The owner and creator of Gentle Canines is Dee Main. She has an impressive 35+ years of training a variety of dogs for all types of needs. Some of her trainings have included show dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, service animals, and family pets among other accomplishments. Dee is a balanced trainer with a focus on the health, happiness, and safety of the pet, children, visitors, and the family unit that the pet lives with.
Some of the behavioral issues that she addresses with her training include potty training, basic manners, proper leash behavior, proper guest interaction, crate training, jumping, excessive barking, fear reactivity, aggression, and much more. The needs and concerns expressed by the dog owner is always her top priority through safety training.
Dee was a medic on an ambulance and through a major life shift, she went from saving human lives to saving puppy lives. Dee decided to become a full time trainer in 2017 in order to help owners who had fear reactive dogs. She had seen so many dogs abandoned, surrendered to local shelters, or euthanized for behaviors that were not the animals fault and could be corrected.
Dee is honored to work with a vast multitude of local rescue organizations, local animal shelters, and veterinary doctors in an endeavor to help pets remain healthy, safe, and in loving forever homes. Dee has traveled to other cities and states outside of the Oklahoma area to help families with their pets and has experienced great success in the dogs she has trained.
DEE DOES NOT OFFER BOARD AND TRAIN PROGRAMS OR CLASSROOM SETTINGS AT THIS TIME. She feels this is great for training your dog commands though it leaves you, as the pet owner, with no way to communicate clearly with your pet as you did not learn the commands taught or how to understand your dogs wants and needs. Her program is designed to teach you, as the pet owner, how to effectively give communication commands to your pet that they are happy and willing to follow. Teaching the owner and the pet to act as a team has proven to be an effective way of training fear reactive, stranger reactive, leash reactive, and resource guarding animals to become gentle and calm pets.
Dee uses tools to assist in reaching these goals such as homeopathic or vet recommended medication, crate training, Easy Walk harness, bell training, proper recall methods, electronic dog whistles, and more. If an owner is uncomfortable with the use of ANY TOOL, another alternative that the owner is comfortable with using will be introduced and integrated into the training program. No owner will ever be forced or required to accept the use of any specific training aid that they are uncomfortable with. Dee also uses a variety of reward methods as positive reinforcement for proper dog behavior.
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NO REFUNDS. Upon cancellation of any training sessions by you FOR ANY REASON, any and all unused money, funds, or credits will be forfeited. Unless we cancel the agreement, NO REFUNDS will be provided for any amounts already paid to Gentle Canines.
