Meet Ray Bhimani
17 years training Chicago's dogs
Ray Bhimani has spent the last 17 years training dogs in Chicago. Every breed, every temperament, every household. The work spans foundation obedience and socialization through high-stakes behavior rehab, personal protection, certified service dog tasks, and commercial security work.
What sets the work apart isn't a single method. It's a 100% balanced training program, custom tailored to each dog's individual needs. The training pulls from the world's most respected programs and traditions, paired with a working understanding of dog psychology that most trainers never get close to.
Ray trained under K9 Master Todd Bartlestein and continues to work with leading trainers across the field. Every program is built around what that specific dog and that specific owner actually need, not a one-size-fits-all curriculum.
Every breed is welcome and every breed gets the same thoughtful, individualized approach. From toy breeds in city apartments to large working dogs on big properties. From a nervous rescue who hides under the couch to a high-drive athlete who needs a job. The work is the same: read the dog, build the plan, do the reps.
17 Years
Working with Chicago dogs
Every breed, every temperament. From foundation obedience to high-stakes behavior cases.
Pet CPR & First Aid
Personally certified
Critical-incident readiness for boarding, daycare, and any program your dog is in.
Lineage
Trained under K9 Master Todd Bartlestein
Direct apprenticeship in protection, behavior modification, and balanced methodology.
The work
How Ray trains
Every program is built from the same foundation. No franchised playbook, no positive-only dogma, no rotation through a roster of trainers.
- Balanced methodology
- Full toolbox, ethically applied. The right tool for the dog in front of him, not a single technique forced onto every case.
- One trainer, your dog
- Ray runs every program himself. No handoffs, no different coach week to week, no learning curve to start over.
- Read first, plan second
- Every dog is assessed for temperament, drive, and history before any program is designed. The plan follows the dog, not the other way around.
- High-stakes work welcome
- Aggression, reactivity, certified service dog tasks, personal protection, commercial security. Cases other trainers refuse, by design.
- Three follow-up sessions
- Every program ends with structured reps in your home or environment, so the work transfers cleanly out of the facility.
- Lifetime maintenance
- Free group maintenance classes for life on every Board & Train graduate. The relationship doesn't end at pickup.
In memoriam
Mentor and friend
Ray trained under Todd Bartlestein, one of the working-dog community's most respected K9 masters. The methods, the ethics, and the standard of work that runs through every Dog Roar program trace directly to what Todd taught. We carry it forward in his honor.