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Janine Allen, Certified Professional Dog Trainer is a dog training business in Palm Desert, California offering board and train and private lessons, working from a home-based setup. They take aggression cases by assessment, publish pricing from $100–$175 per session to $745, and list CCPDT and APDT credentials.
Palm Desert, CA • Home-based trainer
Last reviewed: Aug 21, 2026
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Janine Allen describes herself as a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and Behavior Specialist with 35 years of education and experience spanning pet dogs, shelter dogs, aggression and fear rehabilitation, house manners, AKC obedience competition, and field retrievers. Her service area changes seasonally, covering several Coachella Valley communities from October through May and the Gardnerville, Minden, and Carson City areas of Nevada from June through October.
The required initial consultation evaluates the dog's behavioral history, home environment, household members and pets, feeding and exercise routines, enrichment, triggers, and motivators before developing a plan. Continued work may address obedience, over-arousal, fear, aggression, guarding, impulse control, and handling skills. Janine also helps with service-dog foundation work, public manners, task training, environmental preparation, and AKC Canine Good Citizen preparation.
Her stated philosophy is grounded in modern applied behavioral science and emphasizes reinforcement, marker training, functional rewards, environmental management, systematic desensitization, respondent conditioning, and sensitivity to the dog's emotional state. Board-and-train takes place in Janine's home rather than a kennel-style facility and incorporates household habits, patience, calm behavior, recall, leash walking, and reliability around distractions. Aggressive or highly vocal dogs are not accepted into the residential program, although the website explicitly states that aggressive and fearful dogs can be helped through other training formats.
Training is customized around each dog's environment, motivation, behavior history, emotional state, and the owner's ability to continue the work.
$150 per day
Requirements: Must complete Initial Behavior Consultation first; not recommended for dogs with anxiety, separation stress, or fear/aggression toward other dogs; aggressive and vocal dogs cannot be accepted
Focus: Basic obedience, Leash training, Recall & off-leash
$100–$175 per session
Duration: 1 session
Focus: Basic obedience
$575–$745
Duration: 6 weeks
Package: $575 for a 4-session package
Focus: Basic obedience, Fear & anxiety
Price not published.
Requirements: Does not provide training/documentation for fake service dogs to fly in-cabin on commercial airlines
Focus: Service dog training, Basic obedience, Advanced obedience
Initial in-home consultations are $250 to $275 depending on location. Hourly in-home work is $155 to $175, and a consultation plus three one-hour sessions costs $575 to $745. Remote training is $100 per hour. Board-and-train is $150 per day, with a published rate of $120 per day after 14 days.
| Program | Price | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Board and Train | $150 per day | Not stated |
| Program | Price | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Private Training Session | $100–$175 per session | 1 session |
| Package - 90 Minute Consultation with Three One Hour Sessions | $575–$745$575 for a 4-session package | 6 weeks |
| Service Dog Training | Not published | Not stated |
Janine uses modern applied behavioral science, including primary and secondary reinforcement, functional rewards, luring, marker training, environmental management, systematic desensitization, respondent conditioning, and coping strategies. Her published guidance emphasizes motivation, rewards, incremental difficulty, emotional comfort, and keeping training sessions stress-free.
Public materials reviewed by Barklen do not specify which training tools are used.
Janine Allen, Certified Professional Dog Trainer runs a home-based training operation in Palm Desert, CA, offering board and train stays and private lessons.
Their public materials do not state a wider service area, so Barklen lists Palm Desert only. Ask whether they travel or take clients from nearby areas.
From October 1 through May 31, Janine serves Rancho Mirage, Cathedral City, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, and La Quinta, California. From June 1 through October 1, she serves Gardnerville, Minden, and Carson City, Nevada. A public business street address is not published.
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El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA
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Last reviewed by Barklen: Aug 21, 2026
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