S A M S Dog Training Center

S A M S Dog Training Center Our mission is to build better relationships through communication, compassion and trust.......

Our mission is to build better relationships through communication, compassion and trust within the community, one dog and family at a time.

Teddy is searching for his forever home.
09/05/2025

Teddy is searching for his forever home.

🎭🐾 Turn Training Into Playtime – Sign Up for Dogtober Tricks! 🐾🎭Date: October 1, 2025Time: 7:30-8:30pmPrice: $110 ( One ...
09/04/2025

🎭🐾 Turn Training Into Playtime – Sign Up for Dogtober Tricks! 🐾🎭
Date: October 1, 2025
Time: 7:30-8:30pm
Price: $110 ( One hour a week for 6 weeks)
Location: Our heated/air-conditioned facility at 13857 North Wayland Rd, Meadville
Training doesn’t have to be all sit, stay, and heel—your dog can learn while having FUN! Our Trick Training Class, led by a certified dog trainer, is the perfect way for families to build skills, improve behavior, and enjoy quality time with their dogs.
In this upbeat class, dogs practice exciting tricks while also mastering basic obedience, impulse control, and attention—the key ingredients to a well-mannered companion. Whether it’s learning a spin, bow, or wave, every trick reinforces listening skills and focus, making life at home smoother and more enjoyable.
✨ Why join our Trick Training Class?
*Strengthens obedience skills in a fun, engaging way
*Builds impulse control and focus through playful exercises
*Boosts your dog’s confidence and problem-solving abilities
*Provides mental stimulation that reduces unwanted behaviors
*Strengthens the bond between you and your dog through teamwork

🐕💡 Trick training isn’t just entertainment—it’s training disguised as play. Come laugh, learn, and create unforgettable moments with your dog while teaching valuable life skills.
📅 Limited spots available—sign up today and watch your dog shine!
Call us to enroll 814-724-7391
Payments can be dropped off or mailed to SAMS, 13857 North Wayland Rd, Meadville, PA 16335

SAMS Puppy ProgramStart Date: September 30, 2025Time: 6pm-7pm (One hour a week for 6 weeks.) Location: Our Heated/Air Co...
09/04/2025

SAMS Puppy Program
Start Date: September 30, 2025
Time: 6pm-7pm (One hour a week for 6 weeks.)
Location: Our Heated/Air Conditioned training facility at 13857 North Wayland Rd, Meadville

🐾 Start Your Puppy’s Journey the Right Way! 🐾
A new puppy brings joy, laughter, and love into your home—but those early months are also the most important time to set the stage for a lifetime of good behavior. That’s where the AKC STAR Puppy Program, taught by our Certified professional trainers, comes in.
This fun, family-friendly program is designed to teach your puppy the basics of manners, confidence, and social skills, while giving you the tools to raise a happy, well-adjusted dog. Together, you’ll learn how to communicate clearly, build a trusting bond, and prevent problem behaviors before they start.

🌟 Why choose the AKC STAR Puppy Program?
*Teaches your puppy essential manners and obedience foundations
*Provides safe socialization with people and other dogs
*Strengthens the bond between you and your pup through positive training
*Helps your puppy grow into a confident, well-behaved family companion
*Earns your puppy official AKC STAR recognition at graduation

Training now means fewer frustrations later—and a lifetime of love and loyalty from your best friend.
Enroll today and give your puppy the best start in life! Call 814-724-7391
Price: $110. Payment can be dropped off at our center or mailed to SAMS, 13857 North Wayland Rd, Meadville

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SAMS Private Training/Behavior Packages
🐾 Personalized Training for Your Best Friend 🐾

Every dog is unique—and sometimes group classes aren’t the right fit. Whether your pup is struggling with specific behaviors, needs one-on-one attention, or you’d simply like a customized training plan, private training sessions with a certified dog trainer are the perfect solution.

With private lessons, your family gets the trainer’s full attention and a program tailored to your dog’s personality, needs, and learning style. From basic manners to solving unwanted behaviors, you’ll receive expert guidance and hands-on coaching that makes life with your dog easier and more enjoyable.

