SAFE Socialization Training

If your puppy missed out on socialization due to COVID, or rescue and adoption, we are here to support you and your dog through safe socialization in a private setting. Both you and your dog will be able to relax and learn with the expertise of two Certified Trainers showing you how to read your dog’s body language, learn what your dog’s threshold is and how to assist your dog to build resiliency.

Owners receive:

•  - 60 minute training session working with a second trusted Certified Professional Dog Trainer, Laura Hudson CPDT-KA and owner of the Woof Pack, Airdrie

•  - working with scientifically-proven dog to dog desensitization techniques to keep your dog safe and learning, not stressed and reactive

•  - transportation to a neutral training location within Airdrie

•  - working with a safe, positive and neutral dog to build focus and calm with your dog's on-leash introductions

• - written, detailed instructions and follow-up

• - one month of telephone, text and/or email follow-up as needed. We are here to address your questions as they arise.

• - MEET and GREET required prior to first training session, 1 hour Meet and Greet fee $40.00 (inc GST)

 $80.00/session + GST

Exercise Your Dog Inside through Mental and Physical Enrichment

When the weather outside is frightful, but we still need to exercise our dogs safely for a happy and healthy dog, what can we do? Utilizing the family spaces in your home, we will guide you on how to enhance your dog’s play with scent and problem-solving games using items commonly found around the home (we will not be using expensive retail toys). We will demonstrate how to activate the spaces in your home to create a variety of physical exercise tasks from canine cardio to puppy parkour as appropriate for your dog’s breed, age, ability, and physical wellness. In our previous experience as a Behaviour Enrichment Volunteer at the Cochrane Humane Society, we have plenty of practice with a wide variety of dogs and assessing their individual canine talents. We will bring the fun for you and your dog and leave you with a diverse repertoire of games, exercises and ideas for the future so your dog never gets bored.

Owners receive:

• customized quick reference documents (these provide point form tips as reminders of the games taught).

• one month of telephone, text and/or email follow-up as needed. We are here to address your questions as they arise.

• Meet and Greet NOT required prior to session

2 Hour session within Airdrie - $99.00 (+GST)

2 Hour session outside of Airdrie - $165.00 (+GST)

Sessions are limited to the immediate family of the dog and a maximum two-dog household.

Foundation Training – for puppies under six months of age.

Starting with the foundations of obedience cues, each session builds upon the previous. Your pup will choose to give you their attention and respond to your cues. As puppy progresses, we add distractions, distance and length of time into the training sessions to ready your pup for the real world. Our goal is to have a puppy who has a large inventory of positive experiences and looks to their owner for guidance. We work on offered attention exercises, brain game play and loose leash walking manners. We address your questions such as appropriate canine equipment, toys and husbandry care during each session or between sessions as questions arise.

Training sessions consist of eight 75 minute sessions that can be provided once or twice per week dependent on the owner’s availability. For optimum results, all members of the household living with the dog are strongly encouraged to attend all of the training sessions.

- MEET and GREET required prior to first training session, 1.5 hour Meet and Greet fee $40.00 (inc GST)

Owners receive:

• customized quick reference cards (these cards provide point form tips as the reminders of the training techniques and cues taught. These are an easy reference for everyone in the household to use, to provide continuity between sessions).

• one year of telephone, text and/or email follow-up as needed. We are here to address your questions as they arise.

Foundation Training per session - $99.00 (includes GST)

- MEET and GREET required prior to first training session, 1 hour Meet and Greet fee $40.00 (inc GST)

Foundation Training Package of eight sessions, $700.00 (includes GST)

- MEET and GREET required prior to first training session, 1 hour Meet and Greet fee $40.00 (inc GST)

Travel mileage surcharge of $50.00 may be added for travel over 35 kms to client

Refresher – for young adult dogs 7 to 24 months of age.

Is your dog missing some life skills? Does your dog have a bad habit? Dogs can pick-up bad habits as quickly as good habits, and just like humans, it can be a form of misdirected communication. Left unaddressed, bad habits can start to erode the relationship between our dogs and us.

We have worked with some challenging dogs. But we have never met a ‘bad’ dog. In fact, dogs with unwanted behaviours are often the most fun to work with as they are very smart and keen to work if properly directed. Once we acknowledge what our dogs are telling us and re-direct their intellect and physical energy into positive behaviours, everything becomes fun – for us and the dog!

If you want to deepen the bond between you and your dog, unlock the potential of your dog’s physical and intellectual abilities, and, discover the trainer inside of you, this is the course for you. As each dog is as unique as we are, each approach will be unique to your dog and your lifestyle. For optimum results, all members of the household living with the dog are strongly encouraged to attend all of the training.

Training sessions are 75 minute sessions that are best provided weekly at a minimum.

- MEET and GREET required prior to first training session, 1 hour Meet and Greet fee $40.00 (inc GST)

Owners receive:  

• Customized quick reference cards (these cards provide point form tips as the reminders of the training techniques and cues taught. These are an easy reference for everyone in the household to use, to provide continuity between sessions).

• one year of telephone, text and/or email follow-up as needed. We are here to address your questions as they arise.

Refresher Training per session - $99.00 (includes GST)

- MEET and GREET required prior to first training session, 1 hour Meet and Greet fee $40.00 (inc GST)

Refresher Training Package of four sessions, $350.00 (includes GST)

- MEET and GREET required prior to first training session, 1 hour Meet and Greet fee $40.00 (inc GST)

Travel mileage surcharge of $50.00 may be added for travel over 35 kms to client

Bringing Puppy Home

Owners will be prepared for bringing their new puppy home to ease the transition for everyone living with the puppy through a 2 hour in-home training session.

Puppy proofing your home, proper equipment and toys, potty/house-training techniques and puppy health and safety are all keys to starting a positive foundation for your puppy.

Owners receive:

• written, detailed instructions and recommendations for future dog product/service purchases

• two months of telephone, text and/or email follow-up as needed. We are here to address your questions as they arise.

Puppy Readiness Training - $50.00 (includes GST)/0ne session + support

Travel mileage surcharge of $50.00 may be added for travel over 35 kms to client