Build Your Program
Your dog's plan
Answer a few questions about your dog and this page fills in with a real starting point: where they are today, what to fix first, and the program a trainer would put them in.
Where the score comes from
Four categories, 58 behaviors, rated one to five.
Where we start
The first things a trainer would work on
These came straight off your own ratings. A plan that starts anywhere else is a plan built for a different dog.
Recommended program
Where we would start
How we get there
Every line of the plan, and why it is there
Sharpen your plan
Tell us about your house
The dog is half of it. These answers decide which trainer we pair you with and how we hand the leash back, and the plan above rewrites itself as you answer. Skip any group.
Answer what you can
What these answers changed
Keep learning
Look around before you decide
The grade ladder
Grades run by name from Pre-School through Dogtorate. Each one has its own page with the skills it covers and what a dog has to hold to move up.
See the grade levelsThe PD360 assessment
A 30 minute meeting where a trainer works your dog in person, gives you the breakdown out loud, and hands back a revised score. It is credited toward your program when you enroll.
See how it worksNext step
Ready when you are
Adjust anything you want, or hand it to a trainer and let them take it from here.
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