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Price List for K-9 and Feline Care Services

Dog Walking and K-9/Feline Visitation Services
                                         

  1.   Standard K-9 Visit: $18.70; 2 dogs, $20.00, 3 dogs, $22.00
Sessions are no less than 30 Minutes in duration.  
Up to 2 cats - fed/H2O and Litterbox Hygiene free of charge
.

Elimination focused walk of @ 15-25 minutes, fresh
change of water, feeding if requested, brief play in fenced
backyard, or low-level play and petting indoors. Feed/H2O
as per owner, bring in mail/newspaper, Client Log entry.

  2. Standard Feline Visit: $17.00
Up to 4 cats, no dogs:      
Sessions are no less than 20 Minutes


Feed, Water, Litter box hygiene.  Play, interaction,
petting and light grooming if permitted by cat.  Client Log entry.
Bring in mail/newspaper, adjust blinds and lights.  

  3. Extended Visit: $34.00, 2 dogs $38.00, 3 dogs, $42.00
Extended Sessions are 60 Minutes or more in duration

Elimination and exercise focused walk of 30-50 minutes,
as per weather and dog/owner preference.  Walk may include
obedience and/or aerobic intensity intervals as desired by owner.
(This is a great option for clients who prefer individual walks
for the dogs in a multiple dog household.)
Always fresh water, feed if requested.  Bring in mail/newspaper.
2X per week light dry groom/  brush out.  Brief play in backyard
or
relaxed play and petting indoors.  Client log entry.

  4. Ultimate Visit: $56.00, 2 dogs: $66.00  
Extended Sessions are 90 minutes or more in duration
.
Serious Canine Conditioning!

 
For dogs with high exercise requirements.  Powerful
walk/jog of @ 2.5 to 3.5 miles May utilize Hartwood 
Acres, Highland, Frick or Schenley Park’s more physically
challenging and mentally stimulating trails; or secure a
spacious, isolated, fenced public space.  Vigorous play, long
retrieves and obedience skills may be incorporated as directed
by client.  Cool down walk, thorough towel rub down and light
groom.  Client log entry.
Your dog should appear contented and settled, and sleep
very soundly the night following ‘an Ultimate
’. 

   Additional Veterinary/Grooming Home Services

 1.   Administer Oral or Topical Medication: $2.00
 2.   Clean Ears: $3.00;                           Difficult: $8.00
 3.   Subcutaneous Injection: $4.00;         Difficult: $9.00
 4.  I.M. Injection: $6.00;                       Difficult: $11.00
 5.   Dry Groom: $16.00
 6.  Clip Nails: $9.00;                            Difficult: $18.00
   
Home Training Services
 *Please remember not to feed your dog the meal before his/her training class!*

  1.   Initial Training Consultation: $90.00; 65 to 90 Minutes

Includes detailed discussion and needs assessment with
owners about dog’s habits, lifestyle, personality, specific
problems and targeting of owner goals.  Family members
will be asked to interact with, request any known basic
obedience behaviors from pet and walk dog on lead to
determine current family (pack) dynamic.. K-9 to 5 trainer
may also handle and elicit obedience responses from dog
during assessment.  A plan of action will be discussed.
Consult customarily 60 to 90 minutes in duration.


  1a.  Temperament Testing: $19.00

In certain circumstances (aggression/biting or extreme
fearfulness) I may ask a client’s permission to perform an
abbreviated Temperament Test on presenting dog. The
Temperament Test will ascertain bite threshold, touch and
sound sensitivity, proclivity toward object and resource
guarding and prognosis for rehabilitation.

 2. Basic Obedience Training Session: $39.00;
No less than 30 minutes.

Training may include both owner and dog, or dog may work
exclusively with K-9 to 5 trainer. Obedience work will focus
on owner defined goals of basic obedience training or
brush-up, or problem-focused behavior management.

 3. Extended Obedience Training Session: $60.00;
55 to 65 minutes.


Training for owner and dog together. May include outdoor
handling instruction and distraction work, basic private
in-home obedience instruction with family members and/or
problem focused behavior management utilizing family
participation.

 4. Obedience Brush-Up Session: $42.00; 40 to 50 Minutes

For dogs who have been obedience trained to the ‘basic’
level or better. Work may be implemented with, or without
owner present. Intervention may be problem focused, or an
obedience refresher.

 5. Puppy Training and Temperament Shaping Session:
$52.00; 
45 Minutes or more

For puppies 8 weeks of age and older.  Focusing on appropriate
play behaviors, bite inhibition, housebreaking, leash manners,
household etiquette, crate training, rudimentary human and
canine socialization, appropriate separation responses and
basic age appropriate obedience skills and commands.  May
also include discussion, feedback from and training for
owner/client.

 6. Problem Focused Training and Temperament Shaping
Session: 
$72.00;  60 Minutes

For clients and their adult dogs who present with a particular
problem or cluster of behaviors they wish to extinguish, redirect
or otherwise ameliorate.

 7. Problem Focused “Red Alert” Training and Temperament
Shaping
Session: $95.00 @ 40 to 60 Minutes as per dog’s
tolerance threshold
.

For clients and their adult dogs, and/or puppies who display
earnest, aggressive behavior, and/or who have directed bites
toward humans and/or other dogs under any number of
circumstances.  Training may involve one, or multi disciplinary
training methodologies, to be determined during the Initial
Evaluation and Temperament Test and agreed upon with the
(human) client.
Transportation and Veterinary Attendance Services:

To and/or From: (Veterinarian, groomer, kennel, day care, with or
without wait and/or participation..)
$22.00 - less than 35 minutes and/or less than 9.5 miles
$38.00 - less than 65 minutes and/or less than 22 miles
$56.00 - less than 95 minutes and/or less than 46 miles

Handling Services
To and/or From Obedience class with handling

 $19.00 - 1 hour obedience class handling. 
(plus travel as itemized above.)  
    
 $70.00 - Competitive handling for Title, pass or fail, one pre-trial
handling session included.

Licensed examiner for CGC, TDI, TT or AKC, ARBA or UKC obedience ‘legs’.
           
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Ordering “Off the Menu”

If there is a service or combination of services not contained
in the K-9 to 5
‘Menu of Services’, please don’t hesitate to share
your comprehensive
pet care requirements with me.  I will be
happy to create a personalized
program to meet your
individual service preferences.

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