A finished dog, delivered home
Your dog stays and trains with Aaron full time, then comes home with reliable, real-world manners. The daily videos, including work in places like Busch Stadium, are the fun part.
See board & train
Webster Groves families call Marmon Family Dog Training when they want training that holds. Aaron trains every dog himself, and sends a short daily video on every board and train.
Marmon Family Dog Training is a veteran-owned trainer serving Webster Groves, Missouri, rated 5.0 from 42 Google reviews. Owner Aaron Marmon is a disabled Army veteran of the 82nd Airborne with 11 years of experience, and he trains every dog himself, start to finish.
Webster Groves is a walkable, dog-loving town, and that is exactly where good manners get tested. Old Webster on a Saturday, the sidewalks around the Webster University campus, and the neighborhood parks are full of people and other dogs. Aaron trains for that reality, so your dog is easy on the leash right where you live.
Aaron also trains dogs next door in Kirkwood and throughout St. Louis, and right across the river in Edwardsville. It is the same program and the same trainer wherever you are.
Marmon Family Dog Training is built on relationship, not force. Aaron teaches you how your dog’s mind works, so your dog wants to do what you ask. A real board and train runs six to nine weeks: the six-week program lays the foundation, the nine-week Complete Package fully conditions it.
Most training problems are really communication problems. Aaron teaches you how your dog’s mind works and what makes them tick, so you become someone your dog actually wants to listen to. That is a very different thing from forcing a dog to comply, and it holds up long after the program ends.
Plenty of programs promise a finished dog in two or three weeks. Aaron is honest about it: a real board and train runs six to nine weeks. The six-week program lays the foundation, and the nine-week Complete Package fully conditions it, because a two or three week program is a waste of your money. Webster Groves is a busy, walkable town, and that real-world proofing is what makes the training stick.
This is not just drills in a back room. Aaron trains dogs in the places you actually go, and the daily videos prove it. Owners watch their dogs working in spots like Home Depot, Busch Stadium, and the Gateway Arch, and closer to home on Old Webster, the shops along Lockwood Avenue, and the neighborhood parks.
Family dog training is its own thing. It is not sport or working-dog training, even though Aaron’s background in that world informs everything he does. The goal is simpler and bigger: help your dog become a calm, loving member of your family, and create the dog you always dreamed they would be.
Four ways to work with Aaron, depending on what your dog needs. Every one Aaron trains himself, with a daily video on every board and train. See all four.
Your dog stays and trains with Aaron full time, then comes home with reliable, real-world manners. The daily videos, including work in places like Busch Stadium, are the fun part.
See board & trainOne-on-one lessons in your own Webster Groves home, where the real challenges actually happen. You learn the handling, not just the dog.
See private trainingTask training for handlers who need a dependable working partner for everyday life around Webster Groves and the wider St. Louis area.
See service dog training“We sent our Weimaraner, Bishop, for the board-and-train program and could not be happier. The daily videos of Bishop training in places like Home Depot and Busch Stadium gave us so much confidence.”
Nicolas F. · 5★ · Google
“Aaron did wonders with our Blue Heeler, Josey. She no longer has anxiety, knows her commands, does great on and off leash, and our hikes are so much more enjoyable!”
Felecia S. · 5★ · Google
“We immediately noticed a difference in our dog after one session. I feel more confident handling my dog and now have the tips and tricks to keep building on her training.”
Courtney S. · 5★ · Google
Aaron trains every dog himself and sends a short daily video on every board and train. Serving Webster Groves, Kirkwood, Rock Hill, Shrewsbury, and the wider St. Louis area.
★★★★★ 5.0 from 42 Google reviews