Dog Training In Irvine, CA
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Sit Means Sit Dog Training offers professional dog training in Irvine, CA. Specializing in obedience, behavior modification, and off-leash control. Free consultation.
At Sit Means Sit, our mission is to prepare dogs and puppies for the real world through proven training methods and positive reinforcement. No matter your dog’s age, breed, personality, or size, we are excited to work with them and realize your dream of a happy, socialized, well-behaved companion.
Our training programs and Sit Means Sit’s Better, Faster, and Smarter training system make us the best dog training company out there! We can’t wait to help dog owners across Florida take what they learn in their training sessions and apply that knowledge to their everyday lives. Start your journey towards a deep, meaningful relationship with your dog by calling today!
We are a certified Canine Good Citizen® (CGC) test evaluator.
Dog Training Classes
Any Dog Any Age Any Problem
Puppy Management
Our team believes it is essential to start puppy training as soon as you bring your new best friend home! Let a professional trainer guide your new puppy with common challenges such as potty training and chewing while also teaching you the importance of reinforcing good behaviors early on to prevent behavior problems.
With private training sessions, new dog owners have the chance to ask questions about all the tools that a certified trainer uses to set them up for success. Call us today to start your puppy journey!
Obedience Training
The Obedience Training program can be customized for any dog, like our Puppy training graduates, new rescue dogs, or dogs suffering from serious behavior challenges like aggression and anxiety. An expert trainer will work with your pup, building a foundation of obedience training and basic commands based on their training needs. Your dog will transform into a well-behaved dog that can confidently listen and obey anywhere despite distractions.
- Your canine will learn commands such as Come, Sit, Place, & Down.
- They’ll also learn skills like waiting at doors and crosswalks, leash training, potty-training, & car manners.
- You will practice loose leash and off-leash training with your pup
- Establish boundaries in your home and yard
- Additionally, we teach how to stop nuisance behaviors like Jumping up, Play biting, Digging, Chewing, Excessive barking, and/or other vocalizations.
If you want the kind of dog that you confidently take off leash to any dog friendly beach for a day full of family fun, contact us today for your Free Consultation!
Private Lessons Program
Private training pairs a trainer with dog owners who want to be responsible for the training success of their dogs. We teach you everything we know about training dogs so you can train and reinforce good behaviors yourself. Our trainers are flexible and will meet for private training based on your schedule. Some of the benefits of private training are:
- Private training will be at your home or a place near you that you choose.
- We focus on your dog training needs and work towards the skills listed in our Obedience Training Program.
- After your dog is successful in private training, you may join other dog owners and their pups in Group Classes.
Start your dog training journey today by contacting our training staff for a Free Consultation!
Board and Train Program
Instead of sending your dog to a generic boarding facility where they get bored or pick up bad habits, trust your best friend with us! In our Board and Train program, you get to relax and trust your dog is exercising, experiencing enriching and fun activities, and training all day!
The Board and Train Program is also great for clients needing extra training support for challenging behaviors. This is an immersive training experience, so your dog will learn quickly.
Group Training Program
Dogs that have completed their Private Lessons and Boarding and Train training programs may join other dogs in the Group Training Program! Sit Means Sit dog trainers believe that the training journey never ends and group classes offer the chance to polish up obedience training in new environments with new distractions. One of our professional dog trainers will help ensure that everyone is safe and has fun!
Group classes are offered multiple times every week to fit any busy pet parent’s schedule!
Dog Trainers & Staff
Professional trainers. Attentive friendly staff.
Cindy has been working with dogs for over 20 years and is dedicated to helping you achieve your goals with your dog. Cindy has achieved AKC Champion Titles on 9 dogs and qualified for the AKC National Eukanuba Invitational two years in a row. She enjoys many dog sports including DockDogs, AKC Conformation and most recently Mondioring. She has achieved multiple level 3 titles in Mondioring and won 4 place cat.1 at the 2023 FMBB World Championship in Romania.
