puppy daycare & academy
Puppy Professionals at Your Service
At Dog Days, we recognize the importance of your young puppy being socialized in a safe, clean, and thoughtful environment. Puppy Academy is a “whole dog” development program. We are taking advantage of your puppy’s sensitive “socialization” period to develop their brain into the best dog they can be.
This program works like daycare; you leave your puppy with us for the day. You will receive a report card at the end of each visit. This is not like a typical training class with a start date and end date. You may set your own schedule. Coming consistently 1 or 2 days a week is suggested. The more your puppy attends, the more benefit you get.
Our Objectives are to help develop a dog who:
- Can respond appropriately to their world (non-reactive)
- Is resilient
- Has impulse control
- Has handler focus (Listens)
- Has the foundations for a good recall (come when called)
- Has the foundations for good leash skills
- Is comfortable with people & dogs
Our structured play-based training experience includes:
- Small puppy play groups which are supervised by our Sr. Handler
- Teach good play skills, impulse control, and emotional regulation
- Sensory Enrichment games
- Brain games during nap time in a crate
- Exposure to novel items, such as umbrellas, strollers, skateboards, strange surfaces, & more
- Exposure to vet clinic scenarios, like being held while a stethoscope touches the puppy or the puppy’s teeth are examined.
- Exposure to grooming, like the sound of a nail grinder (Dremel), brushing and standing on the grooming table.
- Foundational obedience
Requirements to Get Started
We recommend starting your puppy while they are young! We accept new puppies 9 wks to 5 months old. Once puppies have received their Bordetella vaccine and 2nd round of the DHPP vaccine, and they have had a negative fecal exam, they are welcome to join our puppy program.
At 6 months old your pup may continue to our Enrichment Daycare Program or transition to standard daycare, once he’s ready.
Click here to register; mark “Puppy Academy” for the service you are interested in. We are accepting new Puppy Academy clients.
Puppy Academy truly starts the puppy off on the right paw in life! It’s great if you are looking to have a dog who can be confident and social at places like the vet clinic, breweries, and pet-friendly stores.
Where / When
Puppy Academy runs from 9:00a – 3:45p.
You may drop off between 7-9a, and pick up between 3:30-6:30p.
@ Dog Days, 350 University Ave E, St Paul 55130 – on Tuesdays & Thursdays
Single visit $61 / 4-pk of pre-paid visits $240
Puppy Professionals at Your Service
At Dog Days, we recognize the importance of your young puppy being socialized in a safe, clean, and thoughtful environment. Puppy Academy is a “whole dog” development program. We are taking advantage of your puppy’s sensitive “socialization” period to develop their brain into the best dog they can be.
This program works like daycare; you leave your puppy with us for the day. You will receive a report card at the end of each visit. This is not like a typical training class with a start date and end date. You may set your own schedule. Coming consistently 1 or 2 days a week is suggested. The more your puppy attends, the more benefit you get.
Our Objectives are to help develop a dog who:
- Can respond appropriately to their world (non-reactive)
- Is resilient
- Has impulse control
- Has handler focus (Listens)
- Has the foundations for a good recall (come when called)
- Has the foundations for good leash skills
- Is comfortable with people & dogs
Our structured play-based training experience includes:
- Small puppy play groups which are supervised by our Trainer
- Teach good play skills, impulse control, and emotional regulation
- Sensory Enrichment games
- Brain games during nap time in a crate
- Exposure to novel items, such as umbrellas, strollers, skateboards, strange surfaces, & more
- Exposure to vet clinic scenarios, like being held while a stethoscope touches the puppy or the puppy’s teeth are examined.
- Exposure to grooming, like the sound of a nail grinder (Dremel), brushing and standing on the grooming table.
- Foundational obedience
Requirements to Get Started
We recommend starting your puppy while they are young! We accept new puppies 9 wks to 5 months old. Once puppies have received their Bordetella vaccine and 2nd round of the DHPP vaccine, and they have had a negative fecal exam, they are welcome to join our puppy program.
At 6 months old your pup may continue to our Enrichment Daycare Program or transition to standard daycare, once he’s ready.
Click here to register; mark “Puppy Academy” for the service you are interested in. We are accepting new Puppy Academy clients.
Puppy Academy truly starts the puppy off on the right paw in life! It’s great if you are looking to have a dog who can be confident and social at places like the vet clinic, breweries, and pet-friendly stores.
Where / When
Puppy Academy runs from 9:00a – 3:45p.
You may drop off between 7-9a, and pick up between 3:30-6:30p.
@ Dog Days, 350 University Ave E, St Paul 55130 – on Tuesdays & Thursdays
Single visit $61 / 4-pk of pre-paid visits $240