjunction with Alpha Dog Lodging in Mill Valley, Marin's premier daycare and boarding facility, where Mike developed the program, trained the trainers (and still does) and is the training director. He works with his team and the dogs regularly.
Service Dog Training
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As part of our boarding and training program we are also offering specialized training for service dogs assisting individuals with PTSD as well as a range of other issues, such as migraine alerting, scent alerting for fire and gas, and more. We work closely with owners, their mental health professionals (if needed) and their specific issues to customize a training plan unique to their needs. A subset of this, and an area of special interest to Mike, is training service dogs for combat veterans with PTSD.
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