Doggie Boot Camp

This program is a drop-off, day-time dog training school. This is not doggie day care, but rather, dog training. This program is for those who want the training done right and much faster than training your dog yourself with the help of our classes or private lessons. Your dog will be professionally trained and supervised, every day, all day.
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Have your cake and eat it too!

You will get the benefits of “sending away” your dog to boot-camp (although we don’t like that term), without having to send her away! Each evening after school, you can pick up your dog and enjoy her at home along with her new skills, and enjoy a peaceful evening, because your pooch will be plenty tired from her day’s activities.

The big training advantage to day school: You will be able to talk to your dog's professional trainer at the end of each day and receive personal training and homework assignments to practice at home so you can learn as your dog is learning. This strenghthens the transition of the training from us to you. You are also able to give us feedback each day with areas you may be struggling with so we know where to put more focus. In a 4 week program, you will get the equivalent of 2.5 hours of private training instruction with you and your dog. That has a value of $187.50! You may also buy in-home training time at a 50% discount from our regular rate $75/hour rate during your time at bootcamp and up to one month following.

What we teach your dog:

In our 4 week Basic Obedience Program, we will teach your dog 8 behaviors.

The 6 behaviors below are standard. These behaviors give us the foundation of control needed before moving on to the other training:

Sit - a reliable sit even when distracted
Down - a reliable down even when distracted
Stay - a reliable stay even when distracted
Walk at your side for leashed walks
Boundary training (teaches your dog to stay away wherever you establish at anytime, until you invite the dog)
Wait to be release out of the crate

Plus your choice of 2 of the following:

Come, indoor (with distraction of dogs, playing, thrown toys in our indoor facility, additional weeks are necessary for outdoor off-leash recalls)
Go to your bed/mat (a nice portable "stay station" you can bring with you around the home or elsewhere)
Leave it (do not touch item dog is showing interest in)
Drop it (release item in dog's mouth)
No barking at the doorbell
No jumping on people
Wait for food
Wait at doors

With our 6 week Basic Obedience Program you can choose an additional 3 behaviors from the above list.

Our Advanced Outdoor Proofing program is for dogs who have completed one of the basic programs. With these additional 2 weeks, we will get your dog out in-front of your dog's biggest distractions to proof your dogs Basic Obedience training with your dogs more difficult environmental distractions. This training is more difficult and more time intensive. You will need this program for:

"Real life" recall ("Come") - when your dog is loose outside or at the dog park
Walking calmly past distractions like dogs, bikes, joggers, if your dog is extremely reactive
Getting in-front of more strangers to practice not jumping

Our Advanced Behavior Modification program is for dogs with certain behavior problems such as aggression, anxiety, excessive barking, or shy and fearfulness. This is a six week program.

Bonus!: Exercise, Socialization, and Playtime:

Your dog will receive at least 4 hours of playtime, lots of socialization with other dogs, and outdoor walks everyday!

Training environment:

The front of our building is set up as a home environment with couch, rug, coffee table, dining table, kitchen counter, garbage can, shoes, cat litter box and even the miscellaneous kid’s toy, mitten, sock, that tends to be laying around one’s house.

Walking will be done outside past the bus stop, stores, houses and dogs for real life environmental distractions.

Our Outdoor Proofing training will be done with the distractions of dog parks, Lake Nokomis, nearby parks, Highland Village, and 34th Ave and 50th St storefronts.

The trainers:

Cele Danner and Jeff Yoon are our full-time boot camp trainers.

Pricing:

Basic Obedience Program, 8 behaviors, 4 weeks: $990
Basic Obedience Program, 11 behaviors, 6 weeks: $1485
Advanced Outdoor Proofing, 2 weeks: $750 (after Basic Program is completed)
Advanced Behavior Modification Program, 6 weeks: $1740

In-home transition training: 50% off our regular rate = $38/hour plus a nominal travel charge or $7.00 (during your time at bootcamp and up to one month following).

Other info:

Enrollment limit: 6 dogs per trainer

Location: Minneapolis: 5405 42nd Ave So, near Minnehaha Falls
Drop-off times: 7:00 am – 9:00 am

Pick-up times: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Days of week: Monday - Friday (not including major holidays)