Professional Dog Trainers in Columbus Ohio
We’re dog people, just like you!
Let us help you teach your dog as the only entirely positive-reinforcement dog training program based in Gahanna, Ohio! We teach your dog to understand working with you leads to everything that they want in life through positive, clicker based treat training! To us, dog training is so much more than a profession, it’s our mission to help every pup love living a full life with their owners!
Work with a trainer you can trust to treat your dog like one of their own!
Reale Dog Training Mission
We help your dog live its best life! Dogs are truly man’s best friends, and we want to help your pup live a fulfilled life and empower you to bring them everywhere so you can build a strong life-lasting human-animal bond!
Meet the Reale Dog Training Team!
Phil Reale, KPA CTP
Phil is a certified training partner from the Karen Pryor Academy! Phil started training pups in 2006 through volunteering in The Ohio State Universities Puppy Kindergarten classes. After working with the OSU animal behaviorists Phil found his love of dog training and has never looked back.
Phil has helped Animal Care Center at Cherry Way build a behavioral department since 2010. With over 17 years of experience, Phil understands the struggles the average pet owner experiences, and proactively helps prevent unwanted behaviors before they ever form! To Phil it’s all about improving the relationship with an owner and their dog!
AKC CGC Certified Instructor
Sarah Sams
Manager
As a Columbus native, Sarah has always loved dogs and the relationships built by integrating a pup into everyday family life! Sarah loves helping owners build that human-animal bond through clear channels of communication. Sarah finds working with the board and train clients the most rewarding, and helping owners choose what program will be best suited for their dog. It’s incredible how Reale Dog Training can help change a pup parent’s life in just one or two weeks!
AKC CGC Certified Instructor
Leah DeShon, KPA CTP
Lead Trainer
Leah started her pet career as a dog walker! After teaching so many dogs to walk with a loose leash, Leah knew she could help more pups than just her usual customers. Now Leah helps clients with dog aggression, basic obedience, or reactivity through teaching rewarding educational puppy classes and leading the training for Board & Train! Leah has graduated from the Karen Pryor Academy.
AKC CGC Certified Instructor
Kirsten Carver
Marketing
Kirsten joined the Reale Dog Training Team in 2020 as our Marketing Professional. She captures absolutely adorable moments and every picture, video and infographic you see is her work! She is also the creator of all of the Reale Dog Training Merchandise. With Kirsten’s help, we can showcase the benefits of positive reinforcement training! The dogs in class love to see Kirsten coming with her camera because they know it means lots of tasty treats. Kirsten is a graduate of Ohio University. She is obsessed with her bunny named Cinnabun and her dog Milo.
Selena Schaney
Trainer
Selena always wanted to work with animals. Growing up there was never a time in her life when she didn’t have a pet to take care of. She is a 2022 graduate of The Graham School. Selena originally wanted to be a Veterinarian Technician, but in her senior year of high school she interned at Reale Dog Training. “I never thought I would find such a perfect job for me,” she says. Though it is very challenging at times, the support system at Reale Dog Training has helped her to overcome any challenges and become a better professional dog trainer. She was officially hired in June of 2022. She will begin her studies to become a Certified Training Partner of Karen Pryor Academy of Professional Dog Trainers in 2023.
Beamer, KPA CTP
Mentor Dog
Beamer started working with Phil in 2019 after 5 different trainers couldn’t understand how to communicate with him. Now that Beamer works at Reale Dog Training, he mentors dogs on how to behave in scary situations and works cases with Phil to help dogs that are reactive to other dogs. Beamer used to be reactive to other dogs too, but Phil taught him from the ground up that other dogs are not so scary. It’s hard work but some-doggy has to do it!
We understand dog training can be frustrating, that’s why we are here to help.
Dog training is a process of understanding the pups emotional state, body language and reinforcing appropriate behavior. In turn, the dog learns how to understand and communicate with you. Our expert trainers will help create a life lasting human-animal bond that will keep both ends of the leash working together to create perfection in training.
KPA CTP Certified Trainers
Consults with The Ohio State University Veterinary Behaviorists for In-Depth Cases
17 Years of Dog Training Experience
The ONLY Board & Train program in Columbus that exclusively uses positive reinforcement training and has veterinarians on site
Teaching your dog to listen is simple!
Schedule a Consultation
Tell us about your dog, your goals and your progress. This will enable us to determine the best program for your dog!
Choose the Right Package
From the completely hands off board & train package to you teaching your dog in group classes, we offer every level of involvement to fit your lifestyle.
Love Life with Your Dog
After training with us, you will have better lines of communication with your dog and be comfortable integrating them into your everyday life.
Happy Pet Parent Stories
We love reinventing how our clients live their lives with their pups!
“As much as we love our dogs, we were having major issues with their behavior that we could not get under control. Having tried a few dog trainers, reading countless articles on the internet, and virtually everything else, we could not find a solution to improve their behavior. Whether it was jumping on people, asset guarding, incessant barking, urinating in the house, and/or the potential to bite, we were at a complete loss.
A friend referred us to Phil Reale, owner of Reale Dog Training. At first I was reluctant, as we had tried other recommended trainers, yet with our situation I was willing to give it “one last shot”.
From the onset, I noticed an immediate difference in Phil’s process compared to other trainers. The initial meeting was consultation and evaluation. Following Phil’s assessment of our dogs “issues”, he mapped out a detailed plan to address and correct our dog’s behavior.
Our dogs have made incredible progress over the past 3 months. Phil’s plan, coupled with ongoing training which he taught us, has resulted an incredible change in our dog’s behavior. Again, Phil takes the time to create a detailed plan to address each situation. I am incredibly happy with the progress our dogs have made in a relatively short period of time. If you follow Phil Reale’s process you will get the same exceptional results with your dog(s).”
Greg Williams