Service Description

5-Week Team Training Course, complete with a graduation day and a super fun puppy social! Experience the sheer delight of teaching your furry family member essential, real-life skills that will transform him into a well-behaved member of your family and community regardless of age, size, breed, or experience! 101 Pet Parenting Team Training is a positive reinforcement group class curricula for pet parents to practice and showcase real-life skills with their canine companions starting with mastering the fundamentals in this fun, relaxed, & safe learning environment. The cues, behaviors, and skills you and your Pup will learn in this 101 Pet Parenting Team Training Course will serve as the building blocks for more advanced dog training seen in Pet Parenting 102, 103 & 104 Team Training. So, building a strong foundation of basic obedience cues like "sit” with implied stay, “down”, “come here”, and “bed”, is crucial as these serve as building blocks for more complex behaviors and skills such as loose leash walking and impulse control amongst household and environmental distractions. Together, we will master the fundamentals of basic obedience ensuring your Pup reliably performs essential cues & manners in various environments and with varying distractions using positive reinforcement methods, such as treats, praise, and toys, to motive your puppy and reward desired behaviors. You, as his Pet Parent, will learn to be consistent with your verbal, hand, & leash cues while always maintaining patience & positivity throughout the training process. First, we will “shape” behaviors by breaking down the complex cue, behavior, or skill into smaller, manageable steps and rewarding each successive approximation of the desired behavior using a positive reinforcement to guide your puppy into the desired position or action, then gradually fading out the lure as he learns the behavior. Once your Pup has mastered individual desired behaviors, you will link the behavior to its corresponding verbal, hand, and/or leash cue followed by the start of combining them to create more complex sequences, such as "sit” into “down” & “down” into “stand”. Finally, we will work on generalization and maintenance by practicing cues, skills & behaviors in different locations and with varying distractions to ensure your Pup generalizes the learned behaviors. Occasionally reinforce learned behaviors to maintain them over time, and your furry family member will be good to go anywhere!