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
- Full 4+ hour assessment day at our Arizona facilities (drop-off ~9-10am, pickup ~3-4pm)
- $199 — discounts often available for families ready to enroll
28 years - 70,000+ dogs - Scottsdale + Cave Creek
A Complete Picture of Your Dog
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.
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 — food-driven, toy-driven, praise-driven, pressure-sensitive, or some blend. This determines which tools and techniques will 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.
The PD360 assessment process
Book your assessment day
- Pick your facility — Scottsdale or Cave Creek — using the schedulers below
- Schedule a full assessment day with us (drop-off around 9-10am, pickup around 3-4pm — flexible)
- Bring the dog. 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 assessment day runs 4+ hours — never rushed, never templated
Receive your custom program plan
- Personalized program recommendation, sequence, and realistic timeline
- Honest prognosis — what's achievable, what's hard, what to expect
- $199 for the day — discounts often available for families ready to sign up for a program
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.
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 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.
What the parent's experience looks like
Your assessment day
- Full 4+ hour in-person assessment day with a senior trainer (drop-off ~9-10am, pickup ~3-4pm)
- Live behavior evaluation across all 9 PD360 dimensions
- Custom program plan handed to you before you leave
- Dashboard access provisioned the same day
Your weekly reports
- Photo and video updates during board-and-train
- Skill milestone notifications as your dog hits each badge
- Behavior scorecard refreshed each week with trendlines
- Real-world trial clips when your dog is ready to be tested
Your graduation outcome
- Graduation-day real-world tests with you handling the dog
- Final behavior scorecard versus baseline — the actual delta
- Custom maintenance plan calibrated to your weekly time budget
- Lifetime support — follow-up benchmarks, tune-ups, refresher classes
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's 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've 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.
Pick the facility nearest you
Both campuses run the full PD360 system. Same trainers, same standard, same outcomes.
Scottsdale Facility
8642 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Mon-Fri 8am-5pm | Sat 8am-2pm
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Cave Creek Facility
4640 E Forest Pleasant Pl, Cave Creek, AZ 85331
Mon-Fri 8am-5pm | Sat 8am-2pm
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Scottsdale
Book at our Scottsdale facility
8642 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 — open Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 8am-2pm.
- Full 4+ hour PD360 assessment day (drop-off ~9-10am, pickup ~3-4pm)
- Free, no obligation
- Bring your dog or come solo
Cave Creek
Book at our Cave Creek facility
4640 E Forest Pleasant Pl, Cave Creek, AZ 85331 — open Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 8am-2pm.
- Full 4+ hour PD360 assessment day (drop-off ~9-10am, pickup ~3-4pm)
- Free, no obligation
- Bring your dog or come solo
Frequently Asked
PD360 Assessment FAQs
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Three things, in order:
- Data depth. Most trainer intakes are a phone call or a 5-question form. PD360 is a structured, in-person evaluation across seven dimensions — behavior, temperament, learning style, environment, lifestyle, tool compatibility, and family coaching needs. We've refined the protocol over 28 years and 70,000+ dogs.
- Tool-agnostic by design. Most trainers walk into the assessment with their methodology already decided — they're a force-free trainer, or a correction-first trainer, or an e-collar trainer. They'll fit your dog to their methodology. We're balanced and tool-agnostic. The right tool is whatever produces the clearest communication for the dog in front of us. Tools don't cause harm; people do.
- Progress tracking that continues after intake. A normal assessment ends when you sign the contract. PD360 runs on the same framework for the entire program — same dimensions, same scorecard, same dashboard. The baseline we capture at intake becomes the before-and-after comparison at graduation and at every follow-up.
The combination is what we mean by “the smartest dog training system ever created.” It's not a slogan — it's a system that measures what other trainers guess at.
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PD360 isn't only an intake assessment — it's also the framework we use to track your dog's progress for the entire program. Once your dog is enrolled, the same dimensions we measured at intake (behavior, temperament, learning style, real-world performance) get re-scored at every milestone.
Progress tracking includes:
- Behavior scorecards — updated at intake, mid-program, end-of-program, and at every follow-up benchmark
- Milestone trackers — concrete skills your dog has demonstrated under increasing distraction
- Real-world test results — how your dog performs in the situations that actually matter (door greetings, leash walks, dog-park edges, neighborhood triggers), not just isolated commands
- Photo + video updates — from your dog's lead trainer during board-and-train programs
- Parent dashboard — one place to see all of the above, with milestone badges as your dog hits them
- Follow-up benchmarks — check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days after the program ends to confirm the change held
The point is that you can see real change, in writing, with dates attached — not vibes.
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PD360 is Partners Dogs’ proprietary in-person dog assessment and progress-tracking system — the foundation of every training program we run. The 360° in the name reflects how broadly we evaluate your dog: behavior, temperament, learning style, environment, lifestyle, family dynamics, and tool compatibility, all captured during a full assessment day at our facility.
It’s the result of 28 years of refinement and more than 70,000 dogs trained. We built PD360 because every dog is different, and a quick online quiz can’t tell us how your dog handles a new environment, processes pressure, or interacts with a stranger. The assessment runs about 4-plus hours at our Scottsdale or Cave Creek facility — drop-off around 9-10am, pickup around 3-4pm — for $199, with a custom program recommendation at the end.
Discounts are often available — especially for families ready to sign up for a program. Ask our team about active offers when you book.
