Why Get A Trained Puppy?
Taking home your new four legged friend is a joyful and fulfilling experience for the whole family! However once being home, many find that a four legged friend is more than just sweet cuddles and adorable selfies. Your new friend must learn the rules of your home, this is when training begins. Many owners find difficulty raising a well mannered and obedient pampered pooch. Unless you have countless hours to commit to the training needed, your pooch will begin to pick up bad habits, causing frustration for your home and family. Once you commit to the education and well being of your puppy, you can see true results within their mannerisms and balance in their everyday life. This helps to set your puppy for success for the rest of their days!
Leave The hassle to US!
Here at Happytail Puppies, our training programs focus on your puppy learning new skills and traits in a home environment with skilled professionals. You new pooch is treated like our family! We can help to eliminate the hassles of puppyhood. We work to mold a foundation you can easily build upon. With this comes life long success for both you and your new puppy. Puppies are babies! They require stimulation and guidance to shape them in to life long partners. Once you enroll your puppy, your mind can be at ease that they will be nurtured to begin the foundations for them to flourish.
Our training programs have been designed to give your puppy every opportunity to express themselves while sculpting them into cultivating individuals. Our training focuses on Positive Reinforcement, Behavioral Science, and Psychology. We use different reward techniques for our positive reinforcement which includes dog clickers, treats, and toy tosses! This helps to encourage and stimulate your puppy to enjoy their training sessions. The psychology of your puppy will be assessed to best determine the approach of our training. Just like humans, every puppy learns differently! This makes the experience of training easier on both you and your puppy!
Happytail Professional Training
We offer a variety of programs. Each of our programs are an in-boarding program where your puppy will be living in the homes of their trainer to best acclimate them to home environments. We offer; two week, four, six, and 8 week programs. Below is each program broken down into detail so that you can choose the program that best suits you.
We now offer Private Appointments for assessment are available for AKC Testing for Canine Good Citizen (CGC) and for Emotional Support. Please contact one of our Puppy Care Consultants for more information.
Programs:
2 - Week Training - $1495
This Program is our minimum requirement for enrollment available. The two week program begins introducing common terminology and basic obedience comprehension.This training program will require more work and reinforcement at home but it provides a foundation of behavior as a starting point.
Commands Introduced:
- “Sit” - Sit On Your Bottom
- “Come” or “Here” - Come To Me
- Lay - Lay Down
- Yes - That Is The Correct Behavior I Am Looking For
- No - This Is Incorrect Behavior
Name Recognition:
- You can inform your trainer of the new name you have chosen for your puppy
Crate Training:
- With the Two Week Program, this teaches you puppy that the crate is a safe place and their personal home
- Our trainers use our Poo Palace system and Play Pens.
Beginner Leash Manners:
- Introducing your puppy to the harness and leash
4 - Week Training - $2995
This Program is our most popular program! The Four Week Program is more progressive and minimizes the work you will have to do at home. This begins to instill the characteristics of a “trained” puppy. This program will inable your puppy to be more independent with commands and mannerisms.
Commands Introduced:
- “Sit” - Sit On Your Bottom
- “Come” or “Here” - Come To Me
- Lay - Lay Down
- Yes - That Is The Correct Behavior I Am Looking For
- No - This Is Incorrect Behavior
- Stay - Stay where you are
- Drop it - Drop anything they decide to put into their mouth
Name Recognition:
- You can inform your trainer of the new name you have chosen for your puppy
Handling:
- Allows the puppy to feel comfortable when being picked up and handled by family members, Groomers, and Veterinarians
- The puppy will be comfortable with their faces, feet, ears, and tail to be touched and handled
Crate Training:
- Teaches you puppy that the crate is a safe place and their personal home
- Your puppy will be taught to minimize and crying or barking while in the crate.
- Your puppy will be taught to minimize any potty accidents while in their crate.
- Our trainers use our Poo Palace system and Play Pens.
House Manners:
- No jumping - Puppies will try to jump on you for attention which later in adulthood is no longer as cute! We will work to prevent and correct this habit.
- No nipping - puppies are teething so they love to use their mouths to communicate! This can form a bad habit and the four week program will work to prevent it.
Leash Manners:
- Introducing your puppy to the harness and leash
- Begin starting to walk on a leash
- Familiarizes your puppy to wear a collar
- Walking with you while on the leash
Establishing Routines:
Our trainers will begin a routine that they will use daily during the length of the training program. This includes:
- Potty training routine
- Meal time routine
- Bedtime routine
Potty Training:
Our trainers will begin the lengthy process of correcting your puppy from potty within your house on the floors, within the crate, or furniture. Our trainers can work with either potty pad training and/or outside training. Please advise your trainer of your preference.
6 - Week Training - $4495
The Six Week Training Program is amongst our top rated training programs. Your puppy will appear to be a super star once arriving home! Your puppy most complete a full six weeks before being eligible for our CGC certification. With this program, your puppy will begin to master their commands and exceed your expectations.
