At Rachel’s Pet Care & Dog Training LLC, we believe dog training is about so much more than teaching commands. It’s about understanding dogs, building trust, helping families build lifelong relationships with their canine companions, and making it affordable for families in Alamosa & the San Luis Valley.

Our Specialty is:

Helping Dogs Find Their Way Home

Rachel specializes in helping shelter and rescue dogs, puppies, and foster families successfully transition into their new homes.

Whether you’re welcoming a newly adopted dog, bringing home a rescue puppy, or fostering for the first time, Rachel provides personalized coaching, practical tools, and ongoing guidance to help you understand your dog and build a strong foundation from the beginning.

Because bringing a dog home is just the beginning—the real journey is learning how to live, communicate, and grow together.

Bringing a new dog or puppy home can come with excitement, questions, and sometimes uncertainty. My role is to provide professional guidance and support during that transition.

It's about helping families better understand their dog or puppy’s body language, communication, confidence, boundaries, needs, and behavior.

Through personalized coaching, Rachel helps families create clear structure, healthy boundaries, consistency, and a supportive home environment where dogs can feel safe, understood, and confident.

The goal isn’t simply to change a behavior—it’s to help dogs and their people understand one another and build a stronger relationship for everyday life.

Dog training is about much more than teaching commands. It’s also about coaching the human.

Building Confident Dogs & Confident Humans

The goal is to help you become a calm, confident leader and advocate for your dog while helping your dog learn how to navigate the human world with greater confidence, understanding, and clarity.

Through coaching, education, and practical guidance, you’ll learn how to recognize what your dog is communicating, understand their needs, establish healthy boundaries, and create the structure they need to thrive.

Because confident dogs begin with confident humans.

Pet Care & Personalized Support

Along with dog training, I provide personalized pet care and support based on each pet’s individual needs, including:

*Pet Sitting & Drop-In Care

*Dog Walking & Walk & Train

*Puppy Coaching

* Private in-home dog coaching

*Rescue & Transition Support

*Canine Massage Therapy

*Medication Administration

Every dog is different, and I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. Rachel takes the time to understand the dog in front of her-and helps the family understand them, too.

Rachel’s Pet Care & Dog Training Mission:

Help dogs feel safe.

Help families feel confident.

Build stronger communication and connection.

Help every dog succeed in the home they call their own.

Rachel’s Pet Care & Dog Training is about canine education. Understanding body language, communication, instincts, emotional well-being, and canine development helps owners make informed decisions and better support their dogs at every stage of life.

Because real life happens at home, the training starts there. Rachel’s Pet Care & Dog Training starts with in-home coaching and Walk & Train services. Working in your dog’s everyday environment allows the trainer to address real-world challenges while building skills that last.

Rachel’s Pet Care & Dog Training also believes that our emotional state can influence how we interact with our dogs. Helping owners become more aware of their communication, consistency, and overall approach can strengthen their relationship with their dog and create a more supportive learning environment.

One of our greatest passions is puppy development. Puppies are constantly learning from the moment they come home. Early socialization, confidence building, appropriate exposure, and understanding developmental stages help lay the foundation for a well-adjusted adult dog.

For those adopting or fostering a shelter or rescue dog. When you work with us, you will learn about the 3-3-3 Rule, decompression, trust-building, realistic expectations, and how to support your dog as they adjust to a new home. Sometimes progress isn’t about teaching another cue—it’s about giving a dog the time, patience, and understanding they need to feel safe.

Puppy Coaching

Helping puppies and their people learn together.

Puppy coaching is more than teaching sit, stay, and come. It’s about helping you understand your puppy’s behavior, communication, needs, and development while giving you the skills to guide them through everyday life.

The Trainers role is to coach and teach you how understand your individual puppy and your individual Dog and how create an approach that makes sense for both of you. It's truely building a lasting friendship between you and your puppy or dog.

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand puppy body language and communication

• Build confidence and a strong relationship

• Teach foundational life skills

• Navigate puppy behaviors and developmental stages

• Practice calmness, focus, and impulse control

• Reinforce the behaviors you want to see more of

• Transfer the exercises into your everyday routines

• Continue the training confidently between sessions

Because the goal isn’t simply to train your puppy—it’s to teach you how to coach your puppy.

As Rachel continues to expand her education in canine behavior and behavior modification, her goal is to become an even stronger resource for puppies, shelters, rescues, foster organizations, ethical breeders, and the families who welcome these dogs into their homes.

Looking ahead, Rachel hopes to partner with shelters, rescue organizations, foster networks, and responsible breeders to provide educational resources and transition coaching that supports dogs before, during, and after they join their new families.

Rachel’s Pet Care & Dog Training LLC is a small, owner-operated business. You will work directly with Rachel from beginning to end. This allows her to provide personalized coaching, ongoing support, and a relationship built on trust, communication, and compassion.

The goal isn’t simply to help you have a well-behaved dog.

The goal is to help you understand your dog, build a lasting relationship, and give them the confidence to succeed where it matters most—your home.

Rachel’s Pet Care & Dog Training coaching style focuses on educating people just as much as teaching dogs. Every family learns differently, and every dog learns differently. Rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach, Rachel tailors her coaching to your dog’s individual needs, your family’s lifestyle, and your personal learning style.

Helping puppies grow into confident dogs. Helping every dog succeed in every home