Clay joined Cindy in training at Sit Means Sit in 2009. Having watched Cindy perform miracle after miracle transforming the lives of people and their dogs, it was an easy decision. Clay especially enjoys working with the troubled dogs.
There is no greater feeling than changing lives for the better. The satisfaction that comes from seeing an aggressive or fearful dog becoming an upstanding confident member of society is difficult to describe.
His own dog, Watson, is a rescue that had behavioral problems – you’d never know it now! Clay loves living, training and working with his dogs, Watson and Scooby – they’re great partners in the training other people’s dogs.
Michael grew up in Minnesota and moved to California in 2008. He has a Marketing Degree from California State University, San Marcos. After a few years in the marketing field, he decided that it just wasn’t for him. Michael got his first dog, Tyson, in 2018 and happily fell into dog training thereafter. Tyson is a Pitbull x German Shepherd mix. When Michael is not training dogs, he likes to spend his time at the beach, camping, skateboarding, playing golf or exploring California.
Chris grew up in Texas and eventually moved to California in 1987. He is well-traveled, living in Asia for 4 years and another 3 years in Central America. Chris has owned several businesses, including textile and photo booth, but decided he needed a change.
He grew up with dogs and knew he wanted to work with them and once he discovered dog training, he was hooked. His passion was evident from the start and in 2 short years, Chris became Sit Means Sit Orange County’s manager and lead trainer. He has 3 amazing Boston Terriers, who he also considers his business partners, Harrington, Joseph and Maisie Williams.
Bryden was born in Canada and spent his early childhood years there. His family decided to acquire a second foundry which led them to Vermont, where he would live until completing high school. It was here he would fall in love with soccer, motorcycles and snowboarding.
He would return to Canada to pursue a business degree before moving on to taking over operations of his family’s metal casting company. He ran this for fourteen years before making the decision to move west in search of greater adventure in his life. Always having a dog, naturally becoming a trainer was inevitable. Currently, he has several amazing dogs including Rollo, a chocolate lab and Scooby, a black field lab.
Bryan was born and raised in Orange County California. He realized he had a passion for training canines, while attempting to train his own pet, Scratch. He started his career as a professional trainer with Sit Means Sit in June of 2019. Determined to succeed, he’s eager and passionate to learn which carries through to today. His true passion is helping people better communicate with their dogs.
Scratch is a 4 year old 85lb Alaskan Malamute rescue. His hobbies include playing football and pulling Bryan on a skateboard.
Service Areas
We proudly serve the following areas in Irvine.
Cities
- Newport Beach
- Dana Point
- Laguna Beach
- Orange County
- Aliso Viejo
- Newport Coast
- Irvine
- Emerald Bay
Zip Codes
- 92625
- 92629
- 92651
- 92656
- 92657
- 92660
- 92661
- 92662
- 92602
- 92603
- 92604
- 92606
- 92612
- 92614
- 92618
- 92620
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Sit Means Sit’s training program has seriously been one of the best investments I have ever made. I picked my dog, Biggie, up last week and the changes in her behavior and previous aggression have been unbelievable! She’s a better listener, less territorial, and just an all around better behaved and happier dog! My dog…
We took our two pitbulls to Sit Means Sit for training. Sit Means Sit did a wonderful job training our dogs. Kileaux was always easily distracted and Nikita was a rambunctious puppy. The staff was very knowledgeable and helpful in teaching us how to work with our dogs on continued training. It is hard to…
I am so pleased and impressed with Sit Means Sit in general. My Aussie puppy did a three week board-and-train since my work schedule limited my ability to go to group classes. They were very understanding and did an excellent job of explaining every aspect of their training methods, their e-collar, and were very open…
The Sit Means Sit program enabled me to take my two dogs Gaea and Dayzee on mountain hikes without worrying about them chasing wildlife. It’s great to hike with my dogs and not worry about spooking the wildlife, thank you!