Commands Introduced:
- “Sit” - Sit On Your Bottom
- “Come” or “Here” - Come To Me
- Lay - Lay Down
- Yes - That Is The Correct Behavior I Am Looking For
- No - This Is Incorrect Behavior
- Stay - Stay where you are
- Drop it - Drop anything they decide to put into their mouth
- Okay - Release word so that they know the training session or request is over
- Leave it - Informs the puppy they are near or into something off limits.
Name Recognition:
- You can inform your trainer of the new name you have chosen for your puppy
- Will come when called by name
Handling:
- Allows the puppy to feel comfortable when being picked up and handled by family members, Groomers, and Veterinarians
- The puppy will be comfortable with their faces, feet, ears, and tail to be touched and handled
- The puppy will not react if pulled or tugged on - especially by a young child.
Crate Training:
- Teaches you puppy that the crate is a safe place and their personal home
- Your puppy will be taught to not cry or bark while in the crate.
- Your puppy will be taught to not potty while in their crate.
- Our trainers use our Poo Palace system and Play Pens.
House Manners:
- No jumping - Puppies will try to jump on you for attention which later in adulthood is no longer as cute! We will work to prevent and correct this habit.
- No nipping - puppies are teething so they love to use their mouths to communicate! This can form a bad habit and the four week program will work to prevent it.
- No Barking - Puppy will be taught to minimize any playful barks or being yappy within your home.
Leash Manners:
- Introducing your puppy to the harness and leash
- Begin starting to walk on a leash
- Familiarizes your puppy to wear a collar
- Walking with you while on the leash
- Learn to wait and sit when you stop walking
- No tugging or pulling on the leash. They will learn to walk beside you and not in front of you.
Establishing Routines:
Our trainers will begin a routine that they will use daily during the length of the training program. This includes:
- Potty training routine
- Meal time routine
- Bedtime routine
- Play and training routines
- Nap routines
Potty Training:
Our trainers will begin the lengthy process of correcting your puppy from potty within your house on the floors, within the crate, or furniture. Our trainers can work with either potty pad training and/or outside training. Please advise your trainer of your preference. With the six week program, your puppy’s chances of going home and still having an occasional accident is minimized. Your puppy will also be taught to hold their potty until it is time to go outside.
8 - Week Training - $5995
The eight week training program is our top tier training. With the eight week program you are eligible for the CGC certification. This program is also the most sought after for emotional support training for your new puppy. With eight weeks of training, you leave all of the puppyhood hassles. This program allows for the least amount of work you will be needing to do at home with your new puppy.
Commands Introduced:
- Sit - Sit On Your Bottom
- “Come” or “Here” - Come To Me
- Lay - Lay Down
- Yes - That Is The Correct Behavior I Am Looking For
- No - This Is Incorrect Behavior
- Stay - Stay where you are
- Drop it - Drop anything they decide to put into their mouth
- Okay - Release word so that they know the training session or request is over
- Leave it - Informs the puppy they are near or into something off limits.
- “Crate” or “place” - Tells your puppy they need to go to wither their crate or their bed.
With the eight week program, your puppy will be more precise with their commands.
Name Recognition:
- You can inform your trainer of the new name you have chosen for your puppy
- Will come when called by name
Handling:
- Allows the puppy to feel comfortable when being picked up and handled by family members, Groomers, and Veterinarians
- The puppy will be comfortable with their faces, feet, ears, and tail to be touched and handled
- The puppy will not react if pulled or tugged on - especially by a young child.
Crate Training:
- Teaches you puppy that the crate is a safe place and their personal home
- Your puppy not cry or bark while in the crate.
- Your puppy will not potty in their crate.
- Our trainers use our Poo Palace system and Play Pens.
House Manners:
- No jumping - Puppies will try to jump on you for attention which later in adulthood is no longer as cute! We will work to prevent and correct this habit.
- No nipping - puppies are teething so they love to use their mouths to communicate! This can form a bad habit and the four week program will work to prevent it.
- No Barking - Puppy will be taught to minimize any playful barks or being yappy within your home.
- Your new puppy will also learn to sit on their bottom for attention and affection.
Leash Manners:
- Introducing your puppy to the harness and leash
- Begin starting to walk on a leash
- Familiarizes your puppy to wear a collar
- Walking with you while on the leash
- Learn to wait and sit when you stop walking
- No tugging or pulling on the leash. They will learn to walk beside you and not in front of you.
- Beginning working off leash with commands.
Establishing Routines:
Our trainers will begin a routine that they will use daily during the length of the training program. This includes:
- Potty training routine
- Meal time routine
- Bedtime routine
- Play and training routines
- Nap routines
Potty Training:
Our trainers will begin the lengthy process of correcting your puppy from potty within your house on the floors, within the crate, or furniture. Our trainers can work with either potty pad training and/or outside training. Please advise your trainer of your preference. With the eight week program, your puppy’s chances of going home and still having an occasional accident is minimized. Your puppy will also be taught to hold their potty until it is time to go outside. We begin imprinting on your puppy to learn to become a better communicator to notify you when it is time for them to go out and potty. This may be done with sitting and waiting or ringing a bell. Please notify your trainer if ringing a bell is something you would be interested in.
