Puppy Training

Our “Right Start Puppy” private training program are offered either in person in the Arbutus/Halethorpe area of Baltimore County and Westminster in Carroll County, or online. This program is designed to help owners influence their puppy’s development so their experiences positively shape who they become as adult dogs. During each session, we will focus on imprinting appropriate social behavior, learn how to prevent problems, establish strong communication, and lay the foundation for lifelong learning. We help owners differentiate between healthy socialization, and exposure to things that could potentially create problems later on in your puppy’s life. 

We teach you how to teach our puppy:

• To tolerate and accept physical restraint and confinement without protest
• To develop resilience through positive novel experiences
• To learn through the ‘discovery’ process how to earn reinforcement and how to avoid consequences; how to willingly volunteer cooperative behaviors and never engage in dangerous ones
• How to accommodate their crate, training equipment and grooming tools that will be used throughout their lives

You will learn how to develop clear, easy-to-understand means of communication, and how to assure successful outcomes for your puppy as they grow.

Our private training program will also grant you access to additional resources which include reading material, instructional video and other media, designed to help puppy owners raise and train their new pup successfully!

The internet can be a wonderful place, but it can also be contradictory and downright dangerous. Learn first-hand, from one of the industry’s most experienced specialist on puppy behavior, on how to start things off right, from the beginning!

Our “Right Start Puppy” boot camp program is designed to help owners that were well intended when they brought their puppy home, but suffer from time constraints or travel restrictions, or maybe not enough patience to get up in the middle of the night to accommodate baby dog bladders and bowels.

There’s no shame in that.

Lots of people ‘think’ they can, but when it comes to losing sleep and having to clean up messes due to poor timing or too many distractions, may have realized that they weren’t cut out to be ‘puppy parents’. At least through the hard parts, anyway.

We help influence your puppy’s development so their experiences positively shape who they become as adult dogs. During your puppy’s stay, we focus on imprinting appropriate social behavior, identify and encourage an active signal for elimination, create positive and permanent associations with physical handling, restraint and confinement, and lay the foundation for lifelong learning through the introduction of training with positive reinforcement. We engage in healthy socialization, and exposure to new people, surroundings and other animals in ways that owners simply do not have access to, through controlled, environmentally stimulating settings. 

We help your puppy:

• Tolerate and accept physical restraint and confinement without protest
• Develop resilience through positive novel experiences
• Learn through the ‘discovery’ process how to earn reinforcement and how to avoid consequences; how to willingly volunteer cooperative behaviors and never engage in dangerous ones
• To accommodate their crate, training equipment and grooming tools that will be used throughout their lives
• Prepare for a lifetime of learning and establishing self control through the application of obedience

All while living securely in our home, with concierge veterinary care, and around-the-clock supervision!

Your puppy will begin to learn how to follow clear auditory and visual cues, and how to accept human leadership willingly and cooperatively.

Our Right Start Puppy Training boot camp program also provides access to our online resources that include reading material, instructional video and other media designed to help puppy boot camp participants practice and maintain the training their new pup has received successfully! 

Owners receive

• Three follow up lessons after your puppy completes the training
• Online and phone support on the material we cover until your dog reaches 12 months of age
• Training equipment: 6 foot leash and training collar (type will be determined by the trainer)
• Opportunities to participate in any group obedience training once your puppy matures at no additional cost 

The first three months of a puppy’s life will shape the dog they become as adults. Why take the chance on potentially messing it up, when you and your pup can learn first-hand, from one of the industry’s most experienced specialist on puppy behavior.  Let us start things off right, from the beginning!