Obedience Classes
Puppy Foundations
28 Day Intensive Training
56 Day Intensive Training
Private Training Sessions, Consultations and Leadership Programs
Pet Food and Supplies
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Obedience Classes
Required Equipment:
- 6 foot nylon or leather leash
- A treat pouch or fanny pack to hold training rewards - something that will fit around your waist. No plastic bags please
- A nylon or leather collar or halti
- Please bring a hungry dog to class. Skip your dogs meal closest to class time. We promise you'll be feeding them well once you arrive for class.
- NO CHOKE CHAINS OR MARTINGALE COLLARS PLEASE!
Puppy Foundations
(for puppies under 16 weeks)
The puppy foundations course is four weeks in length and capitalizes on this critical development period by teaching you while your puppy is still a sponge! There is no time limit placed on the first class. The last 3 classes are 1 hour long.
Your four private classes cover:
- Socialization to your life both in your home and outside
- Handling Exercises
- Preventative Training for Resource Guarding - a natural behaviour we don't want
- Predatory Games
- Bathroom Training
- Puppy Biting/Mouthing
- Sit, Down, Walking on a loose Leash & Come
- Understanding and providing for the 'Nature of the Beast' - the beginning of understanding dog body language
- The secret to raising the calm, confident, socialized fun dog of your dreams
Four weeks include: four private sessions in your home and 6 weeks of Puppy Help Hot line.
Your first home visit covers:
- Assisting you in establishing structure in your home.
- Where to set up your crate.
- Stopping destructive behaviour.
- Obedience will begin.
- Discuss feeding schedule.
- Review your schedule to socialize your dog to everything outside your home and off your property
Your last home visit covers:
- An assessment of how close you are to being able to "set your puppy free"in your home for good and how to do that without mistakes.
- We teach you the bond between what we taught you to get done inside your home with your puppy first and how that transfers now into better obedience and behavior outside your home.
This course is absolutely the most important, time sensitive, course we teach. More than your puppy- its about getting the information to YOU while your puppy is still so very young, so you can begin to shape wonderful behavior to last a lifetime!
Building the Comfort Zone- beginner level
(for dogs over 16 weeks)
Dogs must be socialized with humans public situations and other dogs in order to attend and succeed. Why? Because our heel work is done in a very busy city environment. Why? So the command will be successful in all kinds of distracting public situations. This 6-week beginner obedience course includes 10 sessions and covers the basics
- Heel
- Sit, Down
- Stay
- Recall
- Recall from a distraction
- Tug of war
- Retrieve
- How dogs learn
- What your role in training is
- Successful enjoyable communication with your dog.
- Understanding your dog's body language
The 10 sessions are:
- 6 private one hour training sessions- same day same time for 6 weeks.
- 2 Heel sessions in week 1
- 2 Heel sessions in week 2
What are Heel sessions? Heel sessions are 20 – 30 minutes in length and arranged at class one or after. These sessions are designed to give our clients maximum support for this very important command for the city dog and are always held in distracting situations weather permitting. Heel sessions are never held on class day and can be re-arranged easily if conflicts in schedule arise.
Our course attracts both beginners and those who have attended other programs and would like to train towards a successful off leash existence in the city. While Building the Comfort Zone is our beginner course many clients have commented that it’s more advanced than other programs they may have attended in the past.
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The Finishing Touches -advanced level
This is an advanced 6-week obedience course with an emphasis on refining the skill and timing of the handler. Our dog knows the basics now so here comes the polish. This course covers:
- Refining our dog's heel to train for off leash heel
- Strengthening our recall in different situations
- The training game and how it affects our feedback to our dog
- Simple ways to clear up non obedience issues
- Building longer more reliable stay
- Recall- from anything
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28 Day Intensive Training
(for any dog over 5 months of age)
Our 28 day intensive training program is designed for any dog aged 4 months and up with no behavior or socialization issues. This program is designed to expose your dog to a very busy downtown Toronto environment while obedience training occurs. We need our dog's obedience to be socialized to real life situations and this program is perfect for that. This course covers:
Owner training is FREE and imperative for eight weeks. Our most successful owners see us an average of once a week for 8-12 weeks with regular telephone conversations.
- Bathroom training if neccesary
- Crate training if neccesary
- First we train the dog, then we train you.
- We'll be training your dog to walk beautifully on leash and off (our precourse assessment of both your dog and your ownership type will tell you how possible the off leash heel will be for you and your dog) in a very busy city enviornment where people, children, other dogs and traffic flow by us daily
- To comfortably HOLD a sit or down
- Come away from a distraction including other dogs
- A relaxed confident stay
Clients considering this program should understand that training the dog is not enough and that's why we offer 8 weeks of free training following your dog's graduation from our program. Your success depends on it. The plane flies as well as the pilot flying it, so you'll need to come for these sessions so we can teach you the communication and feedback you'll need to be happy, confident and proud.
