PD360 Assessment
The smartest dog training system ever created.
PD360 is the proprietary Partners Dogs 360° in-person assessment and progress-tracking system that powers every program we run. Twenty-eight years of refinement. 70,000+ dogs of data. One in-person visit at our Scottsdale or Cave Creek facility, and your dog walks out with a fully individualized program plan.
Required before Behavior Camp and Transform Camp. $199 first dog, $149 second dog, credited toward same-day camp enrollment.
What is the PD360 Assessment?
PD360 stands for Partners Dogs 360°, the comprehensive, in-person evaluation that looks at your dog from every angle: behavior, temperament, learning style, environment, family dynamics, prior history, and the real-world conditions you live in. It is the foundation of every Partners Dogs program and the reason our programs work when nothing else has.
The assessment is run by a senior trainer at our Scottsdale or Cave Creek facility. We meet your dog. We watch your dog. We talk with you about your goals, your home, and what you have already tried. Then we hand you a custom program plan, a realistic timeline, and an honest read on what the work ahead looks like, before you commit to a single dollar of training. PD360 is the smartest first step any dog parent can take, and it is the only assessment in Arizona built on 28 years and 70,000+ dogs of data.
A Complete Picture of Your Dog
What's included in every PD360 Assessment
Nine dimensions, one visit. Every PD360 covers all of these, not just the behavior in front of us, but the full picture that determines whether training sticks.
- Behavioral Evaluation. Live observation of how your dog responds to real-world triggers, handling, distractions, and structure. We watch the behaviors you live with at home, not a sanitized demo.
- Temperament Profile. Confidence, sociability, drive, recovery from stress, frustration tolerance, and threshold mapping. The temperament profile tells us what your dog can take and what we need to build.
- Learning Profile. How your dog learns, whether food-driven, toy-driven, praise-driven, pressure-sensitive, or some blend. This determines which tools and techniques produce the fastest, cleanest progress for your specific dog.
- Environmental Factors. Home layout, yard access, neighborhood triggers, other pets, family rhythm, and the lived-environment variables that shape every behavior plan. Training that ignores environment fails.
- Lifestyle Match. Your goals, your daily schedule, your energy, your household. The PD360 matches our program recommendation to the life you actually live, not the one a workbook assumes you live.
- Custom Program Plan. The exact program (Foundation Camp, Behavior Camp, Transform Camp, DaySchool, Private Lessons, or group classes), the duration, the milestones, and the sequence of skills your dog will build.
- Progress Baseline. A measurable starting point for every dimension we track: behavior scores, skill levels, trigger thresholds, owner confidence ratings. This is what every future report measures against.
- Tool Compatibility. Which training tools fit your dog and your comfort level. Balanced, tool-agnostic, never one-size-fits-all. We pick the equipment that produces the cleanest result with the least friction.
- Family Coaching Plan. What every handler in the household needs to learn so the work transfers home. Training the dog is half the job, coaching the family is the other half, and the PD360 maps both.
How It Works
The PD360 assessment process
Book your assessment day. Pick your facility, Scottsdale or Cave Creek, using the schedulers below and reserve a full assessment day with us. Drop-off is around 9-10am and pickup around 3-4pm, with flexibility. Bring the dog, and bring the primary handler for the pickup debrief.
Visit one of our 2 Arizona facilities. A senior trainer evaluates your dog across multiple environments over the day. We watch behavior, test responses, and walk through history and goals. The full day runs 4+ hours with your dog plus about an hour with you, never rushed, never templated.
Receive your custom program plan. You leave with a personalized program recommendation, the skill sequence, a realistic timeline, and an honest prognosis: what is achievable, what is hard, and what to expect. The fee is $199 first dog, $149 second dog, credited toward same-day camp enrollment.
See It In Action
Watch a PD360 Assessment
One assessment day. One honest plan.
The PD360 assessment is $199 for your first dog and $149 for a second dog. That covers 4+ hours of hands-on evaluation with your dog plus about an hour with you, and the fee is credited toward same-day camp enrollment.
Required before Behavior Camp and Transform Camp, and the smartest first step for any family unsure which program fits.
The Other Half of PD360
Pet progress tracking, how we measure real outcomes
Most dog training programs end the day pickup happens and you never hear another number again. PD360 is the opposite. The assessment is day one of a measurement system that runs from the moment your dog walks in to graduation, and follows you home through every follow-up touchpoint.
We track real outcomes because real outcomes are the only thing that matters: the recall that works when a coyote crosses the path, the calm at the door when the delivery driver knocks, the relaxed leash on a busy sidewalk. Every program comes with a behavior dashboard, milestone updates, photo and video reports during board-and-train, and real-world test results at graduation. Here is what gets measured.
Measured, Not Guessed
Six tracking dimensions, one dashboard
Every PD360 dog is scored across all six dimensions at baseline and re-scored at every milestone. Your dashboard reflects real progress, not vague impressions.
