Dog Training in Memphis, TN and all surrounding cities

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


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Always Faithful Dog Training of Memphis

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Serving the following areas:

Memphis, TN, Bartlett, TN, Collierville, TN, Germantown, TN, Millington, TN, Arlington, TN, Cordova, TN, Oakland, TN, Brighton, TN, Eads, TN, Somerville, TN, Olive Branch, MS, Henando, MS, Southhaven, MS, and West Memphis, AK

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.

60,000+ DOGS TRAINED

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

OUR Foundations Training PROGRAMS

Puppy Starter Lesson

This is a single in-home lesson to assist you & your new puppy 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

Basic Obedience

This dog training package is 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

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

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

OUR Specialty training PROGRAMS

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.


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 (901) 665-3521 for pricing.

We Train You Maintain

No time to attend the training sessions? No problem. We’ll train your dog and then show you how to maintain after the training is complete.


Cost: 5 basic obedience skills plus 2 follow-up lessons with you for $845

One Lesson Wonder

This service gives you our full attention for 90 minutes to solve most dog problems you may be having. We will come to your home, show you how to establish leadership and leave detailed notes and handouts to solve your dog problems. It also includes a follow up call after the lesson. Perfect for the dog who needs a lot of help very quickly.


Cost: $200 for 90 minutes

2 Month Tune-up

A single, 1 hour lesson 2 months following your last lesson to work on any new issues or difficulties you may have experienced since graduation.


Cost: $150

OUR Board & Train PROGRAM

Board-and-Train

Board-and-Train is an opportunity for your dog to stay at facility for 1-2 weeks depending on the training need and your schedule to receive daily training.


Contact us for pricing

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.

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.

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 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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