Private Dog Training in Indianapolis

Circle City Dog Training serves the Indianapolis, Indiana area. Our in-home trainers are always experienced, professional, and certified.

Our training programs are tailored to fit your dog’s individual needs, and the one-on-one attention in-home training provides ensures you get the most for your money. In-home training also ensures your dog feels as safe and secure as possible, surrounded by familiar people in a familiar place as we work together to solve his/her behavior problems.

Private Dog Training in Indianapolis IN

At Circle City Dog Training, we believe owner involvement is a key factor in the training process. We can teach your dog to respond to our signals, but the training is only a success if he/she learns to respond to you. For this reason, we teach you proper leash handling techniques and effective communication skills as we teach your dog basic obedience and how to focus on you rather than on his/her own instincts.

Meet the Indianapolis Dog Trainers

Jill Boyd – Professional Dog Trainer

Jill Boyd is a professional dog trainer and behavior consultant with Circle City Dog Training. She serves the greater Indianapolis area and most of central Indiana. 

Jill has been an animal lover her entire life. She grew up on a farm in a small town west of Indianapolis. She first got involved in dog training at age thirteen, when she trained her German Shepherd in basic obedience for her local 4-H club. Suffice it to say she caught the training bug!

From there, she went on to show her Boxers in AKC competition obedience events. In her twenties, she worked as an assistant in a veterinary clinic and worked at the Humane Society and with Animal Care and Control. During these jobs, she made the connection between canine behavior problems and the number of homeless dogs. Most of the pups she came in contact with had been abandoned because the owners couldn’t figure out how to set boundaries and communicate with them.

For twenty years, she dedicated time to fostering and training shelter dogs so that they could be adopted into forever homes. 

Dawn Bailey – Professional Dog Trainer

Dawn Bailey is a professional Indianapolis dog trainer and dog behavior consultant serving the Indianapolis, Indiana area, including Carmel, Castleton, Greenfield, Greenwood, and Plainfield, as well as most of Central Indiana.

Dawn has been an animal lover her entire life. While growing up, she always tried to help animals in need, and she learned early on that the love a dog offers his/her human is unconditional. As an adult, to return the favor, Dawn decided to volunteer at an animal shelter. She quickly realized most of the dogs were there due to unresolved behavioral issues, so she took it upon herself to seek out education and training in an effort to keep more dogs in their homes, with their families, and out of shelters.

She completed the Canine Trade Group Professional Dog Trainer’s Course, which involved an extensive amount of bookwork on the scientific principles of canine learning theory and dog training, as well as an in-residence, hands-on component. The hands-on portion was perfect for Dawn because it involved working with rescue dogs previously-labeled “unadoptable” due to behavioral issues.

Commitment Based Indianapolis Dog Training

Commitment is also a key part of our in-home training philosophy. This means that until the training goals we’ve mutually agreed on are met, we will make ourselves available to you for training sessions. We don’t work according to a certain time frame; we work according to the job and we do that job for one flat fee. So you don’t have to worry about extra phone calls or visits meaning extra cost to you.

Indianapolis Dog Training Services

LIMA

LIMA dog training means the least intrusive, minimally aversive strategy out of a set of humane and effective tactics likely to succeed in achieving a training or behavior change objective.

Real World

We prepare you for real-life scenario that may put a normal training regimen to the rest. Not only do we help you build a solid relationship with your dog, we will teach you how to take your dog out into real world scenarios around distractions, whether that’s the park, the vet, a restaurant, etc. We train dogs for REAL world situations!

Balanced

This training methodology includes all four operant conditioning quadrants. We believe in doing what works best for the specific dog, owner and situation. 

Reward Based

Our training protocol involves reward based dog training, meaning we strive to set the dogs we work with up for success. Circle City will take your dog’s obedience training to the next level!

Aggressive Dogs

The best aggressive dog training in Indianapolis! If you have an aggressive dog and you’re worried about the liability, we can help! We address all forms of aggression and reactivity including fear, human, dog, sibling, food, territorial, and more.

Separation Anxiety

Do you have a dog struggling when you leave the home? Does your dog have anxiety when you put them in the crate and leave? You need our dog separation anxiety training program! Our in home sessions will eliminate your dog’s stress. This is one of the many dog training services in Indianapolis that we offer. 

How Does Private Training with Circle City Dog Training Indianapolis work?

So how do you enlist our help? Give us a call or send us an e-mail. We’ll discuss your dog’s needs and behavior over the phone and connect you with a local in-home trainer to help your dog. Our trainers don’t shy away from any size, age, breed, or temperament, and they can handle any behavioral challenge, from housebreaking and aggression to leash pulling and puppy training.

During the initial phone call, we’ll schedule an in-home consultation. A Circle City trainer will come to your home to meet you and observe your dog’s behavior for themselves and make recommendations. If you like what you see and hear, we’ll begin your dog’s customized training regimen.

Can Circle City Dog Training provide in home dog training near me?

Circle City Dog Training offers in-home dog training classes throughout Indianapolis and the surrounding areas. If you don’t see your city listed below, contact us to see if we travel there!

  • Avon
  • Beech Grove
  • Brownsburg
  • Cumberland
  • Fishers
  • Greenwood
  • Plainfield
  • Rocky Ripple
  • Woodbury
  • Zionsville

If you’re ready to start the best dog training program, contact us today! We can’t wait to help!

Get Started Today! 

So what are you waiting for? If you’ve got puppy problems or socialization, dog obedience problems or behavior problems with your dog, give Circle City Dog Training a call at 317.527.6275 or send us an email.