When we adopted our lab, she (Daisy) was house-trained but not leash-trained. Daisy also likes to “play hard” with other dogs and thus we were hesitant to take her to the dog park. She has a huge hunter’s instinct, so we could not let her off leash in dog friendly parks where this is allowed because if she saw a squirrel/rabbit/etc., she’d take off without regard to our calls to “come!”. This was problematic as we want to give Daisy a fun life, and have fun with her as well, which involves having her both leash trained and off leash trained. In June, we signed Daisy up for the all day training sessions. Jon and his staff did an amazing job.
Within the first week, she was leash trained. Working with Daisy outside of class and implementing what Jon and his staff taught her, we are now to the point where we can comfortably take Daisy to dog parks and also have her off leash, knowing she will come back to us. In fact, in lots of instances, we don’t need to use commands as she will anticipate and perform actions before we can give commands. Off leash, she walks right at our side until told she can “go play”. Worth the money!