Empower your Kids with our Training Camp
 Our three-day program for kids ages 7 to 12 and their dogs is a fun and educational way to wrap up holiday break. They'll learn dog safety and responsibility, how to read a dog's body language, how dogs learn, fun games and tricks, and much more training to challenge their young handling skills.
Wednesday, January 2, Thursday, January 3 & Friday, January 4
9am - 10am each day
Sign up for our Oak Park camp.
Sign up for our Old Town camp.
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Cincinnati: Here We Come
 Our trainers leave today for the annual Association of Pet Dog Trainer's conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The five-day gathering of the best dog trainers in the country is chock full of seminars and speakers discussing the latest in positive reinforcement training techniques. We always come back with tons of new ideas to share with our clients. Stay tuned!
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Welcome Two Trainers to our Team
AnimalSense is happy to welcome two new dog trainers to our team of Canine Consultants. They're both big time animal lovers, of course, but they each came to this spot in their careers by different paths.  | |
Trainer Chris Long
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Chris Long has been around dogs forever... literally. She grew up on her family's dog boarding kennel in Lemont. " I was always playing with our dogs, dressing them up and teaching them silly things, never realizing that I was "training" them. When I began working as an animal handler, I realized what a useful skill this was, and wanted to learn more. So, training dogs was a natural progression for me," said Chris.
Chris is looking forward to working with the AnimalSense team, who works solely with positive reinforcement training methods. "I think that is so important and can be really hard to find," said Chris.
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Trainer Sarah Williams
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Sarah Williams was 23 when she got a job as a dog walker and came across her first truly reactive dogs. "Being confronted with these troubled pooches inspired me to search out some dog training and behavior books. Learning about dog behavior, and seeing what I was reading in action with my doggie clients gave me a whole new appreciation for dogs, and the dog-human bond," said Sarah. Sarah is looking forward to meeting new clients, and talking with them about their pets as they progress through training sessions. She's also hoping to redeem herself to her mom as far as her training skills go. "When I was in fourth grade, much to the frustration of my mother, I taught our yorkie-beagle mix, Cocoa, to climb a 6-foot tall brick wall. Unfortunately, that was the wall the enclosed our backyard... I got into a lot of trouble for that one!" said Sarah.
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AnimalSense has your training solution! Our new three-week classes (held between Thanksgiving and Christmas in Chicago and Oak Park) will get your dog on track to good behavior for the holidays without a big time or financial commitment. These classes are obedience training with a little touch of holiday cheer!
We're also offering a new round of one-hour classes for those that just can't fit anything else into your schedule during this time of year.
Tellington TTouch® Essentials
CanineLink is hosting a day-long seminar to delve into 
Saturday, November 3