Erie, Colorado 80516
VIRTUAL TRAINING
$150 for 75 minute phone call
Whether you want guidance preparing for a new dog's arrival, or if you need advice with the dog(s) that you already have, we'd love to help give you pride and confidence in your dog's reliable behaviors!
TOPICS COMMONLY DISCUSSED:
- Preparing for your new puppy
- Potty Training
- Crate training
- Loose leash walking/pulling on leash
- Leash Reactivity
- Excessive barking
- How to socialize your dog
- Calm greetings, stop jumping on people
- Teaching door boundaries and permission to exit thresholds (car, home, kennel, gates)
- Confidence building
- Improve focus and engagement around distractions and competing reinforcers
- How to communicate with the leash
- How to use spatial pressure
- E collar communication
- Guidance for off leash training
- Resource guarding
- Hyperactivity
- Handling issues (grooming/veterinary restraint)
- Teach your dog to be tethered/back-tied
- Mindset work and calmness around dogs and people
- How to trim nails
- Anxiety
- Separation anxiety
- Reactivity
- Fear
- Counter surfing
- Mouthing
- Submissive urination
- Excited urination
- Proper Nutrition
- Teach your dog to jump into the car
- Sit
- Down
- Come
- Place (settle on command, mindset work)
- Heel
- Treadmill training
- Which tools and training collars are best for certain activities and mindsets
- Teach your dog boundaries like staying out of the kitchen
- How to create trust with clear communication, structure and consistency
- How to reinforce desired behaviors
- How to address unwanted behaviors
- Understand what your dog is communicating- learn about dog body language
- How to communicate with your dog with body language and intent
- How to guide and support your dog with proper Leadership
- How to fulfill your dog's fundamental needs of physical exercise, daily structure, social interactions and mental stimulation
- When and how to share affection
- How to keep your dog neutral in public
- How to be consistent and always follow through
- How to create a balanced mindset
- Build a better bond with your dog
PUPPY IMPRINTING PROGRAM
$1,750
Puppy Imprinting Program occurs between age 2-5 months.
Puppies are extremely impressionable in the first few months of their lives. The experiences that they have--good, bad and neutral, will set the tone for how they respond to stimuli for their entire life. It's important to take advantage of creating intentional and safe introductions to many different stimuli to create a confident and stable dog. Training occurs at Erie Dog Co, Inc.
The focus of this course is:
- Intentional positive exposure to a variety of sounds, surfaces, people and environments
- Imprinting for handling , including grooming, nail trim and bath
- Positive crate games
- Potty training
- Name recognition
- Proper socialization
- Confidence building
- Introduction to Come, Sit, Down, Place, Leave it
- Introduction to permission based activities including the front door boundary
- Yield to leash tension
- Follow hand lures
- Address puppy behaviors, such as jumping, biting, mouthing, whining, digging, barking
- Separation anxiety avoidance
- Humans will learn- How to guide your puppy with proper leadership and care, Understand how to read your dog's body language so you can be their protector and set them up for success, How to fulfill your puppy's needs for exercise, structure and mental stimulation, How to reinforce desired behaviors and address undesirable behaviors.
PUPPY IMPRINTING PROGRAM with BOARD AND TRAIN PROGRAM
$6,650
Puppy Imprinting Program occurs between age 2-6 months. and then your dog returns between 6-10 months of age to continue training with our 3-4 week HYBRID board and train program
Puppy Imprinting:
Puppies are extremely impressionable in the first few months of their lives. The experiences that they have--good, bad and neutral, will set the tone for how they respond to stimuli for their entire life. Its important to take advantage of creating intentional and safe introductions to many different stimuli to create a confident and stable dog. Training occurs at Erie Dog Co, Inc.
The focus of this course is:
- Intentional positive exposure to a variety of sounds, surfaces, people and environments
- Imprinting for handling , including grooming, nail trim and bath
- Positive crate games
- Potty training
- Name recognition
- Proper socialization
- Confidence building
- Introduction to Come, Sit, Down, Place, Leave it
- Introduction to permission based activities including the front door boundary
- Yield to leash tension
- Follow hand lures
- Address puppy behaviors, such as jumping, biting, mouthing, whining, digging, barking
- Separation anxiety avoidance
- Humans will learn- How to guide your puppy with proper leadership and care, Understand how to read your dog's body language so you can be their protector and set them up for success, How to fulfill your puppy's needs for exercise, structure and mental stimulation, How to reinforce desired behaviors and address undesirable behaviors.
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Then your pup comes back for their 3-4 week HYBRID board and train (to continue training when they're around 6-10 months old) for Advanced Obedience, Public Access work, Additional Socialization and Off Leash Remote E-Collar Training. There are lessons for the humans to attend, and dogs go home on weekends. Sometimes we'll keep dogs through the weekends if that is essential for the progress of their training. (Typically for more challenging behavior modification cases)
This program includes Complete Raw Food Diet, a $250 remote ecollar from Ecollar Technologies (typically the ET-300 series Mini Educator), Place bed, Herm Sprenger prong collar, leash, bath, nail trims, and 10+ hours of human training.
This is our most popular results-driven program. Let us set you up for success by laying a solid foundation for you to maintain. We will teach your dog essential life skills and advanced obedience commands both on and off leash. More importantly, we will help your dog achieve a balanced mindset and teach them what state of mind they should be in for different activities. For example, we can have an excited mind when running for recall, but we don't want excitement when greeting strangers in public. We like to teach dogs many default behaviors and permission based behaviors so they're not relying on constant prompts or management from people. Not only will they know HOW to perform commands, but they will also know WHEN to offer the behaviors. Your dog will stay overnight for 4 weeks (there are weekly lessons for the humans to attend and dogs go home on weekends), and we'll be out training on leash in town and adventuring off leash on the trails. You will learn the nuances of canine communication, how to support your dog with proper leadership and care and how to fulfill your dog's needs for exercise, structure and daily mental stimulation. The humans will receive about 10 hours of private training . This is an essential part of our success.
