11/10/2024
Guardian K9 Board and Train Program
Our board and train program is a 24/7 training experience. We go beyond obedience commands, using our busy home to teach your dog the obedience and practical manners it needs in yours.
Unlike commercial kennels where your dog learns new commands or skills for an hour or two and then goes back into a kennel, at Guardian K9, your dog is learning the exact skills he or she needs at home and practices those skills all day everyday in a safe, loving home environment.
Your dog will learn basic household skills like staying off counters in our kitchen, not to beg at our dinner table, to remain calm on their place cot as people enter our home, polite greetings as guests and delivery drivers come and go and to socialize with people and dogs.
Your dog will learn leash walking in our residential neighborhood. We also train dogs to walk off leash with reliable recall and e-collar training. We have a nice walking trail on the backside of our property, along the Kalamazoo River that the dogs enjoy.
Your dog will also go through agility and obedience training during their time with us to build confidence and mental focus.
We ask a lot of our board and train dogs, but they never seem to mind. We work hard to make them feel like one of the family. In the spring, summer and fall, it is not uncommon to see us at the ballpark watching our girls play softball with one of our board and train dogs. It’s a great way to socialize a dog and sharpen their skills in a public setting.
Your dog will return home ready for real life! There’s nothing else like it.
Once we train your dog, we will train you and your family to maintain and build upon your dog’s training.
The kiss of death in a board and train program is to send the dog home with no plan. Without a plan, your dog will arrive home and go right back to their old behavior. The reason this happens is because a dog’s behavior has a lot to do with their associations with their environments and their relationships with their humans. If we send you home without a plan to address those two factors, or you don’t follow the plan, your dog WILL revert right back to his or her old behavior patterns as if training never happened.
When you pick your dog up from our board and train program, we will spend some time teaching you everything you need to know to be successful.
If you are interested in our board and train program, or have some questions about it, please feel free to contact us!
We do also offer private lessons and will be sharing more information about those soon.
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