- Behavior Scorecard. Composite score for the behaviors that matter to you: reactivity, recall, leash, door manners, settling, resource guarding, recovery from stress. Re-scored at every milestone so you see the trend, not just the destination.
- Skill Milestone Tracker. Every skill in the program plan is mapped to milestones: introduced, reinforced, proofed, maintained. Badges and timestamps mark each transition so you always know exactly where your dog is on the curriculum.
- Real-World Test Results. Recall at distance with distractions. Heel past a trigger. Door-knock control. Stay through the doorbell. Settle in a busy environment. Real-world tests run at graduation and again at follow-ups, not staged demos.
- Owner Confidence Scoring. Self-reported confidence with each skill, captured at intake, mid-program, and graduation. Your confidence is a leading indicator of whether the training will hold at home, and we coach against the gaps.
- Trigger Response Mapping. Each trigger your dog reacts to gets cataloged with intensity, threshold distance, recovery time, and rehab progression. The map tells us, and you, exactly which triggers are solved and which still need work.
- Maintenance Plan Compliance. Post-graduation, we track whether the at-home maintenance plan is being followed. Slipping reps and quiet weeks predict regression. Catch it on the dashboard, fix it with a tune-up, never lose the work.
Real-World Testing
Real-world testing, on the floor
Recall under distraction. Heel past a trigger. A long line out across a working floor. The numbers on your dashboard come from real tests like this one, run at graduation and again at follow-ups, so the progress you see is progress you can trust.
Built Different
What makes PD360 the smartest dog training system
It is not one thing. It is six things compounding on top of each other, the way 28 years of building, measuring, and refining stacks.
- Proprietary 28-year methodology. The PD360 framework is not a workbook downloaded from somewhere. It is the methodology Leighton and Christopher Oosthuisen and our 50+ pro trainers have refined since 1997, iterated against the actual outcomes of tens of thousands of dogs.
- Tool-agnostic by design. Balanced training means we use the right tool for the right dog in the right moment. Treats, clickers, slip leads, prong collars, e-collars, place training, the equipment serves the dog, never the dogma. Tools don't cause harm. People do.
- Real-world reinforcement. Sit-stay-down on a quiet mat is the first 10%. Real training is recall under distraction, heel past a coyote, calm at the door when life is loud. PD360 is built around the conditions you actually live in.
- Family-first program design. Every plan is designed around the family that has to carry it home. Multi-handler households, kids underfoot, work-from-home schedules, retirement routines, we coach the humans because that is where retention lives or dies.
- Continuous progress tracking. Six dimensions, scored at baseline, re-scored at every milestone, surfaced on a dashboard you can open from your phone. Real numbers, real trends, real tests, never vague reassurance.
- Backed by 70,000+ dogs of data. Every program plan is calibrated against the outcomes of the 70,000 dogs that came before yours. We know which patterns predict success and which predict regression, because we have watched it happen, at scale, for almost three decades.
Two Arizona Facilities, One Standard
Why in-person beats any quiz
An online quiz can guess. An in-person assessment knows. There is no substitute for a senior trainer putting hands on your dog, watching the actual response to actual triggers, and reading the family dynamic in the room.
That is why every PD360 is conducted at one of our two Arizona facilities, Scottsdale or Cave Creek. Same standard, same proprietary system, same senior-trainer roster. Pick the campus nearest you.
Book Your PD360
Pick the facility nearest you and book a PD360 assessment
Pick a full assessment day at the campus closest to you. Drop-off is around 9-10am and pickup around 3-4pm, with flexibility. A senior trainer is on-site and your dog is welcome. Both schedulers below pull live availability from our calendar.
Scottsdale
Book Your Scottsdale Assessment
Cave Creek
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the PD360 assessment?
PD360 is the proprietary Partners Dogs 360-degree in-person evaluation. A senior trainer assesses your dog across nine dimensions over a full day, then hands you a custom program plan, a realistic timeline, and an honest prognosis before you commit to training.
How much does the PD360 assessment cost?
$199 for your first dog and $149 for a second dog. The fee covers 4+ hours of hands-on evaluation with your dog plus about an hour with you, and it is credited toward same-day camp enrollment.
How long does the assessment take?
Plan for a full assessment day: 4+ hours with your dog plus about an hour with you. Drop-off is around 9-10am and pickup around 3-4pm, with flexibility for your schedule.
Is PD360 required before camp?
Yes. A PD360 assessment is required before Behavior Camp and Transform Camp, and it is the smartest first step for any family unsure which program fits.
Where is the assessment held?
At one of our two Arizona facilities: Scottsdale (8642 E Shea Blvd) or Cave Creek (4640 E Forest Pleasant Pl). Both run the full PD360 system with the same senior-trainer roster.
Do I need to bring my dog?
Yes, bring your dog. An in-person assessment is the whole point: there is no substitute for a senior trainer putting hands on your dog and watching real responses to real triggers. Bring the primary handler for the pickup debrief.