Green Mountain Dog Camp, LLC

Green Mountain Dog Camp offers professional dog training, group classes, doggie daycare, and sleep away camp. Professional dog training includes one-on-one sessions focusing on positive reinforcement, addressing needs such as aggressive and reactive dog training, and psychiatric service dog training. Group classes are small and offered year-round in indoor/outdoor facilities, including Puppy Camp, Basic Dog Camp, Intermediate Dog Camp, Rally Freestyle, Agility Essentials, Dog Sports Camp, and AKC UpDog (frisbee). They also offer AKC certification classes like S.T.A.R. Puppy, Canine Good Citizen, Advanced Canine Good Citizen, and Urban Good Citizen. Doggie daycare is available Tuesday through Thursday, providing exercise, mental stimulation, and safe socialization, with basic obedience skills reinforced. Sleep away camp offers 24-hour dog boarding for established clients, including daycare or pack walks.

Pricing Summary

The business mentions offering small, affordable class sizes, but no specific pricing, rates, or package details are provided.

Green Mountain Dog Camp, LLC offers professional dog training and daycare services in Roxbury, Vermont. Their mission is to make the world a better place, one dog at a time, by employing only force-free positive reinforcement training techniques. These methods are scientifically proven to change behavior while building trust, strengthening relationships, and improving confidence between dogs and their owners.

They provide a variety of services including one-on-one professional dog training tailored to individual needs, group training classes, doggie daycare, and sleep away camp (boarding) for established clients. Their facilities include indoor and outdoor training spaces, nearly 2 acres of enclosed scenic runs with a pond, and access to hiking/skiing trails.

The head trainer and owner, Janine Manninen, is a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA CTP) and an AKC Certified Evaluator. She specializes in reactive dog training and training multiple pet households. Green Mountain Dog Camp emphasizes small, affordable class sizes and personalized training sessions. Doggie daycare includes basic obedience reinforcement, mountain hikes for off-leash dogs, and highly supervised play with screened dogs, along with pick-up and drop-off transportation services. Sleep away camp includes daycare or pack walks in a comfortable, familiar environment with plenty of exercise and TLC.

Accomplishments

Janine Manninen, the Head Trainer and Owner, is a Certified Training Partner (CTP) and a graduate of the Professional Dog Trainer course from Karen Pryor Academy (KPA). She is also an official AKC Certified Evaluator, authorized to administer AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy, Canine Good Citizen (CGC), AKC Community Canine, Urban CGC, and Trick Dog tests. Prior to moving to Roxbury in 2019, she served as a teaching assistant for several professional dog trainers at the Port Chester Obedience Training Club in White Plains, NY, for several years. Her own dogs hold titles and certifications in rally, therapy dog, tricks, disc dog, obedience, and nose work. The business was recently featured in the Valley Reporter for teaching sessions at the Warren Dog Park.

How to Get Started!

Clients can book training and daycare online. For doggie daycare, an evaluation needs to be scheduled. For sleep away camp, established clients should call or text for availability and scheduling.