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About Fun Paw Care Dog Training in Los Angeles California

The Standard of Pet Care Excellence

Fun Paw Care Dog Training was founded by Certified Dog Behaviorist, Trainer, Nutritionist, and pet expert Russell Hartstein, CDBC, CPDT  for his love and deep knowledge of animals, and because most dogs are killed for poor behavior than any medical illness.

Russell was saddened that there were no safe or trusted animal behaviorist experts that provided comprehensive and optimal pet care, taking into account a dog’s behavior, training, boarding, daycare, health, nutrition, and enrichment.

To make matters worse, the dog training, behavior, and the pet care industry are completely unregulated. Scary, I know. In this unregulated industry, lousy, outdated advice gets passed around like a bottle of Maddog at a college bar. There is a dearth of accurate, up-to-date scientific evidence-based knowledge and a plethora of misinformation, myth, and harmful outdated advice.

Millions of companion animals are killed year after year. A disproportionate reason for this is a culture clash and a misunderstanding between the way a human perceives the world and acts upon it compared to companion animals.

Our passion and goals are to educate both two-legged and four-legged animals to improve their bond, teach new behaviors, skills, help save relationships, and invariably see the joy emanating from the faces of clients and their pets.

This is how the elite Fun Paw Care Club Membership came into existence. We partner with parents to provide non-volume-based, integrative, and complete pet care in all life stages and areas of a pet’s life.

Sophisticated Service for Prestigious Pets

Fun Paw Care has received prestigious awards such as keys to the city for Russell’s countless dog training, behavior, and animal welfare work with thousands of homeless dogs and cats. Russell has been recognized by a myriad of mayors, city commissioners, CEOs, celebrities, veterinarians, professional dog and pet organizations, and world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall.  Fun Paw Care is also an A+ Accredited Business with the BBB.

Russell’s passion and dedication involve perfecting a pet family’s experience, education, training, and offering sophisticated pet care services. Fun Paw Care’s highly personalized, customizable pet care services are for those discriminating individuals that know and appreciate the best.

Fun Paw Care is based in Los Angeles but serves clients throughout Greater Los Angeles and all over the world.  With over 30 years of professionalism,  Russell has built a reputation on reliability, trust, and integrity in Beverly Hills, West Side, South Bay, Greater Los Angeles, and around the country, teaching the most up-to-date scientific knowledge in dog training, behavior, ethology, and cognitive ethology.

As a Buddhist animal advocate, environmentalist, and vegan, Russell holds himself to the highest ethical standards beyond any organization’s minimum standard. In a business with no regulation, Fun Paw Care strives to go above and beyond our client’s expectations. If you are looking for elite dog training, dog behavior, and pet care services in Los Angeles, contact Russell to see if there’s a fit.

Fun Paw Care teaches and learns with premier behaviorists and trainers that experts in animal behavior, applied behavior analysis, and pet care.  Fun Paw Care prides itself on education, communication, transparency, experience, honesty, integrity, professionalism, problem-solving, and offering a safe, fun, clean, and utopian environment for your pet to thrive.

Fun Paw Care is relationship-centric and will help you with all of your cat and dog’s behavioral problems, training issues, and boarding and training solutions to help you and your family. If you are interested in any of Fun Paw Care’s dog training, dog behavior, dog boarding, dog daycare, or elite Member’s Only Club, please contact the best dog trainers in Los Angeles today!

Russell is a Certified Dog Trainer, Behaviorist, Nutritionist, Fear and Force-Free Trainer, Registered, Bonded, Insured to the highest degree possible, and certified in CPR and First Aid for cats and dogs.

Fun Paw Care’s Ideologies

Dog training is the only science and discipline where one is teaching two different species simultaneously, both beginners, how to communicate.

Learning is an art and science, based on non-judgmental compassion and communication. That’s the approach of Fun Paw Care’s positive reinforcement dog training. Los Angeles dog, and cat parents, along with their pets, can learn to understand one another better through clear communication and cultivate and improve their loving bond with our services.

