Have you adopted a dog from Miles of Love within the last 3 months? Well this is the program for you, this is a free class to help you get started on the right foot with your furry friend. 

This is a program we provide to give an introduction into training.  We work on some basic skills to include walking, sit, down, eye contact, and the place command.  This is the same session as the first session of our General Obedience program.  If the client wishes to continue training beyond this session, they could complete the General Obedience program in 3 more sessions or continue on to our day training program. 

We have several different programs that we offer to address obedience and behavior issues with dogs. Training isn’t about sit, down, and stay. It is about getting our dogs to be compliant and look to us for direction. Impulsiveness is what gets dogs into trouble. It isn’t as much about teaching the dogs, as it is about teaching the human how to work with the dog. The responsibility to establish a healthy relationship with our dogs relies on us, the humans.

This is our premium training program, It includes everything that is part of the 2 week program, but the 3rd week we work on dog interactions and off leash recall under distractions.

*There is an equipment requirement for this program, the dog will need: a flat leash, a Herm Sprenger prong collar, and an E-collar Technologies e-collar.

Approximate cost of the equipment is $330 to get the dog setup.  We do carry the equipment and it can be acquired from us on the dog's first day.

Cost $2,250 for the program + equipment cost is approximately $330 

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This is our most popular program. It is geared towards dogs 17 weeks and older. This is program is designed for dogs with reactivity, aggression, anxiety, fear, over stimulation, and people that just don’t have the time to put in all the training repetitions themselves. The dog comes to our facility for 10 days, going home each day. Drop-Off is from 7:30-8 and Pick-up ranges from 3-5:15. This program gives us the perfect opportunity to work on overexcitement and reactivity when it comes to other dogs and people because we are located in such a busy area and constantly have other dogs around. We try to identify as many things as we can that are a trigger for the dog and set up scenarios around those triggers. For example, maybe your dog is afraid of men or even random objects such as a laundry basket or cars on the road. Besides correcting bad behaviors like jumping, excessive barking, reactivity, and aggression, we teach the dogs how to walk nicely beside us, sit, down, stay, place, leave it, and to remain neutral in chaotic environments. For the owner, we show you how to properly use a prong collar, e-collar and other concepts that will help you better communicate with your dog. We can also work on more specific problems you are experiencing, for example bolting out the door, food aggression, or resource guarding.

As the training progresses, the dogs are taken to stores and other public places where they are going to encounter strange people, strange dogs and new sights, sounds and smells. More importantly than what we teach the dog, we need to teach the owners how to replicate the same results at home. Every day we will run you through everything the dog did that day and what your homework should be for that night, as well as answer any questions you may have. Every night an email gets sent out with what we worked on, and in many cases, it includes a video demonstrating what that should look like. 

After a few days of training, we will schedule a one-on-one session with you and your dog. This allows us to show you everything we are working on and to have you practice with your dog under the guidance of our trainers, so everyone is on the same page. These different commands and concepts will become the foundation of what we are going to hold the dog accountable for. Once the dog understands the rules/boundaries, we as the human must enforce the rules/boundaries, provide consequences for violation of the rules/boundaries, and be consistent in the enforcement of the rules/boundaries. Does that sound just like raising kids? It is the same concept.

*There is an equipment requirement for this program, the dog will need: a flat leash, a Herm Sprenger prong collar, and an E-collar Technologies e-collar.

Approximate cost of the equipment is $330 to get the dog setup.  We do carry the equipment and it can be acquired from us on the dog's first day.

Cost $1700 for the program + equipment cost is approximately $330 

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This is our "middle of the road" option. In this program the dog comes to our facility for 5 days, going home each day. Drop-Off is at 8 AM and Pick-up is between 3 - 5 PM, unless other arrangements are made. 

We can get in a lot more repititions than we can in a 1 hour General Obedience session and expose the dog to other dogs and trainers. We will not be introducing the e-collar and we are not able to address any severe behavior issues (we have other programs for that) or recall, however you will see that with a lot of structure, some of the issues will disappear. Training isn’t about sit, down, and stay. It is about getting our dogs to be compliant and look to us for direction. Impulsiveness is what gets dogs into trouble. It isn’t as much about teaching the dogs, as it is about teaching the human how to work with the dog. The responsibility to establish a healthy relationship with our dogs relies on us, the humans. 

We will cover things like, leash manners, holding commands until released (Sit, Down, Place), leave it, out, limited recall, not rushing out of a crate, not jumping on people and waiting for permission to cross a threshold.

