Dog Training in Slidell , LA and surrounding cities

Through our personalized training programs, Always Faithful dog trainers will guide you in becoming the confident, effective leader your dog needs.

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Always Faithful Dog Training of Slidell

Hours - By Appointment Only


Now serving the following areas:
New Orleans, Kenner, Metairie, Covington, Destrehan, Gretna,   Harvey, Jefferson, LaPlace, Luling, Mandeville, Marrero,  Slidell, Ama, Hahnville, Lacombe, Madisonville, Norco, Saint Rose, and Westwego

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60,000+ DOGS TRAINED

why leadership training?

The Importance of the Natural Environment

In the wild, a dog’s mother and older pack members instinctively guide them to learn skills for survival. In your home, your dog is looking for a leader to establish rules/boundaries and guide them. 


Without a leader, your dog will try to lead. The result is leash pulling, jumping, excessive barking, nipping, pent-up energy, anxiety and aggression. 


The solution to ALL of these problems is found by using our leadership-based training. Always Faithful Dog Training will empower you to be that CALM, CONFIDENT LEADER. 


 Check out the videos below to learn more. 

 At Always Faithful Dog Training, we teach you to lead your dog using the instinctive methods of a pack leader. Our founder, Abraham Mashal, explains what we call Leadership Training.

World renowned animal behavior specialist and Always Faithful consultant Kurdt Greenwood speaks about the importance of the natural environment.

Establish Your Leadership with Our Programs

Foundations Training

Get started on the right foot as early as possible. Teach your dog to respect your leadership which results in mutual trust and a desire to follow your lead.

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Obedience Training

Teach your dog to walk with a loose leash and to respond quickly to commands which lead to advanced abilities and more freedom/fun for your dog.

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Specialty Training

Our trainers are able to address a lot more than obedience. We can help with behavior concerns like anxiety and aggression. We train Therapy and Service Dogs.

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WE OFFER 10% OFF ANY TRAINING TO MILITARY, POLICE OR FIRE DEPT. 

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No Treats, No Clickers, No Shock Collars, No Gimmicks

The Always Faithful Dog Training method is designed to teach you the language of your dog. We call it Leadership Dog Training.


Dogs are pack animals. As part of your pack, you want your dog to follow you. Our leadership-based techniques will enable you to be the pack leader.


Common dog behaviors like leash pulling, jumping, barking, digging, and generally not listening are signs that your dog wants to lead you. Our private in-home lessons will immediately correct these behaviors and give you the tools to maintain your leadership.

Our Foundations training PROGRAMS

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Puppy Starter Lesson

This is a single in-home lesson to assist you with a new puppy or any new dog in your home to get started on the right foot. We’ll cover house training, exercise, feeding routine, crate training, socialization, responding to common behaviors like nipping & jumping and laying the right foundations for leadership.


Cost: $175

Leadership Essentials

This 3 lesson pack is a more in-depth focus on AFDT leadership techniques, structured leash walk, establishing a daily schedule/feeding routine, impulse control work, and calming exercises to ensure you get started off on the right track to having a more calm, confident, obedient pack member. This package will ensure a strong foundation for future AFDT obedience training packages and strengthen your leadership and position as pack leader. This package is perfect for early puppyhood (8-12 weeks of age), and rescues and other adult dogs with which clients may be struggling to gain trust and respect.


Cost: $395

OUR Obedience training PROGRAMS

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Basic Obedience

This dog training in New Orleans is a package that includes 4 in-home lessons that include five basic commands: Heel (walking), Sit, Stay, Come and Down. For puppies, we also provide guidance and documentation about house training, crate training, socialization, and responding to common behaviors like nipping & jumping.


Cost: $495 for one dog; $695 for two dogs 

Advanced Obedience

This package is 7 in-home lessons that include the five basic commands and expands their application based on your unique needs.


Cost: $795 for 1 dog; $1095 for 2 dogs

Advanced Obedience High Distraction

This 9 lesson training package includes everything in Advanced Obedience and adds skills to achieve obedience in high distraction environments (listening with other dogs/people/distractions around).


Cost: $1095 for 1 dog; $1495 for 2 dogs

OUR Specialty training PROGRAMS

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Behavior Modification

Behavior Modification focuses on changing unwanted behaviors to positive, desirable responses to situations a dog may face. We identify the root cause of the behavior and reshape the dog’s association with the situation.

Basic Behavior Modification: These 60-minute lessons address anxiety, discomfort, phobias, or fears. The goal is to guide your dog to overcome these difficulties, allowing them to feel relaxed and maintain a calm, balanced state instead of experiencing distress.

Basic Behavior Modification Cost: $510 for 3 lessons, $850 for 5 lessons, or $1190 for 7 lessons

Advanced Behavior Modification: These 60-minute lessons address dominant, reactive, threatening, or aggressive behaviors displayed toward other dogs or people and train how to respond calmly and appropriately in challenging situations.

