Destructive behavior often signals unmet stimulation or social needs, anxiety, confusion, or a lack of structure. Fortunately, by correctly diagnosing the origin of your dog’s behavior, then instituting an insightfully targeted solution plan, we can effectively modify your dog’s behavior.
CPT’s highly accomplished Trainers possess the education, knowledge, and experience to successfully diagnose and treat your destructive Atlanta dog. CPT Trainers understand dogs and dog behavior. CPT’s Head Trainer coauthored 17 peer reviewed military-funded research papers in the field of canine neuroscience, is nationally recognized as an expert in canine behavior, has spoken at major canine science conferences, and was interviewed by prominent television productions, including Nova and 60 Minutes. CPT’s expertise is unmatched within the Atlanta pet training community!
CPT creates customized training and behavior modification plans that restore peace, structure, control, and satisfaction in your home.
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If you address undesirable behavior when your dog is a young puppy, when unwanted habits often begin to form, then behaviors are easier to modify permanently, and less likely to remain or reappear later in your dog’s life. By preventing the continuation undesirable or maladaptive behavior, implementing structure, providing productive preemptive stimulation, and channeling your puppy to mutually agreeable replacement behaviors we can create a happier puppy and a healthier dog-owner relationship. Whether your Atlanta pet is a puppy or an adult dog, CPT’s professional trainers can design plans that end their destructive behavior. By starting a CPT training or behavior modification program early in life, you will build a confident, obedient, social, well-mannered dog that you will enjoy for the remainder of your pet’s lifetime.
CPT behavior modification programs start with a detailed chronological, behavioral, health, and training diagnostic. A CPT Staff Trainer or Head Trainer will then observe your puppy or dog and his/her interactions with you, family members, other household animals, the environment, and the Trainer. Next, CPT incorporates the acquired information to custom design your dog’s behavior modification program. Then, your CPT Trainer will educate you how to administer the training, handling, communication, management, and facility modification protocols prescribed within the plan. CPT Atlanta behavior modification programs delve far deeper than just teaching basic commands. We may treat underlying generalized anxiety, state anxiety, impulsivity, hyperactivity, confusion, or frustration that causes your dog’s destructive behavior. Your CPT Trainer may recommend a veterinary visit if we believe an injury or disease condition is partially or wholly prompting your dog’s destructive behavior. We may recommend management procedures and structure that prevent the continuation of unwanted behavior until training protocols have had time to permanently take effect.
Your CPT Trainer may recommend temporary or permanent facility modifications within your home that prevent habit continuation and facilitate the adoption of desirable replacement behaviors. We may teach effective dog-human communication skills, whereupon you learn how to physically and verbally communicate to your dog in a manner your dog capably understands and willingly complies. CPT training and behavior modification programs replace destructive chewing, scratching, digging, trash raiding, food stealing, and object stealing behavior with relaxed mutually acceptable behavior. Consequently, your dog is happier, and you are happier with your dog. Via proper diagnosis, custom plan design, effective Trainer-owner communication, logical procedure, and structured methods that account for canine psychology, a CPT behavior modification program will have the highest probability of rapidly and permanently modifying your Atlanta dog’s destructive behavior. Ultimately, your anxious, restless, confused, or frustrated destructive dog, whether within your home or out in public, will become the envy of your community.
Modifying destructive behavior early, prevents the formation of bad habits and creates lasting stability for both you and your dog. CPT behavior modification programs focus on building reliable behavior, reducing stress, and restoring stability in your home through clear, consistent guidance tailored to your dog’s needs.
Yes, we absolutely can. By conducting a thorough diagnostic, determining the origin of your dog’s behavior, designing customized solutions, and then teaching you how to effectively implement prescribed solutions, Comprehensive Pet Therapy can rapidly and permanently resolve your Atlanta dog’s destructive chewing, scratching, digging, trash raiding, food stealing, and object stealing behavior.
The first step is addressing “why” your dog chews or digs. Once knowing why, we can resolve the origin. Once resolving the origin, the behavior should also extinguish. If the behavior remains refractory, then we can also add training, management, and facility modification solutions that buttress origin-oriented solutions.
By resolving, anxiety, hyperactivity, impulsivity, confusion, and stress; considering knowledge of natural canine behavior; and obtaining confidence, relaxation, and harmony, we can eliminate or redirect excess energy, reinforce benevolent boundaries, and acquire the adoption of mutually acceptable replacement behaviors, whereby chewing and digging become things of the past.
CPT recommends preventive training the day you bring your puppy home. Proper early training prevents bad habit formation. By implementing an age-appropriate preventive program, your puppy or dog should never need a formal behavior modification program. Early intervention maximizes healthy behavioral development.
When Atlanta clients communicate problems with destructive chewing, scratching, digging, trash raiding, food stealing, or object stealing behavior, CPT recommends either in-home private instruction or board training. With in-homes, a CPT Trainer will arrive at your home, complete a detailed history and diagnostic, observe your dog, examine the floor plan and floor surfaces of your home, assess indoor areas where your dog has inappropriately behaved, view outdoor areas and access, ask about your schedule and preferences, design a customized solution plan, and then educate you how to implement the plan.
With board training, your dog will reside at the home of a CPT Trainer for 1 - 4 weeks. During the board train period, the CPT Trainer will instruct your dog regarding the relevant destructive behavior and any other household, obedience, or social behaviors you identify or we observe as pertinent. In-homes are less expensive, since you will be handling the daily management and repetition. Board training is more expensive, since during the more complex and difficult incipient training stages a CPT Trainer will operate your dog’s daily management and training.
In-homes are great for people who have the schedule availability to train their dog and who have an interest in avidly participating in their dog’s training. In contrast, board training is ideal for persons who travel frequently for work or pleasure, work long hours, have extensive familial or social commitments, are going on vacation, or wish to postpone personal involvement until provided a huge head start. CPT has board train locations in Atlanta, Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, Roswell, Cumming, Flowery Branch, and Covington. CPT also has a board train location in Eugene, Oregon.
To view a more detailed description of each service and pricing information, please click the links in the first paragraph of this section. To schedule a CPT service, please email CPT or contact the CPT office by phone (404-236-2150). When calling, please note CPT office hours are M – F from 9 am – 4 pm.
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