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Positive reinforcement private dog training and enrichment-focused support for the family dog.
At Jenn’s Dogs, private training sessions are designed to meet dogs and their guardians where they are. Whether you are building life skills with a new puppy, preparing for public outings, exploring enrichment, or navigating everyday challenges at home, private sessions offer flexible, focused support in a structured environment.
Private training is not a “less than” option compared to group classes. Many families simply learn better in a one-on-one setting. Some dogs benefit from reduced environmental pressure, while others need a flexible pace, individualized coaching, or support that targets very specific goals.
Our private sessions focus on practical, real-life skills using positive reinforcement, enrichment, management, and compassionate communication. Sessions are designed to help guardians better understand their dogs while building sustainable habits that fit everyday life.
Training options include structured private versions of our level programs, enrichment-based support sessions, scent work training, and targeted single-focus appointments for specific needs.
Structured Private Training Programs
Prefer a one-on-one learning environment? Our private training programs follow the same foundation and skill progression as our group classes while allowing for individualized pacing, flexible scheduling, and focused coaching.
Private programs are ideal for:
• Dogs who learn better in quieter environments
• Guardians wanting more individualized instruction
• Busy schedules needing flexible appointment times
• Puppies needing a slower introduction to training
• Dogs still building confidence around new environments
• Families wanting support tailored to their everyday routines
Focused, Flexible Training for the Family Dog
Level 0: Puppy Life Skills
Level 0: Puppy Life Skills
Designed specifically for puppies 8–16 weeks old at the start of training, this program focuses on early socialization, confidence building, handling skills, emotional regulation, and foundational life skills.
The course includes:
• Potty training
• Crate training
• Bite inhibition
• Handling and husbandry
• Calmness around novelty
• Conf
Designed specifically for puppies 8–16 weeks old at the start of training, this program focuses on early socialization, confidence building, handling skills, emotional regulation, and foundational life skills.
The course includes:
• Potty training
• Crate training
• Bite inhibition
• Handling and husbandry
• Calmness around novelty
• Confidence building
• Early communication skills
• Appropriate play and engagement
Level 1: Basic Manners
Level 0: Puppy Life Skills
Build foundational communication and everyday life skills through positive reinforcement and relationship-focused training.
The course includes:
• Loose leash walking
• Recall foundations
• Redirection cues
• Focus and engagement
• Settling skills
• Impulse control
• Position changes
• Marker systems and communication
Level 2: Public Manners
Designed for dogs ready to begin applying skills in more distracting environments while improving communication and reliability.
The course includes:
• Heel implementation
• Public handling skills
• Duration and distraction work
• Advanced leash handling
• Multi-step behaviors
• Environmental confidence
• Real-world skill application
Level 3: Fine Tuning
Designed for dogs and guardians ready to strengthen communication, refine handling skills, and improve fluency in more complex real-life situations. This level focuses on helping dogs better understand how to make thoughtful choices while navigating both public and everyday environments with increased distractions and expectations.
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Designed for dogs and guardians ready to strengthen communication, refine handling skills, and improve fluency in more complex real-life situations. This level focuses on helping dogs better understand how to make thoughtful choices while navigating both public and everyday environments with increased distractions and expectations.
The course includes:
• Advanced leash handling and communication
• Transitioning between slack lead walking and structured heel work
• Heel work with turns, movement changes, and environmental navigation
• Adding distance to multi-step behaviors such as place and send-outs
• Refining duration, distraction, and fluency of previously learned cues
• Revisiting husbandry and cooperative handling skills
• Navigating busier public environments with increased confidence
• Building comfort settling around other dogs through controlled exposure with our demo dog
• Games and cognition exercises designed to strengthen problem-solving and cue reliability
• Proofing advanced skills in more distracting and complex environments
• Helping dogs generalize learned behaviors into everyday life situations
Private Scent Work classes for the Family Dog
Structured Private Training Programs
Scent work provides mental enrichment, confidence building, problem solving, and emotional regulation through structured search activities. Private scent work sessions are ideal for dogs who benefit from individualized pacing or quieter learning environments.
