Welcome to our exciting Puppy Kindergarten --- an innovative program flexible enough to fit any family schedule! Our new Puppy Kindergarten provides the best in training with scheduling that honors the busy lives of the modern family.

You begin with your own 30 minute home training visit. Teacher Rachel Green will customize the basics of house-training, crating, socialization, sit, down and come to your puppy’s level. Be warned --- you will get fun homework and games to further these skills.

Now you are ready to participate in the four one-hour classes or modules that round out your education, while advancing your puppy’s social skills and basic commands. The modules can be taken in any order, at their allotted times, over an 8 week period.

But, you’re not done! You choose two bonus puppy play periods, including training games and teacher supervision.

When you complete all your modules and play periods, you and your teacher will have a personalized phone wrap-up discussion. This opportunity reviews what you and your puppy have done and considers what future training is most helpful for you to reach your goals.

Creator of this flexible approach to Puppy Kindergarten is Rachel Green. Rachel prefers to call herself a family coach in dog training, rather than a dog trainer. Her desire is to reach puppies in that critical period of life … when good training ensures that they will never become a “rescue” dog.

“Dogs are my passion,” Rachel happily proclaims. Rescue work at Columbus Dog Connection was the start of her dog training. Besides adopting one of her first fosters, Raven, a Border Collie mix, she provides help to foster families adjusting to the special needs of the rescued dog.

Recent attendance at the Karen Pryor's 2007 Clicker Exposition, with details on the newest methods in puppy training, inspired Rachel to revamp the Puppy Kindergarten curriculum. She integrates the ideas and techniques of noted trainers Ian Dunbar, Karen Pryor, Jean Donaldson, Terry Ryan, and Kathy Sdoa, to name a few.