In-House / Boarding Obedience Training

Our in-house boarding program immerses your dog in a structured environment where they receive professional obedience sessions tailored to match their personality and needs, reinforcement of good manners, and real-life practice tailored to medium and large breeds.

This intensive approach accelerates progress on commands, house manners, and overall behavior while your dog enjoys comfortable boarding with experienced handlers who treat them like family.

The Three Stages of Training

Evaluation & Discovery

When your dog comes in our first goal is to become their friend and get a full evaluation as quickly as possible so that we can provide you with a REPORT CARD of your dog's personality, strong and weak points. The main key things we evaluate are:

1) Willingness to work with a handler
2) Human and animal interaction
3) New environments
4) Temperament and stability
5) Leash Manners

Command Introduction & Shaping

We introduce and shape commands until muscle memory forms. Understanding that temperaments differ, we address the "leader of the pack" mentality with each individual dog. Our goal is for your dog to love working with their handler.

Owner Sessions / Reintroduction

When your dog comes home from our in-house program, their mind is essentially "reset." They've learned new habits and expectations in a fresh environment—free from old routines and triggers. This creates a clean slate for our handlers to reintroduce you to your trained dog.

Detailed Program Timeline

At the end of each Phase you will get an updated video on your dog's progress. Please keep in mind that not every dog follows the below schedule to the T. This is really dictated by the dog's desire to cooperate and learn with their handler.

Phase 1Days 1-7

We do a solid evaluation and get to know your dog. You will receive an email with a report card that goes over his evaluation in detail.

The main key things we evaluate are:

Willingness to work with a handler
Human and animal interaction
New environments
Temperament and stability
Leash manners

Phase 2Days 8-14

During this phase, we shape reliable commands while showing your dog that following them brings real rewards. We use minimal treats (or none at all) depending on your dog's motivation, focusing instead on building genuine cooperation. This stage reveals just how eager and responsive your dog truly is to learning.

Phase 3Days 15-25

We introduce the E-collar and start moving towards off leash commands throughout this phase. If we had to use food in the early days of training, this is the phase that we would start weaning them from food rewards so that food rewards are not expected throughout their life.

Phase 4Days 26-33

In this phase we start multiple handlers and recall work all while mixing in distractions that get closer and closer to your dog. This phase is where we are going over and over the work to make it more like muscle memory. We will schedule our first session during this time frame to reintroduce you and your dog.

Phase 5Days 33-40

This is when we do our first team session. During this session we go over how to properly handle your dog and explain the steps on how to keep your dog from reverting back to their previous habits. Your handler will reach out to you to select a day and time that is best the week before.

Phase 6Days 41-45

During our previous reintroduction session our handlers have closely observed your dog's interactions with you to see how as a team the basics of commands were performed. From there your handler will see the areas that your dog needs more focus and will concentrate on that over the next week. At the end of this phase we will have our second team session.

Phase 7Days 45-49

Throughout this phase, the handler reinforces all commands repeatedly to build them into strong muscle memory. By the end, your dog should respond reliably and fluidly. We wrap up with a final team session to hand over a well-trained companion ready to go home with you along with a very detailed plan for the upcoming weeks so that all of the training is maintained. This is a crucial part of our program.