Training Programs for your Dog
Training Programs are important for both adult dogs and puppies because it provides the guidance and consistency they need to understand expectations and behave appropriately in everyday life.
Training builds communication between dog and owner, helping the dog learn essential skills like leash manners, recall, and impulse control.
For puppies, training shapes behavior during a critical developmental stage, while for adult dogs, it reinforces or reteaches important habits that may have been missed or need improvement.
In all cases, training helps prevent or resolve unwanted behaviors, creating a safer and more harmonious home environment.
Our Popular Dog & Puppy Training Programs
Training your dog is essential because it creates a foundation of communication, trust, and mutual understanding between you and your pet. Through consistent, positive training, dogs learn how to navigate the world safely and confidently, developing good manners and reliable behaviors that make everyday life easier for both of you.
Focus: Exposure, confidence building, gentle basic training
What’s taught:
Meeting new people, dogs, sounds, environments
Handling exercises
Intro to sit, down, name recognition
Prevention of fear and reactivity
Housebreaking tips
Leash basics
Focus: Foundational commands, Addressing problem behaviors
What’s taught:
Sit, stay, down, come
Loose-leash walking
Focus/attention
Off-leash reliability
Reactivity Barking/Lunging
Aggression
Fear/anxiety issues
Focus: Stronger Impulse Control, Mental/Physical Challenges
What's Taught
Agility Training
Catch & Retrieve
Therapy Dog Training
Service Dog Training
Protection or Guard Dog Training
Rally Obedience
Trick Training
Let's have a chat to discuss which of the programs will most fit your needs.
Video Recorded Sessions for Your Understanding and Retention
Our initial foundation problem dog behavior counseling and dog/puppy training session is video recorded and installed on your computer for family understanding, retention and review.
Subsequent tapings will be recorded during additional sessions when necessary.
Learning about dog training and dog body language/dog communication requires visual instruction.
Having a video of the presentation will also prevent misuse or misapplication of the behavior protocol/training methods.
A training program is only as good as the dog owner's ability to understand, retain and implement the trainer's instructions.
Customized Guidance at Your Home and Neighborhood Where Most Needed
This is why we feel our programs are best set up for success. The initial foundation session is at your home where it all begins and where you and pooch have to deal with every day life.
We address the behaviors in the home and on a walk, making it all more manageable. We teach you better dog handling, communication and dog body language reading skills.
This rapidly results in an enhanced understanding for you and the dog. We return for checkup and sessions around town … in the real world … resulting in reliability of acceptable behaviors in public and private.
We'll help guide you guide your furry friend into acceptable dog social behavior. Our dog training programs provide this with a method tailored to your dog's individuality and its environment.
