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Become a Member of the most prestigious and sophisticated elite Los Angeles Dog Training, private luxury Dog Boarding, and curated Dog Daycare Los Angeles private Members club! The only integrative care, holistic, comprehensive, health and wellness, dog training school, private luxury dog boarding, and customized dog daycare at a fully fenced-in five-acre behavior, training, and boarding ranch, owned and operated by Russell Hartstein, Certified Dog Behaviorist, Trainer, ethologist, and Nutritionist. One of just a few worldwide with these credentials!
In case you’d like more info on Russell’s experience, philosophy, expertise, or what makes his Elite Membership so special, and why Dr. Jane Goodall, veterinarians, animal experts, and celebrities trust and choose to work with him, please check out the About, Bio, Guarantee, and/or Expert Witness page.
Russell is honored to be a partner in your and your pet’s life and well-being. He takes this opportunity and commitment very diligently and seriously. Through Russell’s boutique, non-volume, catered approach to optimal health and wellness, he is able to focus on individual care and fulfillment in all aspects of a pet’s experience and well-being, not a compartmentalized fraction of the whole dog.
Russell offers a first-class, comprehensive, preventative approach to pet care where he is passionate about fulfilling every aspect of your dog’s experience and life. He does this by taking a novel approach to wellness, looking at the whole dog: mental, physical, emotional, and nutritional. As a world-class expert, he has dedicated his life to each of these respective fields to fully enrich your dog’s education and experience by focusing on complete, whole health.
Fun Paw Care’s Membership is a dog behavior and training-focused luxury dog boarding and dyadic, customized dog daycare service designed and optimized for a dog’s well-being. All of Russell’s services are created and operated by renowned Certified Dog Behaviorist and pet expert, Russell Hartstein.
Traditional dog kennels and daycare centers are fundamentally and structurally flawed. It has long been known that even the best dog kennels are much more stressful than home environments. Adding to that stress are multiple unknown dogs (and people) which cause tremendous more dog anxiety than a single dog and person staying in a home environment.
Additionally, not only are there no actual Certified Dog Behaviorists or Trainers on-site of most traditional dog kennels or home dog boarding facilities, but your dog is stuffed into cookie-cutter dog boarding and daycare environments that are offensive and stressful at best and dangerous at worst to your dog’s behavior, senses, and well-being.
However, at Russell’s five-acre private, behavior ranch, and home, he intimately understands that dogs are individuals, don’t do well in large groups and play best in twos. These are just a few of the many aspects Russell considers when creating a healthy environment for your pet(s).
Russell has combined the best of his Los Angeles dog training, boarding, daycare, and nutrition services to create these comprehensive Membership packages:
If you struggle to find the best information, resources, and care for your pet and you won’t settle for anything less, you have come to the right place. If you believe that your pet is family and deserves the very best life, you should join our sophisticated private pet club today!
Membership has its perks:
- Prioritization & specialization of all services
- Optimal, comprehensive, complete, integrative care
- Curated luxury services
- Exclusive Members-only access
- Safe and healthy (30-year safety record!)
- Prevention-based modalities of care (behavioral, emotional, medical, nutritional)
- Reinforcement of positive behaviors via daily training sessions
- Fun, structured, and interactive enrichment and socialization
- Dog-centric, one-on-one walks, and outdoor exercise
- Curated education and nutrition advice for the parent(s)
- Clean and secure
- Owned and operated by a world-class, trusted, and experienced industry leader
Platinum Club Membership
This is the most exclusive, comprehensive, holistic canine health and wellness program offered in Los Angeles and anywhere. Russell’s educational, therapeutic approach is lifelong and preventative that focuses on helping dogs with poor, inappropriate behaviors and helps instill, refine and reinforce appropriate behaviors throughout your dog’s life and during their dog boarding and doggie daycare stay with him.
Optimal integrative care for your pet includes daily education, fear/force-free positive reinforcement dog training while they are in our care for dog daycare or luxury dog boarding.
Appropriate manners and dog obedience skills are reinforced using Russell’s unique fear/force-free positive reinforcement, healing and gentle, scientific approach. This empowers your pup to practice daily manners with known behaviors, such as sit, down, stay, and come. When training is daily, gentle, consistent, and repetitive, dogs learn to self-soothe, build confidence, trust, and learn quickly without stress or anxiety.
The Platinum Club Membership offers flexibility with regards to all services and accessibility to renowned pet expert Russell and is meant for families that prefer additional expert support caring for their pet, who appreciate a break every once and a while from their dog, enjoy traveling, alone time, value self-care and/or have multiple residences. It is also perfect for:
- Travel Bugs and snowbirds
- Multiple residence families
- Vacationers taking extended time off
- Young puppies, adolescents, seniors, or intact dogs not suited for traditional dog boarding. In addition, dogs with anxiety, behavior issues, or that need more management and attention.
