Specialized Training For Toronto's City Dogs
What we believe
Why Choose Us
Commitment To Positive Solutions
Our methods always support dogs and humans through kindness, respect for individuality, and joyful, effective learning.
Championing Potential in Every Rescue Dog
Empowering rescue dogs to build trust, confidence, and thrive in city life.
Relationship-First Training
Building trust and connection for dogs and their humans through every step of your training journey to assure your individual goals are met.
Expert Support for Real City Dog Challenges
Expert guidance for real-life city dogs and the humans who love them.
What We Do
The City Dog Programs
City Dogs programs delivers expert training and custom behavior solutions designed for real life—helping urban dogs and their people thrive.
Our Pillars
Values That Guide Us
Insight
We dig deep to uncover the root cause of behaviors, giving dogs and their owners a clear path to success.
Motivation
By tapping into what truly drives each dog, we create training experiences that inspire progress and lasting change.
Engagement
Training should be exciting! We make learning fun, effective, and rewarding for both dogs and their humans.
Community
We’re more than trainers—we’re a support system, building strong connections between dogs, owners, and their community.
"Learning is the heartbeat of life’s adaptation to ever-changing circumstances, and your dog is no exception to its influence." -Kim Brophey
Professionally Trained +Cerified
Recommended By Professionals
Award Winning Company
Customized training that meets you and your dog needs and goals.
What We Love
Making City Dogs Happy
With over 20 years of experience, City Dogs has developed unique programs
grounded in three core teaching approaches: real-world readiness, relationship-based training, and community connection.
Private Lessons
We dig deep to uncover the root cause of behaviors, giving dogs and their owners a clear path to success.
Group/Solo Classes
By tapping into what truly drives each dog, we create training experiences that inspire progress and lasting change.
Workshop/Webinars
Training should be exciting! We make learning fun, effective, and rewarding for both dogs and their humans.
Testimonials
Our clients gave us their trust, and this is what
they say about our programs.
Andrea is amazing at honing in on your dog’s needs and giving you concrete “homework” and activities to take away from your in-person sessions. We started working with Andrea just over 2 weeks after adopting our 2 year old rescue, Walter, who was exhibiting very anxious and what seemed like aggressive behaviours on leash and around the city. After the first session, Andrea figured out that Walter was in fact VERY anxious and was not actually aggressive but just sensitive to physical touch and personal space. She helped identify his triggers and signs of anxiety on walks so that we could work on turning them into positive experiences. In about 4 sessions, Andrea set us up with the tools we needed to help reduce Walter’s (and our own!) leash anxieties and drastically improve his leash-walking and social skills in the city. She helped us understand our dog and how to read his body language, but most importantly how to act on it which ultimately has lead to a much more content and relaxed dog both at home and in the city. Highly recommend City Dogs for in-person sessions! Thanks Andrea!
Jennifer & Walter,
Toronto
We are new dog parents, and have found the experience of working with Andrea on training our young puppy truly transformative. Our puppy is happy, super well adjusted, and easygoing. At 3 months, she’s already an expert sidewalk walker (did 3k on busy streets at rush hour yesterday without a hitch), loves the park, plays nice with our kids, and shows no signs of aggression. She’s fully crate trained, responds to basic commands, and is able to regulate her boundless energy and redirect when needed. This is all no doubt largely thanks to Andrea’s early intervention, saving us from lots of rookie mistakes.
Natalie & Noche,
Toronto
In most human professions and trades with knowledge and practice comes excellence. if additionally, the person loves their job, you have all the factors together to preform at the highest possible level. Andrea Dinan has the knowledge and practice and loves to train dogs so her job is also a hobby for her, and you can watch the light in her eyes when she is with a dog or training them.
Esther & Luna,
Toronto
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