Em-Bark
Start a course of action, especially one that is important
Raising your new best friend is an adventure, and it's incredibly important to start the journey off on the right paw!
That's why Unleashed! offers the very best start in training and socialization for your puppy.
Our EM-BARK Puppy programs are carefully designed to be the perfect foundation for your puppy's crucial early learning. We all want a social, well-trained, and well-rounded canine family member—a dog that we can take out and about, who is polite and friendly to people, kids, and other dogs. How do we help our dogs achieve that?
The key is to start early!
Most behavior problems we see in adult dogs could have been easily prevented with appropriate socialization, exposure, and training during puppyhood.
At Unleashed!, our mission is to help train and socialize more "generations" of puppies to become social, patient, and well-behaved K9 citizens. We also aim to help their people understand their dogs as individuals, appreciate their capabilities, and nurture their potential.
Obedience Training
The key to a well-trained dog is to get them to care about you and be happy and (ideally) excited to do what you ask them to do in any situation or environment. A good relationship based on trust & understanding is a must for good obedience.
Patience and Impulse Control
Two of the most helpful things a puppy can learn and will be very useful once your dog reaches adolescence and adulthood.
This will help your puppy learn a variety of skills like taking treats gently or not jumping up when greeting new friends as well as remaining calm and collected when big distractions ( like dogs walking by) appear.
Core Skills
We will guide you through the basics of teaching your puppy to sit, wait, stay, down, settle, come, and start you on your way to walking nicely on leash, which requires patience on both ends of the leash. Imagine nice leisure walks with your dog or enjoying a beautiful day sitting outside a coffee shop, playing at the park or out on an off-leash beach and being confident that your dog will come back to you when you call his name. These are skills you will likely use every single day of your lives together, so let’s get them right at the very beginning!
The Em-Bark curriculum helps build self-control, patience, general manners, and basic commands. Puppies in our class also learn self-confidence, body awareness, how to interact with other dogs and people, learn to be more comfortable with things such as vet/grooming handling, and LOTS more.
You will learn about exercise ideas, how to spot signs of stress and read your dog’s body language as well as the importance of gradual exposure and proper socialization/habituation to new people, places, animals things, and much more.
Em-Bark Puppy Class
Unleashed! puppy classes are carefully designed to be the perfect foundation for your puppy's crucial early learning.
Let’s face it, we all want a social, well-trained, and well-rounded canine family member.
How do we help our dogs achieve that? Start early! 🐾
Class Details
Our Em-Bark Puppy Classes follow an open enrollment format, so you can start anytime!
The more classes you attend, the better your puppy will benefit from consistent learning and socialization.
Class Duration: 50 minutes
Age Range: 9 weeks to 4 months (16 weeks)
(If your pup is older than 16 weeks and has missed out on socialization, check out our Charm School.)
Class Requirements
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Vaccination: Current vaccination record for age (at least one DHPP) and a negative fecal test
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First Vaccine: Start classes at least 5 days after the first vaccine
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Home Time: Pups must be in their home for at least 7 days before starting classes
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Rabies Vaccine: Not required for puppies under 5 months
Puppy classes are marked in green on the calendar. 🗓️
Unleashed puppies also gain exclusive access to our Adventure Outings and Social Savvy programs, providing even more opportunities for fun and learning.
You can also explore our Puppy Fun Classes below for even more adventures with your furry friend!
Puppy Crèche
The Ulti-Mutt Training For Puppies
“Let us partner with you in raising your pup and
teaching them the skills that will benefit them and your family for life”
Congratulations on your new puppy! When a family acquires a new puppy,
it is an exciting and busy time. Puppies are so much fun and a lot of work too!
Just like an infant, puppies require constant supervision, so they won’t get themselves into mischief. It can be hard to adjust your daily routine to meet your puppy’s needs. With busy schedules, pet parents do not always have the time it takes to stay on top of their new puppy housebreaking habits, and to teach proper socialization skills and train good manners. However, these habits are critical to helping your puppy grow into a well-adjusted, happy dog and a good K9 citizen.
