Puppy Programs
Start YOUR Puppy Off On The Right Paw
Puppy Experience
Ages: 10 weeks through 6 months
Our Puppy Experience classes will be focused on socialization and an introduction to training. Providing well rounded early life experiences during your puppy’s most formative months will build a solid foundation for their development into an adult dog!
SOCIALIZATION & PLAY: At a young age, puppies are learning important social and play skills, so they need time to play with other dogs. Interacting with a variety of breeds, ages and sizes provides them with the opportunity to acquire solid bite inhibition and develop soft mouths. Owners will learn about appropriate play, play styles, body language and how to help mediate positive interactions.
True socialization is more than just dog-dog play, it should include positive experiences with other people, places, sights, sounds, objects, textures, and handling. Presenting new experiences and stimuli with positive reinforcement techniques helps to build a solid foundation of confidence in your pup which they will carry with them into adulthood. Puppy Experience is a safe, positive environment for your pup to have these valuable social experiences.
TRAINING: Since young pups have a limited window of time during their development to establish a positive world view, our primary focus is socialization, However, introducing some basic life skills through training games are a great way to build engagement and set up a foundation for later training. Making training fun is more important than perfection as our puppies are also forming their relationship with their owners at this time; Puppy Experience will provide you with the first steps towards building a great relationship through training!
ENGAGEMENT: Integrating frequent training interludes into play sessions is essential for owners to learn how to get their puppies to pay attention at times when they are distracted and excited. Learn how to calm and re-focus out-of-control puppies is a major reason why owners attend puppy classes. Puppy Experience integrates training into dog-dog play to build engagement and functional real life skills!
Puppy Pre-K
7 months - 1 year
Puppy Pre-K is designed to make the most of your puppy’s transition from early puppyhood into adolescence. This developmental period can be challenging as your puppy experiences many physical, hormonal, and neurological changes. Puppy Pre-K provides an opportunity for puppies to work on vital socialization and communication skills while receiving training for important basic life skills. This 6-week session will also focus on working through behaviors such as loss of self-control, training regressions, increased independence, and building confidence at a time when new fears or sensitivities can surface.
Puppy Class Curriculum
Socialization Neutrality
Training of Age Appropriate Basic Obedience skills
Confidence building
Impulse Control
Training games for engagement!
Puppy class will also cover the AKC S.T.A.R Puppy test items, the first step in the AKC CGC program. Students will be eligible to submit their completed test forms at completion of the class for their puppies first official title!
Puppy Training Package
Ages 10 weeks- 1 year
What better way to set your puppy up for success than providing them with positive experiences at an early age. Our Puppy Training Package starts your pup off in Puppy Experience, a program designed with your puppy’s early development in mind. Provide your puppy with valuable socialization experiences while learning to engage your puppy even in the most distracting situations!
Upon completion of Puppy Experience, your pup is ready to start Puppy Pre-K! While puppies will have the continued opportunity for more neutral socialization, we will also introduce and practice basic skills including those on the AKC S.T.A.R Puppy test. *Puppies will be eligible to submit their titles after graduation.
Our puppy package combines two great classes at a discounted price! Graduates of our puppy training program will also receive a discount on their first class registration following their graduation.
To register for the Puppy Package, select Puppy Experience and choose the ADD ON for Puppy Pre-K. This will automatically register you for both of these valuable puppy classes at a discounted rate!
Jumpstart (Intro) Agility
Puppies Introduction to Agility
Puppy Jumpstart provides puppies ages 4-9 months with an introduction to the sport of dog Agility. Puppies will be introduced to age appropriate exercises and skills in preparation for entering Agility Foundations classes.
Body Awareness
Confidence Building
Handler Engagement
Foundation Sport Skills
Strength and Coordination