Inspire - Empower - Transform

Your lifelong journey with your pooch partner begins here

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Pooch Partners

Dogs are a lifetime commitment and we are  with you for the entire journey. From foundation programs for puppies to life skills for dogs all ages,  behaviour consults for any serious issues, self-study courses, pack walks, hikes, weight pulling,  fitness for you and your pooch, dog sports, trick, stunt and animal actor training, we have everything you need to build and maintain an amazing relationship with your canine companion.  Our Academy will inspire and empower you with a library of games and resources available to you 24/7/365.  As a licenced Whole Energy Body Balance (WEBB) Bodywork and Energywork practitioner, we can help with silent pain that an estimated 50% of pets suffer, particularly as they age. From puppyhood to senior years, we are here to help make every day enriching for both you and your canine companion. 

Your  lifelong journey with your pooch partner begins here!

Our  Services

Something for everyone

Life Skills Program

You want your puppy/dog to be a central part of your life, but they’re struggling.  This program is designed to bring relief to both you and your dog while having

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Private Training

Need help with a specific problem or prefer private over group training? No problem, as we are happy to offer private 1-on-1 training.

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Home Alone Program

Get your life back.  Free yourself and your dog from separation anxiety with our innovative Home Alone program offered by a certified SA Pro.

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Treat-Retreat Program

Feeling frustrated, embarrassed, disappointed, and maybe even angry due to your dog’s fear of people? As a certified Treat-Retreat program trainer, we can help.

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Canicross & Mushing

Canicross is a great year-round activity to keep you and your pooch healthy and enjoying the outdoors. Plus it is a great way to prepare for faster moving mushing sports.

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Scent Detection

Perfect activity for all dogs as they all have an incredible sense of smell. Our training covers everything you need to just enjoy searches at home or to pursue competing.

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Dynamic Dog Assessment

Our dogs suffer silently with pain and it can contribute to your dog’s behaviour.  A Dynamic Dog Assessment can help identify the potential source of pain to assist your veterinarian

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Intro to Weight Pulling

This one-hour session will introduce you and your pooch to the amazing sport of weight pulling. All equipment provided for this session and we have harnesses to accommodate dogs from

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Bodywork & Energywork

Pets hold physical and emotional stress in their bodies just as we do, but unlike us, they can’t tell anyone, and you may not even notice that they are suffering.

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Pooch Partners Academy

  • Video library of over 150 games & growing
  • 2 monthly Zoom sessions
  • Private Facebook group
  • Monthly or annual subscription
Dog training is a lifetime commitment and something that you don’t want to get stale and boring. Join our Academy to keep learning fun with new games, training programs and more!
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  • Trick Dog Traning & Evaluation
  • Stunt Dog Judging
  • Canine Conditioning Fitness Coach & Evaluation
  • Animal Actor Evalutor
We are proud to offer training and evaluation/judging for Do More With Your Dogs titles! This training is a great way to strengthen your relationship with your dog, build their confidence, and keep them mentally and physically challenged while having a lot of fun!
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Our  Events

Join us for our annual events spring, summer and fall

Apple Blossom Hike

Exclusively for our clients, this free hike through Davison Orchards will take place on in spring 2024 – watch for details.

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Doggie Duathlon

Join us on the second Sunday of August for our annual Doggie Duathlon  a fun, non-competitive fundraising event.

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Pumpkin Patch Hike

Exclusively for our current and past clients, we offer this free autumn hike through Davison Orchards, ending with a tasty treat and coffee.

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Happy Dog = Happy You

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Why Choose Us?

Pooch  Partners

Pooch Partners has always used positive training methods and we love games-based concept training! How does concept training work? It is really quite simple and a whole lot of fun. Using games and positive reinforcement we teach our dog concepts such as confidence, calmness, disengagement, focus and impulse control, which empowers them to respond appropriately to real life situations. Many of the games also provide your dog with fitness benefits too which is another bonus. Whether you are starting fresh with a new puppy or have a dog with some behaviour issues, concept training can turn any struggle you may be experiencing with your dog into a success!

