Cayley and I were so impressed with your training methods- they are compassionate and effective. I am happy to report that thanks to your training yesterday Suki settled in her pen while we ate lunch at the dining table today without a peep! And she went into her crate a few times when she was done playing and wanted some alone time, we were amazed!Plus she has taken so well to the puzzle feeding instead of filling her bowl up for meals. You truly love dogs and it shows. Thank you so much, Almudena, for the fantastic training you provided us as we start our life journey with Goji Bear!
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Almudena Ortiz Cue is a graduate of the renowned San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers (CTC), a Certified Professional Dog Trainer by the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT), a professional member of The Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT), and the owner of C.H.A.C.O.
2015 Drug Therapy for Canine Behavior Problems: What, When, Why and How | Raising Canine, webinar | Dog Sports Essentials, Karen Pryor Academy, only course | Beyond the Basics: Successfully Handling Therapy Dog Team Visit | Challenges, Behavior Education Network, webinar | Ultimate Foundation, Ultimate Agility, online course | Treatment & Prevention of Dog Aggression, Dr. Ian Dunbar, Udemy online course | Reliability and Games, Dr. Ian Dunbar, Udemy, online course. I like to read a few books at a time.
The behavioral sciences (the science of how animals learn) and canine ethology informs how I train dogs and implement behavior modification plans. Here's how this approach differs from the traditional/ "leader of the pack" approach. The leader of the pack model, and "balanced" methods, interpret what a dog is doing, and its motives, concerning its status within the "pack."
They also tell me (please see the testimonials on my website) that their efforts and our working together paid off. Showing up to your training session every week and implementing training plans at home can be overwhelming for some people but I do my best to lead clients by the hand and give them all the support and attention they need.
Reviews (3)
Macor
Mar 27, 2022
Ellen Silva
Mar 23, 2022
Took my puppy to the Kinder Pup 1 class for 6 weeks and we had so much fun and both learned a lot! A ton of valuable information was provided, it was not just a big group puppy play session and learning a couple commands like some puppy classes I have done elsewhere. Very thorough and helpful, recommended!
Christy E.-B.
Feb 11, 2022
CHACO Dog Training Center was a negative experience for us and personally very heartbreaking. I was initially impressed by the slick web page and also the posted philosophy of dog training. Almudena Ortiz Cue' had, to my mind, an impressive list of credentials, but I was a little troubled by the fact that there were very few (2) actual reviews on her website and only one on Google and they were all pretty reserved in their praise.
I contacted her by email and she agreed to try to help us with our three year old Sheltie girl who grew up during the Covid lockdown and had not been socialized properly - she would bark at strangers and spin out of boredom and frustration due mostly I believe to our fairly sedentary lifestyle (I am wheelchair bound, but my husband is very active).
We had already taken our dog to two veterinarians who both examined her thoroughly to eliminate the possibility of any neurological damage; they both gave her a clean bill of health. Almudena Ortiz Cue' sent me a 16 page, extremely detailed form to fill out about every aspect of our dog's life - I mean really, really detailed. It took me hours and hours to fill this thing out, but I did my best to be honest.
She made it VERY CLEAR (over and over) that the initial consultation would be for 90 minutes and would cost almost $200 and if it went one minute over 90 minutes the cost would nearly double. She repeated many times that she expected payment in advance for THE ENTIRE AMOUNT of her multiple training session program. Payment rules and cancellation penalties were almost laughably detailed in the form - that should have been a red flag for me, but I was still hopeful.
She met with my husband since he would have been the one working with her. She wanted the dog to be crated the whole time she was at our house and a very lengthy tiny font liability form had to be signed and initialed many times just for her to be in the same house (not even the same room) with our crated 30 pound dog. She was obviously uneasy even though our dog hardly barked at her!
She eventually threw a few pieces of chicken to our dog from across the room - and that was it! That was the hyped consultation/evaluation! Wow. She did not seem particularly knowledgeable and made no training plan as promised in our initial conversation. She was eager to get the check and left at 90 minutes on the dot. She said she would be in touch after she "thought about it". Well, sadly (or perhaps not so sadly), we never heard from her again.
Take some advice from me and give this "trainer" a miss unless you have $200 you want to give away in exchange for a huge waste of time, not to mention the heartbreaking disappointment. I'm sure there must be reputable dog trainers out there, so KEEP LOOKING and good luck!
I contacted her by email and she agreed to try to help us with our three year old Sheltie girl who grew up during the Covid lockdown and had not been socialized properly - she would bark at strangers and spin out of boredom and frustration due mostly I believe to our fairly sedentary lifestyle (I am wheelchair bound, but my husband is very active).
We had already taken our dog to two veterinarians who both examined her thoroughly to eliminate the possibility of any neurological damage; they both gave her a clean bill of health. Almudena Ortiz Cue' sent me a 16 page, extremely detailed form to fill out about every aspect of our dog's life - I mean really, really detailed. It took me hours and hours to fill this thing out, but I did my best to be honest.
She made it VERY CLEAR (over and over) that the initial consultation would be for 90 minutes and would cost almost $200 and if it went one minute over 90 minutes the cost would nearly double. She repeated many times that she expected payment in advance for THE ENTIRE AMOUNT of her multiple training session program. Payment rules and cancellation penalties were almost laughably detailed in the form - that should have been a red flag for me, but I was still hopeful.
She met with my husband since he would have been the one working with her. She wanted the dog to be crated the whole time she was at our house and a very lengthy tiny font liability form had to be signed and initialed many times just for her to be in the same house (not even the same room) with our crated 30 pound dog. She was obviously uneasy even though our dog hardly barked at her!
She eventually threw a few pieces of chicken to our dog from across the room - and that was it! That was the hyped consultation/evaluation! Wow. She did not seem particularly knowledgeable and made no training plan as promised in our initial conversation. She was eager to get the check and left at 90 minutes on the dot. She said she would be in touch after she "thought about it". Well, sadly (or perhaps not so sadly), we never heard from her again.
Take some advice from me and give this "trainer" a miss unless you have $200 you want to give away in exchange for a huge waste of time, not to mention the heartbreaking disappointment. I'm sure there must be reputable dog trainers out there, so KEEP LOOKING and good luck!
