Board & Train / Day Training Programs

This option is best suited for owners and dogs who need an immersive training experience to reach their goals if group classes are incompatible due to behavioral issues, human-to-dog communication issues, if you are feeling lost, overwhelmed or disconnected from your dog, or a simple matter of convenience, a board & train or day training program might be best for you. We currently offer the following options for our immersive programs:
 

• E-Collar Communication offers teaching off-leash recall using the e-collar as well as providing a solid sit stay and the place command. This option is perfect for dogs who struggle with prey drive, impulse control, or generally have a lack of follow-through when listening to their owner. The added benefit of teaching a sit stay and place allows for owners to manage their dog when off-leash. Our approach to e-collar training consists of patient and gentle conditioning of the tool to ensure that your dog understands every step of the training process, from the first steps of tool introduction to the final step of off-leash application out in the wild.
• Dog-To-Dog Socialization is suited for dogs who lack confidence, structure, or harbor worry when it comes to encountering dogs in the everyday world. This program establishes social skills in your dog so that they may possess grace and stoicism when interacting with other dogs. By offering highly monitored and controlled interactions with verified dog-safe dogs, this program helps socially struggling dogs come back to a more balanced and confident way of socializing. This program is highly objective, reflecting that what your individual dog needs in terms of support will be unique to your dog. This program relies on structure after the dog completes their initial training, including owner support, owner feedback, and attending Back-To-Pack for maintenance and Pack Walks if applicable.

• E-Collar Recall Training $2450
• Dog-To-Dog Socialization $2250

Our Board & Train and Day Training programs are offered over a minimum of two-weeks (12 days and 10 days respectively) to ensure we have ample time to spend with your dog to guarantee they are learning appropriately at their own speed.

Our Day Training program allows for your dog to come home with you everyday and has you keep your dog over the weekend. Drop-off occurs Monday - Friday between 8-9am and pick up occurs between 5-6pm.

Leash Walking Group Class

This class specifically focuses on developing advanced loose-leash walking skills with an additional focus on handling and how to approach public access skills. Public access refers to the ability of a dog to be calm, collected, and under control when out and about in public with everyday distractions. Walking tools will be provided to you at no additional charge to the price of the class. This class is open to reactive and non-confident dogs, and we strongly encourage their participation on a case-by-case basis. Please note that there is NO direct dog socialization in this class. This is a class specifically designed to take leash walking seriously, with our common goal of having the dogs look and act as professionally as possible. Obtaining a high level of public access requires the dogs to be able to tolerate all distractions around them - including our classmates and their handlers. Class sizes are small insuring everyone gets the attention to detail they deserve. Upon graduation from this class, you will be credited with one free Pack Walk which serves as a tune-up after the group class comes to an end.

• This class is hosted weekly for it's 5-week duration and is partially held at our training facility. Within this five-week series, the first three classes will be held at our training facility, and the last two classes will be held off-site in Belgrade & Bozeman to apply the skills taught in the real world. Each session is 1-hour long. This class is open to dogs 6 months or older. $425

• Next Start Dates: To Be Determined

Puppy Fundamentals Group Class

This class is designed to help you understand your puppy and set you up for success as your puppy grows and develops into adolescence and adulthood. You can expect to learn basic skills that develop into advanced skills, experience proper puppy socialization, learn life skills including crate training and physical handling, and, most importantly, establish successful communication between you and your puppy by understanding how your puppy’s brain operates. These factors are based on your puppy's unique personality, genetics, and motivators. This knowledge can be used to help shape a confident, well-rounded dog for the many years ahead. Class sizes are small insuring everyone gets the attention to detail they deserve.

• This class is currently held on Monday evenings at 6 pm (subject to change seasonally) and is held at our training facility. This class is a six-week series and is open to puppies aged 12 weeks to 6 months. We do have restrictions on certain size/age/breed combinations for puppy classes on a case-by-case basis. $400

• Next Start Date: Autumn 2026

E-Collar Recall Group Class

This is a small group class designed to take you and your dog from knowing nothing about e-collars to having your dog be fully conditioned and trained to be fully off-leash. This class is perfect for those who want to take things very slowly with the e-collar, or simply want to be involved with the process each step of the way. This class maxes out at a size of four dogs. This class is eight weeks long and meets weekly.

• This class is currently held on Tuesday evenings at 7pm (subject to change seasonally) and is held at our training facility. This class is a eight-week series, with the first class being held at our training facility without your dog to learn the e-collar and pin-point exactly what our goals are and how we will get there. The rest of the series is hosted on-site and will take you and your dog from having no e-collar skills to being able to recall and manage your dog off-leash around your classmates, other dogs, as well as livestock. This class is open to dogs 6 months or older and caps at four dogs total. $1,000

• This class is not available for reactive or dangerous dogs, these types of dogs are better suited for either a board & train or day training option.

• Next Start Date: To Be Determined

Pack Walks

Pack Walks are drop-in group leash walking sessions for all of our leash walking clients that have completed a leash walking program with us. During our pack walks, we practice all the skills taught from your training program around dog distractions and environmental distractions. These sessions are designed to serve as a way to continue performing your leash skills around other clients and their dogs. Our trainers in attendance will be able to help you with your dog if needed. We practice leash walking drills as well as basic obedience drills. Pack Walks range in size and there is ample opportunity to expose your dog to new dogs as pack walks are drop-in based, meaning you'll always be meeting someone new. This helps keep the distractions fresh by allowing us to introduce new faces to the pack. Each Pack Walk runs for 45-60 minutes depending on the weather and is $25.

• Pack Walks are hosted every other week on the following days/times:
• Thursdays at 6:30pm

Back-To-Pack Social Program

Back-To-Pack is a highly controlled and monitored social program for dogs that may be harboring trauma from being bullied or attacked, or have experienced a change in personality due to previous encounters with aggressive or reactive dogs. Back-To-Pack is also offered to dogs who are introverted, sensitive, worried, or lack confidence when it comes to sharing space with other dogs. By controlling the flow of movement and space the dogs will be socializing in, this program can build stoicism, confidence, subtlety, and grace into your dog's social toolbelt over time. For the dogs who may have had a poor experience with other dogs and have shown signs that their social behavior has changed or are at risk of changing, Back-To-Pack will provide a safe and highly controlled environment with well-balanced dogs to help your dog recover from their past experiences and rebalance their social skills, their trust, and their behavior around other like-minded dogs.

• Back-To-Pack is held on Thursdays and costs $60 for the day. Drop-off occurs between 8-9am and pick up occurs between 5-6pm. Back-To-Pack is also offered as a more intensive program such as a board & train or day training.