Manners & Obedience

What Foundation Camp Did for Odin

Before camp: A year-old dog with more energy than manners.

Breed: Pitbull X
Age at intake: 1 year
Program: Foundation Camp
Length of stay: Three weeks
Trainer: Rachel Woods

Before

Where Odin Started

A year-old dog with more energy than manners

Zach brought Odin in just after his first birthday. Big personality, big energy, and nothing yet in place to hold either one down.

Nobody wanted a quieter dog. Zach wanted the same dog with brakes: basic obedience that worked at home and enough impulse control to make a young pitty mix easy to live with.

The program

Odin's Foundation Camp

Odin enrolled in a two week Foundation Camp and our team extended it to a third week, because a couple of his habits needed more repetitions than the original plan allowed.

Rachel worked him on obedience, impulse control, and focus, and the extra week went to making the progress stick rather than to adding anything new.

Episode by episode

Watch Odin's Journey

Filmed during the stay, in order. Nothing here is staged after the fact.

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After

Where Odin Ended Up

Extended from two weeks to threeProgram length

Odin finished with the manners, the impulse control, and the focus his owner came for, and with the personality entirely intact.

Zach sat down with our team at the end to talk through what he had been living with and what changed. Micah and Rachel sent him home with the plan for keeping it.

Published August 21, 2025

The trainer