Puppy Foundations: Building Confidence & Connection
Designed for puppies ages 3–7 months, this two-part series provides the essential skills and positive experiences your puppy needs for a great start.
Through engaging activities, obstacle courses, sensory exploration, and supervised group interactions, your puppy will build confidence, develop social skills, and learn to navigate new environments. We’ll focus on foundational manners, loose-leash walking, boundaries, appropriate play, and positive socialization—all while strengthening the bond between you and your puppy.
Build trust, encourage confidence, and lay the foundation for a lifelong partnership of learning together!
Puppy Lifestyle Training – Part 2
Ready to build on the skills your puppy has learned? This class is a continuation of our Puppy Lifestyle Training program, designed to reinforce foundational skills and help your puppy take the next steps toward becoming a confident, well-mannered companion.
We’ll focus on strengthening the Place command by adding distance and duration, improving leash skills and walking manners, and building reliability with the Stay and Wait commands.
Continue building a strong relationship with your puppy while developing the skills, focus, and confidence needed for everyday life!
Puppy Lifestyle - Raising the perfect puppy
8 - Week class split into 2 sessions
Level 1 Obedience
Boundaries First. Obedience Second. Building Trust, Respect, and Reliability.
Designed for adolescent and adult dogs ages 8 months and older, Level 1 Obedience focuses on building a strong foundation for a well-mannered, confident, and responsive companion.
Our approach begins with establishing clear boundaries, building trust, and developing mutual respect. From there, we’ll strengthen obedience skills and help your dog learn to respond reliably, even around everyday distractions.
Throughout the course, we’ll cover essential obedience commands and skills, including:
-
Heel & Automatic Sit
-
Sit-Stay & Down-Stay
-
Place Command
-
Leash Skills & Mastering the Walk
-
Working Through Distractions
Our goal is to help you develop clear communication, consistency, and a stronger relationship with your dog—creating the foundation for better behavior at home and out in the world.
Gina Brunick
Level 2 Obedience
Take the Next Step in Obedience. Build Distance, Reliability, and Freedom.
Ready to take your dog’s obedience to the next level? This four-week course builds on the skills learned in Level 1 and prepares you and your dog for the transition toward off-leash obedience.
Working with a minimum 15-foot leash, you’ll teach your dog to respond to commands at a greater distance while building consistency, focus, and reliability—even with distractions.
Training will focus on:
-
Strengthening Level 1 Obedience Skills
-
Sit & Down While in Motion
-
Place, Sit & Down Commands at a Distance
-
Improving Focus and Reliability Around Distractions
-
Building the Foundation for Off-Leash Work
-
Problem Solving
This class is designed to strengthen communication, reinforce boundaries, and develop the trust and control needed for more advanced obedience.
Socialization & Leash Manners
An introduction to socialization, body language and canine communication. Learn how to create balanced and happy interactions with and for your dog so that they can socialize calm and confidently.
-
What is socialization?
-
Recognizing body language
-
How do dogs communicate with each other?
-
Invitational vs confrontational communication
-
Play styles
-
Structured socialization
-
The off switch - settling your dog
-
Proximity level passbys
-
Pack leadership
-
Dog to dog intros
