My Story
I am passionate, patient, and persistent—a true pet lover dedicated to helping animals thrive. Every pet is unique, and I tailor my approach to meet their individual needs. Whether you’re considering adopting a pet, welcoming a new companion, or managing behavioral challenges, I’m here to provide expert guidance and support.
About AVO DOG TRAINING
Owned and operated by Anna O’Sullivan, AVO Dog Training offers over 24 years of hands-on experience in canine behavior and obedience. Anna’s passion for dogs began at Petco, where she worked as an obedience trainer for eight years. Her career advanced as a kennel supervisor and later as a facility manager at a large doggy daycare, giving her extensive knowledge of dogs in every setting.
Today, Anna manages a local feed and animal supply store while providing personalized dog training in her spare time. She fosters for local rescues and proudly shares her home with nine amazing dogs. Each year, she also assists mushers at the Can-Am dog sled races. As a certified Canine Good Citizen® Evaluator, Anna offers CGC® and AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy testing to help dogs and their owners succeed.
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My Services
In Home Training
Professional Dog Training for a Better Life Together:
Proper dog training with a qualified professional can help you build the perfect relationship with your dog. Through positive motivation and reinforcement, your dog becomes a well-balanced companion and a true best friend. At a minimum, every dog should respond to essential commands such as heel, sit, stay, come, and down. Whether you have an energetic puppy or an adult dog, training is the key to creating harmony and confidence in your daily life.
Anna provides training in the environment your dog knows best—your home and familiar surroundings. She also incorporates real-world experiences, traveling with her own dogs to strengthen socialization skills when needed. Her goal is simple: to help you and your dog succeed together.
Class Options
Behavior Consulting with AVO Dog Training & Obedience
If your dog is struggling with a specific physical or behavioral issue, our Behavior Consulting program may be the perfect solution. Sessions are designed to take place where your dog feels most comfortable—whether that’s in your home, at Anna’s spacious fenced yard, or in a local dog park or pet store for real-world distractions. Each plan is personalized to fit your pet’s needs and your lifestyle.
To achieve the best results, we recommend committing to 30 minutes of daily practice between lessons. Anna will demonstrate each command and guide you through proper techniques, but you’ll be the primary trainer throughout the course. Common topics include:
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Housebreaking
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Digging, chewing, and jumping
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Biting
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Excessive barking
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Counter surfing
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Waiting at doors and gates
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Placement training
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Polite greetings when guests arrive
Anna can also customize sessions to address specific challenges unique to your dog.
Pricing:
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One-Hour Session: $100.00
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Package of Five One-Hour Sessions: $450.00
Boarding
At this time, Anna is not offering board-and-train sessions. However, she provides personalized in-home training and behavior consulting to help you and your dog succeed together.
Satisfied Owners. Happier Pets.
My first introduction to Anna was by accident. At the local pet store, I was looking for food for my new pug puppy (Mya). I was surprised to see a public "puppy social" happening right in the store. Even more to my surprise was to see that the Dog Trainer was such a young looking woman. I took the opportunity to observe her interactions with the puppies and their new pet parents. It was hard not to notice her dual role in providing an environment that was safe and comfortable for the puppies while answering many questions thrown from the new puppy parents. Anna handled this with tremendous confidence and ease. Anna is a remarkable and outgoing young woman who can make you feel instantly at ease when you first meet her. Anna's immediate interactions with dogs are always with a sense of fun, comfort and a gentle but firm demeanor. She IS a natural. Anna's gentle, supportive guidance to me as a new puppy owner has been invaluable and helpful beyond words. Anna you ROCK!
Lisa and Mya
I've known and worked with Anna for nearly two years. When we met I had tons of animal care experience under my belt, but very little dog training education, and Anna has been a fantastic teacher. I am a manager at a local pet store, and through Anna's incredible ability to educate not only the dogs, but especially the humans, in training techniques I have gained the knowledge necessary to not only maintain an acceptable level of behavior in the pets of my life, but also effectively advise the multiple customers/pet parents with whom I interact on a daily basis. Not only that, I know many of her prior customers who appreciate and compliment her work regularly. She is truly an asset to the dog community.
Beth and Ivy Lynn
I can't tell you how heartened I felt while we worked through options to stop the behavior we didn't want and encourage the behavior that we did want. It's nice to know that someone like you is trying to blend dogs, kids, neighbors, friends and social activities together! We had great fun with you, and are so grateful to have you and your fabulous ideas as a part of our life. Izzy is doing wonderful.
Lizz and Izzy
I have had my 8 month old rottie since the day he was born. Watching him grow, i knew he was going to be the alpha male. I desided at 8wks old i was going to need help training him. Thats when i went to see Anna. She trained me to train Khoas. We have passed basic obedience, akc star puppy , and areworking on canine goodcitizen and my goal is for my rottie (khaos) to become a therapy dog with anna's help she will make it possiable as for now khaos has become a very behaved , social and approachable dog. THANK YOU ANNA
Dee and Khaos
My young daughters begged for a puppy. Of course we gave in and bought them one. A beautiful golden retreiver named Bella. We went to Anna for basic puppy obedience training. However, her help went well beyond that. Immediately, Bella started showing aggressive tendencies; she bit my husband and daughter, growled when eating, would charge and knock over the kids, etc. We needed a professional to help get this under control. Anna took Bella to her home for a week for intensive training. When Bella returned she was a different dog. A dog I could finally trust around my young children. Anna is an amazing trainer, not to mention a compassionate animal lover and overall kind person. I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone needing help training their dog!
Paula and Bella
Get In Touch Today
AVO dog training is located in
Milton New Hampshire
