Price bands · US · indicative

What help for an anxious or reactive dog costs, top to bottom.

Ordered by price, not by what we would like you to buy. Two of these tiers are better than ours for specific situations, and those situations are named.

Veterinary behaviourist (DACVB or equivalent)

$300+ per consultation, often more for the first

Diagnosis, medical rule-out, prescribing, and a treatment plan from someone who has seen your dog. The only tier that can tell you whether pain, thyroid disease or a urinary problem is driving this.

Right choice whenBite history. Sudden onset in an adult dog. Self-injury. Anything where a medical cause is plausible. This is not the expensive version of a trainer — it is a different profession.

Certified separation-anxiety trainer

$515–750 for a four-week package

Daily or near-daily live coaching through real absences, usually over video, from someone who works on this one problem.

Right choice whenSevere separation anxiety, and you want a human watching the absences with you. This is the gold standard for the problem and it is the reason a hundred-dollar written plan can look cheap.

Local behaviour consultant, in person

$100–300 per session

Eyes on your actual dog in your actual home or street, and hands-on help with mechanics.

Right choice whenAnything you cannot describe well in writing, and any case where you want somebody accountable in the room.

Live-video training subscription

around $30 per week, ongoing

A real trainer over video on a weekly cadence.

Right choice whenYou want accountability more than you want a document. Watch the total: a year of this is more than any one-off on this page.

A written plan built for your dog

$99, or $149 with a revision round

A week-by-week programme assembled from a sourced protocol library for your dog, your street and your schedule, read and corrected by a person before it reaches you.

Right choice whenYou have consumed the free material and what you are missing is decisions rather than information. No live coaching, and we refuse the cases that need it.

Online course

$49–99 one-time

Structured instruction in a named method.

Right choice whenYou have not yet learned the method and you are comfortable applying it to your own dog yourself.

Free protocols, wikis and video

$0

Genuinely good material, in many mutually contradictory versions.

Right choice whenAlways start here. If you can choose between the contradictions and stay consistent for eight weeks, you do not need to spend anything.

The part nobody prices

Why does this end up costing more than the quote?

Behaviour work is a journey rather than an appointment. The first consultation is rarely the last, and the published per-session price is the part people budget for. Whatever tier you choose, assume eight to sixteen weeks of effort and plan the money around the whole run rather than the first visit.

Find out which tier your dog actually needs.

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