Dog and puppy training — lessons with a dog trainer
Dog training is for a puppy learning its first commands and for an adult dog that pulls on the leash, doesn't come when called or lunges at other dogs. Describe what worries you in an order — dog trainers will send responses. Or compare lesson prices and client reviews yourself.
Dog trainers
How much dog training costs
What affects the price
A lesson or a full course
Some dog trainers set a price per lesson, others for a course of several lessons, such as a basic obedience course or a puppy program.
Where the lessons take place
A trainer's visit to your home often costs more than a lesson at their training field, because travel is added; an online consultation is a separate format with its own price.
One-on-one or in a group
A group lesson at a training field usually costs less than an individual one, but the trainer gives each dog less attention.
Difficult behavior
Teaching a puppy its first commands is simpler than working with an adult dog that lunges at people or dogs: that work takes longer and needs more experience.
Support between lessons
Homework, answering questions by messenger and feedback on videos of your walks may be included in the course price or paid for separately.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a dog trainer
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a dog trainer
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Experience with what you need
Teaching a puppy its first commands, working with aggression and protection training are different skills. Ask which dogs and problems the trainer has already worked with.
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How the trainer works with the dog
Ask how the trainer motivates the dog — with treats, play or praise — and whether they use a prong collar or punishment. Choose an approach you are comfortable with.
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Getting to know the dog first
It is a good sign when the trainer first watches how the dog behaves at home and on a walk, asks about its routine and only then suggests a lesson plan.
- 4
The owner learns too
Skills are reinforced every day between lessons, so ask whether the trainer will teach you as well: how to give commands, when to reward and what to do on a walk.
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No one-week promises
Be wary of guarantees like “an obedient dog in a week”: the result depends on the dog, the task and how regularly you practice.
What to put in the order
Breed and age of the dog, how long it has lived with you
What the dog can already do and whether it has trained with a dog trainer before
What you need: first commands, an obedience course or behavior correction
What worries you: pulling on the leash, barking, lunging at people or dogs, biting
Where you would like to train: at home, at a training field or online, one-on-one or in a group
How many times a week and on which days you can practice
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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