It All Starts Here.

Teach your dog how to navigate our human world and be your Partner-In-Life© by enrolling in our Foundations program. The skills you learn here are the building blocks upon which all our advanced training is based. Whether your goal is to have a reliable off-leash trail companion, a task-trained service dog, or simply a well-behaved family member, this is where it all begins.

Our Foundations program establishes a strong human-canine relationship by developing a clear language between dog and handler, finding a dog’s motivation and aligning it with ours, and teaching the core skills every dog should know to be a healthy, well-balanced individual.

This program covers the following skills and behaviors:

• Building a training language with marker words and clear communication
• Name Recognition/Focus
• Place
• Sit (Hold for Stay)
• Down (Hold for Stay)
• Come w/ Front finish
• Loose Leash Walking
• Threshold Manners (Doors, gates, cars)
• Addressing common issues like barking, jumping, etc.

In addition to obedience skills, our trainers’ holistic approach will touch on all aspects of a dog’s home life, such as nutrition, exercise, family dynamics and house rules.

2 Week Board & Train – $1,800

4 Private Lessons – $380-$420

Pre-requisite – Foundation Program or equivalent skill

Take your relationship with your dog to new levels and develop the ultimate Montana-lifestyle partnership by achieving Off Leash reliability. Having a dog who can enjoy freedom off-leash while remaining under control opens up numerous possibilities for ways to do more stuff with your dog like hiking, camping, river recreation, and more.

Note* – Our off-leash training program is only conducted in designated off-leash areas.

In this program:

• Teaching the off-leash Heel command
• Proofing all commands from minimum distance of 30 feet: Come, Sit (Stay), Down (Stay)
• Proofing human and dog-passing skills – Dogs must be able to pass other humans, dogs, bikes, etc. on-trail without attempting to pull towards them/solicit uninvited attention
• Introducing dog/handler teams to a remote collar
• Appropriate & safe trail etiquette and manners

2 Week Board & Train – $2,000

4 Private Lessons – $380-$420

Does your dog need some extra focus on a particular skill to make your relationship that much better? You can customize ANY training program to include additional skills! Here are a few examples:

• Greeting guests at the door
• Remaining calm and cooperative during veterinary care or grooming events
• Learning how to wear a muzzle, Rex Specs, dog boots, or other specialty equipment items
• And More!

Teaching a dog how to use his nose is a great way to provide mental stimulation, and it is also the base for many useful and fun skills! It can also be used to help hone a dog’s natural abilities, such as finding birds or other game animals. In a nose work program, we teach:

• Imprinting the scent of the handler’s choice – this can be anything from competition scents like birch oil, to food allergen detection, to antler shed or morel mushroom hunting, and more! 
• Introduce an indicator behavior (How the dog tells us he found the scent!)
• Introduce the “Search” cue with containers
• Transition from container searches to “free” searches in multiple environments

Are you an avid camper, backpacker, mountain biker, rollerblader, paddleboarder, horseback rider, or something else equally adventurous? 

Do you want your dog to come along on these adventures? We can help you prepare!

From teaching dogs to run alongside a bike or a horse, to pulling you on skies, to riding a paddleboard, to carrying a backpack and having good camp skills, we can prepare you both to enjoy life together, wherever that may take you!

REACTIVITY is what we call it when a dog over-reacts to a stimulus. For example, if your dog sees another dog and barks, growls, or lunges, we would consider that reactive behavior. However, most dogs who display reactivity will cease that behavior when actually coming into contact with the subject of their focus, i.e. they bark and lunge at a dog, but if they actually get the chance to meet the dog behave in a friendly manner. A dog who does not stop the reactive behaviors and even escalates to conflict is considered aggressive.

Reactivity is very common, and we can help you reduce and even eliminate it! We can help reduce your dogs arousal/excitement levels around the object of their reactivity and refocus them on you. 

Do you have a dog who is afraid of their own shadow? Or maybe they have an over-expressed sense of stranger-danger? 

Dogs who display signs of extreme fear, timidness, or anxiety are often lacking confidence, clear structure, or both. Many times, dogs like this need a strong human partner they can trust to handle the tough stuff so they can relax.

When designing a behavior modification program to address one of these issues, we will focus on confidence building exercises for the dog, relationship-building exercises for the dog and human, and making sure our handlers have the tools they need to communicate clearly.

In addition to that, we will most often implement counter-conditioning protocols to address the focus of your dog’s fear or anxiety, and strive to turn a negative association into a positive one. 

Aggression is an intent to do harm to a target, usually in the form of a bite. It can stem from multiple sources, including from fear, predatory instincts, territorialness, guarding of resources, and more. 

Fixing or rehabilitating aggression can be a complicated situation that may not have a perfect ending, and often relies on a combination of training and environmental management for long-term success. Because of this, we are very selective about which aggression cases we will take on. 

For dogs displaying dog-focused aggression, both board & train and private lesson options are available, on a case by case basis.

For dogs displaying human-focused aggression, we only offer in-home private lessons.

Every aggression rehabilitation program we consider must begin with an in-person evaluation and consultation. 

We are now offering weekly group hikes on rotating days and times! This is a fantastic option for dogs who need additional structured exercise or a different way to socialize with their doggy friends. The details:

• All dogs eligible! First hike is a trial hike.
• Hikes will be one hour with one of our trainers, with a minimum of two dogs and a maximum of six.
• Dogs who have been through our off leash training will be able to hike off leash. All other dogs can hike on a long line!
  • If you want your dog to be able to hike off leash, we are offering a shortened ecollar conditioning course of 2 private lessons focused on recall.
  • If your dog needs additional training to be able to hike safely, we can help with that too! Dogs who are muzzle conditioned can still participate in hikes.
• Owners can attend the hikes WITH their dogs or they can utilize our drop-off option and have a trainer handle them during the hike. It can also be added onto an existing boarding or daycare stay!

$20 – Dog and Handler Attending

$30 – Drop-Off Option (Trainer handling)

See the EVENTS tab for our calendar and to register!

Open to all of our current training clients who have completed our Foundation Program or equivalent skill level.

These drop-in classes will rotate topics (description on event calendar) to cover a variety of fun and beneficial skills and behaviors not covered in our standard foundation class. Class topics have included things like: The Art of Play, Free-Shaping, Introduction to Canine Conditioning and Fitness, Introduction to Nose Work, and More!

$20/Class – Calendar available to existing students, sign up using our EVENTS CALENDAR

Showcase your hard work with your dog by passing the American Kennel Club’s Canine Good Citizen test.

This is a 10-item test administered by the AKC that covers basic obedience and social skills. You can check out details on the tests by going HERE. 

We can administer the Canine Good Citizen Test, AKC Community Canine (CGC-A) and Canine Good Citizen – Urban tests as well as AKC Trick Dog titles.

We offer these tests in group formats and need a minimum of two participants to host a test.

We are also offering a CGC Prep Course group class series! Check out our EVENTS CALENDAR to register or find our next test date. 

$20/Test