Advanced Behavior Modification Cost: $600 for 3 lessons, $1000 for 5 lessons, or $1400 for 7 lessons

Therapy Dog Training

Teach your dog to provide affection, comfort and support to people in settings such as hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, schools, libraries, hospices, or disaster areas. At our assessment, we will evaluate your dog to determine if his/her temperament is a good fit for Therapy Dog work. Level of basic obedience may affect price.


Cost: Starting at $1500

Service Dog Training

We train and provide the Service Dog certificate once training is complete.


To train your dog for service work, your dog must pass our behavior evaluation before he/she can be considered for Service Dog work. 

Alternatively, we offer Service Dog Training where we select and purchase your dog. This package allows us to pick what is best for the client. We cannot guarantee a specific breed but will do our best to fulfill all breed specific requests.

 

Please call +1(504) 285-9905 for pricing

Tune-up Lesson

A single, 1 hour lesson used as a follow up to previous training to work on any new issue or difficulty you may experience. These can be added on after a package has been completed or later down the road after graduation from our program.


Cost:  $150

Area We offer our Training

Our map showcases the surrounding areas we proudly serve, ensuring you can easily find out if we operate in your neighborhood. Our team is ready to bring professional dog training to your doorstep. Get started on creating a better relationship with your dog, wherever you are within our reach.

Interested in becoming a DOG TRAINEr?

At Always Faithful Dog Training, we look for a very specific person that has the right attitude towards leadership that fits our culture, has a flexible personality and isn’t worried if things don’t always go their way, sees the good in all canines, and wants to teach humans how to let dogs be dogs.

  • Traits of a Pack Member

    • Be calm and commanding at all times mixed with a lot of patience.

    • Practice humility and know that there may be many different ways to get the required result.

    • Understanding of our clients lives and accommodate them when necessary.

    • Use our proven leadership methods and trust our process.

    • Maintain openness to feedback and learning.

    • Use and demonstrate good social skills with dogs and humans. The client is the owner first, the dog second and the client needs to feel comfortable with our trainers.

    • Have a good sense of humor since silly, embarrassing, or messy things will happen when training.

    • Comfortable with all walks of life. Our human clients are as diverse as our dogs! We rarely turn down a client unless it is a service beyond our expertise.
  • Job Requirements

    • Must have reliable transportation

    • Ability to travel to people’s homes (within 25 mile radius of New Orleans) to conduct lessons

    • Permitted to work legally in the US

    • Previous or current dog owner

    • Must be over 21 years of age

At Always Faithful Dog Training, we look for a very specific person that has the right attitude towards leadership that fits our culture, has a flexible personality and isn’t worried if things don’t always go their way, sees the good in all canines, and wants to teach humans how to let dogs be dogs.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • Are you “certified” dog trainers?

    Yes, every single Always Faithful Dog Trainer is certified through AFDT and the IDTA.  Our organization has trained over 50,000 dogs in the last 20 years.  We are by far the most experienced dog training company in the world

  • Why don’t you use treats, clickers or shock collars?

    A dog starts out with a beautiful, natural instinct to follow a pack leader -- all the training methods mentioned above are unnatural. They also produce little to no results and require dog owners to constantly carry around their training tools.


    Treats can offer a quick fix but are detrimental over time. When we exchange treats for obedience, we create a transactional relationship – a “what’s in it for me” attitude. When this attitude prevails, utilizing their instinct to follow becomes more challenging. Treat training is also unhealthy for the dog since it requires constant food.  60% of dogs in America are considered obese! Treat training is one of the reasons for this epidemic.  

    Shock collar training creates results based on fear and has been labeled abusive by the American and Canadian Veterinary Associations. 


    AFDT only uses instinctive methods that the dog will understand and have a positive reaction to.  All AFDT methods use positive reinforcement only and have been endorsed by world renowned animal behavior specialists like Kurdt Greenwood.

    Hear from Kurdt Greenwood
  • Will you train all breeds and ages of dogs?

    Yes, the AFDT method works on any dog, any age and any breed.

  • What is the youngest and oldest dog you will work with?

    We start our puppy training as young as 8 weeks and have no age limit to training, if the dog is healthy enough to train.  

  • Do you train therapy and service dogs?

    Yes, many of our locations offer these services.  Please check out your local location to determine if that service is offered near you.

  • Do you train aggressive dogs?

    Yes, many of our locations offer these services.  Please check out your local location to determine if that service is offered near you. 

  • Do you retrain dogs from other companies?

    Yes.  We also aim to be the last training company you will need to use.

  • Can you train dogs with anxiety?

    Yes, the most common cause of anxiety is lack of leadership. When a dog joins a human pack, they are looking for specific behaviors from a pack leader. These behaviors are not intuitive to humans so we often fail to provide what they need. In the absence of a pack leader, your dog will try to be the pack leader. This can be stressful and lead to anxiety. So, before you consider medicating your dog, please consider training. We can help with all types of anxiety including fear, overprotectiveness, and separation anxiety.

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