Does your Rancho Santa Fe dog seem destined for more than basic obedience? Our vocational training prepares your pup for specialized roles like therapy, service, or even search-and-rescue missions.
Our trainers expertly guide your dog through targeted skill development, ensuring they’re fully prepared for their meaningful roles in the community.
Vocational training gives your dog confidence, purpose, and valuable skills—making them a respected member of your family and the Rancho Santa Fe community.
Got Sit Dog Training is one of the premier dog training companies on the West Coast. Our founder Marvin Versteeg started out solo in 2007 with his grand concept of creating amazing, real world dogs. The training system quickly gained popularity with clients and the momentum began.
With so much information available through the internet, just figuring out what to trust is overwhelming And then there is all of your friends and family that have their opinions for you. With so many options and techniques to choose from, how does a person decide which path to follow? At Got Sit Dog Training, we believe that seeing is believing and that you should have the opportunity to see what we do before becoming financially invested. For this reason, we offer a complimentary in-home consultation to each potential client that is interested in training their dog and wants to be sure that they are comfortable with the company they will be working together with.
Rancho Santa Fe dog owners choose our vocational training programs to prepare their dogs for rewarding roles, quickly enhancing their skills and confidence.
Our expert trainers use proven, targeted methods to equip your dog with specialized abilities, helping them thrive in purposeful work.
Your dog will flourish under our vocational training—becoming an admired and integral part of Rancho Santa Fe’s community.
For the young dog, we have an extended program that starts with private lessons at your home to put you on the path you need to be on to create the dog you want. The private lessons are followed up with one year of unlimited access to our group training in public to proof the training language that you and your puppy learned in private. This allows you to acclimate your dog to the real world while working with our trainers and alongside our other clients on the program to lead your dog into a higher level of emotional balance.
Our Executive training program is the program that all our other training options were founded on. Consisting of private in-home training and graduating into group training, this program takes you and your dog from kindergarten through university. This gives you all the opportunity you could wish for to create and maintain a brilliant companion.
The Board and Train options may just be the jump start you need. Not every person has the patience or time to do what it takes to rehabilitate their dog. With the boarding and training foundation, you are able to see progress all ready started and confidently take over and maintain your dogs new skill set.
Then there is the confused, fearful and sometimes aggressive dog We have a program just for you! Working together with you, we bring you a vast array of options to help your dog through. emotional stresses and confusion. We help you to create a stronger bond with your dog and clear leadership.
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