Your Source for Dog Training in the Hickory - Lake Norman, Area

Highland Canine Training, LLC is proud to serve Hickory, NC as well as the surrounding communities in the Hickory and Lake Norman areas. At Highland Canine, our dog trainers understand that your dog is a very important part of your life, and that a positive relationship between you and your dog is vital. We know how important it is for you to have a well trained and well behaved dog at home, at the park, or simply taking walks. Highland Canine strives to provide professional dog training and behavior modification programs to accommodate the needs of our clients and their dogs.

Highland Canine dog trainers offer a variety of training and behavior modification programs to fit your needs and your lifestyle. Our trainers utilize proven, humane dog training techniques and methods that get results! At Highland Canine, all of our trainers have years of experience working with dogs of all ages, breeds, sizes and temperaments. Our proven behavior modification programs can eliminate a variety of common dog related concerns and problems such as, jumping, pulling, barking, shyness, fearfullness, housebreaking, snapping and biting, anxiety, fighting and other common forms of aggression.

Highland Canine Training now proudly serves Hickory, Newton, Conover, Gastonia, Lincolnton, Claremont, Longview, Maiden, Hildebran, Bethlehem, Iron Station, Granite Falls, Catawba, Denver, Sherrills Ford and Terrell, NC. We offer a free consultation and evaluation in order to assist you in choosing the best training program for you and your dog.

Please call us locally at or 704.309.6952 and begin making your life with your dog a better life for both of you!

Professional Dog Training

Highland Canine offers a variety of dog training programs to fit not only your needs, but also your lifestyle. We offer a variety of training packages such as Private Lessons, In-Home training, In Kennel Training as well as Group Classes and more. We also offer training for puppies as well as older dogs. Our proven dog training methods will improve the relationship between you and your dog. We offer puppy training, basic on-leash training as well as advanced off-leash training. Our trainers will help you take your dog through all phases of training to ensure that their performance and behavior is reliable in distracting, real world environments. Our goal is not only to train dogs, but to also educate the dog owner on the proper methods of training and continued reinforcement, ensuring that training and good behaviors are maintained for the life of the dog.

Private lessons are designed for clients who do not have the time to attend classes consistently each week. Our private lesson programs bring the class to you. With our private lessons, our trainer serves as a coach to help you teach your dog obedience or to rehabilitate and manage problem behaviors. These classes can be conducted in your home, at a nearby park, or a location of your choosing. This training is usually done in the home to teach the dog to respond in the environment that he naturally lives in. We offer a number of different courses in private lesson format from puppy training, basic obedience, and even off-leash obedience. Private lessons meet once per week for about an hour and are designed to teach the owner how to train their dog(s). We offer affordable options and can work with your schedule to ensure that both you and your dog get the most of the training program. We also offer custom programs and work with multiple dog households.

Our In-Home Training program is designed for that dog owner with a busy lifestyle. We come to your home and train your dog to ensure that they are well mannered members of your family. Our In Home training packages allow our dog trainers an opportunity to work with our clients one-on-one and to observe the dog in its natural environment. In-home training is a great option for dog owners who are too busy to complete the foundation work need to obtain the training results that they are looking for. It is also the perfect training program for dogs that may become highly stressed in kennel environments. Our trainers can teach basic obedience, off-leash obedience or even customize a behavior modification program that can be taught during our In-Home dog training courses.

Our Hickory trainers also offer dog training Group Classes that are a great way to learn how to train your dog in an environment that is established to allow for ideal opportunities for socialization with new people, dogs and a new environment. Our group classes meet weekly and are designed to teach you how to train your dog in obedience and to learn how to manage problematic dog behaviors. With our group dog training classes we offer, puppy class, basic obedience training, off-leash obedience training and behavior modification programs.

We also provide Dog Behavior Modification training to help dog owners solve problems such as: jumping on people, leash pulling, biting, nipping, fears, growling, guarding, dominance, phobias, territorial aggression, fighting and more. We specialize in dog behavior problems and successfully rehabilitate dogs that many other trainers refuse to work with. We also deal with what are considered difficult and hard to train dogs or breeds. Highland Canine Training has a proven reputation of rehabilitating problem behaviors. Our experience with both "common" and unusual behavioral problems allows us the ability to work with frustrated dog owners with the confidence that we can make a difference and allow them to develop a lasting, rewarding relationship with their dog!

Protection Dog Training

Highland Canine Training proudly offers top quality European import personal protection trained dogs for your business, estate or family. Our personal and elite protection dogs are social with children and other household pets and they are impeccably trained in both on and off leash obedience so that you can be assured that they are under complete control at all times. If you are considering adding an extra layer of protection for your home or family, please give us a call. At Highland Canine, our protection dogs come with a two-year health guarantee. We understand that the purchase of a personal protection dog can be a considerable investment and we are dedicated to making sure that you find the right dog for your lifestyle.

Highland Canine offers in-home training with the purchase of any personal protection dog to ensure that you are completely comfortable with handling and maintaining your new dog. We also offer follow-up consultations and training for the life of the dog. Learn more about our Personal Protection Dogs.

Become a Dog Trainer!

Have you ever been Interested in becoming a Dog Trainer? Highland Canine Training, LLC offers a dog training school and certification which will teach you progressive and innovative methods of starting your new dog training career or business. We offer dog training programs that include Basic and Advanced Obedience Training, Detection, Protection, Police Canine Trainer / Instructor and a Search and Rescue Trainer Course. Our dog trainer school is ideal for individuals that not only wish to start their own dog training or pet related business, or for those individuals who want to advance their skills for a dog related career that they are already involved in.