About Clever Critters
Clever Critters has been helping pets and pet parents all over Hampton Roads and Tidewater for over a decade! While living in Yorktown, Sydney Warner worked with her mentor, an Associate Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, for two years before taking over the business in 2014. Sydney continued to service from Williamsburg to Virginia Beach while working as a vet assistant in Hampton. The desire for Clever Critters’ help continued to grow, and in 2018, Sydney made the move to run Clever Critters full-time.
The first team members joined Clever Critters in 2021, and more continue to join. Clever Critters also offered services in collaboration with a veterinary practice, shelter, and pet-sitting company in Newport News, allowing Sydney and her team to learn more about other pet care services. The company has grown to connect with many local animal care professionals, including trainers, behavior consultants, veterinarians, veterinary behaviorists, pet sitters, rescues, shelters, and more.
Having team members who are aligned with the ethics and goals of Clever Critters has allowed us to reach out and make even more community connections to help teach the general public. The Clever Critters Team now provides even more services to a wider area of pets and pet parents, including virtually nationwide! We continue to learn and grow to help the pet community grow in knowledge, too. We love our pets and want to improve the human-animal bond for as many families as we can.
Our Training Philosophy
Our team uses ethically and science-backed methods that support the human-animal bond. What does that mean? It means we continue learning new information and techniques that lead to more effective results and decrease or eliminate the risk of fallout behaviors. We regularly add to our training toolbox to reflect this new information and provide better services to you and your pets. The methods we choose to utilize will improve communication and understanding between you and your pet, help meet your pet’s needs, and support you and your pet as a team.
Science says we should choose to train without the use of force, fear, pain, intimidation, or coercion, and instead focus on promoting choice, cooperation, and communication. So that’s what Clever Critters professionals do!
