About Rose Dog Training — Rylee Rose, CPDT-KA, FDM
Rose Dog Training is a private, in-home dog training company serving Long Valley, Chester, Basking Ridge, Bridgewater, Somerville, and surrounding communities throughout Morris County, Somerset County, Warren County, and Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Every program is built around one core belief: that when owners understand their dog, everything changes.Meet Rylee Rose — Certified Professional Dog Trainer
Rylee Rose is the founder and head trainer at Rose Dog Training LLC. She holds three credentials that set her apart in the New Jersey market:
CPDT-KA — Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed, issued by the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. Earning this credential requires a minimum of 300 documented hours of professional training experience and a passing score on a rigorous knowledge exam.
FDM — Family Dog Mediator, a specialized certification focused on approaching each case with a holistic LEGS (Learning, Environment, Genetics, and Self) framework which will uncover each and every variable contributing to your dog’s behavior, while also helping bridge the gap between the fundamental differences between dogs and humans.
Graduate — Michael Shikashio's Aggression in Dogs Master Course — Shikashio is one of the world's leading experts in canine aggression. Completing this program positions Rylee as one of the few trainers in Morris County with verified specialist-level training for reactive, fearful, and aggressive dogs.
A Career Built on Dogs
Rylee's connection with dogs started early. As a teenager, she volunteered at animal shelters and worked in boarding kennels — environments where she developed hands-on experience handling dogs of every size, temperament, and background. That early exposure built the foundation for everything that followed.
From kennels, Rylee moved into canine rehabilitation, where she worked alongside professionals managing dogs recovering from surgery, injury, and illness. That experience shaped something that stays with her today: the understanding that physical health and behavioral health are deeply connected. A dog in pain behaves differently. A dog that's been misunderstood for years behaves differently. Getting to the root of why a dog acts the way it does — not just addressing the symptom — defines Rylee's entire approach.
She later mentored under a competitive obedience trainer, adding precision and structure to an already wide-ranging skill set. After years of building experience across multiple disciplines, she launched Rose Dog Training.
Our Training Philosophy
Rylee takes a holistic approach to dog training — mainly working off of the L.E.G.S (Learning, Environment, Genetics, and Self) and LIMA (Least Intrusive, Minimally Aversive) frameworks. In order to solve and modify behaviors, Rylee looks at the entire picture rather than only addressing the symptomatic behavior.
Sometimes a simple tweak in the environment can have a significant impact on behavior. Sometimes there is a genetic need that is unfulfilled. Sometimes a dog’s behavior could be health related. Usually, it is a combination of these factors that causes the problematic behaviors.
By looking under every single rock in both behavior and training cases, Rylee helps her clients get to the root of the problem so they can understand exactly what is causing their dog’s behavior, and start to effectively change their dog’s behavior through individualized training plans tailored to their dog.
Private, In-Home, and Personal
Rose Dog Training doesn't run group classes or board-and-train programs. Every session is private, held at the client's home, and tailored to that specific dog and family. There are no generic scripts here.
This matters for a simple reason: dogs learn behavior in context. A dog that lunges on-leash in the neighborhood doesn't need to practice that skill in a training facility — the problem lives on those specific streets, around those specific distractions, with that specific owner holding the leash. Bringing training into the home addresses the actual problem, not a sanitized version of it.
Rose Dog Training offers programs for:
Behavior Modification — Reactive, aggressive, anxious, and stranger-danger dogs. Includes hybrid virtual/in-person delivery for dogs who can't tolerate strangers in the home, plus access to a helper dog for dog-reactive cases.
Dog Obedience Training — Manners, leash walking, recall, and real-world reliability. Programs range from foundational skills to comprehensive off-leash work.
Puppy Training — Early socialization and obedience are built right from day one, before bad habits have a chance to form.
All programs include training for the owner alongside the dog. Clients don't just watch — they learn exactly what to do, why it works, and how to maintain progress after the trainer leaves.
What New Jersey Dog Owners Are Saying
Read more from New Jersey dog owners at the Rose Dog Training reviews page.
Get in Touch
Ready to work with a certified dog trainer in Long Valley, NJ? Text "dog training" to 908-246-6187 or contact Rose Dog Training to tell Rylee about your dog and get started.
