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For Our New Puppy Parents

Base behaviors for the program Your dog will eventually be required to go off leash with us in order to stay in our program. The ability to be off leash is one of our greatest screeners. The well behaved and well balanced dogs you want around your own can be off leash, so, the ones that can't do it are asked to find alternative care. But don't worry, it's very very rare that a client would start a puppy with us and then not hit that mark. What's important is simply to understand that we have to hit it together. We cannot be tasked with all the training of the behaviors that are important for our program, like recall. In fact, we are not going to be successful if we're the ones that build the