We are also proud to continue to advance our skill set with new dog training methods including but not limited to family dog mediation and predation substitute training, which encourage guardians to understand their dogs as individuals, identify their innate instinctual needs and provide safe activities that allow them to be the dogs that they are meant to be.
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Concept Training

Games, games and more games! We play games that teach our dogs the essential concepts like calmness, confidence, tolerance to frustration and impulse controlto enable them to make good decisions and live a happy life

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Knowledge

Along with our years of experience, we believe in lifetime learning and it shows in our credentials which includes multiple dog training and specialty certifications

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Fitness

Pooch Partners was started to help reduce dog obesity and we continue on that mission through our various physical fitness activities for you and your dog.

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Giving Back

Pooch Partners believes in giving back and to date has helped raise and donate over $15000 to various charities. You can help by participating in our annual Doggie Duathlon the second Sunday in August which is a fundraising event with all proceeds donated to charity.

Meet

Our  Team

Shelly Korobanik
Owner & Trainer
Sila
Pooch Partner
Suka
Pooch Partner
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Testimonials

What Our Clients Say About Us

absolutely amazing! we learned so much and Moose is now a different dog! he understands boundaries, and has manners! would definitely recommend
Candice Mikkelsen2022
Shelly was very knowledgeable and could tailor the training for your specific needs. I ended up doing my last lesson via Zoom instead of in person and it went just as well. I would highly recommend checking out Pooch Partners!
Kelly Bole-Price2021
Highly recommend ! one on one virtual classes have been amazing for my puppy. she has massive anxiety and had some guarding issues. she has gotten so much better with the games and knowledge Shelly shared with us. 10/10 recommend! we will be back for the next step for sure!
Cedar Lyn 2021
We are amazed at the difference in our puppies....thanks Shelly!! Concept training through games WORKS!! Keeping things fun with the games had the puppies (and us too) engaged and excited to learn more. Before Shelly, we were overwhelmed with two very active puppies and it caused a lot of chaos. Now, we have great tools to use that WORK and we are able to enjoy our pups more than ever! Shelly is a wealth of knowledge and very easy to work with. We will definitely be using Pooch Partners again going forward.
Shanda Hammerton2020
I'd just like to thank pooch partners for introducing me to nose work and for providing such a fun time teaching and playing nose work with Frank in your class, he was so happy to go to your classes where he got some one on one time with me and had so much fun.  Since then I've taught Mitzi my beagle the game and we've come a long ways, its Mitzi's and I favourite dog sport and we can't get enough of it. We go to tons of competitions and come out with great placements, but the main thing is we go just doing something we love doing together and have so much fun doing it. Again thank you Shelly for introducing us to nose work!
Shanna Ramsey
Shelly is an open minded trainer. She listens to your problems and creates a program that suits your dogs needs. Perfect for new dog owners or if you just need help with a problem behavior. Shelly is a great one on one trainer. Thanks for your help.
Dawn Doyle
I have done lots of various types of dog training (obedience, tracking, and agility), but have often wondered about Canicross training. Was it gimicky, or worth the money. Well, absolutely it was worth it! My only regret is not trying it sooner. What a wonderful connection with your dog! I have never had so much fun walking my dogs! Giving them verbal cues and having my arms free! It was a whole new freeing experience. And Shelly was wonderful! She was insightful, and would offer suggestions as we walked. She was just so much fun to walk with and be around. Just wish I lived a lot closer to take more classes from her!
Lori Pratley
We just finished the puppy fundamentals training with Shelly at Pooch Partners and would highly recommend! The training sessions were organized, fun and full of learning (for Luna, our pup, and for us!!). Training sessions were also well supplemented through an online course and discussion/FB group. Shelly is generous with her knowledge and her love of dogs is apparent.
Sheila Westwell2022
