K9 Mania is excited to offer our new Foundation Puppy Training Program! Our private, in-home puppy training focuses on positive reinforcement helping you reach the full potential with your new puppy from an early age. Our training is both fun and effective for you and your dog. The goal is to establish a strong loving bond and excellent communication with your puppy from the start. Throughout the training we will use controlled environments as well as real life experiences. The training combined with your practice, will help your dog achieve consistent behaviors regardless of the surrounding to ultimately live a happier life with your dog!
Your will learn how to address these behavior and more
Crate Training and Potty Training
Chewing
Puppy Biting
Socialization
Whining
Jumping on People

Week 1 – Building a Foundation
Automatic focus
Mark and reward
Hand Target
Sit
Week 2 – Establishing Trust
On the leash
(leash skills and loose leash walking)Pet/ don’t pet
Handling/ Desensitizing
Week 3- Controlling Impulse
- Take it
Leave it
Drop it
Wait/ Stay
Week 4 – Creating a Safe Environment
- go to place/crate
safe of leash encounters
- Come/Recall
Week 5 – Developing Consistency
Differentiating Visual and Verbal cues
Down
Combining Cues – come when called with sit
Week 6 – Bonding with your Best Friend
- come when calling with a long line
- puppy push-ups
trick training – giving paw
Each session is one hour and is once a week to take place in your home.
There will be daily homework and the whole family is encouraged to be included in the training. Although training will be carried out on that day, puppies can get tired very quickly, so some training may only be able to be explained and not demonstrated on the day. The above curriculum is a sample and we can also custom tailor the training to your puppy. It can take more than 6 weeks to cover all the topics depending on your puppy and the time that you put in. We cover mild basic puppy behavior modification any others we will need more sessions
If you are looking to be proactive, or want to get started now, contact us for more details and current availability.