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Martina Contreras is a certified dog trainer offering group classes, private consultations, and workshops in and around Redwood City, California. She has trained hundreds of clients and numerous shelter dogs in basic obedience, and has rehabilitated special-needs dogs with a wide range of behavior problems such as fear biting, dog/child aggression, extreme shyness, and more.

She has also trained both deaf and blind dogs. Martina is also a volunteer trainer with Peninsula Humane Society's TAILS program, which pairs dogs with behavioral issues with county inmates who provide intensive training. Martina teaches inmates how to train the dogs in order to increase the adoption potential of these animals. Accredited by the Pet Behaviour Institute of the U.K. as a Dog Training/Behaviour Specialist.

Martina has always been an avid animal lover; before coming to America, she spent most of her summers on a farm in her native Germany, bottle-feeding calves, piglets, and anything else with four legs.
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Martina can help you and your dog achieve your goals, from resolving difficult behavioral issues to getting certified as a Canine Good Citizen.
Is your dog anti-social, unfriendly, or downright nasty towards other dogs?
Do you feel uneasy when other dogs approach while you walk your dog? Has your dog even bitten other dogs?
Help is here!
Martina has extensive experience resolving canine aggression toward other dogs.
You and your dog can be calmer, happier and safer with the right training and reinforcement.
People often ask why I am still obedience training my 4 dogs-after all, they have been trained for many years ever since I took them in.
My answer is simply that I enjoy having well behaved dogs around me.
If I couldn't rely on them being under control, friendly and outgoing towards everybody, their daily.
First and most important rule: "Nothing in life is free."
Make your dog work for EVERYTHING that is valuable to him: his meals, treats, going outside, being walked, his toys.
Every time he gets any of the above make him do something first - sit, down, stay, a trick etc.
Professional photographer Tonya Perme specializes in portraits of both people and their dogs, cats, and horses.
Tonya created the terrific photos of Martina's dogs - Patrick, Ray, Jimmy, and Jeffrey - which you see throughout this website.
Martina is a volunteer trainer with Peninsula Humane Society's TAILS (Transitioning Animals Into Loving Situations) program, which pairs dogs with behavioral issues with minimum-security county inmates who provide intensive training.
Martina teaches inmates how to train the dogs in order to increase the adoption potential of these animals.
Patricia B. McConnell - Both "The Other End." and McConnell's "How to be the Leader" (below) are very easy reads, both light-hearted and educational!
McConnell is both a dog trainer and an applied animal behaviorist.
This book explores how dogs interpret human behavior, and how you can use that to help train your dog.
Buy it now from Amazon.com.
How to be the Leader of the Pack.
And Have Your Dog Love You For It.
Patricia B. McConnell - Learn how to be your dog's leader in a fun, kind, non-frightening way.
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