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New Puppy? Now What? $150 (8-16 week old puppies)

Having a new puppy can be an exciting and sometime challenging experience.  As a new puppy owner, it is important to realize your role and how your behavior shapes the behavior of your growing puppy.  Your influence over your puppy begins the moment you first make contact and then bring the new puppy home. Whether or not you are enrolled in formal training, you are still directing behavior and establishing patterns in your dog’s life.  By not teaching or setting limits your puppy understands, you are possibly contributing to future behavior patterns and problems. This is especially true when it comes to teaching your puppy proper house-training habits. 

Start your relationship with your new puppy off right and in this session, we will tell you EVERYTHING you need to know to get your new puppy off to a great start!  We will go over, handling exercises; walking nicely on a leash; housebreaking; play biting; nutrition; grooming; nail trimming; first aid basics; appropriate toys and much, much more.  This comprehensive session will provide you with a ton of information and resources; however, we still suggest you pursue a socialization class modeled after AKC’s Star Puppy Program where puppies mingle with similarly aged puppies.

We’ll tell you EVERYTHING you need to know to get your new puppy off to a great start!

little girl sitting on the floor happily holding her new yellow puppy

Handling Exercises

Dog grooming tools to include brush, rake and comb

Establishing a grooming routine for your puppy

black dog doesn't feel well and is laying with eyes closed a thermometer in its mouth and an ice bag on its head

Puppy First Aid Basics

cute white puppy potty training accident on the floor

House training

four dogs happily playing at a Brewster dog park near a bowl of water on a hot Summer's day

Dog Parks

colorful assortment of puppy toys

Toy Recommendations

 

Small white and brown dog running on the grass with a yellow tennis ball in its mouth

Food and toy possessiveness

black puppy on a purple and pink leash and collar straining and pulling on a cape cod beach

Pulling on the leash

Puppy mouthing its owner used as header on exfed dog training website

Play biting

small white dog grabbing leash in mouth and pulling

Mouthing or chewing the leash

Puppies/dogs become frustrated and confused in an environment lacking leadership. Through training, your puppy will learn to both respect and love you.  While love is a critical element in your puppy’s life, respect is equally important because it is earned through appropriate leadership communication that you and your puppy will learn together.  It’s all about BALANCE!  You are building a lasting relationship where you need to be consistent, benevolent and give your new puppy clarity as to your expectations.  Clarity includes praise for doing good things and a correction for those things that are unacceptable.  Praise, treat and reward behaviors that you want more of, and stop, interrupt or correct behaviors that are undesirable. 

 

puppy working on a chew toy

Need more help?

Please complete the behavioral evaluation to provide us with more information to help you and your dog.  If your puppy is brand new, you will be limited in your responses, but current puppy issues and your goals are important to note. 

Testimonials

Raving fans!

“I’ve know Rick for 7 ½ years and he is awesome at working and training the dogs.  The hardest part is training me. I highly recommend him.” – Doug Rentsch – East Dennis

Doug Rentsch

East Dennis