PUPPY PROGRAMS
Our Puppy Programs are designed to help young dogs build the skills, confidence, and communication they need for a successful start in life. Rather than simply teaching commands, we focus on creating strong foundations that make everyday life easier while helping puppies learn how to navigate the world with confidence, independence, and good decision making.
Training is tailored to each puppy’s age, temperament, development, and individual needs, with an emphasis on age appropriate expectations and positive real world experiences. Whether you’re looking for help establishing good habits early or want a more immersive training experience, our puppy programs are designed to give both you and your puppy a clearer path forward.
Strong Foundations From the Start
Build essential skills, communication, boundaries, engagement, and everyday manners before unwanted habits have a chance to become established.
Real-World Exposure
Thoughtful socialization and environmental exposure help puppies gain confidence while learning how to calmly experience new people, places, surfaces, sounds, and situations.
Training That Grows With Your Pup
We focus on developmentally appropriate skills that create a foundation for future obedience, off-leash work, sports, working roles, or simply becoming a reliable family companion.
Support for the Humans Too!
Puppy training isn’t just about the puppy. We help owners understand how to communicate clearly, maintain structure, reinforce good habits, and continue building on their puppy’s progress at home.
BOARD & TRAIN OPTIONS
We offer a range of specialized services tailored to meet your individual needs. Our approach is focused on understanding and responding to what you require, providing effective and practical solutions.
Puppy Jump Start
2 Weeks | $1200
Housebreaking Foundations
Consistent potty schedules, supervision, crate routines, and clear patterns help establish better bathroom habits and give owners a system they can continue at home.
Crate Training & Independence
We help your puppy develop a healthy, comfortable relationship with their crate while beginning to build the independence and ability to settle away from constant attention.
Structure & Daily Routines
Puppies begin learning that everyday life has predictable boundaries and expectations, from waiting at doors and settling when needed to following routines around meals, play, rest, and transitions.
Household Manners
We begin shaping appropriate behavior around the home, including reducing jumping, excessive mouthing, demand behaviors, counter surfing, rushing through thresholds, and other common puppy habits.
Learning How to Settle
Puppies practice slowing down, relaxing, and being content without constant entertainment, an important skill for creating an easier dog to live with as they mature.
Relationship-Building Games
Puppies practice slowing down, relaxing, and being content without constant entertainment, an important skill for creating an easier dog to live with as they mature.
Beginning Communication Skills
Your puppy is introduced to simple markers, leash guidance, following the handler, name recognition, and other early concepts that create clearer communication between puppy and owner.
Preparing for Future Obedience
Rather than rushing formal commands, we focus on the building blocks that make obedience easier later: Engagement, following guidance, frustration tolerance, impulse control, food and toy motivation, and learning how to learn.
Healthy Boundaries From the Beginning
Puppies start learning that affection, freedom, play, and access to things they want can coexist with structure and appropriate boundaries.
A Smoother Start at Home
Our goal is to send your puppy home with better routines, clearer expectations, and a foundation you can continue building as they grow into adolescence and eventually adulthood.
Puppy Foundations
4 Weeks | $2000
Everything In Puppy Jump Start
Includes crate training, housebreaking foundations, household structure and routines, manners, settling, healthy boundaries, beginning communication, relationship-building games, and the early skills that make future training easier.
Building Basic Commands
Puppies begin developing age appropriate obedience skills such as name response, recall, sit, down, place, and other foundational commands while continuing to strengthen communication with their handler.
Confidence Building
Through carefully selected new experiences, problem solving opportunities, and guided exploration, we help puppies become more adaptable, resilient, and comfortable in unfamiliar situations.
Beginning Leash Skills
We introduce leash guidance, following the handler, check ins, directional changes, and early loose-leash concepts to create better habits before pulling and other leash problems become established.
Stronger Engagement & Handler Focus
The additional time allows us to further develop your puppy’s desire to interact, follow guidance, and stay connected to their handler even as distractions increase.
Proper Socialization
Puppies are thoughtfully introduced to new people, environments, surfaces, sounds, and everyday public settings to help them learn how to experience the world calmly and appropriately.
Public Neutrality
Puppies learn that socialization doesn’t always mean interaction. We begin building the ability to calmly observe, pass by, and exist around people and other dogs without needing to greet or engage with everyone they see.
Impulse Control & Real-World Manners
Puppies practice patience and better decision-making around doors, food, toys, people, exciting environments, and other everyday distractions.
Setting Your Puppy Up For The Future
The goal is to leave your puppy with a strong developmental foundation, not just a list of commands, so more advanced obedience, off-leash work, sports, or everyday reliability can be built more easily as they mature.
Continue Building As They Grow!
Puppy training is the beginning of the process, not the end. As your puppy matures, they can progress directly into our regular obedience pathway.
RLK9 Puppy Board & Train graduates who continue into Basic Obedience are eligible for our
$250 Training Progression Credit.
Standard Price
4 Weeks | $2600
RLK9 Puppy Graduate 🎉
4 Weeks | $2350
Ready To Get Started?
Whether you already know which program is the right fit or you’d like help deciding, we’re happy to guide you.
Reach out to schedule your puppy’s stay, ask questions, or learn more about which program best matches your puppy’s age, needs, and goals.