Remote E- collar training is only offered in board and train.
The focus of this course is:
- Balanced mindset
- Permission to exit thresholds (car, home, crate)
- Sit
- Down
- Come
- Place (settle on command, mindset work)
- Heel
- Proper socialization
- Confidence building
- Improve focus and engagement around distractions and competing reinforcers
- Resolve any problem behaviors that come up- such as resource guarding, hyperactivity, handling issues, nail trims, anxiety, reactivity, fear, counter surfing, etc
- Your dog will learn several different communication languages such as verbal commands, hand signals, cues from the leash, spatial pressure, and e-collar communication.
- HUMANS WILL LEARN:
- How to maintain training
- How to create trust with clear communication, structure and consistency
- How to reinforce desired behaviors
- How to address unwanted behaviors
- Understand what your dog is communicating
- How to communicate with your dog with body language and intent
- How to guide and support your dog with proper Leadership
- How to fulfill your dog's fundamental needs of physical exercise, daily structure, social interactions and mental stimulation
- When and how to share affection
- How to keep your dog neutral in public
- How to be consistent and always follow through
- Build a better bond with your dog
HYBRID BOARD AND TRAIN PROGRAM (ages 6 months and up)
$5,650 for 3-4 week overnight HYBRID program for Advanced Obedience, Public Access work, Additional Socialization and OFF LEASH Remote E-collar training. There are lessons for the humans to attend, and dogs go home on weekends. Sometimes we'll keep dogs through the weekends if that is essential for the progress of their training. (Typically for more challenging behavior modification cases)
This program includes Complete Raw Food Diet, a $250 remote ecollar from Ecollar Technologies, Place bed, herm sprenger prong collar, leash, bath, nail trims, and 10+ hours of human training.
We specialize in board and train services. This is our most popular results-driven program. Let us set you up for success by laying a solid foundation for you to maintain. We will teach your dog essential life skills and advanced obedience commands both on and off leash. More importantly, we will help your dog achieve a balanced mindset and teach them what state of mind they should be in for different activities. For example, we can have an excited mind when running for recall, but we don't want excitement when greeting strangers in public. We like to teach dogs many default behaviors and permission based behaviors so they're not relying on constant prompts or management from people. Not only will they know HOW to perform commands, but they will also know WHEN to offer the behaviors. Your dog will stay overnight for 4 weeks, (there are weekly lessons for the humans to attend and dogs go home on weekends), we'll be out training on leash in town and adventuring off leash on the trails. You will learn the nuances of canine communication, how to support your dog with proper leadership and care and how to fulfill your dog's needs for exercise, structure and daily mental stimulation. The humans will receive about 10 hours of private training . This is an essential part of our success.
Remote E- collar training is only offered in board and train.
The focus of this course is:
- Balanced mindset
- Permission to exit thresholds (car, home, crate)
- Sit
- Down
- Come
- Place (settle on command, mindset work)
- Heel
- Proper socialization
- Confidence building
- Improve focus and engagement around distractions and competing reinforcers
- Resolve any problem behaviors that come up- such as resource guarding, hyperactivity, handling issues, nail trims, anxiety, reactivity, fear, counter surfing, etc
- Your dog will learn several different communication languages such as verbal commands, hand signals, cues from the leash, spatial pressure, and e-collar communication.
- HUMANS WILL LEARN:
- How to maintain training
- How to create trust with clear communication, structure and consistency
- How to reinforce desired behaviors
- How to address unwanted behaviors
- Understand what your dog is communicating
- How to communicate with your dog with body language and intent
- How to guide and support your dog with proper Leadership
- How to fulfill your dog's fundamental needs of physical exercise, daily structure, social interactions and mental stimulation
- When and how to share affection
- How to keep your dog neutral in public
- How to be consistent and always follow through
- Build a better bond with your dog
MATCHMAKING SERVICES, TEMPERAMENT TESTS, PUPPY SELECTION
$250 for 2 hour consultation and outline of matched breeds OR to join you at local shelter/ rescue/breeder to provide temperament tests. OR help select your puppy from the litter and guide you towards the best match for your needs and lifestyle!
The most common reason that people become frustrated with their dog is because their energy doesn't match their dog's energy. More specifically because the dog's daily requirement for leadership and mental and physical stimulation far exceeds what the human provides. If your dog's needs are not being met, it will be challenging to create a calm, reliable. balanced dog.
There are hundreds of breeds with varying characteristic traits and not every dog is a good fit for every owner. And likewise, the dog that was ideal for you in college may be very different than what's ideal for a busy working professional with kids to tend to.
For example, a first time dog owner that is a busy single mom will likely feel overwhelmed quickly with the needs of a husky puppy.
A person that struggles with anxiety and wants a dog to provide comfort to them should not get a shepherd or herding breed. Why? Where there is no physical threat present that the dog can see, they don’t understand their person’s sudden panicked emotions that are caused by an invisible thought. Intrinsically, dogs do not trust what they don’t understand. Dogs will never follow what they do not trust. Herding breeds tend to become reactive, protective and unstable if they do not have an emotionally stable human. This is why there's such a high wash rate for self trained psychiatric service dogs that are shepherds and herding dogs.
Whether we decide on a purebred or mutt, from a breeder, breed specific rescue group, or a local shelter or rescue group, I'd love to help make a match! I'm happy to go to a shelter with you and do temperament tests on the dogs, too. I used to do this biweekly when I selected service dogs from local shelters when I worked at International Hearing Dog, Inc.