In-Home Puppy Training in Kansas City

The earlier the better. Eight, twelve or fourteen weeks is a great time to start. Before your puppy has all of his shots, we focus on the foundation at home: house manners, the crate, coming when called and no biting. Puppies have short attention spans, so sessions build in plenty of breaks and games to keep it fun.

Yes. Potty training is one of the two things I start with, along with coming when called. I give you a clear plan for your specific puppy.

Grabbing a pant leg is normal for a puppy. In an adult dog it is a real problem, so it is worth fixing now. Right now he is learning what he can get away with, and the more he practices it, the more it sticks. I give that biting a place to go, so we can stop it everywhere else.

A group class asks your puppy to focus on you in a gym full of other puppies once a week, which is about the hardest place on earth for a baby dog to concentrate. I train at your house, because that is where the behaviors happen. Your puppy learns to tune into you at your door, in your kitchen and on your walk, and I get to see the real triggers in your house instead of guessing at them.

Yes. To me a puppy is a year and under, and a board and train goes the same way whether it is a puppy or not. Your puppy lives with me, my family and my own dogs, not in a boarding kennel. It runs 3 weeks for $3,500 or 4 weeks for $4,500.

Training starts in your home, then moves out as your puppy is ready: your neighborhood, then public places. I cover the whole Kansas City metro: Overland Park, Olathe, Shawnee and Lenexa in Johnson County; Lee's Summit, Blue Springs and Independence to the east; and the Northland, including Liberty, Gladstone and Parkville.

Yes, potty training is one of the most common things I help with. It's more about a schedule and a little patience than a trick. I'll give you a clear plan for your specific puppy: how to set the routine, how to reward it the right way, how to read the signals. Once the snowball starts rolling the right direction, it usually resolves quickly. Same with the crate, I teach it as the first go-relax spot, then we build from there.

Totally normal, and yes. Right now he's teaching himself what he can get away with, because nobody has given him a clear, meaningful stopping point. The more he practices it, the more it sticks. So I show you how to start the behaviors you want and stop the ones you don't, right in the moments they happen, before they turn into habits you're fighting a year from now.

A group class asks your puppy to focus on you in a gym full of other puppies once a week, which is about the hardest place on earth for a baby dog to concentrate. In-home training teaches your puppy to tune into you at your door, in your kitchen, on your walk, where it actually matters. It's faster, it sticks, and I get to see the real triggers in your house instead of guessing at them.