DOG TRAINING = FREEDOM
My name is Ernesto Faisal, I’m the owner and head trainer at Dogs360. My passion for dogs and my journey with them started at an early age and has continued to evolve till present day. My involvement with dogs, as a trainer, stemmed from a negative experience with a dog of mine in my early 20’s. His aggressive behaviors towards other dogs and people put into focus the need for me to learn more about dogs. It highlighted how much I had unwittingly contributed towards the development of those negative behaviors. Armed with knowledge, I spent time volunteering at shelters and gaining hands on experience with the “difficult” cases. The realization that shelter dogs across our country face a dire reality as millions of them are euthanized for behavioral issues that have solutions, is what inspired me to want to help make a change. This desire to help dogs through behavioral rehabilitation is what led to the adoption of a pack of seven dogs from different shelters across the country who came to me with a wide variety of behavioral issues. For the past decade, these dogs also known as the “Dogs360 pack”, serve as role models to our client’s dogs and are the stable social group of dogs that help rehabilitate countless others. All these experiences have motivated me to keep learning about dogs, to share what I’ve learned and to teach people how to create the right conditions for their dogs so that they can live free of stress and have the freedom to include their dogs in daily activities.
Thank you for visiting our website and I hope we can work together and empower you with the knowledge, skills, strategies and tools that will allow you to create the harmonious relationship that you are looking for with your pet.
-Ernesto Faisal
Owner/ Head Trainer
PHILOSOPHY
Our core philosophy is a simple one… that training dogs in a balanced way involves a combination of providing dogs with biologically fulfilling daily routines (work, play, socialize, explore) AND teaching them the skills and behaviors we expect from them. Dogs360 believes that good behavior, reliability, adequate social skills are symptomatic of a great relationship and lifestyle, both imperative in order to live stress free with our dogs. We believe that the lack of a healthy lifestyle and relationship with the owner can create a lot of the most common behavioral issues in dogs. Behaviors such as, dog and human aggression, reactivity, anxiety and hyper-arousal are all symptoms of an imbalance somewhere in the dog’s life. What we find is that stressed out dogs are incapable of making good choices, so we make it our mission to get dogs into an optimal mental space and coach owners on how to create and maintain a balanced lifestyle so that harmony can be achieved.
