Puppy Training
About Puppy Training
Learning starts the moment a new puppy comes home. Start your puppy off on the right paw to becoming a well-behaved addition to your family!
Using reward-based methods, we'll promote a positive relationship while resolving problem behavior. Lessons are one-on-one in your home, right where you need help the most, and are tailored to your puppy’s personality and your goals.
The habits you encourage or prevent now will determine the behavior of your dog as an adult. Let's send them down the right path!
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Puppy Preschool
The puppy essentials program | For puppies 2 to 6 months
This all-inclusive puppy program covers a range of topics involved with raising a puppy. Get your puppy off to the best possible start with private lessons that cover all the essentials.
Your trainer will guide you through setting up routines, teaching basic manners, and channeling puppy energy into good habits. Topics covered may include house-training, crate and separation training, chewing and mouthing, jumping, socialization, useful cues such as drop it, attention, and introducing basic obedience and leash walking.
Program Options:
Two Lessons: All the essentials for puppy raising.
Four Lessons: Puppy essentials plus beginning obedience training.
Lessons are one hour. Includes ebook, handouts for quick reference, treat pouch, clicker, and email support.
K9 Kindergarten
The puppy to adolescence program | For puppies 4 to 9 months
As your puppy grows through developmental stages you may still experience lingering puppy issues such as house-training accidents, inappropriate chewing, or play biting by an increasingly larger dog. Puppies will also become more independent at this stage and start testing their boundaries.
This is a perfect time to begin obedience training including loose-leash walking, to teach proper manners such as no jumping, and to set clear house-rules. The habits you encourage or prevent now will determine the behavior of your dog as an adult.
Program Options:
Four Lessons: Puppy essentials, manners and obedience.
Six Lessons: Puppy essentials, manners, obedience, with more time to work on distractions, additional goals, and navigate developmental stages.
Lessons are one hour. Includes ebook, handouts for quick reference, treat pouch, clickers, and email support
Single Lessons
One lesson | All ages
Prerequisite: Consultation or puppy training
Individual lessons are for scheduling lessons that are not confined to a full training program. This option is perfect for:
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Adding a private lesson for a puppy who is going to a group socialization class to get tailored recommendations right in your home
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Working on additional goals after a program has ended (discount available for program graduates)
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Scheduling week to week for those who would rather not commit to a full program
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Anyone who wants to make sure you’re on track with your dog’s training and get customized recommendations
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Troubleshooting a specific behavior
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Guidance on service dog training laws, requirements, or getting started with self-training a service dog prospect, including evaluation
Lessons are one hour.
Success Story
One of my favorite success stories is Rocky, a tiny Yorkie I first worked with in Puppy Preschool. We started with the basics, such as house training and play biting, and then continued with additional lessons to help build his confidence and manners so he could go to work with his mom at a hotel. Today, Rocky goes with her every day, proudly serving as the unofficial “hotel ambassador.”
Watching his journey has been so rewarding, and I’m excited to offer that same kind of support to other growing puppies through K9 Kindergarten, a program designed for that gap between puppy training and adult dog goals.
Erin Taggart, MPS, CPT
