Board & Train Program

Our Board and Train program offers a two-week intensive experience at Windy Ridge Kennel (6687 Bateman Lane, Athens, Ohio). During this program, your dog will stay with us and participate in daily sessions customized to their foundational behaviors, manners, and the household dynamics. The program has five focus areas:

Foundational Behavior

These behaviors include: sit/stay, down/stay, recall, loose leash walking, greetings, deference, jumping, tolerance to nail trims/brushing/handling touch.

Instruction

We focus on capturing and shaping your dog’s natural behaviors and reinforcing them through a combination of body language, hand signals, and verbal cues. We observe and respond to your dog’s actions, to guide and encourage desirable behaviors.

Extra Behavior

These are owner selected behaviors which could include: gentle lead or muzzle tolerance, place, curbing counter surfing, leash reactivity, resource guarding, reactivity to objects (bikes, skateboards, vacuums, etc.), crate training, leave it, drop it, Canine Good Citizen skills, tricks.

Distractors 

As your dog’s desired behaviors become more fluent, we introduce various distractions to ensure they remain consistent. These distractions can include distance, different body positions (such as proximity and orientation), and various sounds

Once your dog consistently performs the behavior, we focus on generalizing it to different environments, people, and real-life distractions. At the end of the program, we provide a detailed written guide to ensure you can maintain consistency at home and will conduct two follow-up visits to support you and your dog in both home and community settings.

Cost:

$2,000 for the 2 week program*

Program Site: Windy Ridge Kennel 

6687 Bateman Lane, Athens, Ohio 45701

*Tools used for loose leashing walking, reinforcement and mental enrichment will be available for an additional cost. 

"If they can't learn the way we teach, We teach the way they learn."

-Dr. O. Ivar Lovaas