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Your dog lives and trains with me for two to six weeks, then comes home to a handler who knows how to keep it. The second half of that sentence is the part most programs skip.
Dogs do not learn in hour-long blocks. They learn in five and ten-minute reps spread across a day, in enough different places that the behavior stops depending on the room it was taught in.
That is the advantage of board and train: I can give your dog six or eight short sessions a day in a rotation of environments, which is more structured practice in a week than most working owners can manage in three months. It is not magic, it is just volume applied properly.
Which one you need comes out of the assessment. I would rather move you down a track than sell you a longer one.
For a dog with decent foundations that has drifted, or a young dog that needs its manners installed properly the first time.
The one most dogs need. Enough time to build the behavior and then generalize it somewhere that actually counts.
For off-lead reliability, harder distraction thresholds, or a service dog candidate that needs a concentrated foundation block.
Every track includes: a written intake and training plan, photo and video updates every few days, a full written report at the end, and thirty days of email support once your dog is home.
Here is the honest failure mode of board and train, and any trainer who does not warn you about it is not being straight with you: the dog goes home trained, the household goes back to what it was doing, and within a month the dog is back where it started.
The dog is not the hard part. Changing what happens in your kitchen at six in the evening is the hard part. So the handover lessons are non-negotiable, and I would rather you booked a shorter track and actually did the follow-through than a longer one you treated as a drop-off.
I run the dog through everything it now knows, and explain what I am doing and why at each step.
You take the lead and I coach your timing, your mechanics, and your criteria until it is yours.
A written maintenance plan, plus thirty days of email support for the questions that only surface at home.
On dogs I turn away: I do not take dogs with a history of biting people into board and train. It is not a fit for a group living situation and it is not fair to the dog. If that is your situation, email me anyway — I will point you toward a veterinary behaviorist who handles it properly.
Board and train runs with a small number of dogs at a time, so dates book out ahead. Send me your dog's details and what you are hoping to change.
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