Dog Training Services in Cambridge & Greater Boston
PACKAGE A
Puppy Training
6 weekly 1-hour sessions · $1,499
Best for: puppies and dogs (and owners) that are new to training
You'll learn how to read your dog's cues and communicate clearly while they learn to sit, stay, and develop basic manners. Ideal for puppies — and for dogs with anxiety or behavioral issues who aren't suited to group classes. Learn more >
PACKAGE B
Adult Dog Obedience
8 weekly 1-hour sessions · $2,199
Best for: dogs who know the basics but ignore them outdoors
Sharpen your dog's attention, leash awareness, stay, and recall, and add new commands: watch, heel, and drop-it. Everything is practiced at greater distance and with more distraction — and it's good for breaking bad adolescent habits. Learn more >
PACKAGE C
Behavior Modification
8 weekly 1-hour sessions · $2,499
Best for: lunging, growling, guarding, biting, or severe anxiety
Behavior modification works, but done wrong it makes the problem worse. Most failures come from bad advice or a misread of the cause. This takes more than "expose and reward" — it takes a professional read of what's driving the behavior. Learn more >
Areas We Serve
Serving Cambridge and Greater Boston
We teach private lessons at your home and in your own neighborhood — the same sidewalks, elevators, cafes and T stops where your dog actually needs to behave. A dog that is perfect in a training hall and impossible outside Harvard Square has not learned very much.
Most of our work is in Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, Brookline, Arlington, Medford, Watertown, Belmont, Everett, Malden and Newton. We also travel further out across the Boston Metro area — Lexington, Waltham, Winchester, Woburn, Melrose, Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop among them. Travel costs may apply outside the Boston Metro area.
Not sure whether you are in range? Call (857) 301-8871 and ask.
Testimonials
I would recommend Good Dog Boston to anyone! Our trainer Jeff was patient, kind, and extremely helpful when working with us and our dog Miley. Miley struggles with reactivity triggered by other dogs and living in downtown Boston makes avoiding other dogs nearly impossible. Jeff provided a tiered program which laid the ground work for Miley's basic obedience and built up to working through her reactivity issues. We have already seen huge improvement in Miley's behavior and all thanks goes to Good Dog Boston! Also shoutout to Jeff's furry assistants: Danny, Halo, & Doctor for being the good-est boys and helping their friend Miley with her manners! Truly a 5 star experience!
We couldn't be happier with our experience working with Jeff and his training program. We enrolled our labradoodle puppy in the puppy program at 5 months old, and it made a world of difference. Jeff helped us navigate and correct those early, unwanted puppy behaviors while building a solid foundation of training that's stuck with our pup ever since. Jeff is not only incredibly knowledgeable, but he's also clearly passionate about what he does. His approach is effective, thoughtful, and tailored—and the results speak for themselves. Our puppy is now a well-behaved city dog we're proud to take anywhere. On top of that, Jeff is responsive, flexible, and genuinely a pleasure to work with.
We were having trouble training our adolescent spitz, who was quickly becoming quite reactive/aggressively territorial on regular walks around the neighborhood. We're so grateful that we had the chance to work with Jeff at Good Dog Boston — though we'd read a handful of books and watched a few videos about how to work with reactive dogs, there's nothing quite like having someone with a great deal of experience point out to you the specific tools to use and nuanced cues in your specific dog's behavior to watch out for. Jeff was wonderful — worked with our busy schedules (and the weather), clearly excellent/fond of dogs, highly results-driven, and he gave us customized "homework" to do. Walking him is now pleasant instead of embarrassing and stressful.