Scent Work Level 1: Beginner
Learn the foundations of search work, problem solving, and scent-based games while building handler observation skills and communication.
Scent Work Level 2: Intermediate
Expand search difficulty, scent discrimination skills, and handling techniques while increasing environmental complexity.
Enrichment Planning Sessions
Enrichment Planning Sessions
Human-only enrichment planning sessions held at the Jenn’s Dogs Training Studio with Certified Enrichment Technician Chey.
These sessions focus on developing a structured six-week enrichment plan designed around your dog’s individual needs, lifestyle, energy levels, and behavioral goals.
Enrichment plans may focus on:
• Mental stimulation
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Human-only enrichment planning sessions held at the Jenn’s Dogs Training Studio with Certified Enrichment Technician Chey.
These sessions focus on developing a structured six-week enrichment plan designed around your dog’s individual needs, lifestyle, energy levels, and behavioral goals.
Enrichment plans may focus on:
• Mental stimulation
• Emotional regulation
• Breed-typical behaviors
• Calming activities
• Confidence building
• Physical outlets
• Household management
• Reducing frustration and boredom
Management Sessions
Enrichment Planning Sessions
Management sessions provide practical support for life transitions, temporary behavior changes, and everyday household challenges.
These sessions are ideal for:
• Potty training support
• Introducing a new dog
• Preparing for a move
• Household schedule changes
• Baby preparation
• Temporary behavior changes
• Reducing stress during transi
Management sessions provide practical support for life transitions, temporary behavior changes, and everyday household challenges.
These sessions are ideal for:
• Potty training support
• Introducing a new dog
• Preparing for a move
• Household schedule changes
• Baby preparation
• Temporary behavior changes
• Reducing stress during transitions
• Preventing rehearsal of unwanted behaviors
Management sessions focus on helping guardians create safer, more predictable environments while reducing stress for both dogs and people.
Free Work Sessions
Free work sessions allow dogs to safely explore a thoughtfully designed enrichment environment filled with movement challenges, textures, problem-solving opportunities, and exploratory activities.
These sessions can help:
• Encourage decompression
• Observe natural movement patterns
• Support confidence building
• Provide low-pressure enri
Free work sessions allow dogs to safely explore a thoughtfully designed enrichment environment filled with movement challenges, textures, problem-solving opportunities, and exploratory activities.
These sessions can help:
• Encourage decompression
• Observe natural movement patterns
• Support confidence building
• Provide low-pressure enrichment
• Help guardians better understand their dog’s body language and movement
• Support dogs recovering from stress or major life changes
Free work sessions may also be beneficial for guardians wanting additional insight into possible movement changes, discomfort, or aging-related concerns. Sessions can be recorded and compiled into a reference video for veterinary professionals if requested.
Toy Testing Sessions
With so many enrichment toys, puzzles, feeders, and interactive products available, it can be difficult to know what will actually work for your dog.
Toy testing sessions allow dogs to safely explore and experiment with different toy styles, enrichment tools, puzzle feeders, movement-based activities, and play options while guardians lear
With so many enrichment toys, puzzles, feeders, and interactive products available, it can be difficult to know what will actually work for your dog.
Toy testing sessions allow dogs to safely explore and experiment with different toy styles, enrichment tools, puzzle feeders, movement-based activities, and play options while guardians learn:
• How to introduce enrichment toys
• Which toys best fit their dog’s play style
• Safe toy usage and rotation
• How to build engagement
• Ways to prevent frustration
• How to use enrichment toys more effectively at home
These sessions are especially helpful for:
• Newly adopted dogs
• Puppies
• High-energy dogs
• Dogs struggling with boredom
• Guardians wanting safer enrichment options
Not Sure Which Option Is Right for Your Dog?
Every dog learns differently. Some families thrive in group classes, while others benefit from individualized support, flexible pacing, or targeted one-on-one guidance.
Our team can help you determine the best fit based on:
• Your dog’s age and experience
• Behavioral history
• Confidence level
• Household goals
• Lifestyle needs
• Training preferences
Whether you are starting with a puppy, building manners, exploring enrichment, or simply looking for support through everyday changes, we can help you find the right next step.