While this program doesn't address specific "behavior problems" while your dog stays with us we will be happy to address your needs in this area in our weekly sessions with ease. Knowing what to do is very empowering to our clients and we can change behaviors we don't want quite quickly once we learn how to give timely feedback.
TO SEE MORE BOARDING & TRAINING INFORMATION CLICK HERE.
56 Day Intensive Training
(for any dog over 5 months of age)
This program is especially helpful for owners dealing with serious behavioral issues and major time constraints. Chances are very high that most behavior that we find unacceptable in our dog has been created by us. In order to change our dog's behavior, we must change our own. Owner education and training is the key. At The Dog House, you will get the support and guidance needed in order to be successful with your training.
The dog that qualifies for this program has at least 6 of the following (and more) behaviours preventing a more successful life with humans and/or other dogs - both are important. Here they are:
- Destructive behaviour with owners present
- Unsocialized to many public and or social situations
- Aggressive behaviors towards humans and other dogs
- Non-stop barking when owners are home or when visitors arrive
- Over exuberant behavior when guests arrive
- Hyperactivity - rambunctious at home with visitors
- Stealing articles or food
- Bolting out doors or running away
- "Untrustworthy" off leash (dogs that have already been trained)
- Restlessness - can't settle down in some or all situations
- Barking or whining at owners for attention
- Behaviors that prevent them from being able to live successfully in the house with us
The seeds for these issues to grow were planted by us during the dog's socialization period (8-16 weeks). This happened either because we thought we knew how to do it all, but didn't, or because we just didn't know what to do when the dog was young and now that we do, the challenge is a large one.
Clients need to draft a list of concerns, if any, that come with the dog and send enough food to last them a week or more. We'll train your dog and start them on any necessary programs that you'll need to continue anywhere from 2 - 6 weeks. We will be giving you more information on how this works when we speak.
Clients considering this program should understand that training the dog is not enough and that's why we offer 8 weeks of free training following your dogs graduation from our program. Your success depends on it.The plane flies as well as the pilot flying it, so you'll need to come for these sessions so we can teach you the communication and feedback you'll need to be happy, confident and proud.
TO SEE MORE BOARDING & TRAINING INFORMATION CLICK HERE.
Private Consultations
Puppy Consultations
The socialization period ends at 16 weeks of age. The home and environment that a puppy grows up in will have a significant impact on his behaviour as an adult dog. Our consultation will teach you how to capitalize on this critical development period.
The consultation will include:
- Bathroom training on command
- Crate training
- How to raise a calm puppy
- Socialization with environment, people and animals
- Predatory games
- Dogs and cats
Problem Solving Consultations
The home and environment that a puppy grows up in will have a significant impact on his behavior as an adult dog. Our consultation will teach you how to capitalize on this critical development period. The consultation will teach you how to deal with specific behaviour issues, such as:
- Seperation anxiety
- Aggression and fear due to insufficient socialization
- Possessive aggression and location gaurding
- Restlessness in all or certain situations
- To fine tune specific obedience commands and performance
This consultation also includes 8 weeks of phone support.
Leadership Programs at The Dog House
Leadership programs are 1.5 hours in length or longer if necessary. Clients prepare a list of concerns. Telephone support is free for 8 weeks. While the extent of the dog's improvement will vary from dog to dog, this program has had an unblemished record of success for clients following up on our recommendations consistently. Client commitment and consistency are the keys to a profound and wonderful change.
What happens at a consultation?
1. We review the client's list of concerns-identify the problem
2. Investigate how the problems started - what was our role or the previous owners
3. Determine what needs to happen to change the behavior - the program
4. The program addresses the issues - we explain how and why it works and tailor it to rotate around the clients daily schedule.
5. We teach you how to measure the dog's progress and comfort or lack of it -very comforting for owner and dog.
6. Telephone support is included and necessary for 8 weeks of follow up - to move along quicker when the program is going well or direction and advice if it isn't.
This program is for all dogs exhibiting:
- Destructive behaviour with owners present
- Aggressive behaviors towards humans and other dogs
- Non-stop barking when owners are home or when visitors arrive
- Over exuberant behavior when guests arrive
- Hyperactivity - rambunctious at home with visitors
- Stealing articles or food
- Bolting out doors or running away
- "Untrustworthy" off leash (dogs that have already been trained)
- Restlessness - can't settle down in some or all situations
- Barking or whining at owners for attention
- Behaviors that prevent them from being able to live successfully in or out of the house with us.
The seeds for these issues to grow were planted during the dog's socialization period (8 - 16 weeks). The leadership program takes us back in time to address what needed to be done and wasn't. This will also work with a dog from the pound, because the dog's issues will tell us what wasn't done right without needing a complete history of the dog. The leadership program will accomplish:
- Successful non-stressful communication
- A calm dog that is at peace with us and life in & out of our home
- A dog we can trust off leash
- A happier dog & owner than ever before
Pet Food & Supplies
The Dog House specializes in select premium quality dog and cat food with educated information on "Pet Nutrition". We emphasise dog toys and accessories pertinent to progressive training. To view our Store section, please click here.
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