Our board & training program is like no other. Your dog stays at what we call “dog paradise” with the owner of Gulf Coast K9. It is a beautiful 5 acre property with fenced play areas, agility equipment and a dog pool! The best part is that Jillian the owner of Gulf Coast K9 lives on the property and has your pups under constant supervision. We have a 3500 square foot AIR CONDITIONED training facility on property to make sure dogs are comfortable while training. This makes for an easy transition from our home back to yours. During their stay, all obedience aspects are covered from sit, down, place, heel and full off leash training (e-collar remote collar training system is implemented and included in the cost).
Imagine dropping your dog off to our Bradenton dog trainers and getting them back an all star with all of your challenges being a thing of the past. All you have to do is maintain their training upon their return home. This success comes from your dog being immersed in all the obedience training every day by a professional under full time supervision for the ultimate in consistency and proper timing. Your dog is also crate trained, socialized with other dogs and thoroughly proofed around distractions around our facility, neighborhoods and public places like stores and restaurants.
One of our areas of expertise is rehabilitating dogs with behavioral and aggression issues. The Board & Training program is the best way to get these behavioral issues resolved! For reactivity cases, we recommend a minimum of four weeks and in some cases owners opt for even more to ensure long term success. For severe aggression cases, especially to humans we recommend five to six weeks to ensure that your dog can safely interact with people and other dogs. Over the course of several weeks we can take the time to build a bond with your dog, grow his or her confidence, get to the root of their reactivity and work them through it with lots of successful repetition. This is critical with dog aggression rehabilitation.
Why the length of time is important to you and the success of your dog…
Some trainers will say that they can “fix” anything in two weeks and it sounds too good to be true, because it is! It takes about 30 days of repetition to create new habits in humans and dogs are no different. We take the learning style and psychology of learning into account when we are teaching your dog to be reliable in their training. The longer your dog has been practicing certain behaviors we need to take time to help teach them new behaviors to replace the old ones. We can get “results” in two weeks but it will always be at the expense of your dog, and we just don’t want to do that. We ALWAYS want to do training that is fair for your dog and will create lasting habits and behaviors after training, not just suppressing “bad” manners for the sake of getting things done.
Your dog will also take part in field trips during their stay. When ready, we take your dog out on the town to make sure we are proofing their skills in new places and around bigger distractions. This part of training is crucial to bringing their obedience to the next level. Real world training for dogs and their owners is what we strive to accomplish and our board and train program does just that!
Recent Before & After’s
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Included in the Board & Train Program
Included At No Additional Cost
Training Collar
All necessary training collars including an e-collar used for training ($200 value)
Weekly Go Home Lessons
Each week you and your dog receive a “hand off” lesson with one of our expert trainers. You learn all of the skills your dog has learned that week. This will allow you to practice at home each weekend with your dog. These weekly lessons will allow you to learn as your dog does and not be overwhelmed with information at the end of the program!
Raised Dog Cot & Long Line
These items will help you continue you and your dog’s success at home with “place” command as well as their off leash training.
Follow Up
All programs include a follow up lesson to make sure that you and your dog are on the right track after training. This allows us to help you continue your success!
How Many Weeks?
Young dogs looking for more practice and better understanding of obedience around distractions
Commands are more automatic and it is less management when they return home (compared to our on leash only program).
Dogs with minimum behavioral issues would be a good fit for this program
Dogs who need to learn better social skills around other dogs and humans
Looking for off leash reliability and “come” when called
Dogs who may be expressing aggression or reactivity to dogs or humans
Dogs who need to learn better social skills around other dogs and humans
Dogs who are nervous or anxious and need to learn confidence in new places and environments
Dogs who display aggression to other dogs or humans
Dogs who may have a bite history
Dogs who need to learn better social skills around dogs and humans
Fearful dogs who need to learn confidence in new places and environments
Dogs who resource guard toys or food by displaying aggression/p>
Moderate to extensive behavioral issues
It is not about how bad, how good or how smart your dog is. Using our proven methods and techniques the length of stay recommended for your dog by our experienced staff will always be with your goals and the success of your dog in mind.
All of our dogs experience structured socialization during their stay so that they can learn good social skills and habits around other dogs.
All of our dogs train at our home, at our training center as well as out in public to give them all of the experiences they need to be successful when they return home. Lowes, Home Depot, restaurants, parks and downtown areas are some of the places your dog will visit with our trainers during their time with us.
Ready to schedule your free consultation?
(941) 265-8226