Bribing your dog with food or forcing will not work. You need to get your dog to cooperate.

This is written to be informative and helpful. Implementing all these leadership guidelines may not be appropriate or easy without the proper training and can even make matters worse for you and your dog. Feel free to contact us with your questions or concerns.

Obedience Training

Contains many levels, including: Beginner, Intermediate and Andvanced.

Beginner: Usually puppies take this course, we recommend begining classes when the puppy first comes home. Some of the objects that we teach in beginner obedience is sit, stay, heel, come, down, leave it, and stand. Older dogs may take this course as well. Adopted Pets from shelters or Rescues get discounts.*

Intermediate: This course is taken after a dog or puppy completes the beginner level course. In this course the dog or puppy learns blind comes, blind stays, targeting the handler and looking to the handler for direction. After the dog or puppy has completed this course they may go on to advanced obedience.

Advanced: This course is taken after the dog or puppy completes the intermediate level course. In this course dogs and puppies must learn to immediately look to their handler for direction. The handler will be working with the dog or puppy on an leash, but will not be able to hold onto the leash. After this course is complete handlers may decide to take Off-Leash courses to continue training.

Guidelines to training a dog properly

1. Never hit or yell at your dog. It almost always makes problems worse.
2. Feed dog(s) on schedule, twice daily. Leave food down only for 20 minutes.
3. You decide when, and if, your dog greets friends, strangers and other dogs.
4. You initiate and end play.
5. You decide when, and if, you pet you dog.
6. Do not bend down or over while giving commands.
7. Don't repeat commands you can't enforce, i.e., "sit, sit, sit, sit, sit sit sit."
8. Do not get louder and louder when giving commands. Be firm, not loud.
9. Use the "Down" command often. "Down" makes your dog respect you because it is a submissive position.
10. Don't let your dog muscle you, block your way, or lay on you feet.
11.  Hitting or yelling almost always makes bad behavior worse and always causes more problems.