WELCOME TO FAMILY PUPZ
Our mission is to help you build the most fun, stress-free and rewarding relationship with your dog.
We specialize in providing the most current, force-free and positive dog training and doggy doula® services, personally-tailored for you, your family, and your dog!
Whether you are a new puppy parent, just adopted a new dog, your adult dog needs a skills refresher, or you are dealing with behavioral issues, such as leash reactivity or separation anxiety, we are here to help!
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HOW WE CAN HELP
Our certified head trainer, Tanya Lim, CPDT-KA, has carefully crafted our digital courses combining years of experience with modern video lessons in order to provide you with all the tools you need in order to achieve success with your dog’s training!
This service aims to set your growing puppy up for success for life at home. We’ll work on potty training and crate training, teaching appropriate chewing behaviors, alone time, recall skills, mastering basic manners, and much much more.
This service is ideal for newly-adopted dogs and dogs who need a refresher on their basic obedience skills. We’ll teach your dog to listen and pay attention to you, master polite behaviors — both inside and out in public, and build a closer relationship through two-way communication between you and your dog.
We offer private support for expecting families in order to help them prepare their dog for the changes that are bound to occur. We offer positive, practical, and fun solutions that will help integrate and include the family dog in the new household dynamic and routine once the baby arrives. Our goal is to help ease your transition from dog parents to baby parents with a dog.
We offer group puppy socialization and training classes twice a month at Goodheart Animal Health Center on S. Broadway in Denver, CO! We have a class for puppies between 9-16 weeks of age, as well as one for puppies between the age of 17 weeks and 6 months of age. Our goal is to give your pupz the invaluable opportunity to play and interact with one another while we cover the most important aspects of successful positive reinforcement puppy training!
“Tanya was so good with my 1-year-old pup. She took time to gauge our needs and opportunities for improvement and tailored the training accordingly. She was very flexible about timing and training location also. Would highly recommend!”
-Jeffrey S.
“The Family Pupz team has been excellent to work with and super helpful! A great dog-training option in Denver!”
-Alexander R.
“I adopted a shelter puppy who turned out to be hyperactive to the point of being unmanageable. Tanya came in and identified exactly what we needed to work on, and was so helpful in not only training Finn, but in teaching me how to train too! …”
-Rachel R.
“I've had my blue heeler for nearly 3 years. She was reactive, often lunging at cars/people/other dogs. I talked to our vet about it and they recommended Family Pupz. With Tanya's help Tuna totally turned it around. She is less reactive, can pass dogs + people without barking/lunging and just seems overall less anxious…”
-Martha U.
“Tanya is the BEST trainer in Denver. I adopted a 7 year old yorkie with severe anxiety, potty training issues and behavioral problems. I hired another trainer before Tanya and didn’t see any results with them. The potty training issues were the biggest thing that I wanted help with because I tried EVERYTHING: potty pads, crates, grass pads, medication, and even a dog litter box…”
-Danielle P.
“Tanya is everything I hoped I would be able to find in a dog trainer and more. I found Family Pupz through their puppy socialization classes, and knew immediately that I wanted to work with Tanya for 1:1 training with my bernadoodle puppy Mason. Before working with Tanya, Mason loved to eat anything/everything off the ground and jumped up on every person and dog he saw when we were out on walks…”
-Rachel R.
“I highly recommend Tanya for all of your dog training needs! She has been incredibly helpful for us and was always so supportive, empathetic, and encouraging. She follows up every session with very detailed notes and sometimes videos, so I always felt set up for success practicing the training on my own….”
-Annalise Y.
“Tanya helped my dachshund go from reactive and unresponsive to calm and attentive. She taught me strategies to change Frankie's reaction and emotions when seeing or walking past another dog. I did not think we could actually get to the point of being able to walk past another dog without him barking and lunging…”
-Meg M.
“Tanya was an amazing trainer! My pup Chicken and I had just moved to Denver. This brought leash reactivity and anxiety about the big city. Tanya was patient with both Chicken and I to find a training plan that worked for us. After just six sessions, Chicken feels more comfortable walking in the busy neighborhood and stays by my side when walking past other dogs. Thank you Tanya for helping us to feel more confident in our new home!”
-Rebecca A.
“Tanya is a wonderful trainer. When I was in Colorado she helped me out at the animal shelter alot and since I have enjoyed her online courses”
-Ahmia B.
“Tanya has been amazing at guiding us through puppyhood with our puppy Ollie! Tanya is always very professional, kind, patient and responsive with us and our puppy and she always takes special care in recognizing and taking into account the training we’ve done and other solutions we’ve tried. She helps us break up “the big problems” and work out smaller, easy to do and understand steps…”
-Sarah K.
