Board & Train School
Welcome to the #1 referred fear and pain free Board & Train program in Western Canada for over 10 years.
The primary service trusted by positive reinforcement professional dog trainers to refer their clients for safe, effective, reward-based training.
Every dog who stays with us is:
- Loved like family
- Treated with respect
- Trained daily using games, rewards, and clear communication
Dogs Travel to Us From Across BC & Alberta
Our doggy pupils drive and fly to us from all over BC and Alberta for intensive. professional training.
📍 Locations - Greenwood, BC and Lethbridge, AB
We work closely with you to meet your training goals whether it's:
- Addressing a behaviour problem like anxiety, barking or growling
- Improving your dog's listening, leash walking and polite manners
Our approach combines consistent boundaries, clear communication and positive reinforcement to create lasting change.
We Are Specialists in Challenging Behaviour Cases
We are the only professional positive reinforcement based in-home Board & Train service in BC that specialises in challenging reactive and complex behaviour cases.
From new puppies to adolescent dogs to serious behaviour concerns - we’ve truly seen it all:
- Potty training
- Loose-leash walking
- Jumping, barking, lunging
- Reactivity and social challenges
See the Results for Yourself
Check out our YouTube Board & Train playlist to watch current and past doggy visitors:
- Learn new cues
- Overcome behaviour problems
- Learn to socialise with humans and dogs
BOARD & TRAIN
Our programs are catered to your training goals. After assessing your dog at school, we use what works best for YOUR DOG. No cookie cutter training exercises. We use our expertise to address your dog's issues and work a training plan based on that.
Our FULL programs include:
- Perfect Puppy
- Yellow Adult
- Red Aggressive
- Private Tutor
These programs are the best way to make big leaps in your training. We often have clients who have tried various trainers and haven't had big results. They are always ecstatic about the change in their dogs after only 4 weeks of intensive training.
All programs include:
- Positive reinforcement based training (no pinch collars, no shock collars)
- An orientation on your dog’s ideal handling and management at home
- Support via text and email with your trainers once your dog returns home
PERFECT PUPPY Board and Train
$3,000
For puppies aged 3 to 6 months
Avoid problem chewing, jumping & potty accidents, and get a head start in training, learn basic manners, social skills and loose leash walking. Get a year’s worth of training done in 4 weeks!
What's included:
- 4 week stay
- Perfect Puppy Basics: Potty training, sit, down, stay, touch, leave it, drop it, place
- Polite manners and greetings training
- Loose leash walking training
- Recall and off-leash introduction
- Crate training
- Handling for vet and groomer
- Full socialization program with small children, humans, dogs and other animals
- Daily one-on-one training sessions
- Socialization with friendly adult dogs of all sizes, children, new places and different animals
- Daily trips into the great outdoors
- 12 months of continued support
YELLOW Adult Board and Train
$3360
Designed for social adult dogs who need basic obedience skills and manners training or to address a non-aggressive behaviour challenge.
What's included:
- 4 week stay
- Daily one-on-one training sessions to meet your behaviour goal
- Polite social greetings with humans and dogs
- Impulse control at boundaries (waiting at doors, fences, curbs and car doors)
- Basic obedience: Sit, Down, Stay, Come
- Addressing behaviours like leash pulling, over excitement, poor obedience
- Socialization with friendly dogs
- Daily walks, hikes and outings to practice ‘real life’ situations
- 12 months of continued support
RED Aggressive Board and Train
$3920
For adult dogs struggling with a reactivity concern or situational aggression challenge.
This program addresses resource guarding, fear-based reactive responses and situation specific aggression. All dogs with a bite history will be muzzle trained. For more complex cases we occasionally extend to 6-8 weeks.
What's included:
- 4 week stay
- Daily one-on-one reactivity training sessions
- Assessment of the severity of your dog’s behaviour concern
- Management plan for continued progress at home
- Safe monitored socialization for reactive dogs
- Obedience focus on: Impulse Control, Calm Behaviour and Off-Leash Control
- Regular video progress updates
- Focus on ‘real life’ socialization and experiences
- Daily walks, hikes and outings
- 12 months of continued support
PRIVATE TUTOR Board & Train
$3,500/week
A full buyout of our training school.
Your dog (or multiple dogs in the same family) gets king treatment with all of the 1 on 1 attention without sharing time with other doggy students. Your dog comes everywhere with your trainer for the entire program, learns additional tricks, has a spa day booked before coming home and has pick up and drop off at your front door in the Okanagan, Kootenays or Lower Mainland.
What's included:
- Daily one-on-one training sessions to meet your behaviour goal
- Polite social greetings with humans and dogs
- Impulse control at boundaries (waiting at doors, fences, curbs and car doors)
- Basic obedience: Sit, Down, Stay, Come
- Addressing behaviours like leash pulling, over excitement, poor obedience
- Socialization with friendly dogs
- Daily walks, hikes and outings to practice ‘real life’ situations
- 12 months of continued support
BOARD & TRAIN - Alumni Programs for Graduates
$100/night
We are always happy to see our friends for a refresher and brush up while you’re on vacay or needing a little extra support.
What's included:
- Daily one-on-one refresher training sessions
- Comfortable and safe environment
- Focus on your training goals
- Identify and address any new behaviour challenges