More importantly than what we teach the dog, we need to teach the owners how to replicate the same results at home. Every day we will run you through everything the dog did that day and what your homework should be for that night, as well as answer any questions you may have. Every night an email gets sent out with what we worked on, and in many cases, it includes a video demonstrating what that should look like.  

After a few days of training, we will schedule a one-on-one session with you and your dog. This allows us to show you everything we are working on and to have you practice with your dog under the guidance of our trainers, so everyone is on the same page. These different commands and concepts will become the foundation of what we are going to hold the dog accountable for. Once the dog understands the rules/boundaries, we as the human must enforce the rules/boundaries, provide consequences for violation of the rules/boundaries, and be consistent in the enforcement of the rules/boundaries. Does that sound just like raising kids? It is the same concept. 

Approximate cost of the equipment is $35 to get the dog setup. 

Cost $900 for the program + equipment cost is approximately $35

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This is our more budget friendly program. This program is for dogs that are at least 20 weeks old.  It is four, one on one training sessions, meeting weekly for one hour. These are typically scheduled during the evenings Monday – Thursday.  Think of this as train the trainer. There is a limited number of repetitions we can get in with the dog in an hour. This program shifts the responsibility to the owner to get the reps in with the dogs between sessions. We cover all the same topics as we do in Day Training, except we don’t have other dogs around or strangers to work through reactivity. However, we do teach how to address reactivity in this program. 

*There is an equipment requirement for this class: flat leash, a Herm Sprenger prong collar, E-collar Technologies e-collar, treat bag, clicker and a high value treat

Approximate cost of the equipment is $330 to get the dog setup. We do carry the equipment and it can be acquired from us on the dog’s first day.

Cost $450 for the program + equipment cost is approximately $330.

* Additional 1 hour sessions can be purchased for $115 each

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Puppy class is geared towards dogs between 10 weeks and 17 weeks old. In this group class we go over more age-appropriate topics. This is 3 sessions, meeting once a week for an hour. We discuss potty training and crate training. We work on walking without pulling, sit, down, stay, place, and leave it. For people that go through this program, they can take off $200 if they put their dog into the Day Training program when the dog is old enough. Making the puppy class free! If someone wants to take advantage of that. These are scheduled in the evenings during the week.

Cost $200 for the program.

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Our Virtual program is designed for people that would like help with training but live too far away from one of our locations to attend.  Let me explain how this will work.  You will be assigned a trainer.  That trainer will send you information about specific training items to work on at home.  There will be a desciption and videos to watch, to show you how to work through each training module.  After you have practiced those items, you will shoot a video of yourself working with your dog, and then send that video to the trainer.  The trainer will review and then do a video conference call to provide any feedback.  Then the trainer will provide you new training items to work on with your dog.  The objective is to get through the entire cirriculum in 5 weeks.  It is important that the owner is doing the homework with the dog to complete training in the five weeks.

Cost $500 for the program + equipment cost is approximately $330.

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Our obedience refresh program is for dogs that have already been through our obedience program.  Which means they already know commands and boundaries that have been defined.  This program allows us to re-enforce the 3 components of obedience training which include boundaries, consequences, and consistency.

This is a 1 week program where drop off is at 8 AM and pickup is between 3 - 4 PM.  

Each day the dog gets approximately 1.5 hours of one-on-one time, and then the remainder of the session they are working on impulse control through group activities like holding a down when other dogs are training or are playing fetch.  Our facility offers us a unique ability to expose the dog to other dogs, and we have significant foot traffic right outside our facility throughout the day.  This allows us to get exposure to the dog to being around a significant amount of people. 

The cost is $800 for the 1 week program.  This provides approximately 35 hours of training time.  Payment of half down and completion of the agreement and questionnaire is required to be put on the schedule.

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This is a program we provide to give an introduction into training.  We work on some basic skills to include walking, sit, down, eye contact, and the place command.  This is the same session as the first session of our General Obedience program.  If the client wishes to continue training beyond this session, they could complete the General Obedience program in 3 more sessions.

We do not require an assessment to start training in any of our programs.  No matter what we are trying to address, our training process remains the same.  So there is no need for us to meet with the dog prior.  However, in the rare situation where a dog is extremely aggressive towards humans, we may want to do an assessment to make sure we feel we can work safely with the dog.

You are welcome to come by our facility to talk to us and see how the programs work.  If you would like us to work with your dog prior to starting the program, we can do a single one hour session for $115.

These sessions can be used for either of the following:

Assessing more complicated or dangerous behaviours, such as extreme fear or aggression

Meeting you and your dog to get guidance on how to accomplish specific goals you have for your dog

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