4-Week Foundational Puppy Training

• For puppies 8-12 weeks old
• Includes:
  • Potty training
  • Snuggle Puppy
  • Rabies vaccination, tag, and paperwork (at 12 weeks old)
• Commands:
  • Learning to respond to their name and to look at you when called
  • Come
  • Sit
  • Leave It
  • Words such as ‘good boy,’ ‘good girl,’ and ‘good,’
  • How to follow lures and accept ‘kibble’ as treats.

As you may have read from some of our past training articles about the puppy imprint period, you know the time frame is from 6 to 16 weeks old. Why? Because six weeks old is when the puppies’ personalities begin to develop, and they begin truly exploring their world.

During this period, puppies are super responsive to learning patterns. Getting them started on the pattern of working for their people and learning that people are going to ask things of them is incredibly important.

Crate-training:

Let us lose sleep, so you don’t have to! This teaches the puppy they can be alone and is their first experience away from their litter. During Crate-training, your puppy will learn

• To go into their crate on command
• They will be in and out of their crates multiple times daily.
• To be quiet in the crate

Potty Training:

Potty and house-training are not the same as crate-training and require additional hours, particularly in the first 2 weeks of training.

Yielding to the leash:

Our puppies are familiar with collars from the age of four weeks as that’s what we use to identify them so our families can tell them apart as they receive pictures and videos each week.

But add a leash to that? Your puppy’s instinct will be to pull, which you don’t want. So, in these early days, the puppy will begin to understand the feel of the leash attached to their collars. While no puppy is completely leash trained at twelve weeks old, they have a solid foundation to understand what to do when it’s on.

We will begin to work with your puppy on learning to walk on a leash properly, though it will take longer than four weeks. The skills they learn in the proctored basic puppy training program to walk on a leash will take continued practice once they get to their new home.

Every week, twice to three times per week, you’ll receive video updates, detailed documentation of your pup’s progress, and comments from the proctor trainer.

*Spaces are limited, so make sure to reserve your puppy’s spot!