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Crystal Partain

Dog trainer in Norfolk

#443 in United States, #15 in Virginia, #2 in Norfolk

United States

Norfolk

https://www.thefreckledpaw.com

Service areas:

Hampton Roads Virginia and Northeast North Carolina

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With almost 2 decades of hands on experience in veterinary hospitals, local shelters and rescues, Crystal has been working with pets and their people to improve their lives together in many different settings. She received a dual bachelors degrees in biology and psychology, from Old Dominion University in 2009. Clients will often joke that she is their dogs therapist during their sessions together.

In 2012, she passed the Certification for Professional Dog Trainers exam and began to train professionally shortly after. She is a perpetual student and always improving training skills with her own dogs, taking classes or attending seminars that allow her to help your dogs with the most effective and current methods!

Crystal currently has 5 dogs, who are all continuously teaching her to be a better advocate for the dogs she works with. Opal, a rescued Boxer mix, is the namesake for The Freckled Paw. She has taught Crystal the most about living with challenging dogs, while working through her separation anxiety, stranger danger, and dog selective behaviors. We lost Opal in June of 2019, and will forever be The Freckled Paw.

Certifications:

CPDT-KA

Dog training services include

  • Aggressive dog training
  • Reactive dog training
  • In home training
  • Puppy training

More info about Crystal Partain's dog training:

Giving a Proven Path to a better life with your dog

Behavioral issue focus:

Reactivity and Aggression

Dog training methods:

Offering Kind and Pragmatic training for the pet parents

Why I became a dog trainer:

To help pet parents have an easier life with their dogs

My favorite part of being a dog trainer:

Watching the dogs "get it"

My #1 dog training tip:

Feed your dog

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