Welcome To
Puppy Training at Puptown Seattle
Puppy training in Seattle will help you get the most out of your new puppy. Our Seattle puppy foundation training program is the finest available for pups under 6 months old. Your skillfully trained dog will wow relatives and friends!
How old must my puppy be to begin training? This is the most often asked question, and the answer is that it is never too early. Training begins on the day your puppy is born. From birth, a competent breeder would have begun developing a schedule, toilet etiquette, and crate training.
But, surely, a puppy cannot learn to sit and heel? Wrong! Our trainers begin off-leash obedience training with their own pups at the age of 8 weeks!
Your puppy may begin training with us as soon as he or she receives their second round of vaccines, which is generally between the ages of 9 and 12 weeks.
What is Our
Puppy Board & Train Program
Program Cost: $2700 for 3 weeks
The minimum required stay is 21 days, and this program includes three personalized classes as well as one expertly trained puppy. This curriculum really lays the groundwork for a well-behaved adult dog.
To guarantee that your puppy is a good canine citizen for everyone, our puppy training program is organized into four phases. Sociability, self-esteem, grooming, domestic manners, and obedience are examples of these traits.
Is it really worth it to start puppy training so young? Yes and yes! All canines go through the imprinting age. Your puppy will learn things that he or she will remember for the rest of his or her life at this period. During this time, we may teach your puppy anything, including but not limited to obedience, sit, down, heel, come, climb, house manners, socialization, and more. Simply tell us what you have in mind, and we will design a program specifically for you and your new puppy.
1) House Manners
House etiquette is the first element of puppy training. We want our dogs to be polite and comfortable within our homes, rather than naughty or rebellious! House etiquette include teaching our pups to be calm inside the home. It requires educating children not to rush about or play rough within the house. Good home manners include teaching our pups not to bolt outdoors, jump on people, bark excessively, steal food from tables or get in the trash, chew up household goods, nibble, gnaw, or bite our fingers and toes, or even climb on the furniture. We also want to teach our dogs that they should urinate themselves outside, not on our lovely carpet.
2) Obedience
We start with important foundation training skills to help develop your puppy into the dog of your dreams. In addition to the previously mentioned qualities, we will go through the following commands:
- Leash Walking – We’ll start by training your puppy not to tug on their leash and to pay attention to YOU when there are distractions in public places.
- Name Recognition – When they hear their name, your puppy will learn to look at you, and we will begin training them to come when we call!
- Sit/Stay and Down/Stay – Our expectation for a sit/stay or down/stay is that we give the order once and the puppy obeys. Rather of teaching a typical remain command, we teach what is known as a release marker. So, if we order our dogs to lie down, regardless of whether there are other dogs or people present, our dog is expected to do so until we provide the release signal.
- Climb Command – Our climb command is a fantastic method to offer our dogs a basic task to complete throughout the day, as well as a safe place to be while we are cooking or have friends around.
- Quiet – Our quiet command tells our dogs when they should cease barking or whining.
- Leave it/Drop it – A fantastic command to give when our pups are putting objects in their mouth that they shouldn’t, like as sticks or pebbles!
- Wait – Wait is a command we use to educate our dogs not to run out of doors, leap out of cars, or sprint out of their kennels. It instructs them to wait a minute until we signal that we are ready for the dog to arrive.
Yes, no, and release markers are taught to all of our dogs, even pups.
More photographs and videos of dogs we have previously taught may be seen on our Facebook page or in our Students Gallery.
3) Socialization & Confidence Building
We teach our puppies to be friendly with other dogs while also recognizing proper play behavior. This entails teaching our puppies that if another dog asks them to leave them alone or refuses to play, the puppy should recognize these cues and leave the older dog alone. We socialize our puppies by introducing them to a variety of surfaces and environmental stimuli, such as pools, slick tile, inflatable things, bicycles, and other toys. We also have interactions with horses, deer, goats, cats, and squirrels!
When it comes to frightening loud noises, we work hard to develop confidence in our young puppies. Such sounds include fireworks, gunfire, and even a domestic pan clattering on the floor. Instead of being plagued with fear or concern, we may teach our dogs how to handle problems. Something as simple as a pool filled with empty water bottles may be frightening to a tiny puppy; yet, building their confidence and teaching them how to overcome their anxiety may help them become more well-rounded as they develop.
5) Handling Manners
Handling etiquette is the last step of puppy training. We want our pups to look forward to grooming time with their owners rather than perceive it as a difficult and time-consuming chore. Puppies learn to be peaceful in our arms rather of struggling and writhing to get away. Our puppies are trained to be calm while having their claws clipped and ears cleaned. We do minor dental and eye checkups and educate our pups how to be calm throughout these procedures. Finally, we educate our pups how to remain still while getting bathed. This means no clawing our way out of the tub or being sprayed with water! We just say’shake it off’ at the end of the bath to reassure the dog that everything is OK.
