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Enroll your new puppy in a 4-week training program before he or she comes home!

This training will give your puppy a good foundation for you to build upon and helps smooth the transition process coming to a new home.

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HOW IT WORKS:

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Training starts at approximately 8 weeks of age and runs for 4 weeks, concluding when puppies are around 12 weeks old. 

 

During the 4-week training period, your puppy will be exposed to regular grooming, bathing, blow drying and nail clipping and shaping with the Dremel tool. Your puppy will be started in basic obedience concepts which includes: manding, sit, down, stand/stack, stay, sending to target, self-load into crate, sit for opening of doors and introduction to loose leash walks with automatic sits. Your puppy will start crate training through the night while working on the beginning stages of potty training. Your puppy will receive his 12-week booster vaccine as well by a licensed veterinarian. 

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To keep the puppy's forward progress and engagement, I spend multiple short sessions each day with the puppy individually. A puppy's foundation is everything! Their brains are like sponges, and they will either soak up the 'right' information or the 'wrong' information. My goal is to help shape puppies to become operant novelty seekers that will learn to offer us behaviors to solve a problem or to gain our attention.

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At the end of the training period, your puppy will understand these concepts:​

• Clicker sound means “reward is coming”

• Verbal word “Okay!” means we are finished, and puppy is released from last command or training session • Manding (sitting for attention)

• Standing still with all four feet, “Stacking”, for short duration

• Sitting for the opening of doors

• Sitting for food bowl placement on the ground

• Sitting to be picked up or pet

• Quiet time in play pen while household goes about daily activities

• Hand signal for ‘Sit”

• Hand signal for “Down”

• Verbal + hand signal for “Stay”, in short duration and distance

• Loose leash walking

• Eye contact and/or automatic sit when halting on leash walks

• Giving attention in presence of distractions

• Recall to “puppy, puppy!” inside the house or out in the yard

• Familiar with using a Doggy Door to potty outside

• Sleeps in crate at night quietly from 9pm-6am schedule

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Interacting with objects/offering behaviors:

• Self-loading into wire crate

• Target mark “cardboard box” (stable surface)

• Target mark “wobble board” (unstable surface)

 

Body Handling:

• Acceptance of having nails trimmed with Dremel tool in short duration

• Acceptance of lifting lips to examine teeth in short duration

• Acceptance of face examinations (ears, eyes, mouth) in short duration

• Bathing and exposure to high velocity blow dryer

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Puppy Jump Start is only available for two or three puppies each litter as it is very time consuming. If you wish to enroll your puppy, you must arrange prior, to ensure there is room available in the program. 

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• Cost is $950  -  5/6 days a week training for 4 weeks, 3 personalized training video updates uploaded to YouTube for you to watch, and a private training session with you and your puppy before going home. Your puppy lives in the house as "one of our own" getting all the special attention daily. Your puppy will also receive his second vaccination booster given by our veterinarian while staying with us during the training period.

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• Any puppy that stays for training, I highly recommend this book! WHEN PIGS FLY (click link to order on Amazon)  By Jane Killion

  • The Puppy Jump Start Program will get your puppy ready for you both to continue training together. Jane's book is a great resource and reference to have on hand!

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Watch the videos below. These are examples of the weekly video updates you will get of your puppy!

More videos on our YouTube page as well!

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