The first six months set the trajectory for the next twelve years.
People call me about a two-year-old dog who lunges at strangers, chews through the couch, or won't come when called — and when we talk, almost every story starts the same way: "He was such a sweet puppy, we didn't think we needed training."
Puppies are easy to live with. That's the trap. The habits you're not teaching them now are the habits they're building on their own. And the window for shaping how a dog sees the world — people, other dogs, noises, handling — closes. You can't reopen it later. You can only do damage control.
Good puppy training isn't about teaching a four-month-old to sit on command. It's about socialization done correctly, confidence-building in the right contexts, bite inhibition, leash foundations, potty and crate training that actually sticks, and — most importantly — teaching you how to handle and communicate with a puppy before bad patterns set in.
We do it in your home because that's where your puppy is forming every opinion they'll have about the world: the couch, the yard, the neighbor's dog, the kids, the doorbell, the leash. That's where the work happens.