Dogcentric Workshops – Your Dog's Best Friend Minneapolis, MN

Welcome to THE DOGCENTRIC WORKSHOPS

You have not seen anything like this before!

Instead of studying dog training, what if we start studying the DOG and teaching OURSELVES?!

Welcome to Dogcentric Training.

In these programs you will learn THE BEHAVIOR SOLUTIONS HACK! Whether it is puppy raising or behavior solutions, the process is the same every time!

Our Goal: Understand what our dog is going through, respond in a meaningful way.

Our Compass: This 2 part awareness.

Our Dog Thinks Like A Good Person.
Our Dog Is Socially Brilliant.

Our Foundation: Understanding how dogs raise their children.

Our Method: Responsively relating and communicating in a meaningful way.

Your Result: A dog who can go everywhere and do everything with ease.

These workshops are interactive, hands-on and fun!

Ready for a little NURTURE BY NATURE?

Tickets sales are conveniently through the site by clicking "Book Online" in the Workshop Modules below.

For dates and times click the workshop tabs below.

You can attend with or without your dogs.

FAQ: Should I bring my dog?

Answer: If it won’t be distracting for you, feel free to bring your dog. The main value of the workshops are the lessons people can extract from the experience. Optimal learning should be the goal for attendees.

You will find some of our most popular events like: Mastering The Leash Walk, Curing Dog Separation Anxiety, Aggressive Dog Transformation, Fearful Dog Transformation, Babies & Dogs are usually run at least once a season.

We will see you there!

Max The Dog Relater

— Schedule Of Events —

AGGRESSIVE DOG TRANSFORMATION

DATE/TIME: 1:00 PM, April 19th, 2025

Location: YDBF Training Center – 225 Border Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405

Cost: $135

Training aggressive dogs is hard, but not for the reasons one might think. Most dog training is oriented around teaching information. So what happens when our dog needs social and emotional support? What happens when this lack results in our dog acting out in a way that is dangerous? The answer is dog training breaks down and we are stuck with the same fear and confusion that our dog is experiencing.

Our solution is a dogcentric approach where we aim to understand what our dog is going through and then respond in a meaningful way.

Our guide is a two part recognition. My dog is socially brilliant & my dog thinks like a good person.

Our tool is natural born intuition.

With this foundation you will find it effective and fun to start to identify, what is my dog going through and how to I respond in a meaningful way. It is uplifting and inspiring to see how “dog listening” can lead to quick transformations for dogs and their families who have been struggling for years and have already tried “everything”.

*Tickets must be purchased online in advance of the event.
*Tickets may or may not be for sale at the door the day of the event.
*Typically events are sold out in advance.

MASTERING THE LEASH WALK

DATE/TIME: 1:00 PM, April 26th, 2025

Location: YDBF Training Center – 225 Border Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405

Cost: $115

The message is sent and received the moment I show my dog that the leash gives me power when I pull. Come learn how to use the leash as a communication tool instead. You and your dog can erase bad habits together or you can raise your puppy to never know that the leash can restrain! You will enjoy the end where they walk with you without holding the leash. If you sell choke collars, prong collars, harnesses, no pull harnesses, no jump harnesses & gentle leaders, you may not like this workshop!

Tickets must be purchased online in advance of the event.

*Tickets may or may not be for sale at the door the day of the event.

*Typically events are sold out in advance.

SHY DOG TRANSFORMATION

DATE/TIME: 12:00 PM, February 15th, 2025

Location: YDBF Training Center – 225 Border Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405

Cost: $85

Dogs raised by dogs have better social and emotional health than people raised by people. Traumatized dogs recover faster around dogs than traumatized people do around other people.

Unlock your animal intuition as you enter a dogcentric world with us where we will uncover the methods that we can learn from dog society and use them to help our shy and fearful dogs.

With a foundation in natural dog communication you will find it effective and fun to start to identify: what is my dog going through and how to I respond in a meaningful way. It is uplifting and inspiring to see how “dog listening” can lead to quick transformations for dogs and their families who have been struggling for years and have already tried “everything”.

*Tickets must be purchased online in advance of the event.
*Tickets may or may not be for sale at the door the day of the event.
*Typically events are sold out in advance.

BABIES & DOGS

DATE/TIME: 12:00 PM, February 22nd, 2025

Location: YDBF Training Center – 225 Border Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405

Cost: $85

Each year, adding a new baby to the family makes the top 3 reasons for dogs to lose their home or their lives. We all hear about it and this phenomenon has become a social norm.

What if you found out...

Dogs raised by dogs were safer than people raised by people?
"Wild" animals that live in families are safer towards their families than us and our "Domesticated" animals.
Dogs think like the best people you know and they are socially brilliant.

It might make the phenomenon listed above more heartbreaking but it also opens the door to an intuitive, natural and highly effective way to help your dog do incredibly well with small children and babies.

Come learn how to prepare a dog to succeed with children and how to introduce them.

Photo of dog behavior

*Tickets must be purchased online in advance of the event.
*Tickets may or may not be for sale at the door the day of the event.
*Typically events are sold out in advance.

— See what they're saying about us —

We're working through some behavioral issues with my furry friend. Scheduling an appointment was very easy. Our first appointment went extremely well, Adam was great with our dog and made us feel very comfortable. Looking forward to our next sessions!

a week ago

Adrian Feigl

We have loved the puppy classes here and recommend them to anyone! Neil has incredible knowledge about all sizes, breeds, and ages of dogs. We've learned so much from him and how to raise our puppy successfully. This is exactly what we were looking for!

in the last week

Stacy Rott

We reached out to Your Dog's Best Friend to get some help handling our huge Rottweiler/Mastiff rescue, Penny. She was too enthusiastic when greeting guests and pulling and being unpredictable with other dogs on walks. Freddie was quick to respond and very professional. He spent some time talking to us on the phone, and we scheduled a time to meet at our house. After just two sessions with Freddie, we have a new relationship with our dog! Freddie explained to us what was happening in Penny's mind and...

4 months ago

Heather Griggs

Peace of mind! After working with our trainer, Freddie, not only has our 7-month old puppy's behavior improved, but we are feeling SO much better as pet parents. Having only had our dog for a few weeks, we were in over our heads - Googling, reading, desperate to find somewhere (or someone) to just tell us what to do. Enter Freddie! Freddie gave us real life, real-time practical strategies that we could immediately put into practice. He made it simple, but still explained the "why" (which made us feel...

a year ago

Maureen Tubbs

Where do I start! Freddie is an amazing dog trainer. But I feel “trainer” isn’t the right word. He is dog translator!We adopted our beagle, Wally, at 10 months old, and let me tell you the first few weeks were incredibly stressful. Long story short, Freddie showed us that Wally felt the same. He was as equally stressed as we were. Which was the cause of most of his “behavior issues.”It turned out, it wasn’t Wally. It was us. Freddie is so good at translating dog language to human language....

10 months ago

Oscar Martinez

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