Brandy Girot
is the owner and operator of
East Valley K9 Services
and has been a professional dog trainer working with dogs since 2014. She has varied experience and has trained dogs for obedience, dog sports, therapy work & public access, but her passion lies in puppy training! She loves training puppies during the critical learning stage in order to ensure that they are well-mannered and adjusted for the rest of their lives. Brandy also is an active therapy team with her own dog working with local organizations and enjoys helping other teams prepare to go out into the community.
Training Philosophy
East Valley K9 Services strives to help you understand the why’s and the how’s. This educational aspect of training is so important to creating a harmonious home life between owners and their dogs by being strong, confident handlers. Every family is different and all dogs have their own personalities and learn at their own pace. We use positive reinforcement and play-based learning techniques combined with a situational awareness approach. Dogs need the distractions to train their responses to them. Our mission is to create forever relationships! The relationship you have with your dog and the relationship you have with us.
Services
East Valley K9 Services offers a variety of dog training services including group classes, private sessions, therapy dog training, boarding, and daycare. They also offer specialty training such as scent work foundations and agility for fun. They have a puppy starter camp and a skills and manners camp. They also offer board-to-train programs. They also offer in-home training and evaluation sessions.
Certifications
Brandy Girot is a CPDT-KA (Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed). She is also a Canine Good Citizen Certified Evaluator. She has completed Dr. Ian Dunbar’s SIRIUS® Dog Trainer Academy and the AZ Dog Smart Trainer Academy receiving certifications in Behavior Fundamentals, The Art of Dog Handling, Clicker Training, and Client Communications. She is also Pet CPR and first aid certified. She is a registered therapy dog team through Pet Partners and is registered with the National Alliance of Therapy Dogs. She is a member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT) and the International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP).
Specializations
- Puppy training
- Therapy dog training
- Behavior modification
- Aggression
- Lunging and pulling on leash
- Resource guarding
Training Methods
- Positive reinforcement
- Play-based learning
- Situational awareness
- Clicker training
Customer Reviews
- Great place to train your dog. Great facilities and personnel.
- I am so excited for my puppy to learn and grow with his new friends!
- Best bang for the buck, certainly don’t need to pay 2k for dog training. This place is proof.
- Love working with Brandy and the team, more importantly so do our dogs. Saturday morning workouts… on the agility course help them learn new skills and gain confidence and practice their social butterfly skills. This is a safe environment with caring people. Also a good way to meet like minded dog owners.
- We enrolled our precious Harlow at just over 3 months in Puppy Camp. The training was sleepover… camp during the week and she came home for the weekends so that we could practice what she had learned. She loved going back each Monday almost as much as she did coming home. Brandy and all of the trainers made her feel at home and loved. Each weekend we could see the progress she’d made during the week. The trainers made sure we were supplied with instruction on what to work on over the weekends and we got updates on her during the week as well.She learned to like her kennel, eat when the food was put down while waiting until it was prepared and told it was OK. (impulse control). She knows to potty outside when first taken out. She has learned the commands sit, stay, down, off, on, come.She is now just barely 5 months old and still a baby; she has infrequent accidents and occasional behavior hiccups but WE are still learning and she is. Like any training and learning it is continuous. We still need to be diligent with ongoing training just as you would be with a child.I HIGHLY recommend East Valley K9 Services LLC. You will not be disappointed.
- Brandy and Wren are just awesome. They are kind, patient and have so much knowledge about training… dogs. I brought my six-year-old yorkie and they proved you can teach an old dog new tricks! I highly recommend East Vally K9 Services!
- We just love East Valley K9 services. We started out with boarding, where our border collie… Princess fell in love with Brandy and her family. They have a great ability to help her calm her anxiety and enjoy herself while away from home. We have taken obedience classes and the Move on Classes with them. We are currently doing agility with them and we and Princess have so much fun. East Valley K9 is professional yet provides that extra touch of love and joy!
