Total Immersion Board and Train Programs

All of our Total Immersion Board and Train programs are customized to both our canine and human students.

Most people only think about the dog’s behavior when thinking about how much training they need, but your lifestyle and family dynamics are also important. Large families, especially those with young kids, tend to need a little extra support. So do people who travel frequently.

Contact us to speak with one of our owners about which program might be best for you. Whatever your needs, we have the program to meet them.

2-Week Jump Start Program

In this program, we teach your dog all the basic manners and obedience commands that you need to have a well-behaved dog. You’ll have a little more work to do when the dog comes home than clients in most of our programs because 2 weeks doesn’t give us a lot of time to practice the behaviors around a variety of distractions or to make sure that the dog will listen to people whose implementation may be less precise than our trainers. This program is best for people who have trained a dog before or who plan to engage in activities that utilize the training like therapy dog work, taking your dog to work with you, or doing a lot of public outings.

We Teach Your Dog

Polite Greetings without play biting and jumping on people
To chew only his own toys; not your shoes, remote controls, kids’ toys, etc.
Basic Commands like sit, down, come, and drop it
Either polite leash walking or the stay and place commands

Program Includes:

2-weeks of board and train in our home
2 private in-home lessons to teach you to maintain the training

Best Suited For:

People who have trained a dog before, but don’t have time to do the early foundation training themselves
People who will be actively using their training on a regular basis after board and train (e.g. therapy dogs, taking your dog to work, taking your dog to stores, restaurants, etc.)
People who want to do some of the training themselves, but have an out of control dog and need help getting started

Fee: $2125

3-Week Wonder Dog Program

Our most popular program teaches your dog everything he needs to be a wonderful polite obedient companion. It includes plenty of proofing and follow-up training to make sure that the training lasts.

We Teach Your Dog

Everything covered in the Jump Start program including polite greetings, basic commands, and stopping problems like jumping, play biting, counter surfing, and destructive chewing
Stay and Place: Your dog will learn to go to a mat on command and stay until released so that you can control him while you cook, eat a meal, bring guests into the house, pay for a pizza or whatever.
Leash Skills: Your dog will learn to walk calmly without pulling on the leash.
Public Access Training: Your dog will behave in busy public settings like cafes, retail stores, or the vet.
We’ll practice the behaviors in a variety of situations to make sure that the training sticks.
We have your dog work for our non-training staff so that they learn to listen even if your technique is a little sloppy.

Program Includes:

3-weeks of board and train in our home
3 private in-home lessons to teach you to maintain and build on the training.
Free enrollment in any of our classes for refresher training for a year
Free refresher training and discounted advanced training when you board your dog with us for a year

Best Suited For:

Busy families or professionals
Anyone who wants a wonderfully-behaved puppy
First-time dog owners

Fee: $2775

4-Week Learn and Return Program

Training people is as important to the results of your your training program as training the dog. We can teach your dog wonderful behaviors, but you have to consistently enforce the rules when he comes home. Large families, families with very young children, families with very busy schedules, and people who frequently travel sometimes struggle to keep everyone on the same page.

Our Learn and Return program allows us to figure out exactly which rules and behaviors are tricky for your family to enforce so that we can do extra training on those for you to make sure that the training sticks.

We start off by taking your dog for 2 weeks of of training in the basics, much like our Jump Start program. Your dog then comes home for 2-3 weeks. We’ll do 2 private in-home lessons with your family while he’s home. The 2 weeks at home allow us to see which behaviors your family enforces well and where you need a little extra help. Your dog then comes back to us for another 2 weeks so that we can train the behaviors that your family struggles with to a very high level to make your job enforcing it much easier.

We Teach Your Dog

Everything covered in the Jump Start program including polite greetings, basic commands, and stopping problems like jumping, play biting, and destructive chewing
All the advanced obedience training covered in the Wonder Dog Camp including stay, place, leash training, counter surfing prevention, and public access training

Program Includes:

4-weeks of board and train in our home
4 private in-home lessons to teach you to maintain the training
Free enrollment in any of our classes for refresher training for a year
Free refresher training and discounted advanced training when you board your puppy with us for a year

Best Suited For:

Large families, families with very young kids, people who travel frequently, anyone who might have trouble consistently enforcing new rules
People with very ambitious training goals
Very difficult dogs

Fee: $3475

6-week Home-Away-From-Home Concierge Service

This premium service covers all the bases for busy families who want advanced obedience training and extra support for their dog. It’s particularly well suited for owners who travel frequently and require a stable loving familiar environment to maintain their dog’s behavior when they are away. The program breaks up the training to ensure that it sticks even for the busiest households, but also includes free refresher training (normally $400/week) any time that your dog boards with us.

