Complete Canine Training
2025-12-31T01:42:29.106Z
You meet a 2-month-old puppy. You fall in love with his quirkiness and his puppy-dog eyes that promise you love and devotion. You bring him home. You potty train him successfully after less than a week and walk him around the block, and you think, "This is EASY. I can train him!" with a nice pat on your back.Then he turns 4 months old and develops new behaviors out of freaking nowhere. Like eating drywall, telling you that he loves you by chomping your face, demand barking, herding your cats, and treating your human children as littermates. You contact your family and friends for training trips. You consult with Google. You learn about marker words and training strategies, and you read forums about the dinosaur stage of a puppy. You try to push through it until you realize that this stage doesn't really end until 1-2 YEARS OLD. Your children's clothes have holes in them.So you Google a “dog trainer in your area” and come across a company with raving reviews. You call and are informed about the Foundation Puppy Board and Training program. You learn it's 3 weeks long! You are skeptical, but talk with a kind person, Brian, who eases you into what to expect and assures you that your puppy will be the same silly boy you fell in love with, just with some manners.He's gone for three weeks, and you get progress reports and pictures. You pick him up and are absolutely amazed by how polite and well-mannered your dog has become. There's now peace in the house. Your clothes don't develop new holes. Your puppy does well with follow-up lessons with a lovely trainer, Shay.So you adopt another adult dog because you secretly thrive on chaos. And you believe you can do it because you took the 2-hour Take Home lesson from a professional trainer, which makes you a professional. You are proven wrong. They pair up to develop new habits together. Like chewing holes into your barstools, herding the cats together, and competing on who can rip up the carpet faster. You go back and confess to Shay about your happy dumb decisions. She helps you develop a plan: adult dog with 6 one-on-one E-Collar sessions and E-collar Board and Train for your dinosaur puppy.They finish training, and you have SO MUCH peace in the house. No new holes.If the beginnings of this story resonated with you and you want some peace and less destruction, I highly recommend Complete Canine. In all seriousness, the trainers and kennel techs were amazing and I think they really loved on those dogs. During our first take-home lesson, Brenna was patient with us as we navigated their marker words and their training method. Skylar helped a ton with scheduling (my schedule is chaotic) and keeping us informed on our puppy. Shay was such a delight to work with. We did all our one-on-ones with her, and she started each session by discussing our goals for that session. She really focused on what worked for our family, which I think helped the training stick. Our dogs, Hopper and Cookie, love her so much. She also gently corrected any bad training habits we developed, like not paying/marking our dog on time or using inconsistent marker words. We will definitely be back to board our dogs and any future training needs we may have!
You meet a 2-month-old puppy. You fall in love with his quirkiness and his puppy-dog eyes that promise you love and devotion. You bring him home. You ... More