Dog training in Meriden, CT
One-on-one, in-home dog training throughout Meriden. Your dog learns in the place where they spend most of their time, with a plan built around your home, your neighborhood and your routine.
Personal, one-on-one dog training with Steve.
Dog training for Meriden homes
In a city with lots of apartments, multi-family homes and shared driveways, dogs come into close contact with neighbors, other dogs and passing traffic every day. Steve helps with the problems that creates, such as barking in shared hallways, lunging on the sidewalk and struggling with visitors, right where they happen.
Hubbard Park, with its trails below Castle Craig, is a great place to practice once the basics are solid. During the spring Daffodil Festival it becomes a real test of calm behavior around big crowds.
See what sessions cost →Three simple steps
Steve comes to Meriden homes and apartments seven days a week.
Send your details or book
Fill in the form and Steve calls you back between lessons, or book straight in if you already know you want to start.
Fill in the form →First session, training starts
Steve meets your dog, reads what is actually going on, and gets to work in that same visit.
You keep the results
Steve coaches you, not just your dog, and leaves you with the exercises to reinforce it.
What Steve's clients say
Highly recommended! Forest is a 9-month old, 55 lb muscular rescue pittie and cattle dog mix. Our immediate issues were jumping on people, not allowing space, leash pulling to the point of shoulder injury to me, and coming when called. THEN Steve Good Dog to the rescue. Steve has trained the adults in our household to be the ones the dogs look to for permission. Forest now walks on a loose leash, gets off furniture when told and is learning how to greet visitors (work in progress—actually everything is and requires us to be vigilant with training). Every day training has become our model. Yes, it’s costly but the rewards are worth it to have this professional man teaching us how to turn Forest into a great dog.
Steve is training us (humans) how our dogs understand commands, body posture, voice tone, and how they need to process what we are asking them to do. Learning these skills is extremely helpful in gaining positive results. Steve makes the learning experience very clear and also rewarding. Highly recommended!
We couldn’t be happier with the training our dog received! From the very first session, it was clear that Steve is knowledgeable, patient, and genuinely cares about both dogs and their owners. Our dog has made tremendous progress in obedience, confidence, and overall behavior. The training methods were easy to follow and produced amazing results. We highly recommend Steve to anyone looking for a skilled and compassionate dog trainer.
Meriden dog training questions
Answers to what Meriden dog owners ask most.
Do you train in apartments as well as houses?
What does it cost to get started?
My dog lunges and barks at other dogs on the sidewalk. What can we do?
Can you help with a dog who is aggressive toward visitors?
How quickly can Steve get to Meriden?
Are Wallingford and Middlefield covered?
Most common areas we serve
Meriden borders Southington, and Steve also trains in neighboring Wallingford, Berlin and Cheshire, and in every town below.
Not listed? Send Steve a message →Ready to start, Meriden?
Book online and tell Steve what your dog does. He will give you an honest read on the cause, how long it should take to improve, and the cost.