- Busy professionals, executives/actors/politicians/professional athletes who work long hours and/or travel for work
- Service dog training, since this process is very time-consuming and parents and service dog benefits from a long-term partnership
- Couples who appreciate some time to reset, recharge, and rekindle their human relationships
- Parents who work a lot and do not have time to train, walk, exercise, socialize and fully enrich their dog’s lives
- Families who are moving and/or renovating as these events stress pets and present a dangerous environment
- Offering a safe haven for your pet during emergencies and natural disasters
The pinnacle of premier pet care, concierge, and optimal pet care services. Russell’s Platinum Club Membership is designed for pet parents that prefer to have a more intimate relationship with a world-renowned dog behaviorist and pet expert and uniquely designed services. For pet parents that understand and appreciate expert attention to detail and deserve world-class optimal services in all areas of your pet’s life.
Welcome to the family. Our elite Platinum Club Membership includes:
- Exclusive Members-only, one-on-one, private luxury Los Angeles Dog Boarding in a Certified Behaviorist and Trainer’s fully fenced-in 5-acre dog boarding and training ranch and home, with full supervision, and customized dyadic Dog Daycare
- Pet concierge with prioritized direct access via Phone/Video/Email/Text to connect with world-renowned Certified Trainer, Behaviorist, Nutritionist and pet expert Russell Hartstein CDBC, CPDT
- Prioritization and specialization of all services: Boot Camp, luxury Dog Boarding, curated Dog Daycare, private Dog Training and Behavior Modification, Phone/Video Consultations, Pet Transportation, etc.
- Exclusive access to private, one-on-one Dog & Puppy Training & Behavior Modification services in your home
- Private Dog Obedience Training during our one-on-one, luxury Dog Boarding, and custom-designed dyadic Dog Daycare, in a Certified Trainer and Behaviorist’s home and ranch (reinforcing known behaviors throughout the day/night)
- Complete flexibility and waived fees for rush services, weekends, and holidays for all services
- 50% off all private Dog Boot Camp services
- 50% off all one-on-one private Los Angeles Dog Training and Behavior Modification services in your home
- Los Angeles Pet Transportation with a Certified Dog Trainer and Behaviorist
- Pet Nutrition Consultations
- 50% off Personalized Cooking/Preparation for homemade customized meals
- Private Puppy Socialization Classes during our elite Dog Boarding and custom-tailored Dog Daycare
- Facilitate referrals to Board Certified Veterinarian Behaviorists to assist in prescribing medications needed to help modulate behavior/anxiety
- Discounted Memberships for multiple pets
Limited space available
*Per family pet
*Nontransferable/nonrefundable
*All Platinum Memberships are 1-year term contracts
*We don’t discuss Membership pricing prior to working together. We require at least one Boot Camp, before discussing if there is a good fit so we can get to know each other
Silver Club Membership
Designed for pet parents that have discriminating tastes and want the best dog boarding and pet care in Los Angeles, but don’t need our services as frequently. Our Silver Club Membership will help you and your pet thrive throughout all of your life stages together.
Appropriate manners and dog obedience skills are reinforced using Russell’s unique fear/force-free positive reinforcement, healing and gentle, scientific approach. This empowers your pup to practice daily manners with known behaviors, such as sit, down, stay, and come. When training is daily, gentle, consistent, and repetitive, dogs learn to self-soothe, build confidence, trust, and learn quickly without stress or anxiety.
Our Silver Club Membership includes:
- Access to our exclusive and Members-only, one-on-one, luxury Los Angeles Dog Boarding and customized Dog Daycare in a Certified Behaviorist and Trainer’s private, fully fenced-in 5-acre dog boarding and training ranch and home, with full supervision.
- Complimentary Dog Obedience Training during our non-volume, luxury Dog Boarding in a Certified Dog Trainer and Behaviorist’s home ranch (reinforcing known behaviors throughout the day and night)
- Complimentary Los Angeles Pet Transportation with a Certified Dog Trainer and Behaviorist
- Access via phone/email to renowned Certified Behaviorist, Trainer, Nutritionist and pet expert Russell Hartstein CDBC, CPDT during operating hours for luxury Dog Boarding and Dog Daycare
- Complimentary Puppy Socialization Classes during luxury Dog Boarding and custom Dog Daycare
- Facilitate referrals to Board Certified Veterinarian Behaviorists to assist in prescribing medications needed to help modulate behavior/anxiety
Limited space available
*Per family pet
*Nontransferable/nonrefundable
*All Silver Memberships are 1-year term contracts
*We don’t discuss Membership pricing prior to working together. We require at least one Boot Camp, before discussing if there is a good fit so we can get to know each other
