San Marcos · Texas Hill Country
Arin's Snake
Avoidance Training
Teach your dog to fear the rattle before it hears one for real.
Book a Session$150 per dog · 7 days a week
San Marcos · Texas Hill Country
Teach your dog to fear the rattle before it hears one for real.
Book a Session$150 per dog · 7 days a week
Rattlesnakes are a fact of life around San Marcos — on trails, in the yard, even on the porch. A single session can teach your dog to recognize the sight, sound, and smell of a snake and steer clear of it for the rest of its life.
Training is done outdoors in a controlled setup with safe, defanged or live-but-secured snakes (ask for details). Sessions are one-on-one so the focus stays on your dog.
Arin has been handling venomous snakes since the age of eight.
What started as a kid in the Texas hill country flipping rocks for racers and ribbon snakes turned into a lifetime of working with the real thing: rattlers, copperheads, cottonmouths, and the occasional non-native oddity. Two decades of hands-on experience — wrangling, relocating, and studying how venomous snakes move, hunt, and warn — is the backbone of every session.
That experience matters because dogs don't learn from a photo or a rubber snake. They learn from the real sight, the real scent, and the real sound of a live rattler — safely staged, always supervised.
No clock. The session runs until your dog gets it.
Cash, Venmo, or Zelle. Paid at the session.
Exact training location is shared once you book.
7 days a week, 8 AM – 8 PM. Mornings recommended.
Flat collar, 6-ft leash, water for your dog.
All snakes are handled by licensed pros. Your dog is never bitten.
Three steps. Takes about a minute.
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