The day
From your door,to a tired dog on your floor.
Most people never see the middle of it. Here is the whole thing, in order, from the van pulling up to a tired dog on your floor.
- 01
The van pulls up
A driver comes to your door, which is why most of our clients have never driven out to us. Some dogs take a week or two to work out what the van means. A few of ours make a run for it the moment the door opens.
“My pup Lucy absolutely melts with excitement as soon as she sees the doggy van pull up to whisk her away to the farm to play with her friends.”
Jake Meer, Google review - 02
The ride out
Dogs travel together. For some dogs the ride is the hardest part of the day. It is short and it is controlled, and most settle into it within a week or two. Whether yours will is one of the things the evaluation checks, before there is ever a first pickup.
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Out onto the field
The farm is open ground, not a room. A dog here runs more in five minutes than a day in a playroom allows. Swimming, ball, the zipline, walks out across the property. What each dog gets depends on the dog, which is the point of knowing them.
“Whether swimming, playing ball ziplining or hikes these dogs enjoy the having fun with Michael and the pack.”
Diane Rosenbluth, Google review - 04
The group does some of the teaching
A well run group is not just supervision. Dogs read each other, and a nervous dog learns from confident ones that nothing bad is happening. Shy dogs get space and someone advocating for them until they want to join in. Dogs that arrive at full volume learn to come down from it.
- 05
Inside, and everything changes
Outside is for running. Inside is for settling. Dogs work that out here faster than they do at home, partly from us and partly from the other dogs already lying down. No jumping on people or counters, no tearing around indoors. This is the part most owners notice first when their dog gets home.
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The training session
For dogs on Foundational or Specialized, this is dedicated one on one time on their own plan. Recall, leash work, place and settling, or the one problem you asked us to fix. We work it somewhere new when the dog is ready, because a behaviour that only holds in our yard has not really been learned.
- 07
The plan adjusts
The evaluation gives us a place to start. What happens during the program tells us what comes next. If your dog needs more help transferring the work home, that can be added after the main program.
- 08
Home again
The van brings your dog back. Boarding dogs stay on and go through the same day tomorrow. Either way you get a tired dog, which is most of what anyone actually wants from a day of daycare.
The part that changes things at home
Outside is for play. Inside is for settling.
It sounds small. It is the single thing owners tell us they notice first, because a dog that has learned where the off switch lives stops being exhausting to have in the house.
Dogs pick it up here faster than they do at home, partly from us and partly from the other dogs already lying down. Nothing about it requires your dog to be in a training program. It is simply how the day runs.
The ride
A short trip each end, and that is the whole of it
The rest of the day is open ground and a group. How pickup works, how far we come, and how dogs take to the van, all sit on one page.
How the pickup worksSee it for yourself first.
The evaluation is an hour, in your home or out at the farm. You will get a straight answer about your dog and how a day here would actually go for it.
$125 at your home, $50 at the farm. If you start any program, the full evaluation payment is credited toward your first program payment.