Customized Private and Personal Training Series Package. Private lessons ar essential because we are working with one dog and one family at a time. We meet consistently for the first 9 months so there's less chance for you or your dog, to fail or get stuck. Then I motivate and educate you to to maintain the skills you will initially teach your dog to maintain reliable behaviors for the life of the dog.

The Prevention Life Time Package:

• Eight private weekly lessons (minimum 2 hours each session)
• I come to your home for three consecutive weeks of daily private sessions with your dog while you’re at work.
• weekly sessions with you and your dog during the 3 weeks to keep you trained as well
• Six monthly private sessions with you and your dog.
• A lifetime of drop-in lessons
• Small group puppy pounces
• Ongoing E-mail support - especially during the adolescent years when a dog is between the ages of 4 months to 3 years. This is when many humans find themselves struggling.
• Diet, Exercise, Spay/Neuter education and overall health.
• How to keep your dog fit and prevent: ACL and Meniscus tears, which often result in TPLO surgery.
• Preparation for new baby or additional family dog
• On going discounted bi-weekly mid-day exercise and training visits while you are at work.
• on-going discounted lessons
• THE THIRD WAY Training Manual. You will end up with a book.
• Discounted pet care when on vacation

To facilitate the learning process, I have developed a very successful and unusual system that results in desirable behavior and reliable skills.

It is my experience those who have true lifelong success with their dogs are those who invest consistently in education the first 2 years they have them.
 
It just doesn't’t happen if you only participate in a group class once or twice in your dog’s life.

I will personally teach you and your dog, and then we will proof the skills.

• Teach: introduce a new skill
• Proof: test your dog’s performance of the skill by adding distractions
• Rehearse: the skill is now a “piece of cake” for your dog

During your initial training, (if you do your homework) you and your dog will become proficient in my foundation skills:

• Eye Contact game
• Sit/Maintain game
• The Walk Away game

  Then we will focus on whatever individual behaviors you choose, such as walking next to you on a loose leash, coming when called and waiting instead if bolting out of your car.

First we meet for 8 consecutive weeks, once a week, to begin teaching you and your dog the foundations skills (think private class series) which include:

1. Name recognition
2. Socialization(Exposure to the environment and other pups)
3. Potty training
4. Crate/Confinement training game
5. Bite Inhibition
6. How to play appropriately and creatively exercise your dog
7. Relax game (how to tolerate human handling)
8. Eye Contact (Focused Attention)
9. Sit/Maintain (self imposed-impulse control)
10. Walk Away game(Leave It) relinquish the environment
11. Drop It
12. Down maintain
13. The Recall (Coming When Called)
14. How to walk on a leash
15. Tricks (like backing up away from the front door)

Once a dog learns skills, they must be maintained for life with daily rehearsal in real life situations. Dogs never forget but learning does diminish, especially if the human is inconsistent.

Once our 8 weeks of building the foundations skills is completed then I will come to your home every day while you are at work to proof your dog for three consecutive weeks (excluding Sundays). I will work with your dog daily while you are at work and I will meet with the whole family once a week during this period.  This will enable you to maintain and practice the skills for continued “Success”. 

Whatever behaviors you choose to focus on, exercises are incorporated into the dog’s day, giving your dog a much needed outlet to use their brain and body.

Daily lessons performed in this manner enable your dog to make rapid progress. Daily lessons emphasizing steady, incremental improvements are the fastest way to go for serious results.

Finally six monthly follow-up sessions are scheduled so that we may maintain and prevent getting stuck. Consultation concerning home management and continued consistency of your dog plays a large part in the success of the program.

This all takes place over a 9 month period followed by unlimited drop-in lessons for the rest of the dog’s life.

There is daily homework and some reading. I am training the dog and I will train you. I walk you through every sequence to make sure that you have all the skills necessary to manage, train and motivate your dog. I also help you stay motivated so that you don’t quit working with your dog after the lessons are completed. This is equivalent of participating in several group series.