Unleashed! understands the limitations of a busy daily life. We also know how fun & rewarding a new pup can be. Therefore, we developed Pup Crèche an exclusive training program for puppies 9 weeks to 6 months of age
Unleashed Advantage
Our property offers a variety of environments for your dog to explore and learn in. From expansive open fields to dedicated training yards—and even interactions with our friendly cow. Your pup will experience diverse settings that enhance their adaptability and confidence. They will hang with the Muttassori Crew savvy, playful adult pups who are pros at teaching manners! With guidance from our team and their furry mentors, they'll learn good behavior, self-regulation, and how to read social cues. Plus, they'll have a blast playing with other puppies, building focus and confidence—even in the midst of fun distractions
We believe in balancing training with play, so our pups enjoy enrichment outings and field trips to places like pet stores, the beach, and local coffee shops
There's a whole lot of sniffing going on!
Introduce your puppy to the amazing world of Scent work.
Scent work can help develop confidence even in the most timid dog,
The mental and physical exercise of searching and problem-solving
is great for calming the energetic, highly aroused, or even reactive dogs.
Another benefit is the positive relationship that develops between you and your dog when you are out "hunting" together
Puppy Tricks
Our Puppy Tricks clinic is a blast!
Puppy Tricks is the perfect way to have fun with your pup while teaching them some cool new moves.
In this fun and interactive class, you and your pup will learn the foundation on how to teach tricks like, Crawl, Bow, Roll Over, Jump through a hoop, Etc...
Pups Out & About
It’s a big world, is your pup ready for it?
Pups Out and About will help your pup learn to navigate through real life situations.
Help your pup develop the skills to be a good k9 citizen when out and about.
Would you like your pup to be able to hang at Brewster’s while you enjoy a pint?
Pups Out and About class is designed just for that goal!
Each session will include an outdoor adventure. Pups Out & About classes will include visits to puppy-friendly stores (banks, hardware stores, coffee shops, and more), different neighborhoods or local vet offices.
This is a topic near and dear to our heart here at Unleashed, sometimes, life happens and your puppy gets a rough start in life, missing crucial socialization opportunities, or finding themselves in tough situations where they may have learned some naughty behaviors in order to cope.
We see this all too often in our work with dogs, so we designed these one-on-one training and socialization sessions where your pup can safely learn to interact with our carefully selected and appropriate adult dogs, monitored by professional trainers.
These sessions are great whether your pup is a bruiser, a wallflower or if you missed out on our Em-Bark classes.
Our puppy-savvy adult dogs will help teach your pup manners, or they will draw your wallflower out of his shell and encourage him to play.
All the while you will be getting instruction on what is, and what is not, appropriate dog play in a controlled and friendly environment, your dog will develop important social skills to help him better communicate in the dog world, while having a great time and burning off some energy!
We will also teach you to read your dog’s body language and how to spot signs of stress which will help you avoid trouble when out & about in everyday situations.
These hour-long one-on-one sessions are for pups’ 10-weeks - 6 months of age.
Current Unleashed Clients
(Enrolled in Embark classes or doing private training)
$125.00 for first session 4 pack of Charm School sessions are $400.00.
New clients
Price $150.00 for first session (then purchases a 4 pack for 460.00)
Call 707-763-9882 or email us today to schedule a Charm School Session
Puppy Socialization: A Risk/Reward Analysis
Robert K. Anderson, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, DACVB, was a charter diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists, as well as professor emeritus and Director of the Center to Study Human Animal Relationships and Environments, and the Animal Behavior Service and Veterinary Public Health Programs at the University of Minnesota. He received the Lifetime Achievement Awards from the ASPCA, American Humane Association, the Association of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine.
Anytime you are with
your puppy,
one of you is training the other.
Lets hope it's you
doing the training.
Your puppy is the best puppy he knows how to be,
It's your job to help him become the best dog he can be.