Board and train results and graduates

Each program publishes what it works on, and that list is the checklist. Foundation, one week: basic obedience and leash skills; place, stay and recall; impulse control; crate and household manners; daycare integration and enrichment. Advanced, two weeks: everything in Foundation, plus advanced obedience and distraction proofing, real-world outings, neutrality and impulse control, confidence building and structured socialization. Gabby agrees the goals with you at the assessment, so you know what is being measured before the first session.

A skill counts when it holds up, not when it happened once. Trainers judge that along three lines the AKC calls the three Ds: duration, how long a stay or a place lasts; distance, how far you can be from the dog; and distraction, what is going on around it. Then comes the test owners care about most, whether the dog does it for you somewhere new. Dogs do not generalize well, as the AKC puts it, so a sit on our training floor is not yet a sit on Main Street.

When a family agrees, a graduate story here will carry the dog's name and breed, the program and its length, the skills worked on, what held at home and what did not, and the family's words exactly as they wrote them, not edited into a slogan. The photos will be real photos of that dog. Without a signed permission, a dog's story stays between us and the family.

That is why this page carries no testimonials, no review stars and no before-and-after claims. A rating needs enough real reviews to mean anything, and a quote without a name and a permission proves nothing. If you would like to share your dog's story after a stay, tell the training team; nothing is published without written consent.

Some backsliding is normal after a change of place, and it is information rather than failure. Go back to the easier version that worked in the go-home lesson, lower one of the three Ds and build again. If a problem keeps returning, tell us; it may point to a skill that needs more coaching, or to a feeling, such as fear, that needs a different program rather than more repetition.

The follow-on options are the ones every Dogtown training family can use: private sessions from $94, Canine Campus for 2, 4 or 6 weeks of day training with nights at home, Dogtown Academy days at $89 for a full day or $69 for a half, and the Level 3 programs, React Less, Relax More and Polished Pup, for dogs whose struggles are emotional. Our board and train page sets out both stays if you are still choosing.