Clicker training uses fun and games to teach your family companion manners. Gentle and effective clicker training is fun for both of you.

Kind Hearts Behavior Center is unique in using clicker training as its foundation tool. The sound of the clicker serves as a 'marker' to let your dog know that her behavior is exactly right and that a tasty treat will soon follow. Food is used both as a 'lure' to guide your dog to the correct behavior and also as a reward for a job well done. Both the clicker and the food-lure are phased out as soon as the verbal cue obtains the behavior you want. Dogs trained in this manner become happy, responsive companions.

Instructors at Kind Hearts use positive, rewarding techniques based on sound learning theory. Dogs learn by being shown what to do rather than by being forced.

We offer group sessions, as well as private, in-home classes.

Kind Hearts Behavior Center, in association with Therapy Partners, Inc., is proud to announce the Therapy Partners Prep Class! This is the opportunity you have wished for - a class in which you and your dog will work on exercises and skills needed to become a Therapy Partner team! The class will help you and your dog decide if therapy work is the right fit for you. Teams must have successfully completed Kind Hearts Levels A & B or 2 equivalent group classes from another training center. If classes were not completed at Kind Hearts, you must schedule a Kind Hearts Behavior Center Evaluation for placement.