We understand that some families want a well-behaved family companion but neither have the time, patience, or inclination to train your Australian Labradoodle. To solve this dilemma we have opened a Puppy School. Our school focuses on continued socialization, handling subordination, and imprinting your puppy with the skills that will make him a wonderful family companion, therapy dog, or service dog. Your dog is housed with our private trainer on his premises and professionally trained. At the completion of training, you are given a private lesson on how to handle the dog so your only responsibility is re-enforcement.
Primary Education (6 week course)
Puppies may be enrolled in Primary Education at 8 weeks of age. During the 6 week program, your puppy will focus on learning all of the basics listed here along his regular vaccinations given at 12 weeks. Your puppy will be well on his way to becoming a Canine Good Citizen! An added advantage of our training is that our puppies are socialized with the outside world and living in a home environment.
- Walk on a loose lead while resisting distractions
- Sit on verbal command
- Down on verbal command with hand signal
- 3-minute Sit-Stay, handler away from dog resisting distractions
- 15-minute Down-Stay with the same criteria as Sit-Stay
- Must be able to walk around the dog on Sit-Stay and step over the dog in Down-Stay
- Come sit in front of the handler on a lead on verbal command without a leash correction
- Heel with an automatic Sit-Sit Stay for 5 minutes resisting distractions, handler away from the dog
- Down-Stay for 1/2 hour with the same criteria as Sit-Stay
- Down on verbal command without cue
- Come from Sit-Stay with handler from the dog with a long line on the floor
- Heel with an automatic sit outdoors
- Si- Stay for 5 minutes resisting distractions, handler away from the dog
- Down with verbal command while sitting or up and moving
- Down-Stay for 45 minutes with the same criteria as Sit-Stay
- Stand-Stay for brushing and handling
- Come from a Sit-Stay across the room dragging a leash
- 1-hour Down-Stay
- Military Finish
- Random Sits and Downs
- Random Come under distraction on a long line without correction
- Work on out of sight Stay
Finishing School (4 week course)
At the completion of our Primary Education program (6 weeks), your puppy is ready for Finishing School. This 4-week program is designed to get your adolescent dog solid and reliable off-leash in an open environment with distractions.
Puppies will receive an additional vaccine to complete their puppy series and rabies no later than 16 weeks of age.
Pros & Cons
- Not all trainers work well with the extreme happy go lucky nature of the Australian Labradoodle. Some trainers are heavy-handed and will shut them down breaking their spirit while others will become frustrated by the dog's silly nature and not know what to do. These types of trainers are quick to write the dog off as spastic, hyper, untrainable, wild, and crazy. The reality is they just do not have the experience working with such a joyful dog.
- Socialization is a key aspect of raising a well-balanced puppy, this is something that we work on daily to ensure that all of our puppies are well rounded and happy.
- We spend the late nights crate training and the early raining or cold mornings doing potty duty.
- Potty training is the hardest thing to transition with any dog of any age. It isn't about the dog, it is about space, supervision, your consistency, and the ability to watch the dog at all times. Potty training is more about You than it is about the dog.
We don't create robotically perfect puppies, we give puppies a foundation, imprinting them with skills that You must be able to reinforce. Your lack of being able to speak the same language as your new puppy will demolish any work we do with your puppy. You must be willing to attend classes locally once home with your puppy to learn the behaviors and practice them with your dog.