This program starts much like the Learn and Return program. We start with 2 weeks of training on the basics in our home. Your dog then comes home for 2-3 weeks. We’ll do 2 private in-home lessons with your family while he’s home. The 2 weeks at home allow us to see which behaviors your family enforces well and where you struggle to reinforce the training. Your dog then comes back to us for another 2 weeks so that we can train the behaviors that your family struggles with to a very high level to make your job enforcing it much easier.

Your dog will come home from her second stay with brilliant behaviors, but large or busy families sometimes forget to enforce some rules and dogs start pushing boundaries a few months after training. In our Home-Away-From-Home program, you send your dog back to us after 4-6 months for a refresher course to tighten any behaviors that have slipped after training or to teach advanced obedience like off leash control. We also include free refresher training any time that you board your dog with us for life.

We Teach Your Puppy

Everything covered in the Puppy Foundations camp including house training, socialization,crate training, and basic commands as well as stopping problems like jumping, play biting, and destructive chewing
All of the advanced obedience training covered in the Wonder Puppy Camp including stay, place, leash training, counter surfing prevention, and public access training
How to listen to a variety of people so that they don’t get confused by having too many handlers
Advanced obedience skills like off-leash hiking

Program Includes:

6 total weeks of board and train in our home divided into 3 2-week sessions
8 private in-home lessons to keep your family on track to maintain the training
Free refresher training and discounted advanced or remedial training whenever you board your dog with us for life
Free pick-up and drop off (within our service area and schedule) when you board your dog with us for life
Free enrollment in all of our classes for life
1 set of bells for your puppy to ring to go out

Best Suited For:

People who travel frequently and want to provide a stable environment for their dog that will maintain good behaviors. Many of our Home-Away-From-Home clients board their dogs with us as often as once a month, and we polish up their training each time for free.
People who take a long trip overseas every year (or more often)
Large families who may struggle to keep all family members consistently enforcing rules. This program is especially popular with families that have more then 2 children under the age of 7
Homes with multiple non-family members involved in caring for the dog (e.g. nannies, home health workers, personal assistants, or employees of a home-based business)

Fee: $5975

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Satisfied Customers

My husband and I highly recommend Training Tracks! We initially met Jeff through a local animal shelter and then started in-home training sessions with our first dog for some behavioral problems. Both Jeff and Mel are incredible trainers and are very personable. Their positive-reinforcement approach is very rewarding for both the person and the dog. When we got our second dog we continued with basic training classes at the West Chester location and were very happy with those as well. I would rec… Read more

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Tater was our bad little deaf rescue puppy. He barked at everything that passed our window. He pulled us down the street while he chased everything with four wheels, two legs or four paws. Tater would come home from walks with back pockets in his mouth. This was our first dog and we needed help. Training Tracks came highly recommended with special experience in training deaf dogs. They knew how to handle our special needs puppy. With only a few sessions, Tater began to respond amazingly… Read more

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As behavior consultants, Mel and Jeff Silverman have offered a service to this area that is invaluable. All new puppy examinations in my office include my suggestion that they attend puppy socialization classes. At my veterinary clinic we notice the puppies that have had this training because they are better balanced and are much more easily handled. They truly make better family members. I can be assured that those puppies that have enjoyed Mel and Jeff’s input will be much better appreci… Read more

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Dear Fellow Veterinarians, I would like to recommend Training Tracks for use in your practice. I really do feel that their pet training abilities have been invaluable to my practice and to my clients. We started recommending them to our clients several years ago. We received impressive comments and results from our clients and patients. We now include their very helpful and informative handouts and brochures in our puppy folders. We have also worked very closely with them with problem do… Read more

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Our rescue dog had some serious behavior problems. We hesitated to use Training Tracks because we didn’t understand what clicker training was. We are so glad we did not let that stop us because we ended up loving the positive reinforcement approach and found it to be very effective. Mel and Jeff are not only great at training dogs but wonderful at helping the humans understand the reasons behind the technique so you can apply it at home and in unanticipated situations. Before going to Trai… Read more

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When we brought Weezer home from the shelter, he had an unfortunate habit of nipping hard enough to draw blood. This was unacceptable around my grandchildren (ages 8 months, and 4, 8 and 9 years). The nine year old lives with me, and the others visit frequently, so I called the shelter and made arrangements to return Weezer. However, I’d heard of good results with board and train, and decided to try that before giving up on Weezer. Training Tracks has been wonderful with him—no more bi… Read more

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We needed personalized, in-home training for our 2 female dogs who fought with each other and who needed to be prepared for the arrival of a baby. We got help with these issues and so much more. Through the patience and knowledge of Training Tracks’ trainers, our girls are now well behaved and play happily as ‘sisters’. And, not only did we receive in-house visits, Training Tracks was available by phone for questions in between training sessions. Thank you for changing all of our lives!

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