The Dog House Academy

The Dog House Academy Balanced, professional, home-based dog training for the family dog. Training professionally since 2012.

Now offering in-home stay and trains based out of Mesa, AZ!

06/08/2026

Winnie is making big strides! Today we worked on heel, auto-sits, down with better positioning, and holding commands until released. We also introduced stay and started practicing waiting politely at thresholds. Using that obedience to create manners in the home. She’s doing awesome!

06/06/2026

Winnie spent today polishing up the little details on the skills we worked on yesterday! We worked on come, sit, down, crate, and off. It’s funny how dogs can know a command but still have opinions about how they want to do it. 😂

We’re focusing on cleaner positioning, especially on her recall and making sure she understands that sit means sit and down means down. She’s making great progress and starting to put all the pieces together. Proud of this sweet girl and excited to keep building on what we’ve started!

06/05/2026

Miss Winnie is settling in nicely! Today we worked on the name game, come, sit, and down. She also had me cracking up when she started trying to cheat during our down work by skipping the sit altogether. 😂 sneaky girl!

06/03/2026

Meet Winnie, June’s Residency Program pup! 🐾

Winnie is here to work on all things obedience while also tackling some territorial and possessive behaviors that have started to pop up. She’s a sweet girl, and over the next few weeks we’ll be focusing on building clarity, consistency, and confidence so she can make better choices both at home and out in the world.

I’m excited to get to know her and can’t wait to share her progress along the way!

05/25/2026

Counter surfing is one of those behaviors that’s super fun for dogs… because the reward is instant. They snag the sandwich, lick the butter, steal the chicken off the counter: jackpot! Meanwhile the “correction” usually comes way later when the human discovers it. Dogs learn by consequences in the moment, which is why management and consistency matter so much with behaviors like this. If it keeps paying off, they’ll keep clocking in for the job. 😂

05/23/2026

Cheyenne’s Residency Program recap 🎓🐾
From nervous and reactive to building confidence and working through the world with her people. So proud of this sweet girl and all the progress she made! 💛

Now that this cutie patootie knows place I use her breakfast and the Treat & Train to build duration. Here she is parked...
11/13/2023

Now that this cutie patootie knows place I use her breakfast and the Treat & Train to build duration. Here she is parked on place eating breakfast while I make my own breakfast. Effectively keeping her from being underfoot while I am cooking.

Eventually we will make the rewards come after longer periods of time until they are removed completely and then we just hold her accountable for maintaining place until I release her, thus building some really awesome duration skills!

11/12/2023

After we teach commands with food we layer in things like the leash, and accountability.

Miss Wrigley was super excited about her leash and kept jumping at it, so I layered ecollar over it to do some corrections that are less physical and more subtle. She responded beautifully and this was her first time on leash working heel without food to reward and guide her every move.

11/12/2023

I decided to use the Treat & Train to help shape Place with Wrigley. Because of her food obsession and her excited elimination I wanted to remove myself from the equation for the most part.

Every time she did something closer to the end result of Place I would click the Treat & Train which then results in a beep and dispenses food. She worked her way up to go to the bed, get up there, lay down, and stay there until I release you.

Tools really are the bridge to communication!

11/10/2023

One of the benefits of home based training…. The dogs here learn skills like how to navigate a doggy door. Passive training that goes a long way!

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