General outline for training:
While all training is customized to meet your and your dog's needs, our general outline is as follows:
| WEEK ONE: | Address any behavioral problems, such as jumping up, chewing, digging, counter surfing, housebreaking, ect. Start the basics of walking on a LOOSE leash, ("heel") without pulling or dragging you down the road, and we start work on "sit," and "sit-stay." |
| WEEK TWO: | Continue with week one material, add hand signals for "sit" and "heel", start "down" and "down-stay." "Down-stay" will progress each week adding more time and duration, up to a half an hour by week five. Distractions get added each week as well. |
| WEEK THREE: | This week we learn about not going into the street, ever, without permission. |
| WEEK FOUR: | Start "Come" and distance control. |
| WEEK FIVE: | We start transitioning to complete off-leash heeling and other commands learned earlier. |
| WEEK SIX: | We go off lead, all commands learned in the first five weeks! |
| WEEK SEVEN: | Poison proofing. We teach your dog that he is never to pick up anything off the ground and eat it! |
Again, this is a general outline. I customize all training to meet your specific goals and needs.
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