Puppy Training Tailored to You

Every Teddy Puppy comes with a complimentary training session that you can schedule here.

Every family has different needs. Some want their puppy to come home with a head start. Others want to be directly involved in building those skills from day one.

That’s why Teddy Puppies, in partnership with Proper Dog Academy, offers two ways to begin:

Home Foundations — We do it for you

Your puppy stays with us beyond 8 weeks for intentional development, early training, socialization, and preparation for family life.

Proper Puppy Foundations — We Teach You

Your puppy comes home at the traditional time, and you work one-on-one with our trainer virtually to learn how to build the foundation yourself.

Both paths have the same goal: a confident puppy, good habits from the beginning, and a family that knows how to continue the work.

Home Foundations: A Head Start With Us

Instead of going home at 8 weeks, your puppy stays with us or in one of our carefully selected host homes for an additional 2 or 4+ weeks. During this important developmental period, your puppy receives structured one-on-one attention, intentional socialization, early training, and thoughtful preparation for life in a family home. This isn’t simply extra time with us. It’s intentional development tailored to your puppy’s individual personality, confidence, and pace.

What Your Puppy Works On

During Home Foundations, we focus on:

Crate comfort and early potty-training foundations
Name recognition and introduction to recall
Early leash awareness
Confidence with new environments, sounds, surfaces, and experiences
Calm handling and grooming tolerance
Human engagement and connection
Age-appropriate independence
Introduction to household routines and expectations

The goal isn’t to send home a “fully trained” 12-week-old puppy. It’s to give your puppy a stronger starting point and make the transition into your family easier.

Why These Weeks Matter

The early puppy period is an important developmental window. Puppies learn to respond to new people, environments, routines, handling, and everyday experiences. Home Foundations lets us use those extra weeks intentionally. Your puppy goes home with more practice regulating their internal state without the comfort of their siblings around, greater confidence, early training foundations, and familiarity with routines that you can continue at home.

We Prepare the Puppy. Then We Prepare You.

Training doesn’t end when your puppy leaves us.

Every Home Foundations family receives a one-on-one virtual transition session where we’ll:

Walk through your puppy’s current routine
Review what your puppy has learned
Show you how to continue the foundational skills
Discuss crate, potty, feeding, and household routines
Help you plan for the first week at home
Give you a roadmap for continuing training throughout your puppy’s first year

The goal is not simply to hand you a puppy who has had training. We want you to understand how to maintain and build on it.

Check out a few of our Home Foundations Puppy Example videos here

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Home Foundations Investment

2 Weeks | $1,250

4 Weeks | $2,500

Availability is limited because the program requires individualized attention and is intentionally kept small. Additional weeks can be added to customize the program length to your needs.

Ready to make your final Home Foundations commitment? Click here and choose the 2-week or 4-week program.

Proper Puppy Foundations

Train your puppy yourself with expert guidance and support

We Teach You How

You don’t have to leave your puppy with us longer to get professional training support.

Through our partnership with Proper Dog Academy, you can bring your puppy home and work privately with a trainer from the comfort of your own home.

The 6-Week Proper Puppy Foundations Program is designed to teach you how to train your puppy yourself. Rather than someone else doing all the work, you’ll learn what to do, why you’re doing it, and how to build good habits into everyday life so you are set up for success and can build on that foundation.

Your 6-Week Proper Puppy Program Includes

Six 45-minute private virtual training sessions

You’ll also receive:

A personalized training plan
Weekly homework and step-by-step guidance
Progress reviews and trainer feedback
An additional 15-minute weekly call or text check-in included to answer questions and support.

Training can focus on the things that matter most during puppyhood, including crate training, potty training, engagement, puppy biting, leash foundations, recall foundations, calmness, household manners, and building good routines.

Investment

$75 per 45-minute private session

As a Teddy Puppies family, you receive an exclusive:

20% OFF

Your rate: $60 per session

The full six-week program is recommended for consistency and continued progress. Additional monthly sessions can be added afterwards to stay on track.

You can register for Proper Puppy Virtual Training options here!

Which Option Is Right for You?

Choose Home Foundations if: you want us to do the early hands-on work before your puppy comes home.

Choose Proper Puppy Foundations if: you want your puppy home with you and want a professional trainer to teach you how to build the foundation yourself. And you don’t necessarily have to choose one or the other.

You Can Do Both.

Start with Home Foundations so your puppy arrives with an early head start, then continue with Proper Puppy Foundations so you learn how to maintain those skills and progress together at home.