About Us
Pawsitive Pups Academy is owned and operated by Ashlee Osborn, a certified professional dog trainer with over 10 years of experience caring for and training dogs and their people. Ashlee is a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner, Family Dog Mediator and Aggression in Dogs Master Course graduate. She continues to pursue education by attending classes, workshops and conferences as well as training and competing in a variety of activities with her personal dogs.
Ashlee got her start in studying behavior while managing a dog daycare and boarding facility and attempting to find ways to reduce conflict and improve behavioral wellness with her daycare clients’ dogs. In addition to coaching pet owners and other trainers, she also helps daycare facility owners incorporate enrichment and training into their daycare programs and offers mobile daycare services to a select group of clients in the Omaha area.
We offer a variety of virtual and in person services to fit your unique needs
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We offer private sessions, day training and enrichment daycare in the Omaha, Nebraska area.
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Check out the on-demand webinars, sign up for upcoming virtual events, book a private video session or sign up for the membership for tons of cool perks.
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Do you own or manage a dog daycare or boarding facility? Let me help you take your facility to the next level by creating a custom plan on how you can implement a training and enrichment program that perfectly suits your unique facility.
Click here for more information on the Dog Daycare Done Better program
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The Pawsitive Pups
Training Philosophy
We follow the LIMA (least intrusive, minimally aversive) training model. This means we start by exploring and meeting each dog’s basic needs - making sure they are both mentally and physically healthy and fulfilled. From there we develop an active management plan that prevents unwanted behavior from happening in the first place and use positive reinforcement training techniques to teach the dog what we do want them to do instead. Our training plans focus heavily on what we call “default behaviors.” Instead of micromanaging our dogs with obedience commands, we aim to create good habits through reinforcement, teaching them what to do based on context cues. For instance, teaching our dogs to offer a “down” when we’re sitting on the couch watching TV or to check in regularly during off leash hikes - even if we haven’t called their name.
For reactivity and aggression treatment, we combine simple management games to prevent your dog from barking or growling in situations they aren’t prepared for, while working through sub-threshold exposure with an eventual goal of being able to exist comfortably in the presence of their triggers without being told what to do.
Our training plans always take the humans into account. We will never shame or blame you for your dog’s behavior and will work with you to create lifestyle changes that actually fit into your day to day. Do you struggle to find time to train? Find yourself losing your temper with your dog? Feel overwhelmed and need a break? Our training plans include coping strategies and mental wellness plans for the human end of the leash, too.