Puppy Foundations
Puppy Foundations focuses on building confidence, calm behavior, and life skills during your puppy’s most important developmental stage. This program emphasizes socialization, emotional regulation, handling, routines, and prevention of future behavior issues. Rather than drilling commands, we teach puppies how to navigate the world safely and confidently while guiding owners on structure, management, and healthy habits at home.

Obedience
Obedience Training focuses on teaching clear communication and reliable responses to everyday cues. This program builds skills such as sit, down, recall, leave it, place, and polite greetings while improving focus and impulse control. Training is tailored to the dog’s age, learning history, and environment, with an emphasis on consistency, clarity, and positive reinforcement. This program is ideal for dogs who are ready to learn structured behaviors and owners who want better control in daily life.

Lifestyle & Enrichment Training
Lifestyles and enrichment training focuses on meeting a dog’s mental, physical, and emotional needs through structured enrichment and daily routines. This program helps reduce boredom-related behaviors such as chewing, barking, pacing, and restlessness by teaching owners how to integrate enrichment into real life. Sessions may include scent work, puzzle solving, confidence-building exercises, appropriate play, and calm settling skills. This program is ideal for dogs who are well-behaved but under-stimulated, high-energy, or struggling with self-regulation.

Behavior Support
Behavior Modification is designed for dogs displaying fear, reactivity, anxiety, or aggression. This program focuses on safety, management, and long-term behavior change using science-based methods such as desensitization and counterconditioning. Each plan is customized to the individual dog and household, with clear protocols, progress tracking, and client education. This program prioritizes emotional regulation and safety over obedience and is recommended when problem behaviors impact quality of life or pose a risk.

AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Prep
CGC Prep is designed to help dogs and handlers build the skills needed to successfully pass the AKC Canine Good Citizen test. This program focuses on teaching and strengthening the specific behaviors required for the CGC, including polite greetings, loose leash walking, reliable obedience, calm handling, and appropriate responses to distractions. Training is structured, positive reinforcement based, and tailored to the dog’s individual learning pace.

This program is preparatory only and does not include evaluation or testing. Dogs progress based on skill mastery rather than a fixed timeline, with an emphasis on confidence, consistency, and real-world reliability. CGC Prep is ideal for owners who want to prepare for future CGC testing, therapy work, or advanced training while building strong communication and manners.

Loose Leash Walking Foundations
Loose Leash Walking focuses specifically on teaching dogs to walk calmly and comfortably on leash without pulling. This program addresses the underlying causes of pulling, including over-arousal, lack of engagement, and reinforcement history. Dogs learn leash skills, focus, and impulse control through structured exercises and real-world practice. This program is ideal for owners who want stress-free walks without enrolling in a full obedience program.

Loose leash walking is not about “correcting” dogs. Pulling is typically driven by excitement, distraction, emotional arousal, or incomplete leash skill development. This program teaches dogs to walk politely while training attention, self-regulation, and handler coordination, using ethical management tools only when necessary for safety.