App Profile: Gentle Beast - Puppy Training

Gentle Beast is a certified puppy trainer, in your pocket.

With personalized and predictive advice delivered each week, tens of thousands of training paths, and access to the country's best certified trainers and canine health professionals, Gentle Beast trains you to unleash the good in your dog. Great for new puppy owners, we build a completely custom training plan for you and your dog based on your puppy's behavioral profile, your lifestyle, and your goals – and our team of certified trainers and veterinary health professionals are there to support you along the way.

PUPPY TRAINING RE-DEFINED

Gentle Beast takes the best of working with an in-person certified trainer, and makes it more accessible, affordable, and engaging. We've re-imagined the puppy training experience from the ground up.

• Predictive guidance and advice delivered at your dog’s key developmental milestones
• Several thousand personalized training paths
• Mobile-first learning modules designed to be used while training
• Bite-sized instructional content breaks down complex cues so you can take it at your own pace
• Weekly training workshops emulate the same experience and pacing you'd have with a certified trainer
• Holistic approach to behavior, with guidance around training, nutrition, wellness, enrichment, and more
• Equipment, products, and services curated and tested by certified trainers available for purchase

PREDICTIVE MILESTONES


As your puppy grows, we’ll deliver personalized guidance on behavior, wellness, and useful products for your dog at each key developmental milestone – so you’ll never have to wonder about what to work on next.

• Delivered via push notifications and email at each key milestones
• Get appropriate courses, workshops, and games
• Understand your dog’s current health and wellness needs

GENTLE BEAST EXPERT ADVICE

Get the support you need with direct access to certified trainers and behavior professionals, all in the app. Every subscriber gets unlimited access to training advice, so you can ask as many questions as you want!

• Learn alongside other puppy owners
• Attend local meetups
• Receive advice, challenges, and feedback

1:1 PERSONAL CONSULTATIONS

When you need a little more support, you can always book a private session with a 1:1 certified trainer.

• Trainer consultations leverage what your behavior profile to give tailored advice
• All handled through Zoom
• Schedule ahead of time and receive tips on how to prepare for the session

WHAT YOU CAN LEARN

Gentle Beast provides in-depth courses that cover everything you need to know and learn with your puppy, all taught by certified trainers and behavior consultants.

• Health and Nutrition: Multiple workshops covering basic veterinary care, spay and neutering, enrichment, sleep and exercise, and more
• Foundational Skills: Core cues to use in dog training: sit, down, place, stay, plus level ups for more advanced training
• House Training: Leverage potty pads, going outside, and even train your dog to ring a bell when they need to go
• Impulse Control: Reduce problem behaviors and prevent them from happening in the first place
• Recall: Train your dog to come when called, and even level it up to use a whistle
• Bite Inhibition: Tools, tips, and guidance to dealing with a mouthy dog, and how to prevent aggression
• Leash Walking: Several workshops on how to succeed in loose leash walking, even with a reactive dog
• Socialization: Multiple workshops dedicated to acclimating your dog to other dogs, people, children, objects, and environments specific to where you live
• Crate Training: Deep dive into crate training, and how to leverage it – even if you don't plan on using one at home

ABOUT GENTLE BEAST

Gentle Beast only employs humane methods of dog training, and abides by LIMA (limited invasive, least aversive) training principles. All Gentle Beast trainers are certified by the CCPDT, with several having CDBC, Fear Free Certified, VSPDT, and more.