Priorities

  • Teach in the most efficient, clear, and concise way possible for all individuals, pets, and family
  • Make learning fun and enjoyable for both learners at the end of the leash
  • Our dog training boot camp in Los Angeles opens up lines of communication so that both species clearly understand one another
  • Provide unmatched service, passion, quality, transparency, ethics, and integrity with all Fun Paw Care family members
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Principles

  • Fierce individualism creates unique sentient beings and mandates the treatment of such. Individualism supersedes breed, litter, superstition, stereotype, dam, and sire
  • Never compromise quality, passion, education, values
  • Mutual respect built on knowledge, compassion, and kindness
  • De-emphasize volume and emphasize customized learning and love
  • Respect, professionalism, and accountability
  • We adhere to the strict ethical and moral practices above and beyond, Least Intrusive Minimally Aversive (LIMA), the standard of medical doctors

Inspiration

Early on, Russell learned the Golden Rule: “Treat people as you would like to be treated, and they will do the same.” We go above and beyond this principle, and extend this doctrine to all sentient beings.

We treat every client (two-legged, four-legged, or no-legged) as our family and provide the most knowledgeable, and kind, science-based ethology, and dog training protocols to date. We use force-free, humane, and pain and intimidation-free dog training methods without the use of punition, coercion, or aversives. We treat our Fun Paw Care team members and every client as part of our family with compassion and exceptional experiences.

Humanity

Giving back is essential to life, love, and growth. We are proactive in our communities, volunteer, and support the voiceless, homeless pets (and people), disenfranchised, and rescued pets. Our Fun Paw Care guarantee is a cornerstone of our dog training mission statement.

We take our careers seriously. We regularly teach and take continuing education classes and seminars to keep ourselves up-to-date on the latest scientific breakthroughs in dog behavior and dog training techniques.

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Jane Goodall

Russell is a gifted trainer. Thank you for your dedication and compassion for training and helping homeless dogs.

TED Talks Founders, Vanessa Wurman, & family

…Russell is sweet and very effective when handling my very different dogs and I have seen amazing dog training and behavior results since their introduction. If you are looking for someone who has the utmost respect for your animal, is prompt and courteous, and values education and safety above all else, Fun Paw Care is the last place you need to look.

Steve Guttenberg

Russell is not only one of my dearest friends, but the guru of dog training, behavior and all things dog!

Alan Faena & Ximena Caminos

Thank you so much Russell for your help and dog magic!

With gratitude

Naomi Campbell & Vladislav Doronin

Thank you for all of your help and the best dog training…Brilliant! Love and Light

Dwyane Wade & Gabrielle Union

Thank you so much for your dog training and behavior services. We really appreciate your generous dog training donation to our event and foundation.

The Bee Gees, Barry Gibb & family

You are so impressive; I cannot believe how much you know about dogs and how fast the dogs are learning. Thank you for training our dogs and helping us!

Dr. Mike Tenzer, VCA Animal Hospital

I’ve not seen a trainer with his level of experience and ability in my almost 20 years of practice in South Florida. For the people and pets that make up the VCA Animal Hospital family, there’s no one we trust more with dog training, care and behavior issues than Russell and Fun Paw Care…

Dr. Lori Walter

As a veterinarian I have known Russell for some years… His dedication, professionalism, depth of knowledge and passion for animals are evident…The techniques he utilizes and teaches are clear and effective… I am over the moon to have his help and will not hesitate to recommend Fun Paw Care to all my clients, family and friends.

Gabrielle Anwar & Shareef Malnik

Wow, Russell is proof that you don’t need to have a heavy hand for dogs to learn quickly. You’re amazing, we’re converted! Thank you so much, for your help.

Dr. Carol K. & Lulabelle

What an amazing change you have made in our lives and the lives of our little Pekinese, Lulabelle!! We had many trainers over the last 3 years before meeting you. We consider it a miracle that we met you…

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Fun Paw Care

3079 Patricia Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90064
phone: (424) 341-0166
email: la@funpawcare.com

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