✨ Benefits of Private Training & Behavior Sessions:
*One-on-one coaching tailored to your dog and your family
*Flexible scheduling to fit into your busy life
*Solutions for challenges like jumping, pulling, or excessive barking
*A calm environment for dogs who may be nervous in group settings
*Clear, positive training methods that build confidence and trust

When you invest in private training, you’re not just teaching commands—you’re building a stronger bond, reducing stress at home, and setting your dog up for lifelong success.

📅 Spots are limited—schedule your private session today and enjoy a happier, more harmonious life with your dog! Call us 814-724-7391
Afternoon & Evening Appointments available. Each Session is one hour long. There are four one-hour sessions in a package. The cost of a four session package is $290.
Payments can be dropped off at our training center or mailed to SAMS, 13857 North Wayland Rd, Meadville 16335

Congratulations Team Grim!! This team graduated from SAMS Private Training Program. Congratulations and Thank You for ch...
08/30/2025

Congratulations Team Grim!!
This team graduated from SAMS Private Training Program.
Congratulations and Thank You for choosing SAMS!

08/29/2025

400 MILLION POUNDS OF PET FOOD A YEAR FROM A COMPANY YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF?

Almost none of the boutique dog food labels actually make their own dog food.

These companies are simply "lick and stick" affairs that invent a dog food recipe, pay an advertising company to make up a label, and then contract out with a third-party manufacturer to fill up the bags.

Another company is paid to market the dog food, and no one ever gets their hands dirty or even sees the product one month to the next.

Feed trials? You must be kidding. That would cut into the profits.

An example of a company that started this way is Blue Buffalo, whose founder used to market human junk food.

William Bishop, Founder of "Blue Buffalo" dog food, told Bloomberg Businessweek: “You can get into the market small with contract manufacturers making the stuff. Slap on a good label, come up with a slogan, and off you go. There were already a lot of smoke and mirrors in how pet food was advertised, and that was the sort of stuff we were good at.” See >> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-24/blue-buffalo-vs-dot-purina-in-dog-food-fight-over-nutrition-claims

“Contract manufacture” or “co-manufacture" is fancy-talk for "you make the crap while we lie about it in our ads and on the label."

As the web site of the pet food processing industry notes: “Often, pet food companies turn to C.J. Foods to solve the processing challenges created by the expectations of today’s consumers. C.J. Foods currently produces dry kibble for 35 of the top U.S. super-premium and ultra-premium brands. To meet the needs of its customers, C.J. Foods employs nearly 500 team members at its six processing plants — two in Pawnee City, Nebraska, two in Bern, Kansas, one in Baxter Springs, Kansas, and one in Brownwood, Texas — for a combined total of 620,000 sq. ft. of plant space from which the company produces more than 400 million lbs. per year of extruded pet foods and treats. See >> https://www.petfoodprocessing.net/articles/12751-cj-foods-the-yes-man-of-pet-food

400 million pounds a year!

Of course, CJ Foods is not the only company making “lick and stick” pet food.

Diamond Dog Food also cranks out a lot of bagged kibble under a wide variety of labels, as does Mars Petcare, KLN Enterprise, Nestle, Proctor and Gamble, Simmons, Evanger, Elmira Pet Products, American Nutrition, Ainsworth, and the Berwind Corporation.

Congratulations Team Portia! This team graduated from SAMS Private Training Program. Congratulations and Thank You for c...
08/28/2025

Congratulations Team Portia! This team graduated from SAMS Private Training Program.
Congratulations and Thank You for choosing SAMS!

PUPPY PROGRAM: (AKC STAR PUPPY) Starts Tuesday, August 26, 6pm-7pm. ONE OPENING or **Thursday, August 21, 6-7pm (Full)St...
08/21/2025

