All of our Obedience programs are designed to help you and your dog thrive together. Our focus is to get your dog to a better state of mind and help them make good choices throughout their life. Obedience training is an amazing tool that can help your dog build confidence, stop bad or dangerous behaviors, and give them the freedom that well-trained dogs get to enjoy! If you can trust your dog to be reliable and make good decisions, they will get to enjoy so much more time with you, friends, and family.
Our Programs
Basic Obedience
The Basic Obedience program is designed for dogs with minor to moderate issues, people looking to start out with basic obedience training, or dogs who have completed the Puppy program and would like to expand on their training.
The Basic Obedience program consists of five 60-minute one-on-one weekly sessions. All Basic Obedience will be done on leash at a local park, around your neighborhood, or in your home.
Your dog will learn:
- Place
- Your dog is taught to go to their bed or cot and relax. This can be super helpful when you just want to relax on the couch, make dinner, eat without your dog begging through the entire meal, have guests over, and much more! Place teaches your dog how to relax when there’s things going on around them, it helps dogs slow down, and it can be used pretty much anywhere!
- Sit
- Down
- Crate training
- Crates are essential to your dog regulating their nervous system and sleep cycles. A crate acts like your dog’s own “room” where they can rest undisturbed away from people and other animals. Crates also give your dog a safe space to be while you are away from them, and ensures that they can be more easily handled in a veterinary or boarding setting.
- Recall
- Teaching your dog to come when called is one of the most important and life saving things you can teach your dog. We will have your dog practice recall on a 30ft long leash in a variety of locations in order to ensure your dog can come when called even around distractions.
- Heel
- Teaching your dog to walk slightly behind and right next to you, not sniffing the ground or veering off. Your dog will learn to walk in a small “bubble”. This can be extremely useful for dogs that like to eat things off the ground, in busy urban areas, around the house, and when you need your dog to focus on you on a walk.
- Loose leash walking
- Similar to a heel, but your dog has a larger “bubble”. They are allowed to sniff and veer off but the leash is never tight and there is no pulling.
- Stopping unwanted behaviors
- A few common examples, but not limited to: stopping “dumpster diving”, eliminating jumping, stopping door charging, stopping incessant barking.
- Confidence building
- Many dogs act out due to fear, anxiety, and insecurity. While there may be a genetic aspect of these things in some cases, confidence building can greatly reduce or fearfulness, insecurity, and anxiety.
- Duration work
- Teaching your dog how to stay laying down, sitting, or on place for extended periods of time.
- Waiting patiently at doors
- Release command
- All dogs are taught an assumed “stay” command. This means that if they are given a command they are not allowed to do anything else until given the release command “break”. This creates consistency and predictability for the dog and makes training less confusing for them.
- Prong collar conditioning
- It is always very important to condition dogs to any new tool you are introducing. This is a quick process that is typically done during the first or second session.
Includes:
- Prong collar
- Longline
- Elevated dog cot
- Treat pouch
- Safety clip
- Homework
- Training notes and instructions
- Lifetime email support
- One free 30-minute follow-up virtual session or phone call that can be scheduled and used at any time. You may use this session to address any training questions or new behaviors your dog is displaying since completing training.
- Upon completeion of this program: access to group activities such as pack walks and dog training social events.
$625
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Advanced Obedience
Advanced Obedience is directed towards dogs who have completed the Basic Obedience program and would like to expand upon their training. The goal for this program is to get your dog to a spot where you can rely on them to make good decisions and join you for any pet-friendly outing you may want to take with them. This program is designed to condition the E-collar and develop solid and reliable obedience in most situations.
The Advanced Obedience program consists of six 60-minute one-on-one sessions that will be done weekly. These sessions will be done in your home, in your neighborhood, in parks, or in public pet-friendly places you would like to frequent with your dog.
Your dog will learn:
- E-collar conditioning to all known commands
- This is done by pairing ecollar stim at the lowest level the dog can feel with a known command. When the dog completes the command, the stim turns off and they get a reward. This is a painless process and is the first step to solid e-collar off leash obedience!
- Off-leash recall and obedience
- “Out” command (similar to “drop it” or “leave it”)
- Your dog is taught how to drop what they have and back away. The out command has strict boundaries. They are not allowed to lunge back towards the object when you go pick it up, nor are they allowed to quickly wolf down or guard anything they were told to “out”.
- “Go” command
- Teaching your dog to vacate an area or someone’s personal space. This is perfect for dogs that are always underfoot and have no semblance of personal space.
- Duration work
- Teaching your dog how to stay laying down, sitting, or on place for extended periods of time.
- Confidence building and exposure to new environments
- When working towards off-leash obedience, there are often new environments your dog needs to get used to and build confidence in. We will go to different locations and enviornments you would like your dog to have solid off-leash obedience in.
- Stopping unwanted behaviors
- A few common examples, but not limited to: stopping “dumpster diving”, eliminating jumping, stopping door charging, stopping incessant barking.
