Private Training
Personalized sessions with flexible timings. We recommend six sessions for basic training.
Ideal For
Fearful/Anxious dogs
Dogs who lack social skills (dog or people aggressive)
Flexible timings to work around your schedule
Helps adjust to lifestyle changes
We work at your dog’s pace
Working together with you and your dog
We tailor the program to individual needs. We will train at your dog’s pace, starting with basics and working up to intermediate or even advanced obedience if you wish. Included in the training is important life skills such as manners, focus and understanding of how to better communicate with your dog to enhance your relationship, in addition to helping you to design a schedule that will work for you and your dog’s needs.
Prepare Your Dog
We can also help your family prepare your dog for any upcoming lifestyle changes such as getting ready for a baby or moving house. We aim to balance your dog’s training requirements with your lifestyle demands to help to prepare your dog for changes.
About the Sessions
Training sessions are one hour in length, and we advise they are held once per week (depending on the training). There is a special offer for private training at our center for a package of 6 sessions, when you book and pay in advance you receive the 6th lesson free. Dogs require consistency so we encourage the whole family to participate in the training process.
Board and Train
Comprehensive training with professional trainers while your dog stays with us. Duration varies from 1 week to 1 month, depending on needs. Ideal for obedience and protection work.
Board and Train FAQ’s
We will do an assessment with you and your dog to determine your dog’s personality and temperament, the goals you have for your dog and possible problem areas. Based on this we will create a tailored program suitable for your dog.
Each dog is different, and each has their own different rate of learning and innate drives. Obedience exercises are the groundwork for all training, and we will start with basic exercises and build your dog progressively adding distractions. As we progress, we will increase the impulse control to various day to day stimuli aiming at the central goal of increasing your dog’s focus on you and behavioral improvements.
The board and train program includes 2 private training sessions for you and your dog with one of our professional trainers. These sessions will help you to achieve the same results with your dog as our trainers.
Of course! Your dog will get to participate in group play sessions and will learn socialize with other dogs of similar temperament, personality and size. Your dog will also participate in the doggie pool play sessions.
Contact us if you are facing any problems with your dog following through on the exercises or if new problem behaviors are developing. We can help to assess why the problems are happening and if necessary book a refresher training.
Group Training - Pawsitive Pack
Fun and effective group training sessions designed to improve focus under distractions. Weekly sessions for 5 weeks cover leash walking, sit, down, stay, recall, focus, and more. Socialize your dog while building trust and a stronger bond.
About Group Training Classes
Group classes are held in our training center. Our programs are developed to give owners and their dogs the best chance to succeed with an emphasis on training the basic exercises while developing focus from your dog under various distractions. Your dog will have an opportunity to socialize with other dogs, learn manners and stimulate them mentally as well as physically while building a strong bond between you and your dog.
Method
Reward based training methods, using food, toys or praise.
Shaping the exercises through luring and body language and using a marker to indicate when the reward is coming (either clickers or verbal markers – Yes)
Food or praise are preferable to start your training with as they have a calming effect on your dog.
Later in the program we will show you how to remove the food rewards and replace with praise and how to use toys and play as a reward, depending on your dog’s reward preference.
What to bring
- A non-retractable, preferably 6 foot leash.
- Treats or your dog’s food, a variety of treats of varying value to your dog
- A toy, if your dog is motivated with toys more than food
Basic Obedience group training classes are conducted at set timings once a week for 5 weeks.
Your dog will learn
Leash walking to heel
Sit
Down
Stay
Recall (come when called)
Focus (eye contact when asked)
Leave it
Polite greetings (with people and other dogs)
Wait before food or through doorways
Go to specific places: Mat, Crate, etc
Stop Jumping, Mouthing, digging and other behavioral problems.
Upon completion of the program, you are invited to take the Canine Good Citizen Test.
Intermediate Obedience
Working beyond the basics
For dogs who have completed the basic obedience and are looking for a higher level of control, reliability and off leash skills. We build on existing skills in the 3 D’s of Dog training: Distance, Distraction and Duration:
Distance work
Gaining control from a distance. Starting with long lines and beginning off leash skills.
Focus – Distraction Training
Starting with low level distractions and progressing until we can receive focus in many types of situations and with high level distractions in various environments and circumstances.
Duration Training
Increasing the length of time a dog maintains a behavior, such as focus and stays with various distractions
Behavior Modification
Customized programs to address undesirable behaviors and shape new, better responses. We’ve successfully transformed countless troubled tails.
The Behavior Modification Program is suitable for dogs that are displaying difficult behaviors such as:
Aggression towards other dogs or people
Guarding food or areas or any other issues
Territorial Aggression
Anxiety & Neurotic behavior
Fearful behavior
Separation anxiety
Improve bad manners
Other problems to include severe phobias or compulsive behaviors and more.
After an initial assessment with you and your dog, we will discern what is triggering the problem behavior and design a training plan to help your dog overcome it.
Through reconditioning your dog’s response to what is triggering the undesirable behavior and shaping new and better responses, the dog learns to make better choices.
We have helped hundreds of dogs over the years overcome their various problems and equipped their owners with the tools and understanding to prevent any future problems from arising.
So, if you’re dog is displaying any undesirable behavior,