Once you enroll, the same PD360 framework continues as our progress-tracking system: behavior scorecards, milestone trackers, real-world test results, and parent-dashboard updates from your dog’s lead trainer.
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In most cases, yes — PD360 is designed for exactly that situation. We've trained more than 70,000 dogs over 28 years, and a meaningful share of them came to us with aggression, bite history, severe fear, or reactivity that other trainers turned away.
If PD360 surfaces aggression or fear, your senior trainer will recommend one of these paths based on the case:
- Behavior Camp — for reactivity, resource guarding, leash aggression, anxiety, and single reactive bites
- Transform Camp — for multi-bite histories, bites toward family members, or outward (non-reactive) aggression
- Aggression Rehabilitation — specialized program for severe aggression cases that need an extended timeline
- Private behavior work paired with a structured at-home protocol
If your case is beyond what we can responsibly take on, we'll tell you that too. We do not enroll cases we cannot help. In rare situations we'll refer to a veterinary behaviorist or recommend a hard conversation about safety — but those are the exceptions. Most aggression and fear cases have a path forward at Partners Dogs.
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The PD360 Assessment captures a full 360° picture of your dog and your household across one structured day at the facility. Every section is run by a senior trainer and recorded in your dog’s profile so the same baseline drives whichever program you enroll in.
- Behavioral baseline — how your dog greets, settles, recovers from a startle, and handles handling.
- Temperament profile — drive, confidence, sociability, reactivity thresholds, sensitivity to pressure.
- Learning style — whether your dog learns fastest off food, toys, praise, environmental rewards, or release of pressure.
- Environment + lifestyle intake — household composition, other pets, schedule, exercise, sleeping arrangements, neighborhood triggers.
- Tool compatibility — which equipment will produce the clearest communication for your specific dog (flat collar, slip lead, prong, e-collar, place, crate).
- Family coaching needs — how confident the humans are, who’s the primary handler, who needs the most coaching.
- Custom program recommendation — which Partners Dogs program fits, with a realistic timeline.
You leave with your dog’s baseline measurements and a written training roadmap. PD360 is a full day — about 4-plus hours — with drop-off around 9-10am and pickup around 3-4pm.
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Transform Camp is built for severe aggression cases — dogs with a multi-bite history, bites toward family members, or outward (non-reactive) aggression: stranger reactivity that has escalated past warning, severe sibling aggression, predatory drive, or fear-based behaviors that have hardened past what Behavior Camp can address.
Every enrollment starts with a PD360 behavioral assessment. We map your dog’s bite history, triggers, household context, and medical factors, then tell you honestly whether Transform Camp is the right call. Sometimes the right answer is Behavior Camp for single reactive bites or non-aggression behavior work, or a veterinary behaviorist referral. We say no to cases we cannot help — that is part of saying yes to the cases we can.
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Aggression Rehabilitation follows a 6-phase structure with no fixed timeline — we will not move to the next phase until the previous is solid:
- PD360 Assessment — required before enrollment. Bite history, triggers, household context, medical context.
- Decompression and Trust Build (Week 1) — your dog settles. No training yet.
- Impulse Control Rebuilding (Weeks 2-3) — foundational frustration tolerance, place work, structured decision-making. No trigger exposure.
- Threshold-Based Trigger Work (Weeks 3-5) — controlled, distant exposure to your dog's specific triggers. Distance closes only when previous distance is rock solid.
- Handler Integration (Final week + ongoing) — multi-day handler training so you can run the management plan cleanly.
- Lifetime Support — written management plan, refresher access, direct line to your trainer.
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You leave PD360 with three things, every time:
- A custom program plan — the specific Partners Dogs program (Foundation Camp, DaySchool, Behavior Camp, Transform Camp, Private Lessons, Group Classes) we recommend for your dog, with the reasoning behind it.
- Your dog's baseline measurements — behavior scorecard, temperament profile, learning style, and reactivity thresholds, all captured in your parent dashboard so we can track real change.
- A training roadmap — realistic timeline, the milestones we expect to hit, the tools we plan to use, and what your role looks like during and after the program.
If you enroll, that baseline is the starting line for every progress update we send you. If you don't enroll, the plan is still yours to keep — many parents use it to train at home or come back to us six months later when timing is right. There's no pressure to commit at the end of the assessment.
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Behavior Camp is built for moderate aggression and reactive bites — growling, leash reactivity, resource guarding, fear-based reactivity, or a single situational bite incident toward another dog or a person. For dogs with a multi-bite history, bites toward family members, or outward (non-reactive) aggression, Transform Camp is the right program. For dogs with on-leash reactivity only, the Leash Reactivity Intensive may be a faster, more focused option.
Every enrollment begins with a PD360 behavioral assessment so we can tell you honestly which program is the right fit. We turn cases away when rehabilitation is not realistic and route you to the appropriate next step.
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The PD360 Assessment is $199. That covers a full day with your dog at our Scottsdale or Cave Creek facility — drop-off around 9-10am, pickup around 3-4pm, with a senior trainer running the structured evaluation, family interview, and written program recommendation.
Discounts are often available — especially for families ready to sign up for a program. Ask our team about active offers when you book.
If we don’t think Partners Dogs is the right fit for your dog, we’ll tell you that during the debrief.
Still Have Questions?
Have a different question? Let's talk.
Not ready to book the in-person assessment yet? Schedule a no-obligation call with our team or reach out and we'll point you in the right direction.
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