Service detail · In-home sessions
In-home sessions.
I come to your house and put a focused hour into one or two skills. You don’t need to be home and you don’t need to be involved.
Pricing
A focused hour of trainer-led work on the skills you and I have already agreed on. I leave a clear written summary so you know what we worked on and how to keep it going through the week.
The hour
What an in-home session contains.
- Arrival and transition (5 to 10 min). I let myself in (or your dog meets me at the door), a quick potty trip outside, and then we settle into work mode together.
- Focused work on one or two skills (40 to 45 min). Whatever we agreed on at your last private lesson. Crate work, place, settle, door behavior, cooperative care, confidence exposure. Whatever the skill is, we work it in the place where it has to hold up: your home.
- Wrap and written summary (5 to 10 min). I leave a written recap so you know what we covered and what to keep practicing through the week.
What it offers
Skill work you don’t have to manage.
I arrive at the time we have set, work directly with your dog on one or two specific skills, and leave a written summary so you know exactly what was practiced. The skills themselves are picked together at your private lessons, so the in-home session is execution, not planning.
Best for packed schedules, weeks where life is too full for another commitment, and skills that benefit from focused trainer-led work.
Who it’s for
Established clients with busy weeks.
In-home sessions work best for dogs who already know me and for owners who want continued progress without managing every session themselves. Common cases: a dog mid-bundle who needs an extra rep on a tough skill, a busy week where the owner cannot fit a private lesson, a focused push on a single behavior between regular sessions.
Fit check
What in-home sessions work for, and what they don’t.
Strong fit:
- Crate, place, and settle work
- Door behavior (greetings, reactivity at the door, barking at delivery drivers)
- Cooperative care practice (handling, grooming, vet prep)
- Confidence and exposure work using triggers that live at your home
- Reinforcing skills we’ve been building in private lessons
- Introducing new skills that primarily live in the home environment (settle, household manners, place)
- Yard recall and basic outdoor work, if you have a fenced yard
Not the right format:
- Skills that need varied environments to generalize (Day Training is built for that)
- Issues where your dog’s behavior with you specifically is the problem (the work has to include you, so we’ll plan a private lesson)
- Loose-leash walking and reactivity work that depends on real-world walks (Day Training or a private lesson, depending on where you’re at)
The three formats fit together: private lessons teach the handling, in-home sessions reinforce skills that live at home, day training generalizes the work to the world.
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