Puppy training

Let's talk about puppy training. It's a lot of work, it's super important, and it can be incredibly fun and rewarding. At Joley Aire we specialize in family dogs. A true family dog has a calm, easy going temperament and is well trained.

It's an unfortunate fact in this world that many puppies are bought on a whim and brought into homes where there isn't a commitment to the training and work they need to function appropriately in the home. When people neglect to teach puppies how to act and where their boundaries are, they are bound to mess up. For some, those mess ups mean they will be re-homed or put in a shelter. We never want that to happen to a Joley Aire puppy.

On the other side of things, when a puppy owner invests a little time and effort to train their new family member, they will undoubtedly be rewarded with an amazing dog for years to come.

Our training approach

In the forefront of everything we do is this concept of family dogs. That means the dogs are:

• Calm and polite
• Never aggressive
• Good listeners and responsive to their owner
• Comfortable in the typical family home
• Well socialized with other dogs and people

To achieve that in a dog, our training approach isn't fancy. We don't teach our dogs outrageous tricks, fast paced agility, or how to stand in front of a judge. We focus on relationship, communication, and socialization. It's all about shaping dogs to co-exist with a human world in a typical family home.

Two key programs

We use two key programs to help us achieve these goals with our puppies: Puppy Culture and Baxter & Bella.

Puppy Culture follows a carefully researched and scientifically based protocol to use during the first 12 weeks of a puppy's life. It includes many training and socialization exercises with the goal to produce dogs that grow to be calm, confident, and easy to work with throughout their entire life. The training used in Puppy Culture uses positive reinforcement and clickers. We love Puppy Culture and follow it as closely as we can while raising our puppies.

Baxter & Bella is an online puppy school that helps puppy owners learn how to successfully integrate a dog into their everyday life by using positive training techniques. They provide an online course that teaches everything you need to know to train and socialize your new puppy, and they also provide live video calls with a professional dog trainer anytime you need them.

So, to make things simple, Puppy Culture is what we use as breeders, and Baxter & Bella is what you can use as a puppy owner. Ask us for our Baxter & Bella discount code.