Welcome to your 8-week puppy training journey. Everything you need to raise a confident, well-rounded puppy — from day one through graduation.

Read this before starting. Learn how the course is structured, why the Pillars come first, and how to get the most out of your daily training.

A quick checklist of tools, equipment, and supplies to have ready before you begin training.

Join the private Telegram, full instructions, step by step.

Learn the three different jobs in puppy raising — and why most owners accidentally mix them up.

How reinforcement, timing, and repetition shape your puppy's behavior — plus the learning methods used throughout this course.

Understanding your puppy's emotional states and knowing when learning can happen — and when it can't.

The balance between rewarding what you want and preventing what you don't — without relying on corrections.

Why calmness, engagement, and communication must come before sit, stay, and heel.

Why your home setup matters as much as training — and how structure creates predictability for your puppy.

Leashes, crates, gates, and enrichment — how to use them correctly without relying on them as a fix.

Freedom is earned, not given. Learn when to supervise, when to leash, and when to revoke access.

Don't wait for bad behavior to correct it — change the picture before it happens.

Consistency in rules, routines, and consequences — being fair, not strict.

Sleep is training. Learn why rest prevents overstimulation and how to teach your puppy to settle.

Dogs communicate through body language 24/7. Learn to read stress, arousal, and disengagement.

How to respond when your puppy makes a mistake — without escalating or shutting them down.

Where and how you reward directly shapes behavior. Stop accidentally reinforcing the wrong thing.

When to step in and when to let your puppy figure it out — building confidence through support.

Dogs don't understand English. Learn why calm, minimal language works better than constant talking.

Puppies are emotional mirrors. Your calm, predictable energy is the foundation of trust.

Why behaviors trained at home don't automatically work in public — and how to proof them properly.

Socialization doesn't mean interaction. Learn what it actually means and why neutrality is success.

Understanding why puppies react in the outside world — and what their behavior is telling you.

Not every greeting is a good greeting. Learn when to say no and why that's leadership.

How to socialize intentionally using environment, distance, and movement.

Ease your puppy into their new environment while establishing early structure, routine, and trust.

Help your puppy start to understand how you communicate and begin reinforcing calm, polite behavior.

Start building your puppy's attention span, teach them that focusing on you is rewarding, and continue reinforcing calm choices.

Introduce your puppy to luring, continue building focus and attention, and reinforce polite manners.

Strengthen your puppy's ability to follow your movement and build the habit of staying close outdoors.

Build strong engagement through focused drills and name recognition from different locations in the house.

Push engagement further, introduce controlled socialization.

Take engagement to the next level and introduce your puppy to the concept of leash pressure.

Continue leash pressure work and begin structured confidence-building exercises.

Combine socialization with tethering drills to teach your puppy calm, structured behavior.

Progress leash pressure skills and introduce the foundations of a formal recall command.

Practice formal recall and begin introducing heel position work.

Combine heel progression with socialization and engagement to build focus in new environments.

Review and repeat any exercises from this week that you or your puppy are struggling with.

Continue refining leash pressure and push heel work further with new progressions.

Build your puppy's confidence through structured socialization and noise exposure.

Refine heel mechanics and continue strengthening your puppy's recall response.

Introduce crate threshold training and begin teaching the sit command through luring.

Progress sit training, build crate threshold duration, and continue recall practice.

A full training day combining heel, sit, and crate threshold work.

Catch up on any areas that need work and introduce your puppy to grooming tools for the first time.

Introduce the sit-stay-break sequence and continue advancing heel work with leash.

Practice sit-stay-break, reinforce recall, and continue grooming tool exposure.

Introduce the place command and push heel drills to the next level.

Combine socialization with building duration on the place command.

Work on loose leash walking alongside continued place command progression.

Strengthen recall in varied environments and progress sit command reliability.

Review the week's training and repeat any exercises that need more work. Continue grooming tool exposure.

Introduce the leave it command and continue heel progression with more complexity.

Build on leave it training and push sit command reliability further.

Continue leave it and place command work alongside grooming tool exposure.

Practice recall in outdoor settings and continue structured socialization work.

Introduce the down command and practice heel work in outdoor environments.

Progress the down command and advance leave it while on leash.

Review struggling skills and continue building comfort with grooming tools.

Combine socialization with continued down command progression.

Practice heel and loose leash walking while progressing leave it in motion.

Introduce the stay command and continue building place and down reliability.

Build stay duration and practice heel with low-level distractions for the first time.

Expose your puppy to new environments and continue grooming tool work including nail clipping.

A full drill day combining leave it, stay, and down in various settings.

Catch up on all skills and continue grooming exposure. Note: watch the catch-up video before the grooming video.

Introduce front door threshold training and practice recall with higher distractions.

Build threshold duration and practice leave it while walking with distractions.

Progress threshold work and practice stay and down commands outdoors with distractions.

Advance place command progression and continue leave it while in motion.

Push threshold, recall, and heel work into more distracting real-world environments.

Continue advancing heel with distractions and reinforce threshold training.

Catch up on any weak areas and continue grooming tool exposure including nail clipping.

Test all core commands with higher distractions — proving your puppy's reliability under pressure.

Final push on leave it and heel — building fluency in real-world scenarios.

Socialize in real-world settings and proof stay with added distractions.

Test place command and threshold reliability in varied environments.

Walk and socialize in public — putting everything together in a real-world setting.

A full proofing session across all commands and behaviors learned throughout the course.

Congratulations — you made it. Apply everything you've learned to daily life with your puppy.