Santa Monica Paws is a "Pet Services Concierge"

• Simply said, we are a "Pet Concierge" 
• We are a small group of Certified Pet Professionals who provide comprehensive dog training programs, community daycare, and an array of pet sitting services for your pets in areas within a 5 mile radius of Playa Vista, Santa Monica, and Marina del Rey
• Our main focus is to provide you with high quality services that keep you and your pets satisfied.  
• We offer Pet Sitting, Dog Behavior Training, OnDemand Dog Walking, Light Grooming, Medication Administration, Pick-up and Drop off Taxi, and In-Home Dog Boarding
• We use qualified Dog and Cat Behavior Trainers & Cognitive Behavior Therapists when providing all our pet services. 
• We call ourselves "Pet Owner Educators" and "Canine and Feline Coaches"
• Our main role is to change how people communicate and interact with their pets.  This is the best way to build trust and communication between canine, feline, and human.   
• We have a Love for Helping People.   Not only do we get great results working with dogs, cats, and their owners, we also have a great time building close loyal relationships with families.  

When we are dog training, we mainly focus on using relationship building and positive rewards based training.  

We combine some methods to enhance each participant's skills to set them up for sucess! 

We are aware of the fact that not all of our pet services are suitible for everyone.  

Here are a few more methods that we use when working with your pets.  Click on each to learn more.

• Classical Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning (*most often used)
• Scientific Training (*Best Method!)
• Koehler Method 
• Clicker Training 
• Relationship-Based Training
• Model-Rival Or Mirror Training
• Negative Reinforcement
• Positive Reinforcement

*We have been educated and trained on how to apply many different Methods & Techniques but each case is different and therefore, not all methods are used with every client.  It always depends on the situation and whether we are providing private in-home services or public daycare with training services.

We practice our training in various spots, yet most of our training is held within a 5-10 mile radius of Playa Vista, Santa Monica, and Marina del Rey