Our Services
Basic Obedience Dog Training
Our cornerstone is a 3-week training program that is founded in the belief that happy and well-behaved dogs have a core base of commands, manners, and understanding of their place in the family hierarchy. Many inappropriate actions can also be resolved by strengthening a dog’s foundational skills. This program is designed for dogs over 5 months of age and incorporates:
- Leadership: structure, trust, respect
- Manners training: yielding, sitting at doors, no jumping, no biting, etc.
- Basic obedience: sit, down, heel, stay, recall/come, leave it, and others
- Distraction training: noises, other dogs, environments, etc.
- Socialization: with other dogs, people
We offer 2 approaches for basic obedience dog training:
Board & Train: Immerse your dog in training at our expansive pet facility. Your dog stays at ZCK for 3-weeks while a ZCK trainer works with your dog 3-4 times a day, 7 days a week to build a solid foundation of skills. During downtime your dog will socialize with other dogs in our Kennel Camp program. Owners attend private weekly transfer sessions to learn and practice the new handling skills that are needed once their dog returns home. Board & Train is a great option for pet owners with significant family/work/personal obligations that prevent them from consistently working with their dog each day, or for those who want their dog to start out on the right foot. Board & Train is also an excellent solution for dogs with specific issues that are best addressed outside the home, or if you have tried other training methods unsuccessfully.
Private Obedience Package: Covers the same foundational skills as Board & Train except the owner learns the handling skills in 4 private hour-long sessions and then conducts all training repetitions each day on their own. This approach works well for dogs that are extremely trainable/biddable, for dogs that have been previously exposed to some training, and for owners who are highly motivated to work with their dog.
Refresher Training
Take advantage of the time that your pet is boarding at Zionsville Country Kennel. A ZCK trainer can work with your dog 2 times each day to review basic commands, target unwanted habits, or maintain what you’ve been working on at home. When you sign up for refresher training you know that your dog’s time spent at ZCK will have been filled with both physical and mental exercise. This option is for dogs that have previously gone through ZCK training.