Science-based gentle, effective positive reinforcement training for dogs.
Our trainers are all certified professionals with years of experience teaching people and their dogs. We also do behavior consultations to help you modify your dogs unwanted behaviors, including fear and aggression. Pat Miller is the author of 6 books on dog behavior and training, and an internationally acclaimed seminar speaker. We also board horses and have an indoor riding arena.
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Interview Q&A
How long have you been in business?
21 years
What is your primary product or service?
Dog Training and Behavior Services; Academies for Dog Trainers; Horse Boarding
How did you first become interested in your line of business? (if owner) - What is your background? (If owner or store manager)
I have known since I was a small child that my life would be about working with animals. After two years of studying veterinary medicine I opted instead for a career in animal protection. I worked for 20 years at the Marin humane society in Novato, California (1976 to 1996) and then established Peaceable Paws in 1996. I am a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and Certified Behavior Consultant, Canine, through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. In 2015 I was named by Dog Fancy Magazine to be one of 45 people who have changed the dog world.
How do you differentiate yourself from other businesses in your category and area?
First of all, I am one of the leading force-free trainers in the country, perhaps the world. We use science-based methods that do not coerce, intimidate or cause pain to our clients' dogs. I am the author of 8 highly regarded books on dog training and behavior, and am training editor for the Whole Dog Journal. Trainers come from around the world to learn from us.
How many locations do you have and do you have plans to expand?
We have one location, although I speak and do seminars and workshops worldwide.
Provide detailed directions to your location
From east of Hagerstown
Take Interstate 70 west from Frederick MD.
Take exit 29A/ State Highway 65/Sharpsburg Pike south
About 5 miles to State Rd 63/Spielman Rd …. Go right
This road is narrow and winding
About one mile to 17816; long gravel lane on right – look for Peaceable Paws and Pastures sign
Driveway will split – go left to barn area (house will be on your right); training center is in the metal barn – please park across from the double doors.
From west of Hagerstown
Take Interstate 70 east toward Frederick MD
Take exit 29A/ State Highway 65/ Sharpsburg Pike south
About 5 miles to State Rd 63/Spielman Rd …. Go right
This road is narrow and winding
About one mile to 17816; long gravel lane on right – look for Peaceable Paws and Pastures sign
Driveway will split – go left to barn area (house will be on your right) ); training center is in the metal barn – please park across from the double doors.
From north of Hagerstown
Interstate 81 south
Interstate 70 east toward Frederick
About 5 miles to exit 29A/ State Highway 65/ Sharpsburg Pike south
About 5 miles to State Rd 63/Spielman Rd …. Go right
This road is narrow and winding
About one mile to 17816; long gravel lane on right – look for Peaceable Paws and Pastures sign
Driveway will split – go left to barn area (house will be on your right); training center is in the metal barn – please park across from the double doors.
From south of Hagerstown
Interstate 81 north
Interstate 70 east toward Frederick
About 5 miles to exit 29A/ State Highway 65/ Sharpsburg Pike south
About 5 miles to State Rd 63/Spielman Rd …. Go right
This road is narrow and winding
About one mile to 17816; long gravel lane on right – look for Peaceable Paws and Pastures sign
Driveway will split – go left to barn area (house will be on your right); training center is in the metal barn – please park across from the double doors.
What type of payments do you accept?
We accept cash, checks and credit cards
Which areas do you service?
We serve the Universe. Seriously - trainers have come from as far away as Japan, Brazil, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United Arab Republic to study with us. Closer to home, clients for our group classes come from all over Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and my private clients come from all over the Eastern United States.
Who owns your company or runs daily operations?
I do. (Pat Miller, CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA)
What are your hours of operation?
Our hours vary depending on what we are doing. Our group classes are usually weekday evenings; our private consults are usually scheduled during weekday days, and out academies and workshop include full weeks and weekends.
What is the best compliment anyone can give you?
I helped them understand and have a better relationship with their dog.
What is your favorite quote or Bible verse?
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod