Regardless of your ultimate training goals, everything must start with how we raise our puppies. How do we interact with them at a young age while they learn what is appropriate behavior? How do we teach our young dogs how to live in our home? How do we develop the drives needed to train in specific disciplines? In this course, world-renowned dog trainer, Michael Ellis, will teach you exactly how he does just that.

This course (232 videos - over 20 hours) is an in depth primer on rearing a puppy for success in any discipline. It covers early “critical” socialization, “learning to learn,” shaping behavior, controlling environment to keep problems from emerging, proper play techniques (to maximize motivation), house breaking, and teaching manners without destroying a dogs motivation to work, and general management.

This course focuses on the topic of puppy socialization and the skills and information you will need to set your puppy up for success with the first 6 months of your puppy's life.

This micro course focuses on teaching your puppy food chase games to use in pre-emptive management, recall, and rewards. These games are the foundations of training with food.

Learn the ins and outs of engagement in this micro course. Michael Ellis talks about engagement principles and the importance of sustained engagement in dog training.

In this course you will learn how professional dog trainers (Ed Frawley and Cindy Rhodes) use reward based training methods to raise puppies that will live in their home. The course has 105 short videos.

Introducing a new dog into your home is an enormous responsibility. The amount of work it takes to raise an 8 week old puppy can be overwhelming especially if you do not have a game plan going into it. This course is going to help you develop that plan. While everyone’s lifestyle is different and every dog is different, this course is designed to fit all dogs and people regardless of whether you are raising a working line dog for sport work or a family pet.

Learn the foundations of training a puppy to shape it into a well-behaved dog that can handle any situation.

This course is designed to help you build a strong foundation for your new gun dog puppy. We believe that building an ACTIVE, EAGER, BOLD and CONFIDENT training partner is the first step towards having a great hunting dog.

This course is a practical puppy training guide for families who have young kids. The last thing parents who have a new puppy need are videos of a trainer showing you how to train your pup in a quiet environment with no distractions. You won't find that here!

This course covers training puppies that are 8 weeks through adolescence. Adolescence varies from dog to dog. As general rule adolescence ends between 12 months to 16 months of age. From a training standpoint we detail the work up through teaching a young dog to bite leg sleeves. So in reality this course teaches trainers how to train young puppies on up to young dogs that are 12 to 16 months old. At the end of the training in this course the dogs will be ready to go onto a body bite suit or they will be ready to learn advanced training skills and exercises that are needed in the biting dog sports.

This course teaches how to manage dogs in your home. Cindy and I live with and manage our 4 dogs. Two of our dogs cannot interact with the other three, yet we have produced very manageable and safe living environment for all. By controlling the environment we put our dogs in and then controlling their behavior in that environment teaches our dogs how we expect them to live with us.