1. Private One-on-One Classes (16 sessions)
   Duration: 1 hour twice a week for 8 weeks.
   Price: $1,200.00
2. Group Classes (8 sessions)
   Duration: 2 hours once a week for 8 weeks.
   Price: $600.00
3. In-Center Training (ICT)
   Duration: Daily sessions for 4 to 8 weeks.
   Price: $1,200.00 per month

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What can I do with my new puppy to ensure that he develops into a Confident and Social Adult?

Starting about one week after you get your puppy (age 8 or 9 weeks), get him out 3 days a week to a new situation he has never seen before. This takes some planning, but it is well worth the effort.

Puppy Imprinting 8 Weeks:

Take your new puppy on a walk (off leash) in a meadow or pasture with medium tall grass. Keep him with you by voice. Encourage him to climb over a little mound of dirt or a log. Praise his efforts to do something he has never done before. Walk just fast enough that he has to strain very slightly to keep up with you. At this age his desire to stay with you is very strong as well as important to encourage. Capitalize on that. The walk should take no less then 15 minutes, and no more than 20 minutes.

Puppy Imprinting 9 Weeks:

Take him on another walk, this time in the woods. He is in taller grass and weeds as well as around trees. He must occasionally climb over small logs (Just big enough to be a challenge, but not so big that he learns that there are logs too big to climb). He goes up a hill, and down a hill, over some rocks, maybe down a small bank. The perfect setup is where he goes across a small creek. He gets wet up to the chest. He scrambles up the bank to follow you. He goes through a thick carpet of leaves that crunch when he walks. Encourage him all the way. Praise him for meeting the challenge. The walk takes about 20 minutes.

Puppy Imprinting 10 Weeks:

The same as age 9 weeks but a bit more difficult. Occasionally hide momentarily from him when he is distracted in the woods. Watch him. Does he notice you are missing? If he does, and starts to look for you, suddenly appear and praise profusely. If he doesn't look for you, toss a pebble to make him notice you are missing. Then call him from your hiding place. When he starts to look for you, appear and praise him. This will teach him, as it is repeated time and time again, to watch you when you are out in the woods, instead of you having to constantly be watching where he is. This makes him take that responsibility of staying with you. Play this game over and over through many weeks until you cannot hide from him because he is always watching. This only works when started young.

Puppy Imprinting 11 Weeks:

Take him swimming. You hold him and wade out to knee deep water. Point him toward shore and *gently* let him go. Be sure he gets his head up and he heads for shore. Have someone on shore encouraging him in a positive way. Another way to approach this is to entice him into the water by going in yourself and encouraging him to follow. Do NOT throw him in the water! When you are through get him out and dry him off and go home. Be sure not to let him get chilled.

Puppy Imprinting 12 Weeks:

Take a trip to a farm. Let him see cows, horses, chickens and whatever else you can find. This time you should keep him on leash. Make sure he is safe from the animals and let him get close enough to sniff. Make sure there are no electric fences that he might encounter and create a negative experience. This outing can take 20 or more minutes. You have a positive attitude about all this. Be nonchalant about it all, as if this is what every 12 week old pup does. If he becomes overly concerned and scared encourage him that everything is okay. Your puppy will be looking for your reactions for guidance, so make sure that you let him know that this is a normal thing, and that there is nothing scary about the other animals.

Puppy Imprinting 13 Weeks:

Take him on leash to town. Walk him on a main street with medium to light foot traffic. He sees and hears cars, trucks and heavy street traffic. He passes by many people walking bicycles, delivery men with packages, etc. This should be a short outing about 10 minutes. Praise him lavishly for positive behavior. Be nonchalant and very encouraging as if this is something normal that is just part of life. When you get back to the car, praise him for his remarkable feats of courage. Also remember that if he shows any unsure or insecure emotions that you remain strong and confident, and that you appear to him as if this is normal life.

Puppy Imprinting 14 Weeks:

A trip to the beach or some other special place he has never been. Perhaps a trip to the local grade school front lawn when all the children are running out of the school and making a lot of noise. Let the kids stop and pet him. Let him see the crowd, let him be right in the middle of the crowd. Be sure that if any of the children are overbearing to him that you assure him that it is okay and normal, and that there is nothing to be afraid of.

Puppy Imprinting 15 Weeks:

Another trip to town. If you haven't already introduced stairs to your puppy this is an excellent time to do so. Remember that staircases are a very large obstacle to most puppies, and they will need encouragement from you to defeat this life changing barrier.

Puppy Imprinting 16 Weeks:

Your pup's major impressionable, imprinting and learning age of his entire life is now over. Hopefully you have given him a very wide range of experiences. If you have done all this faithfully you will have taught him the most important thing of all to learn and it will stay with him the rest of his life, enabling him to continue to learn throughout his lifetime.

Puppy Imprinting 17 to 21 Weeks:

This is a bad time to subject your pup to stress, such as plane trips, a stay at the vets, boarding kennel or any threatening situation. Many pups act very fearful at this age. This should be a quiet time in their lives.

Imprinting 22 Weeks And Older:

Repeat as many of the early experiences that he has encountered up until this point for the rest of his life so that he remains as social and confidant as possible. It is generally a good idea to plan at least one day a week as an outing day, and then rotate the different places you visit so that he doesn't only become accustomed to one specific area. Also it is a good idea to avoid visiting the exact same area repeatedly so that he is forced to always expect something new and exciting.