This package is designed to take puppy teams from the home environment to public setting group classes!
As a private client, you are welcome to attend any appropriate group classes or walks while your Puppy Package is active free of charge! All you have to do is sign up for the activity in which you'd like to participate.
1. Puppy preparation: affording welfare and behavioral diversity
a. Needs, emotions, behavior, and body language
b. Progress towards freedom with gated community
c. Harness, collar, leash, and line – selection, fit, conditioning, and use
d. Toys – selection, use, and rotation
e. Canine Ethogram – on the hunt for agency
2. Potty training:
a. Daytime and Nighttime protocols
b. On-leash vs. Off-leash – type, place, cue
3. Guardian connection:
a. Reinforcement Types – food, toys, social interaction, and access
b. Cues – Start Button, Marker, and Release
c. Check in game
d. Collar grab game
e. It’s Your Choice (IYC)
f. Drop it
g. Red light-Green light game
h. Curiosity and proprioception – ACE free work
4. Focus, Rest, and Relaxation:
a. Crate games
b. Bucket game
c. Stationing (Place) and settling games
d. Vito’s game
5. Distance, duration, and distraction skills:
a. Targeting games – Nose touch to Paw touch
b. Engage-disengage game
c. Emergency U turns game
d. Calm the Beans game
e. Threshold games
6. Public Manners:
a. 4 on the floor game
b. Go Say Hi 1,2,3
c. Greet & Re-Greet game
d. Safe Car entry, riding, and exit