The Dog Wizard Chantilly

Services Offered: Puppy Obedience Training, Board and Train Dog Training, Dog Day Training, Group Dog Training Classes, Private Dog Training Lessons, Specialty Dog Training

Programs range from puppy obedience and group classes to private lessons, day training, board and train, and specialty training, with a Foundational Program that explains the reasoning behind each technique.

What’s Unique About The Dog Wizard Chantilly, In Their Words

The Dog Wizard Chantilly builds a foundation that goes beyond basic obedience – several dogs here have gone on to therapy-dog work or agility and parkour as natural extensions of their early training. The Foundational Program stands out for explaining the “why” behind every technique, not just the steps, and progress is visible to the whole community through videos regularly posted on the location’s Facebook page. The team also has a knack for redirecting anxious behaviors, like a dog that had appointed itself the household’s window alarm system, into calmer, more constructive habits.

Our Take

The Dog Wizard Chantilly is a franchise location of the national balanced dog training company, serving Chantilly, Oakton, Reston, Ashburn, Fairfax, Sterling, Vienna, Herndon, and the surrounding Northern Virginia communities. Programs include puppy obedience, private lessons, group classes, day training, board and train, and specialty training for tougher behavior cases. Trainer Autumn Bowen, who grew up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania and started out training horses before moving into dogs, brings a formal background in animal behavior to the team.

The Foundational Program goes beyond drilling commands. It explains the reasoning behind each technique, so owners understand why a method works and can adapt it themselves later, instead of only memorizing the steps. Several dogs trained here have gone on to therapy dog work or into agility and parkour as a natural extension of their early obedience training. Progress is visible to the wider community too, since the team regularly posts training videos to the location’s Facebook page.

The trainers also have a knack for redirecting anxious behaviors into calmer habits, including one memorable case of a dog that had appointed itself the household’s self-styled window alarm system. Behavior work here covers resource guarding, aggression, separation anxiety, and housebreaking, alongside the everyday obedience training that makes up the bulk of the caseload.

Accomplishments

Dogs trained here have gone on to therapy dog work, agility, and parkour, with training progress regularly shared through videos on the location’s Facebook page.

How to Get Started!

Call or book a free evaluation to get matched with a trainer and start a plan built around your dog.