CELEBRATING 14 years of HAPPY PUPS!

INDIVIDUAL TRAINING

SESSIONS AT YOUR HOME

let’s get real with
positive, relational, real world dog training

Amy Jacobsen is the owner and operator of Paws On Dog Training, LLC which serves select towns throughout Mercer and Somerset counties. Training begins the day you bring your puppy home. Full services range from housebreaking your puppy to basic manners such as greeting people and leash walking, mouthing and nipping, as well as behavior modification addressing fear and reactivity.

Amy is motivated by creating rewarding relationships that are strengthened through proper education and training. Her goal is to provide the best training methods available to dogs and their humans. Strengthening the human-animal bond is her highest priority. She has a passion for communicating with people to better communicate with their four-legged friend.

Paws On Dog Training believes in the “LIMA” philosophy of dog training.

What Is L.I.M.A.?

Least Intrusive, Minimally Aversive, effective behavior intervention

LIMA describes a trainer or behavior consultant who uses the least intrusive, minimally aversive strategy out of a set of humane and effective tactics that are likely to succeed in achieving a training or behavior change objective with minimal risk of producing aversive side effects. LIMA adherence also requires consultants to be adequately educated and skilled in order to ensure that the least intrusive and aversive procedure is used. LIMA does not justify the use of punishment in lieu of other effective interventions and strategies. In the vast majority of cases, desired behavior change can be affected by focusing on the animal’s environment, physical well-being, and operant and classical interventions such as differential reinforcement of alternative behavior, desensitization, and counter-conditioning.