What Day Training
Actually Is.
Your dog comes to us. We do the heavy reps your week has no room for.
Every pickup ends with a 15-minute recap and one thing to work on at home.
Then private lessons hand the skills to you: one with Foundation, two with Intensive, three with Transformation. Your dog comes home every night.
Book a ConsultationYou drop off
at our facility.
We take it
from there.
Sessions happen at the facility, on a walk, or in a store. Real distractions. That is how skills hold up.
This Is for You If...
You've tried and it hasn't stuck
Class, videos, maybe a trainer. It worked for a minute, then it didn't. Here both the approach and the person running it change.
Your dog moves faster than you can think
High arousal, no impulse control. They need more reps than you can fit in a day. We build the volume. You keep it.
You're too dysregulated by the dog to train them
Every session turns into a power struggle. You dread the walk before it starts. Someone else builds the base so you can step in calm.
Life is full and daily practice isn't realistic
Kids, work, life. Daily practice is not happening right now. We do the heavy reps. You do one thing at home.
This Is Not for You If...
You want a trained dog handed back
This is not board-and-train. The recap at every pickup and the transfer lessons at the end are not add-ons. They are the program.
You can't commit to the pickup recap
You need that 15 minutes every session, in person at pickup or by phone the same day if we transport. It is required.
Not sure? That is what the consult is for. We will tell you if something else would serve your dog better.
How the Schedule
Actually Works.
Four questions, answered straight.
A half day is three hours, 9 to 12. A full day is seven, 8 to 3. The last fifteen minutes is your recap. Half day is right for most dogs.
Most places sell 8 to 5 and train for about an hour of it. The rest is daycare and crate time. Our three hours is two forty-minute work sets, a real rest, and half an hour out in the world. That is close to two hours of working time, more than most full days deliver. A fried dog un-learns.
Foundation is 4 days over 2 weeks. Intensive is 9 over 3 weeks. Transformation is 12 over 4 weeks. More days means more skills, held under harder conditions.
Their own bed, your house, every night. No overnights, ever. This is not board-and-train.
Two words to know. A training day is the visit, three hours or seven. A work set is a forty-minute training push inside it, two on a half day, three on a full day.
Can't Do the Drive?
We Can Come Get Them.
We pick your dog up and bring them home for an added fee, quoted by distance at the consult.
Your 15-minute recap still happens that day, by phone or video instead of at the door.
Three Packages.
Same Honest Approach.
Half day is the program as designed and right for most dogs. Two work sets, a real rest, practice out in the world. Drop off at 9, pick up at 12.
Your dog sleeps
at home.
Every night.
Not boarding. Your dog trains here and goes home with you every evening. The relationship stays yours.
Where the Skills
Move to You.
Your dog already knows the skills. These lessons teach you to ask for them and hold them at home.
Foundation includes Lesson 1. Intensive adds Lesson 2. Transformation includes all three. Every lesson is a full hour with the trainer who worked your dog.
Within a week of your last training day. You take the leash, the trainer coaches you live.
Focus: Cue mechanics, timing, reading your dog early.
Two to three weeks later, once you know where it falls apart. We go there on purpose.
Focus: New places, the spots where your dog checks out, your bad-day plan.
Four to six weeks out, after the honeymoon. This is the one that catches the slow slide back.
Focus: Maintenance, raising criteria on your own, when to call for help.
The Extra Hours
Are Not Daycare.
At most places a full day means one hour of training and eight of storage. Not here. The extra four hours buy three things.
A third work set
Forty more minutes with the trainer, run late when your dog is tired. A skill that only shows up fresh is not a skill yet.
Settling, on purpose
Three hours of structured down time in a building that is not home, with dogs and people moving past. For an anxious dog this is the work, and it takes longer than forty minutes.
A second outing
Two trips out instead of one, at two different kinds of busy. Holding it at 10am in an empty lot is not the same as 4pm outside a store.
Take it if your dog cannot settle anywhere but their own couch, or is an under-fulfilled working breed, or is a different dog at 8am than at 4pm. Puppy with manners gaps? Take the half day and keep the money.
