Board and Train Programs
8-Day Program
Learning The Basics
8-Day Board & Train: an intensive week to teach clear, useful behaviors so daily life with your dog is easier. Your dog learns expectations, builds good habits, and begins to understand what you want.
Training focuses on the most impactful foundation behaviors, including:
• Loose-leash walking and improved leash manners
• Reducing common nuisance behaviors such as jumping and over-excitement
• Teaching core obedience skills: sit, down, recall, and heel
We board one dog at a time, so training is individualized and woven into daily routines rather than short sessions. This builds real-world behavior and reinforces consistency, engagement, and follow-through. Best for dogs needing structure and a clear start—one week won’t “fix” everything, but it creates habits, communication, and direction for continued progress.
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Day 1: Decompression & Acclimation
The first day is focused on helping your dog settle in, reducing stress, and observing behavior. Formal training demands are kept light to allow your dog to become comfortable and ready to learn.Days 2–8: Structured Training & Skill Development
Training is integrated throughout daily routines and focuses on:Loose-leash walking and leash manners
Reducing nuisance behaviors such as jumping and over-excitement
Teaching core obedience skills: sit, down, basic stay, recall, and heel
This progression allows learning to build naturally, leading to clearer communication and more reliable behavior by the end of the program.
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To support a smooth transition home, the program includes one complimentary private, at-home training session after your dog returns home. This session focuses on transferring handling skills, reinforcing structure, and helping you apply the same expectations in your own environment.
In addition, you’ll receive three months of trainer support following at-home session. Training does not end when your dog goes home, and questions are expected. During this period, you may reach out via call, text, or video for guidance, clarification, and feedback as you begin working with your dog at home.
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Investment: $1,500
The 8-Day Board & Train Program includes one full week of training plus an intentional decompression day, one-dog-at-a-time handling, and individualized training integrated throughout the day.
Food is provided by the owner. Training tools, if recommended, are discussed throughout their stay and again at pickup and are not included in the program price.
Within her first week, Tango moved beyond basic obedience and into off-leash work. When dogs are ready, we don’t hold them back!
2-Week Program
Developing Reliability
During the first phase of this program, we focus on teaching and clearly introducing foundational obedience and expectations through structured daily training and consistent handling. Your dog learns how commands are taught, what is being asked, and how to work within a calm, predictable routine that supports learning.
The second phase shifts the focus to reliability and follow-through. Rather than adding new behaviors, we reinforce what your dog already knows by increasing duration, clarity, and accountability. Commands are practiced under real-world distractions and daily transitions so responses become consistent, dependable, and transferable back to the home environment.
Loose-leash walking and improved leash manners
Reducing common nuisance behaviors such as jumping and over-excitement
Teaching and Proofing core obedience skills: sit, down, implied stay, recall, heel, and place
Introduction to off-leash
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Days 1–8: Foundation training focused on teaching core obedience, structure, and clear expectations.
Days 9–14: Reliability and proofing phase, strengthening consistency, duration, and follow-through on established behaviors.
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Two Private At-Home Transition Lessons
This program includes two private at-home lessons designed to ensure a smooth transition back to the owner. These sessions focus on:Teaching you how to handle and maintain the trained behaviors
Transferring expectations from trainer to owner
Addressing early questions and adjustments in your home environment
Ongoing Trainer Support
You’ll also receive one year of trainer support following pickup, with access via call, text, or video for guidance, clarification, and feedback as you begin working with your dog at home. -
Investment: $3,000
What’s included:
14 days of immersive board & train
Foundation training followed by a reliability and proofing phase
Two private 90-minute at-home transition lessons
Training gear included up to $400
12 month of trainer support after pickup
This program is ideal for owners who want more than a jump-start and are looking for dependable, real-world behavior they can maintain at home.
3-Week Program
Built For The Real World
Over three weeks, your dog progresses from structured foundation work to dependable real-world performance. After building clarity and reliability on core behaviors, training expands into public environments where obedience must hold up despite increased stimulation.
Public outings are structured training sessions designed to reinforce neutrality, impulse control, and reliable engagement with the handler.
Loose-leash walking and improved leash manners
Reducing common nuisance behaviors such as jumping and over-excitement
Teaching and Proofing core obedience skills: sit, down, implied stay, recall, heel, and place
Off-leash development
Social skills in real environments
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Days 1–8: Foundation training focused on teaching core obedience, structure, and clear expectations.
Days 9–14: Reliability and proofing phase, strengthening consistency, duration, and follow-through on established behaviors.
Days 15–21: Public outings and socialization phase with structured off-property training to build focus, neutrality, and responsiveness around real-world distractions.
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Three Private At-Home Transition Lessons
This program includes three private at-home lessons designed to ensure a smooth transition back to the owner. These sessions focus on:Teaching you how to handle and maintain the trained behaviors
Transferring expectations from trainer to owner
Addressing early questions and adjustments in your home environment
Ongoing Trainer Support
You’ll also receive one year of trainer support following pickup, with access via call, text, or video for guidance, clarification, and feedback as you begin working with your dog at home. -
Investment: $4,600
Advanced training focused on reliable obedience and real-world performance. This program builds on foundation and reliability work, then transitions training into public environments where distractions are higher and expectations must hold.
What’s included:
21 days of immersive, in-home board & train
Foundation → reliability → public-outings progression
7 days of structured public training
Neutral socialization around people, dogs, and environments
Training gear included worth up to $400
Three scheduled 90-minute at-home transition lessons
12 months of trainer support via call, text, or video
Best for: Owners who want dependable behavior at home and composed, controlled behavior in public settings.
Vacation Boarding
Vacation Boarding
Vacation boarding is focused on maintaining your dog’s current training level, structure, and daily routines while you’re away. This is only available to dogs who have gone through training with Homegrown Canine Training LLC.
$100 / full day · $50 / half day