PUPPY PROGRAM: (AKC STAR PUPPY) Starts
Tuesday, August 26, 6pm-7pm. ONE OPENING
or
**Thursday, August 21, 6-7pm (Full)
Start your puppy on the right paw! This program meets once a week for six weeks. Along with teaching 40 basic behaviors that build a solid foundation for your puppy, we also address chewing, housebreaking, crates, puppy stages, meet and greets, behavior, and much more! Your puppy can earn their AKC STAR Puppy title through this program.
The total is $110.
Call to enroll 814-724-7391
Mail or drop off payment at our location to hold your spot in class.
Location: Our Air conditioned facility at 13857 North Wayland Rd,
PUPPY PROGRAM: (AKC STAR PUPPY) Starts
Tuesday, August 26, 6pm-7pm. ONE OPENING
or
**Thursday, August 21, 6-7pm (Full)
Start your puppy on the right paw! This program meets once a week for six weeks. Along with teaching 40 basic behaviors that build a solid foundation for your puppy, we also address chewing, housebreaking, crates, puppy stages, meet and greets, behavior, and much more! Your puppy can earn their AKC STAR Puppy title through this program.
The total is $110.
Call to enroll 814-724-7391
Mail or drop off payment at our location to hold your spot in class.
Location: Our Air conditioned facility at 13857 North Wayland Rd, Meadville

08/17/2025

When the "problem" is rooted in instinct and mismatched environment how is constant intentional physical punishment as feedback fair?

Lets take livestock guardian breeds as an example. Im not an expert on these wonderful dogs. I have had the pleasure of working with a few and each has been described and presented as non motivated by food, toys or praise rewards, and have little interest in taking direction from a human.

Yes, each dog is an individual, but these breeds were literally created to function without human direction. Their “reward system” is not toys or treats or human praise, but the satisfaction of doing the job they were bred for: calmly watching, independently deciding, and protecting, its beautiful to watch.

When we transplant them into an urban environment, full of noise, traffic, strangers, fences instead of open land, we are asking some of them to go against every fiber of their genetic blueprint. And when they “fail” (from a human’s perspective), punishing them is acceptable?

We dont think this could add stress and frustration, and still fail at changing their internal motivation?

Worse, it can erode trust with a dog whose relationship with humans is already meant to be more equal partner not obedient servant.

The real problem isn’t the dog. It’s the mismatch between environment, breed, and human expectations.

You can’t punish away independence, suspicion of strangers, or a low food/play drive, those aren’t “behaviours,” they’re identity traits.

You can punish a dog enough to shut them up, you just leave all those emotions bubbling away with a fear of expressing them, how sad.

So, no: punishment doesn’t make sense here. What does make sense is:

Education for owners about what dogs are and aren’t.

Management strategies and finding suitable outlets to meet breed triats.

Respect for their nature, understanding them for who they are.

Careful rehoming, because some of these dogs simply won’t thrive in a city, no matter how much work you put in, (the same for some street dogs, home is a prision)

It’s heartbreaking to see people blame the dog for not bending to an environment they were never designed for.

I want to be clear some will adapt, some wont, each dog varies, but.......

Just like left-handers weren’t “wrong", some breeds/types of dogs when placed in urban environments cant cope, they’re in the wrong context and intentional physical punishment to make them " fit" just doesnt sit well with me.

Congratulations Team Willie, Team Bluey, Team Emmett, and Team Whiskey for completing SAMS Agility L4 !! Congratulations...
08/13/2025

Congratulations Team Willie, Team Bluey, Team Emmett, and Team Whiskey for completing SAMS Agility L4 !!
Congratulations Team Rugar, Team Willow, Team Flower, Team Toby, and Team Pickles for completing SAMS Puppy Program!!
Congratulations and Thank You for choosing SAMS!!

SAMS Private Pool Paws is now open for enrollment! You can sign up to book you and your dogs PRIVATE one-hour pool time ...
08/12/2025

SAMS Private Pool Paws is now open for enrollment!
You can sign up to book you and your dogs PRIVATE one-hour pool time with an instructor. Please text/call Certified Dog Trainer Janelle Mondi at 814-853-7790
Bookings are $60 an hour. ALL Dogs must be human friendly. Life vests for your dog are preferred.
Pool times are booked afternoons and evenings.

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13857 North Wayland Road
Meadville, PA
16335

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 9pm
Tuesday 11am - 9pm
Wednesday 11am - 9pm
Thursday 11am - 9pm
Friday 1pm - 6pm
Saturday 1pm - 6pm
Sunday 1pm - 6pm

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+18147247391

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