Good Sport Dog Training

Good Sport Dog Training 🐾 Helping your dog become a good sport!
📍 Martinsburg, WV

Ready to build the adventure dog of your dreams? 🐾 Now is a great time to get 20% off all services with back to school s...
08/20/2026

Ready to build the adventure dog of your dreams? 🐾

Now is a great time to get 20% off all services with back to school savings!

Whether you want to learn how to train your dog yourself, have a little help with the heavy lifting, or give your dog an immersive training experience, Good Sport has a path for you.

🐕 Private Lessons
For hands-on owners who want to learn the ins and outs of training their own dog.

🐕‍🦺 Day Training
I do the training work while your dog still comes home to you every night. Available Monday through Friday, with daily photo + video updates and end-of-day debriefs.

🏡 Board & Train
For dogs who need a more immersive experience, with daily training, photo + video updates, and owner lessons built into the program.

And training doesn’t stop at the basics.

As your dog’s skills grow, we can take them out into the real world. On hikes, to patios, swimming, exploring new environments, and learning how to be a Good Sport wherever life takes them.

DM or visit our website to learn more about how we create Good Sports ready to tackle life’s adventures. 🐾

📍 Martinsburg, WV
🌐 www.goodsportdogtraining.com
📩 DM to find the right training path for your dog.

🐾 Free Community Group Hike at the C&O Canal! 🐾Looking for an excuse to get outside with your dog?I started a free month...
08/20/2026

🐾 Free Community Group Hike at the C&O Canal! 🐾

Looking for an excuse to get outside with your dog?

I started a free monthly group walk for local dog owners local to the West Virginia Panhandle area. This month, we’ll meet at the C&O Canal in Sharpsburg, and I’d love for you to join us!

📍 Meet: 16334 Canal Rd Sharpsburg, MD
⏰ September 5th, 10:30am

This is a relaxed, beginner-friendly walk where dogs and their people can enjoy the trail, meet other local dog lovers, and get some enrichment together. No training experience required, just a dog that’s comfortable being around other dogs and people.

As a Professional Dog Trainer and owner of Good Sport Dog Training, I’ll also be happy to answer general training questions along the way if you have them.

As a little bonus, I’ll be bringing my camera and will send everyone complimentary photos of their dog from the hike afterward!

If you’d like to join us, please RSVP to the event link in bio.

Hope to see you there!

Sharing a few images I took on our hike this morning on the C&O canal this morning! Stay tuned for the announcement of n...
08/09/2026

Sharing a few images I took on our hike this morning on the C&O canal this morning! Stay tuned for the announcement of next month’s hike!

We went to Cushwa Brewing for lunch and had a blast! The staff had cookies and the dogs loved them!

If you’d like to join, but don’t feel ready, give us a shout! Building do-anything adventure dogs is what we’re all about at Good Sport!

06/05/2026

Let’s start off the weekend right by sharing something we’re proud of achieving recently!

I’ll go first! Lemmy is my first personal dog that I’ve trained to have front-anchored position changes (in English: She does not move her front feet when she shifts between her stand, sit, and down commands). This is critical to maximizing points in an obedience exercise in her future mondioring career. To me, these positions are impressive, but I will have to keep working hard to make sure they’re rock solid under all of the 3 D’s of dog training - duration, distraction, and distance!

Now, it’s your turn! Share what you’re excited about having achieved with your pup below! 👇

05/26/2026

Hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! We had some fun with our dogs, working at our training goals!! Share what you did below!

05/11/2026

I did a motivation Monday post on my photography business page, so I thought to do one here as well.

My personal dogs train for a sport called mondioring. Shown in this reel is the defense of handler exercise, where the dog must discern and react to a “threat” (a decoy hitting me) and stay neutral to all the trickery a decoy is going to do.

The video starts with my newest dog and flips back to my older dog (and first dog I pursued mondioring wjth). The biggest contrast you’ll see is that the new dog is quiet and the older dog is barking. In mondioring, barking can be a huge waste of energy, and it can cost the dog their attentiveness. When I first started training this exercise, I didn’t know how to create calm focus… so my dog resorted to barking.

Just like pet owners, trainers have things they’re working on. And sometimes it’s hard to see the progress in your own understanding… but if you stay grounded in a growth mindset, and practice some reflection, you might be surprised how far you’ve come!!!

05/08/2026

Doing something a little different here: no fun audio, or flashy editing!

Here’s the first session of my dog learning to go through a hoop. For context, this is a new-to-me dog, without a lot of experience with shaping. She arrived just over 6 months ago non responsive to the clicker, so part of my prerequisite work was to charge the clicker. I also use bowls a lot in my foundational training, so another pre-requisite was that she would approach a bowl on her own.

I use shaping a lot in my foundational training because I like a dog who thinks on their own. It’s especially helpful for less confident dogs because they learn to control their environment and the consequences they experience.

Before recording the session, I stood near the hoop without bowls. She got into heel position and stared at me 😂 and was not inclined to offer other behaviors. For that reason, I placed the bowls to give her a focal point, and myself a target to throw her kibble rewards. I clicked for looking at the hoop initially, but very quickly progressed to clicking for momentum in movement towards the hoop, with my tosses drawing her all the way through. Then I shifted to clicking as her body made its way through the hoop.

My assistant, Alex, who I was so fortunate to have helped me start to remove the bowls with a ping-pong approach between reps. There was one rep where she didn’t perform the behavior and I withheld the click. But miss smarty pants figured it out quick!

Have you tried shaping with your dog? Share your wins or points of confusion below, if you’re so inclined! 👇

03/23/2026

Dog sports are one of the best ways to work with your dog toward a complex set of goals. They push you to grow as an owner, and challenge your dog to think, adapt, and perform.

My primary sport is mondioring, but I also cross-train in others like scentwork and agility. While the exercises look very different, all of these sports build the same core traits:

🌟 Athleticism
🌟 Fitness
🌟 Teamwork
🌟 Independence
🌟 Tolerance to pressure
🌟 Control
🌟 Problem-solving

These are the traits that create dogs who are capable, adaptable, and ultimately Good Sports. 😜

Whether it’s sport obedience, flyball, agility, nosework, dock diving, or protection sports… there’s something out there for every dog.

👇 Tell us below: what sport(s) do you do (or want to try) with your dog?

03/18/2026

Dogs are built to follow scents, navigate varying terrain, and explore the world around them.

So, why limit them to the same familiar spaces?

With the right training and by careful location selection, most dogs can safely experience the world off lead, and without disturbing wildlife or other people.

That kind of freedom isn’t just a nice to have.
It’s part of building a capable, safe, and adaptable dog.

Reliable off-leash behavior doesn’t happen by accident. It’s our responsibility as owners to teach it.

03/16/2026

It’s time for a weekend recap with our Good Sports!

We kept ourselves busy by:

✨ Making time for snuggles
🦅 Soaring to new heights
😎 Not taking ourselves too seriously
👌 Making room for breed-specific fulfillment
👃 Trying some new hobbies (scent work)
🤗 Meeting up with some friends - both new and long-standing

This is what being a *Good Sport* is all about: building teamwork, new skills, and expanding the life you and your dog share together.

Now it’s your turn: tell us what YOU did with your good sport this weekend!👇

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