Marion Weiner
About me
- First name
- Marion
- Last name
- Weiner
- Summary
Marion is a committed clicker trainer and uses only pain-free, dog-friendly techniques. She believes in building a trusting, loving relationship, and that training should be a joyous experience for both species. The relationship is best served if:
- Humans provide the best possible food, adequate exercise and mental stimulation, and positive exposure to as many new things in the dog's environment as possible.
- Humans use humane, dog-friendly training techniques and, at minimum, train the basics—sit, down, stay, come, leave it, drop it, walk nicely on a leash, housetraining.
- Human learns how to prevent, eliminate, or effectively manage aggression around food and objects, other dogs, adults, and children.
- Humans learns how to prevent, eliminate, or effectively manage problems with separation anxiety.
- Humans teach dogs polite behavior.
- Humans realize that dogs don't speak English and are living in a world with different rules than the rules with which they are programmed. It's the human's job to figure out how to get the dog to do what the human wants.
- Bio
Marion has been training dogs for 10 years. She started by training her rescued standard poodle, Lu, in competition obedience, agility, and rally obedience. She became very interested in dog behavior because she needed to figure out how to work with Lu's very strong prey drive and his reactivity toward certain other dogs. Soon, the only books Marion read dealt with dog behavior.
Until the market began to soften, Marion worked for many years as a software developer. She used this market change as an excuse to do what she really loved. She enrolled in the Instructor Training Course with Pia Silvani and then took a job teaching classes at PetSmart.
Marion went to every seminar possible on topics dealing with clicker training, aggression, reading body language, and fear and anxiety. She left PetSmart and went to work at Biscuits and Bath in Manhattan. In May 2007, she opened her own Pet Supply/Training Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. There, Marion teaches Puppy and Basic Obedience classes, as well as customized classes on fear and aggression issues. She also does private, in-house sessions, teaching clients how to modify and manage their dogs' behavioral issues.
A trainer/mentor for new trainers, Marion volunteers at the Animal Care and Control of Brooklyn. She has recently rescued a Bichon Frisé, Lenny, who came with a host of issues (resource guarding, aggression toward humans, housetraining problems), now resolved.
- Services offered
Puppy kindergarten, Obedience classes, Canine Good Citizen classes, custom classes, in-home consultations for behavior issues ranging from housetraining to aggression, grooming, high-quality pet supplies
Contact information
- Street
- 593 Coney Island Avenue
- City
- Brooklyn
- State/Province
- NY
- Country
- USA
- Phone number
- 718-684-5568
- Website
History
- Member for
- 43 weeks 2 days