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Two-Week Foundations
The Stay
Manners First, Everything Else After
Foundations is the reset button: fourteen nights where your dog learns the six behaviors daily life actually runs on. Name recognition, a marker that means “yes,” sit, down, place, and a leash that stays loose past squirrels, strollers, and the neighbor’s cat.
Your dog lives in the trainer’s house, not a kennel run, so every behavior is practiced where it will be used — at doors, at meals, on the sofa boundary, in the crate overnight. You watch it happen in the daily video, bad reps included, and the stay ends with two lessons at your house so the manners transfer to you.
This is the right stay for dogs starting from zero, adolescent dogs whose training slid backwards, and rescue dogs that need a clean, calm routine before anything advanced is layered on.
Included
What The Fourteen Nights Buy
Everything below is in the price. There are no add-ons, no training-collar upsells, and no surprise “behavioral fees” at pick-up.
Check Availability- Name, marker, sit, down, and place — fluent indoors first
- Loose-leash foundations around the property and the street
- Crate routine and overnight settle that survives the trip home
- Door, mealtime, and greeting manners with real visitors
- Daily video, a written maintenance plan, and two go-home lessons
- Ninety days of messaging after pick-up
The Fortnight
How The Two Weeks Run
Days 1–2 — Decompress
No real training. Your dog learns the house rhythm, the crate, and the yard, and we learn what motivates them — food, play, sniffing, or all three.
Days 3–9 — Install
Short sessions stack the core behaviors indoors first, where success is cheap. Place gets long, down gets calm, and the leash work starts on the quiet property loop.
Days 10–14 — Proof & Hand Over
Skills move to the street, the park edge, and around visitors. Then two lessons at your house transfer every cue to you, on your leash, in your rooms.
Good To Know
Foundations Questions
For core manners, yes — installed behaviors plus a household that keeps them up. If you want off-leash reliability or help with reactivity, that is the three-week program, and we will say so at the phone assessment rather than sell you this one twice.
Five months and up. Younger pups belong in Puppy Head Start, which is built around socialization windows and short attention spans rather than duration behaviors.
Message us — ninety days of support is included, and most slides are fixed with one video call. If the transfer genuinely is not holding, the third lesson is free, and graduates can always book a Refresher Stay.
Four Places At A Time
Start With Foundations
Tell us your dog’s age and what you want changed. We will confirm Foundations is the right fit, quote the exact price, and offer the first open date.