This program is for owners who know they have a high-energy, high-drive puppy, and want a program focused on channeling that drive into the right places, rather than working against it. Most training tries to manage drive down. We build drive control into the dog's foundation from the start, so it becomes an asset, not a liability.
Real alignment from the start, not a fix later.
This is for the puppy that's good at doing everything except for doing nothing.
You've started noticing more pushback, more testing, a dog that's a little less responsive than it used to be. It's not a crisis yet, and it might not even look like a real problem to anyone else. Maybe you already know this is going to be a problem, or maybe you're not sure if it will be a problem and want to get it assessed just to be safe.
Still young, still small, but the genetics mean you already know you're going to have a handful. You're not waiting to find out. You're building the foundation before it arrives.
Most puppy programs are built for the average puppy, and most puppies are the average puppy. Yours isn't, and if you're reading this then you probably already know it! This program starts from a different premise: drive, intelligence, and intensity aren't things to manage down while a puppy is young. They're exactly what needs to be worked with, deliberately, from the very first weeks.
Most standard training avoids ever letting a puppy experience its own capability. The thinking makes sense on the surface: teach a puppy to stay calm in every situation, and it never learns to get excited in the first place. Even for an owner who manages to stay consistent with that, this approach doesn't work, because the dog simply isn't wired to be that way. No matter how hard you work to avoid it, life will eventually trigger that excitement anyway, and when it does, it's going to be in exactly the place where we're trying to avoid it, and the dog will have no idea how to control it once it's there.
Other owners take the opposite approach. Most people with this type of dog like it when their dog gets excited, it's why they got a high energy dog, so instead of suppressing it, they make exceptions everywhere it shows up, or don't regulate it at all, assuming a high-energy dog is just supposed to be like this. There's nothing wrong with appreciating that energy and drive, and most people who chose a puppy like this didn't do it by accident. What they want is control over it, not for it to disappear. The problem is what happens when it's never channeled: it leaks into everything, with no structure and no off switch, and the dog ends up in the exact same place as the suppressed dog, unable to stay in control once real drive shows up. It's just cute puppy behavior, until one day it's a behavior problem.
Angie has worked with a wide range of working breeds in the jobs they were actually bred for, at a high level. That's where she learned to read what a puppy actually needs, right from the start.
Real puppy development isn't about suppressing who your puppy is. It's about helping them become the best possible version of themselves, teaching them how who they are can align with the world instead of constantly colliding with it.
Every program starts with an assessment. We get to know your puppy, work with you to define a clear, realistic goal, and build the program from there, specific to your puppy, your environment, and what you're actually trying to build toward. You'll know what the work involves, what's required from you, and what you can realistically expect. There's no obligation to move forward afterward. Either way, you'll leave with a clear, honest read on what's actually going on with your puppy, information you didn't have before. If you do move forward with a program, the assessment fee is credited toward it in full.
Training happens in your home and the environments where your puppy is actually growing up. Not a facility. Not a parking lot. Where possible, we keep the owner involved throughout.
The goal is always an owner who can maintain the work, not just a puppy that performs for us. A puppy can look trained in a session and fall apart the moment you're on your own with it, if you were never actually taught what's happening or why it works. You'll understand the plan well enough to keep it going without us in the room, not just watch us execute it.
Every walk, every interaction, every day, it's already shaping this dog. Let's make sure it's shaping the right one.