Board & Train.
Built For Your Dog.
An immersive, personalized training experience designed around your dog's needs, your goals, and the skills that matter most in everyday life.
Individualized Training
Every stay is customized around your dog's needs, temperament, training history, and goals.
Real-World Skills
Training focuses on skills that can transfer into your dog's everyday life.
Structured Routine
Daily structure, repetition, enrichment, and clear expectations help dogs make progress.
Training & Transfer
We don't just train your dog. We show you how to maintain their progress at home.
Not Every Dog Needs
The Same Training.
There is no set list of skills every dog needs to learn. Your dog's Board & Train is built around their age, temperament, training history, behaviour, and your goals.
Depending on your dog, their training may focus on obedience, leash skills, recall, confidence, household manners, neutrality, reactivity, or a combination of several training goals.
Training In Real Life.
Your dog lives with us in our home and is immersed in our daily routine. From structured training sessions to walks, downtime, enrichment, and everyday household situations, we use the entire stay as an opportunity to build reliable skills that transfer to life at home.
What We Can Work On
Your dog's training plan may include one or several of the following areas, depending on what they need most.
Obedience
Building reliable responses, focus, engagement, and communication.
Leash Manners
Improving walking skills, engagement, and behaviour around everyday distractions.
Recall
Developing a more reliable response when called, including around distractions.
Off-Leash Reliability
Building control, responsiveness, and engagement in appropriate off-leash environments.
Household Manners
Creating calmer, more appropriate behaviour and clearer expectations at home.
Puppy Foundations
Building confidence, engagement, boundaries, crate skills, and everyday manners.
Confidence Building
Helping dogs develop confidence and better coping skills in challenging situations.
Neutrality
Teaching dogs to remain calm and focused around people, dogs, and other distractions.
Reactivity
Working toward calmer, more appropriate responses around triggers and difficult situations.
How Long Does Your Dog Need?
Board & Train is priced at $800 per week. The appropriate length depends on your dog's needs, your goals, and how much training is required.
2 Weeks
A good starting point for dogs working on foundational skills and everyday manners.
- Basic obedience
- Leash manners
- Puppy foundations
- Household manners
- Crate work
- Slip lead or Herm Sprenger Prong Collar
- Place cot
- Mini Educator E-Collar available as an add-on
3 Weeks
More time to develop, practice, and reinforce multiple skills in different environments.
- Reliable recall
- Off-leash reliability
- More advanced obedience
- Multiple training goals
- Greater reliability around distractions
- Slip lead or Herm Sprenger Prong Collar
- Mini Educator E-Collar
- Place cot
4–6 Weeks
Typically recommended for dogs requiring more extensive behaviour modification, rehabilitation, or confidence-building.
- Reactivity
- Behavioural concerns
- Significant confidence issues
- More complex training goals
- More extensive rehabilitation
- Slip lead or Herm Sprenger Prong Collar
- Mini Educator E-Collar
- Place cot
Not Sure How Long Your Dog Needs?
You don't have to choose.
After reviewing your free online assessment, we'll recommend an appropriate training length based on your dog's individual needs, your goals, and their training history.
Your dog isn't placed into a predetermined program. We determine the training plan based on the dog in front of us.
GET YOUR FREE TRAINING RECOMMENDATIONYour Dog's Training Journey
01 — Free Online Assessment
Tell us about your dog, your goals, and the challenges you are experiencing. We'll review your information and recommend an appropriate Board & Train length.
02 — Customized Training
Your dog's stay is built around their individual needs and goals. Training priorities can be adjusted as we see how your dog responds and progresses.
03 — Training & Transfer
Before your dog goes home, we'll walk you through the skills they've developed, the expectations moving forward, and how to maintain their training in everyday life. Lifelong text and email support is also included, so you can reach out with questions or guidance as you continue your dog's training at home.
Ready To Build More Reliable Skills?
Start with a free online assessment and let us help determine the right training approach and duration for your dog.
COMPLETE YOUR FREE ONLINE ASSESSMENT