- Anything you feel needs to be addressed since completing Basic Obedience
Includes:
- E-collar
- Homework
- Training notes and instructions
- Lifetime email support
- One free 45-minute follow-up session that can be used for up to 6 months after the program is completed.
- Upon completion of this program: access to group activities such as pack walks and dog training social events.
$825
Start to Finish
Start to Finish is for dogs who have no training and have the end goal of being fully obedience trained, e-collar trained, and reliable!
Start to Finish is a 12 week program consisting of 60-minute weekly one-on-one sessions. This program is designed to give you and your dog all the skills and tools you need to live life to the fullest.
This program is not for dogs with severe reactivity issues, anxiety, fearfulness, or aggression. For dogs struggling with severe reactivity please see my reactivity program. For dogs struggling with severe anxiety and fearfulness please contact me for more information.
Your dog will learn:
- Place
- Your dog is taught to go to their bed or cot and relax. This can be super helpful when you just want to relax on the couch, make dinner, eat without your dog begging through the entire meal, have guests over, and much more! Place teaches your dog how to relax when there’s things going on around them, it helps dogs slow down, and it can be used pretty much anywhere!
- Sit
- Down
- Recall
- Teaching your dog to come when called is one of the most important and life saving things you can teach your dog. We will have your dog practice recall on a 30ft long leash in a variety of locations in order to ensure your dog can come when called even around distractions.
- Heel
- Teaching your dog to walk slightly behind and right next to you, not sniffing the ground or veering off. Your dog will learn to walk in a small “bubble”. This can be extremely useful for dogs that like to eat things off the ground, in busy urban areas, around the house, and when you need your dog to focus on you on a walk.
- Loose leash walking
- Similar to a heel, but your dog has a larger “bubble”. They are allowed to sniff and veer off but the leash is never tight and there is no pulling.
- “Out” command (similar to “drop it” or “leave it”)
- Your dog is taught how to drop what they have and back away. The out command has strict boundaries. They are not allowed to lunge back towards the object when you go pick it up, nor are they allowed to quickly wolf down or guard anything they were told to “out”.
- “Go” command
- Teaching your dog to vacate an area or someone’s personal space. This is perfect for dogs that are always underfoot and have no semblance of personal space.
- Crate training
- Crates are essential to your dog regulating their nervous system and sleep cycles. A crate acts like your dog’s own “room” where they can rest undisturbed away from people and other animals. Crates also give your dog a safe space to be while you are away from them, and ensures that they can be more easily handled in a veterinary or boarding setting.
- Duration work
- Teaching your dog how to stay laying down, sitting, or on place for extended periods of time.
- Waiting patiently at doors
- Release command
- All dogs are taught an assumed “stay” command. This means that if they are given a command they are not allowed to do anything else until given the release command “break”. This creates consistency and predictability for the dog and makes training less confusing for them.
- Prong and E-collar conditioning
- It is always very important to condition dogs to any new tool you are introducing.
- Prong collar conditioning is a quick process that is typically done during the first or second session.
- E-collar conditioning will take place once your dog understands the command we are conditioning the E-collar to.
- Stopping unwanted behaviors
- A few common examples, but not limited to: stopping “dumpster diving”, eliminating jumping, stopping door charging, stopping incessant barking.
- Off leash reliability/recall
- Confidence building and exposure to new environments
- Many dogs act out due to fear, anxiety, and insecurity. While there may be a genetic aspect of these things in some cases, confidence building can greatly reduce or fearfulness, insecurity, and anxiety. Gradually exposing your dog to new environments and practicing known commands will give them the tools they need to be a happy and balanced dog!
Includes:
- Prong collar
- E-collar
- Longline
- Treat pouch
- Safety Clip
- Homework
- Training notes and written instructions
- Lifetime email support
- One free 45-minute follow-up session that can be used up to a year after the program is completed
- Upon Completion of this program: access to group activities such as pack walks and dog training social events.
$1,395
What does a training session look like?
It all starts with a free 30-minute phone consultation. During this consultation we will talk about what you’d like to see out of training, what behaviors you’d like your dog to stop doing, what you’ve tried so far, and anything else you think I should know. By the time most people reach out to a dog trainer they have already been through physical, social, and emotional hardship with their dogs. This is a judgement-free space to be honest about your dogs behavior and how it affects you.
Once I get a good idea of what is going on with your dog and we decide which program best suits your needs, we will schedule a date and time for your first training session. Typically, first sessions are done in your home or while walking around your neighborhood. This ensures you get hands-on instruction on what to do in your day-to-day life with your dog. I typically use the first session to start with the “place” command, introduce the prong collar, and begin the process of stopping any pressing or dangerous problem behaviors.
After our session I will reach out via email with a training plan, confirming our future schedule, homework, and any resources that will be useful to you and your dog on your training journey. Training plans may be changed as your dog progresses or if they show they need a little help in some areas over others.
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