Stephanie Bennett’s Believe in Dog

Service area: Houston, specifically the Heights neighborhood.

Believe in Dog offers specialized services for different age groups and behavioral needs. For puppies under 5 months, they provide Puppy Day School, Group Classes, and Private Lessons. For adolescent and adult dogs over 5 months, services include Group Classes and Private Lessons. They also offer Reactive Dog Training, which includes Private Lessons and Reactive Rover Group Classes, specifically for dogs that exhibit barking and lunging on-leash.

Stephanie Bennett’s Believe in Dog is Houston’s only dog training center, offering a wide variety of positive training services and group classes. Their core belief is that the relationship between a dog and its guardian is the foundation of all training, aiming to help dog guardians become the “Center of Their Dog’s Universe.”

Their philosophy focuses on redirecting and teaching dogs desired behaviors rather than concentrating on unwanted ones. They emphasize fun, celebrate individual dog idiosyncrasies, and use natural behaviors as motivation to keep dogs engaged in training. This dog and people-friendly approach helps create an optimal bond, ensuring dogs are enriched, fulfilled, and happy throughout their lives.

Believe in Dog goes beyond basic manners and skills, teaching guardians how to understand, communicate effectively with, and fulfill their dog’s needs. They advocate for training with curiosity, kindness, patience, empathy, and fair leadership, explicitly rejecting outdated, debunked, punishing, and harsh methods. They empower parents to read their dog’s body language and understand their dog’s perspective, fostering responsibility and understanding of their dog’s emotions and behaviors, with the ultimate goal of peaceful coexistence.

Accomplishments

Believe in Dog is recognized as Houston’s Original Puppy Experts and Houston’s only dog training center offering an extensive variety of positive training services and group classes. Stephanie Bennett is the Official KPRC2 Dog Trainer and has been featured on KPRC2 Houston Life for “Fun Fitness Ideas for Your Pup.”