Puppy Training Program (for puppies 7-16 weeks old)

BEFORE PURCHASING - Please review the trailer and course curriculum below!

Watch Intro Video

Puppy Training Trailer

Scope of Course

This program is designed as a jumpstart to training culture and lifestyle with young puppies (7-16 weeks old). Short punchy videos and PDFs present an easy to follow roadmap for you and your new puppy!

  • Build communication systems and drills to promote handler engagement and confidence.

  • Understand how to properly navigate socialization understanding both direct and indirect styles.

  • Learn about crate training and housebreaking and the overall balance between training/playing and time management.

  • Establish a powerful bedrock of working together as a team to better prepare yourselves for future courses (Foundational & Advanced Obedience).

Socialization

Understanding Indirect vs Direct

Random exposure does not always equal positive associations. Build skills and have a plan on how to PROPERLY socialize your puppy to dogs/people and our modern world.

Go With the Flow

Learn about establishing rhythms and patterns to the day

We want you having fun and interacting with your puppy but we also want you to have a clear plan of action on how to crate train and housebreak your new puppy too!

Instructor

Professional Dog Trainer Chris Williams

Chris is a seasoned dog trainer and the owner of Run Your Pack: Pet Training and Working K9s, based outside Missoula, Montana. He also runs Work Your Pack Productions and is the Co-Owner and Training Director of Dirty Bandana Working Dogs. With advanced certifications in pet and working dog training earned through hands-on experience with top schools and mentors across the country, Chris doesn’t just train dogs—he builds working partnerships. When he’s not helping students with their dogs in Western Montana, he’s out with law enforcement teams, competing in PSA, deploying his tracking dog for military evasion drills, or hitting the road to teach seminars nationwide. If he’s not behind a camera or brushing dog hair off his gear, Chris is with his wife, trying to figure out how their three young kids somehow run the household.

Course Curriculum

    1. How This Program Works

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Terminology Cheat Sheet

    1. Why Dogs Do

    2. How Dogs Process Information

    3. Markers

    4. Understanding Socialization

    5. Indirect Vs Direct Socialization Matrix

    1. Charging Terminal Marker

    2. Trainer Session : Charging Terminal Markers

    3. Charging Continuation Marker

    4. Trainer Session : Charging a Continuation Marker

    5. Luring

    6. Trainer Session : Luring

    7. Hand Kiss

    8. Trainer Session : Hand Kiss

    9. The Leash : Training vs Management

    10. Trainer Session : The Leash

    1. Welcome to Crate Training

    2. Types of Crates

    3. Crates and Best Uses

    4. Encouraging Discovery of Crate

    5. Add a Cue

    6. Conditioning the Crate

    7. Building Duration In Crate

    8. Disrupting Vocalization

    9. Proofing Crate

    10. Crate Proofing and Generalizing Reminders

    1. Housebreaking

    2. Trainer Session : Housebreaking

    3. Housebreaking Cheat Sheet

    1. Building Behaviors

    2. Trainer Session : Building Behaviors

    3. Shaping Obedience Positions

    4. Trainer Session : Shaping Obedience Positions

    5. Naming Obedience Positions

    6. Trainer Session : Naming Obedience Positions

About this course

  • $250.00
  • 50 lessons