I recently completed life skills training with my 1 year old Boxer/Cane Corso. He has a ton of energy! And Shelly did an amazing job helping us both learn how to regulate his energy and provided us with a TON of tools / games to teach him boundaries, etc., Its been a huge benefit to everyone in my family as I was able to share these games with the household (kids included) so they could work with our dog to set boundaries in a way that was fun for everyone involved. I would highly recommend Shelly as our 5 week course provided us with information that will last a life time! I'm so pleased with the additional offers she has provided us so we can continue on with training and follow up.
Kaytee Jones2022
my husband and I trained our puppy with pooch partners. We are so thankful for the knowledge and experience she was able to teach and share with us. You can tell she connects so well with dogs. I would highly recommend this training. We did the lifestyle training and anyone looking for good, affordable and reliable training. We recommend Pooch partners.
Nicole Colovos2022
I was looking for a kindness and games-based dog trainer. Shelly more than delivered on both counts in both in-person and virtual spaces. I gained so much confidence in training my dog, respecting and using my dog’s intelligence, and it was FUN!!!! She also has a huge bank of video resources that you can watch to help in your training. Highly recommend Shelly.
Denyse Hayward 2021
Shelly is so knowledgeable and I love that she films our sessions so we can look back and remember everything we have learned. Sends the video link within the day and you have it for practicing with your pooch. Excited to take the info we have learned this summer to the xcountry ski tracks this winter!
Tara Fulop Conner2023
I have been doing private training lessons as my mini Dachshund has anxiety and barks at everything and anything. We can't have people over to the house as he won't stop barking at them. Today we had roofers over to do our roof and Oscar was so much better! He was walking around them and up to them with out barking! We still have work to do but the improvement has been awesome. Thank you Pooch Partners! Highly recommend!
Dana Barnett2023
We did fundamental pup lessons with our Golden Bernese. We were successful, and Shelly was amazing! She taught us basic games, boundaries and all the tools we need to be successful on walks! I highly recommend Pooch Partners. We did lessons 10 years ago with our old dog and this time was just as great!
Ashley Browne 2023
Thanks to Shelly at Pooch Partners this handsome guy has his forever home. Scout is a loving, sweet rescue pup but we couldn’t leave him home alone and crate training wasn’t working. With interval training and lots of advice put into good use we are now able to leave for chunks of time with much less worry. We highly recommend Pooch Partners.
Joanne Stephenson2023
I took my very excitable Bernese to the introduction to pulling class. Shelly was fantastic start to finish, we both really enjoyed the class and my dog behaved better that I could have ever imagined with a few easy tips from Shelley.
Jennifer Ritchie2023
I contacted Shelly in Jan 2022 when we welcomed a young and VERY energetic rescue dog into our home. Being pulled all over the place by her on the leash was very unenjoyable, and she would lose her mind at the sight of other dogs and even more so being near them. It was very challenging and stressful for me. We have done life skills with Shelly and are part of the academy, and this past weekend we took her weight-pulling class- which was awesome! Things are steadily improving. Shelly is VERY knowledgeable, patient, straightforward and passionate about dogs! I highly recommend her services!
Tamara Low 2023
Had a great weight pulling class with Shelley, my dog Mocha had an awesome workout and was tired by the end of the class. Shelley is very thorough and knowledgeable. I would definitely recommend Pooch Partners for anyone looking for personal training for their dog or group classes.
Alana Tkachenko-Shultz2023
I highly recommend Shelly from Pooch Partners. She did a Dynamic Dog assessment for my dog Mocha who is 4 years old, it was very thorough. She has discovered things about my girl that I and even some vets did not notice. I was grateful to receive a document with all the information regarding Mocha at the end of the assessment sessions. Shelly is extremely detail oriented and one of the things that I find amazing about her is that she is always upgrading her education and certification to stay up to date on the newest information for anything dog related. She truly is the best of the best here in the Okanagan and I recommend Shelly's services to any clients that come through our dog daycare facility inquiring about training for their dog - no matter what stage in life their dog is.
Alana Tkachenko-Shultz2023