Training During Daycare

Day Train provides individualized training sessions outside the activity groups, allowing your dog to learn calmly and with expert guidance. A certified trainer works one-on-one with your dog in an environment where distraction, novelty, and challenge are matched to their learning stage. Training goals are selected with you and generally focus on obedience, manners, cooperative care, or behavioural skills for everyday life.

Benefits include:

• calm, focused learning
• emotional pacing matched to readiness 
• appropriate progression for confidence
• foundational skills for real-life manners
• stronger coping during transitions
• improved success in daycare overall

Your dog enjoys their full daycare experience plus dedicated training time designed to help them thrive.

Puppy Kindergarten integrates short, one-on-one training sessions into your puppy’s daycare day. Training takes place outside the activity groups so your puppy can learn without social pressure or overstimulation. Our trainers use pacing, appropriate distraction, and early cooperative care to build comfort, curiosity, and essential foundation skills.

Benefits include:

• foundational communication cues
• comfort with novelty and new environments
• handling and cooperative care practice
• gentle introduction to training
• emotional resilience and early confidence
• better success in their daycare pathway
   

Early support builds confident, resilient learners with a strong foundation.

Specialized sessions offer focused support for skills such as loose-leash foundations, polite greetings, place work, cooperative care, body handling, or behavioural confidence. These sessions take place outside the activity groups, where your dog can learn without distraction and with tailored guidance from a certified trainer.

Benefits include:

• tailored support for individual goals
• structured learning without social pressure
• distraction levels matched to ability
• progress in real-life behaviour
• confidence in new or challenging tasks

A targeted approach for exactly what your dog needs.

Play Behaviour Training takes place within your dog’s activity group and focuses on supporting safe, confident, and emotionally-regulated and appropriate social interaction. Trainers reinforce desirable play behaviours, support appropriate engagement, and redirect from impolite interactions.

Benefits include:

• improved social confidence and comfort
• clearer communication with other dogs
• healthier, safer play with others
• emotional self-regulation
• reduced overwhelm or escalation
• better long-term success in daycare social settings

Social skills are learned—and thoughtful guidance builds confidence and safety.

Settle sessions take place during your dog’s scheduled rest time. These sessions teach your dog to decompress, settle independently, and transition smoothly between activity and rest—skills essential for emotional balance. This emotional regulation supports overall comfort and enhances training and daycare effectiveness.

Benefits include:

• stronger emotional self-regulation
• comfort resting independently
• smoother transitions between activity and rest
• improved ability to settle after excitement
• calmer participation in daycare

Rest is a skill—and we teach it with intention.

Your dog’s comfort, confidence and emotional regulation in an environment determines success of a session. Trainers adjust timing, environment, and challenge based on your dog’s comfort and focus throughout the day. We prioritize emotional wellbeing first—because a regulated dog learns best.

Being intentional about training environment and receptivity ensures:

• appropriate challenge without overwhelm
• steady confidence building
• training that supports the entire day
• better skill retention

Effective training starts with the right emotional state—and we always honour that first. For both your dog's benefit and yours.

Our trainers and team are continuously observing your dog’s body language, energy, comfort level, and communication throughout their day. This real-time understanding allows us to choose the right recommendations and identify the relevant needs and structure for training.

This integrated approach ensures we can:

• recognize were your dog may be experiencing challenges
• support social interactions with expert guidance
• support rest or relaxation with intentional support
• identify moments where positive redirection helps skill development
• reinforce desirable behaviours in real-life contexts
• shape confidence and comfort throughout the day
• create confidence-building opportunities specific to your dog

Training is informed by everything we observe throughout your dog's day—not just a session itself.