Day Training

We travel to Arlington and surrounding areas including Alexandria, Washington, D.C., Annandale, Falls Church, McLean, Fairfax, Vienna, Springfield and Great Falls.

You can find each trainer’s specific travel range in their bio when booking your Initial Session, or tell us where you’re located and we’ll find you the right match.

Yes. A key part of Day Training is making sure your dog learns to work with you, not just the trainer. Our job is not complete unless your dog is willing to work with you, not just your trainer.

Throughout the program, we meet with you for regular Family Practice sessions where your trainer coaches you through the skills your dog has been learning. This helps you understand how to communicate with your dog and apply the training at home.

You still have an important role in the training process. We’ll guide you on what to practice between sessions so you can reinforce your dog’s new skills at home and continue the progress you see during training.

In private lessons, you typically meet with a trainer once a week and are responsible for most of the practice on your own.

With Day Training, your trainer works directly with your dog multiple times each week, providing consistent practice and repetition throughout the process. This allows skills to develop more quickly and reliably.

You’re still involved through regular Family Practice sessions, where we coach you on how to work with your dog so you can continue the training at home.

Day Training is a great option when you want more support and faster progress than weekly lessons alone.

Board & Train focuses on intensive training over a short period of time, where dogs work for many consecutive days in a new environment away from home. While it can sound appealing to pack a lot of learning into a short period, that pace can be fatiguing, and a dog’s ability to absorb new information may decrease after several days in a row.

With Day Training, sessions are spread out over time, typically two to three days per week. This allows your dog to learn, rest, and retain new skills more effectively, leading to more consistent progress.

Just as importantly, you’re involved throughout the process. We include regular Family Practice sessions so you can learn alongside your dog, rather than being handed everything at the end.

Training isn’t just about what your dog can do with a trainer—it’s about what they can do with you in your home. Day Training is designed to support that from the start.

We do not offer a guarantee.

Dog training isn’t a one-size-fits-all process, and results depend on many factors, including your dog, your goals, and how consistently the training is reinforced at home.

As you research training options, we encourage you to be cautious of programs that promise guaranteed results. Dog training is an unregulated industry, and guarantees can create pressure to produce fast outcomes—sometimes in ways that may not align with your values or how you want your dog to be treated when you are not present.

Instead, we focus on clear communication, realistic expectations, and steady progress. We keep you informed throughout the process so you understand what your dog is learning and how things are progressing, with no surprises along the way. Our goal is to give your dog skills that improve behavior and give you the tools to continue that progress over time.

Day Training is designed to help you make meaningful progress and build reliable skills, not to completely “finish” every behavior in a short period of time.

Our goal is to teach your dog new behaviors that replace or redirect unwanted ones and make them easier to manage. Most dogs make significant progress during a program, especially with consistent training and follow-through.

Your involvement plays an important role. The more you reinforce these skills at home, the more reliable they become.

Many clients begin with an 8 + 2 package to build a strong foundation. For more challenging behaviors or continued progress, we can extend training beyond the initial program and continue developing those skills over time.

No, you don’t need to be home for Day Training sessions. Many clients choose this option so their trainer can work with their dog while they’re at work or handling other parts of their day.

We’ll coordinate access and scheduling with you, and you’ll stay involved through regular Family Practice sessions where we coach you on how to continue the training.