Puppy Training Program
Our proven puppy training program is expertly designed to make the crucial weeks from 8 to 16 of your puppy’s life a breeze. These weeks are vital to your puppy’s development, laying the foundation for a well-behaved, happy, and confident dog. Let us handle the challenging aspects of training, ensuring you and your have a solid foundation on crate, potty, obedience and house training. Our program consists of 4 checkpoints. Each puppy completes Checkpoint 1 before leaving the nursery!
Let Us Help…Trained Doodle Puppies
(Check Point 1)
We prefer to keep our puppies until at least 10 weeks old. From the 8-10 week period, each puppy is enrolled in our complementary Trained Doodle Puppy- Check Point 1 where we begin to imprint and shape their behavior. We encourage all of our families to consider enrolling in additional training in order to make the puppy phase as stress free as possible! We love helping our puppy families succeed!
- Early Socialization: socialization begins at 3 days old!
- Early Crate Training: 2-3 hours of crate time each day
- Early Potty Training: early potty training OUTSIDE starts at 4 weeks old!
(Check Point 2)
Puppies who have completed our training Check Point 2 have mastered the following skills:
- Crate Training: 4-6 hours, self soothing skills
- Potty Training: established “go potty” keyword, expectation 50%
- Leash Training: loose leash, minimal tugging, repsonds to correction
- Obedience Training: proficient in commands “place“, “sit”, “down”, “come”, “leave-it”, “kennel” (walks in alone). We teach your puppy not to jump, rather sit to say please!
- Fully Vaccinated: completed all puppy vaccines (No back and forth to the vet for vaccines. Each trip averages $250!)
(Check Point 3)
Puppies who have complete our training Check Point 3 are 16 weeks + and have mastered the following skills:
- Crate Training: sleeping through the night
- Potty Training: established “go potty” keyword, expectation 75%
- Leash Training: loose leash, minimal tugging, repsonds to correction
- Obedience Training: proficient in commands “place”, “sit”, “down”, “come”, “leave-it”, “kennel” (walks in alone). We teach your puppy not to jump, rather sit to say please!
- Puppy is proficient without treats and in settings with more distraction.
- Public Socialization: Puppy has been socialized in public places like Tractor Supply, Home Depot, public parks, etc.
- Fully Vaccinated: completed all puppy vaccines (No back and forth to the vet for vaccines. Each trip averages $200!)
(Check Point 4)
Puppies who have completed our training Check Point 4 are usually 24 weeks + and have mastered the following skills:
- Crate Training: sleeping through the night
- Potty Training: established “go potty” keyword, expectation 90%. The last 10% of potty training must be done in the puppy’s forever home.
- Leash Training: loose leash, minimal tugging, repsonds to correction
- Obedience Training: proficient in commands “place”, “sit”, “down”, “come”, “leave-it”, “kennel” (walks in alone). We teach your puppy not to jump, rather sit to say please!
- Puppy is proficient without treats and in settings with more distraction.
- Public Socialization: Puppy has been socialized in public places like Tractor Supply, Home Depot, public parks, etc.
- Fully Vaccinated: completed all puppy vaccines (No back and forth to the vet for vaccines. Each trip averages $200!)
- Neutered/Spayed: Let us take care of this, too. Fully trained, fully vaccinated, fully loved, spayed/neutered, turn key doodle puppy.
Nick and I have been blessed with the opportunity to create a life in which our commitment to family, community, love of animals and passion for sustainable living has made it possible to raise beautiful happy pups for their forever families. We’ve just finished building our ‘new digs’ and this incredible home and state of the art dog breeding facility helps us do what we do best… take care of these sweet pups and their parents. We would love to show you around sometime!