In Home Manners
Private Dog Training
Lafayette, Louisiana in-home private dog training with Ronny LeJeune provides a hands-on teaching experience to dog owners who want to improve their dog's home manners and obedience. This program is designed to outfit the dog owner with the skills needed to train their dog.
What behaviors are taught during in-home private lessons?
A personalized training program is created for every dog to accomplish the goals set by the pet parents. The dog trainer can teach and strengthen a variety of skills for dogs of all ages and breeds:
Real Life Skills
Recall: Come When Called
Skills include nose touch, automatic check-ins, traditional and emergency recall.
Loose Leash Walking
Skills include door manners and walking alongside the human around distractions.
Impulse Control
Skills include games to prevent food being stolen and a release cue to take away an item.
Traditional Obedience
Skills include (but are not limited to) sit, down, and stay.
House Manners
Potty Training
Skills include Potty Bells, Crate Training, and developing a consistent routine.
Greeting Guests
Skills include standing on all 4 paws or sitting versus jumping up on guests.
Crate Training
Skills include crate games to develop a positive association with being confined.
Settle On A Mat
Skills include down-stay around distractions and a release cue to communicate the dog can leave the mat.
Hands-on instruction provided during private lessons provides pet parents with the skills the achieve the desired behaviors they want from their dog in their home.
What do I receive from in-person private lessons?
In-person dog training lessons are designed to train both ends of the leash – the dog and their owner. Therefore, the dog trainer works individually with the dog owner to provide the following valuable service features:
Initial Phone Consultation
A phone consultation is completed before all in-person dog training lessons. The consultation is intended to discuss the pet owner's training goals, schedule all private lessons, and provide management techniques to improve the dog's current behavior in the home.
4 Private Dog Training Lessons
A total of four private lessons is provided in the in-home dog training package. Each lesson is 1 hour within the dog owner's home.
Printable Lesson Plans
The dog trainer provides a PDF of the skills covered in each lesson which includes notes about each behavior.
Learning Resources
The dog trainer provides learning and reference materials to support the pet parents in maintaining their dog's behaviors.
In-Home Dog Training Private Lesson Pricing
Optimal Canine’s Private Dog Training Lessons are available to residents in the Lafayette, Louisiana and surrounding regions. The dog trainer, Ronny LeJeune, will travel to the dog owner’s place of residence on the dates scheduled for private dog training.
*Pricing does not include mileage fees. There is an additional travel fee for residents 15+ miles outside of the 70520 is 58.5 cents per mile traveled to client's home outside of the service radius. The Louisiana milage rate follows Notice 2022-03 issued by the IRS on December 17.
In-Home Manners Program is available in Lafayette, LA & surrounding areas
How does the private lessons work?
The dog trainer travels to the dog owner’s home to train. Ronny provides hands on instruction by demonstrating the skills with the dog that is enrolled in the private lessons. The demonstration is intended to provide the dog’s owner with the steps to teach their dog the desired behaviors. The dog owner then practices the skills with the dog trainer to provide feedback and homework for the dog owner to practice in between scheduled private lessons.
Therefore, the dog owner develops the skills needed to teach their dog home manners and obedience skills.
What are the requirements for In-Person lessons?
The program accepts dogs eight weeks and older. Proof of health is required for enrollment. This includes current DAPP Vaccinations (Distemper, Canine Adenovirus types 1 & 2, Canine Parainfluenza Virus, & Canine Parvovirus), Rabies Vaccination, flea prevention, and a negative fecal within 14 days of starting the program. Titer Tests are accepted as proof of immunity within the three year testing window. Puppies without complete vaccinations are accepted under the circumstance that the puppy will be trained within the dwellings of the private home versus public spaces.
Behavior cases require a Behavior Modification program. Resource guarding, leash reactivity, fear, anxiety, dog-aggression, and intra-household aggression is accepted in the Behavior Modification program. Hybrid Behavior Modification is suitable for dog owners in and around the Lafayette, LA region whereas Virtual Behavior Modification is suitable for dog owners throughout the US.
In-Home Private Dog Training Service Area
Optimal Canine’s In-Home Private Lessons are available to pet parents in south-central Louisiana. Service area includes the following cities and towns:
Lafayette, LA
Carencro, LA
Scott, LA
Opelousas, LA
Broussard, LA
Youngsville, LA
In-Home Private Lesson hours of availability include Monday through Thursday from 12:00pm to 6:00pm; and on Sunday from 10:00am to 6:00pm. Friday and Saturdays are unavailable.
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