“Highly recommend Tanya's training classes. So far I have only done one class, and my puppy is so much well behaved. Very knowledagble and skilled in what she teaches. If you have a puppy or older dog that needs training I highly recommend you bring him/her to Tanya”
-Sabrina S.
“This class is awesome! So organized, informative, fun and friendly environment. So glad we got into these small personal classes. Well worth it! Tanya and Charles are so helpful and honestly some of the kindest people I’ve met in Denver: compared to other puppy socialization classes we tried previously this class is the best.”
-Maggie G.
“I had a great experience with Tanya. My blind dog got attacked by another dog in the park over a year ago and has had unpredictable aggression towards some other dogs ever since. Tanya worked with me to teach Lulu to stay and come, and taught me how to slowly introduce her to other dogs…”
-Dayna S.
“Tanya Lim is an amazing dog trainer and totally helped our little puppy become his best self. During the puppy training course we worked on all sorts of things from basic manners to loose leash walking to troubleshooting nipping issues…”
-Allison C.
“Tanya is incredible! She is extremely knowledgable, skilled, and passionate in her work. She listened thoroughly to what our wants and needs were for our dog during the initial consultation…”
-Ryan D.
“Working with Tanya was amazing! She is truly a dog whisperer and helped my dog with his human anxiety and barking tendencies. I would recommend Tanya to everyone….”
-Miriam B.
“We’ve had several sessions with Tanya for our fearful dog and she’s amazing. Even during our consultation session I was left impressed with her knowledge and professionalism compared to other trainers…“
-Hannah S.
"Tanya was amazing helping me with Zeke! When we first met, she took the time to really get to know us and what I was looking to work on with him. She is very responsive and helped out when I had questions between sessions…”
-Kimberly B.
“5 STARS!!! I came across Tanya and her business when I was looking for someone who would be flexible with my work schedule and was able to work with my pup even when I wasn't home. Tanya was so fast in responding and I met with her the next day and absolutely fell in love with her personality and her work ethic. …”
-Callie G.
"Thank you to Family Pupz for giving me and my pup the tools to grow and learn from each other! Tanya is so talented, adaptable and knowledgeable. Two paws up!"
-Brittany J.
“Working with Tanya and Family Pupz is the best decision I’ve made as a new puppy parent. It’s an investment of time and money, but that’s a part of being a parent and it’s what you’ve signed up for already by bringing home a new friend…”
-David K.
“Tanya was amazing to work with! I saw incredible results with my puppy french bulldog after working with Tanya for 6 weeks. I highly recommend working with her. Thank you, Tanya!”
-Haley V.
“I was referred to Tanya by an overwhelming amount of recommendations from an online moms group. I had a new baby and my dog, Miah was almost impossible to walk on a leash due to excessive pulling and a mean squirrel obsession. I couldn’t even walk her on my own let alone with my other dog and a stroller until we met Tanya…”
-Brittany M.
“We hired Family Pupz for their Doggy Doula service and we couldn't be more happy with our choice to do so! Tanya brought us much needed peace-of-mind as we prepared to welcome our first human baby to our family. Thank you, Tanya! Carlos and Tino adore you!”
-Lexi S.
“Tanya was a great trainer to work with! She gave me the tools to help my reactive dog and found what worked for us.”
-Rachel M.
“Tanya was fantastic! My wife and I got a new puppy, and were in need of training. We reached out to Tanya at Family Pupz (through a good friend/happy referral), and we couldn't be more pleased! Lambeau has shown tremendous progress over the past 8 weeks, and is now well trained and behaves like an angel :) I strongly recommend Tanya…”
-Matt S.
“We met with Tanya very quickly after an incident with my dog and our toddler. He's an anxious dog and started to get protective of certain spaces in the house and would growl at our toddler if she got too close. Tanya helped us identify his stressors…”
-Madison M.
“I reached out to Tanya with Family Pupz for help for my dog, Nico. My dog had some issues on the leash, basic commands, and had some serious separation anxiety. Tanya was incredibly helpful addressing these issues and building up his confidence…”
-Olivia W.
“Tanya helped working with my little puppy on some of the basic manners. We were able to get him to improve greatly on jumping and loose leash walking and have continued with the training given on our own to further his skills. One thing that was very helpful is she provided handouts that contained a summary of all the information…”
-Matt S.
WHY CHOOSE FAMILY PUPZ?
Love: Our certified professional dog trainer (CPDT-KA) LOVES what she does!
Convenience: We work around your life and your busy schedule.
Ease: We come directly to your home.
Flexibility: We can teach you to train your dog, or we can train your dog for you!
Results: We create lasting change.
Speed: Our goal is to have your dog trained in no time!
Peace of Mind: Our certified dog trainer uses only the most current, science-based and positive training methods.
Reliability: We're always communicative and respectful of your time.
Support: We provide continuous support even after graduation.
Fun: We're always planning fun and exclusive events around town for you and your dog!