Schnauzer & Schnoodle
Puppy Training
Prep School in PA
On our YouTube channel, we show you step by step how to train your puppy to become a beloved family pet that loves learning!
So you can train your puppy at your home, you’ll find videos showing us in the SVCC Schnauzer Training Prep School in the playlists on our YouTube channel. Our videos provide step by step guidance and all the ways we work with our Schnauzers to be well-trained, socialized, and happy doggies. Please see our YouTube Channel Playlists!
Customized Up to 4-Weeks
Schnauzer Training Program
All puppies need:
1. Structure & Boundaries, 2. Training & Discipline, and 3. Love & Affection. In that order! Our YouTube Videos and Playlists show you how we provide these so that you can do this in your home too. Begin this as soon as you get your new fur baby. No matter what age the dog is when you first get the dog, begin with the same sequence we show you on our YouTube videos.
Basic Obedience
If there is space available in our Prep School, when you select a puppy, you may enroll your puppy in Prep School to get your puppy ready to be a life long learner. Even when a puppy goes to our Prep School there will be a transition when the puppy comes to your home and you will need to continue the training.
Day-to-day life in our Schnauzer Prep School looks like this:
The puppies wake up next to Shasha. Learn more about our family pack here!
We go potty on potty pads. Shasha and our Mom and Doggie Aunties begin teaching us to be potty pad trained when we are just 3-6 weeks old! By 8 - 12 weeks old puppies can be fully potty pad trained.
We all do fun tricks together and eat our breakfast as rewards. Then we have more potty breaks.
We also watch the older doggies doing obedience and tricks in person and on our YouTube Channel just before our nap time. We sleep well because we are tired from learning so much! The whole sequence of what we learn is shared in YouTube videos you can watch along to see how this training evolves.
This training routine repeats many times each day with different handlers as we practice the new thing we are learning that day.
The puppies get to watch the older trained puppies first and then they practice what they saw being done. We are highly motivated by both toys and food – and puppies are inspired to want to do what we do. We learn so much by watching our pack!
First we are encouraged to follow a treat as a lure, and we hear the word, “Yes!” every time we do something well. We get food and toy rewards many times every day as we learn to “sit,” “down,” “spin,” “come,” and then “stay.” Our older dogs know fun tricks like “slide,” “wobble,” “dance,” “jump,” and “roll the ball!” We all enjoy watching visitors laugh when we do our fun tricks together.
Some schnauzer puppies are working on basics, like learning “sit” and “down,” and then “spin” and “stay,” while others are working on more challenging things like having a solid 5 minute “stay” or coming when when called while there are lots of distractions.
Once we’ve learned the basics inside, then after we are 12 weeks old, our training sessions move outside so we get comfortable being outdoors too.
It always feels fun, like a Montessori kindergarten classroom where the learning is customized to each schnauzer puppy. We have LIMITED space available for Puppy Prep School and if you are able to do the training yourself, you can follow along our YouTube Playlists that will show you step by step how to do the training in your home to integrate the puppy into your life easily beginning at 8 weeks old.
Socialization & Desensitization
From the time our eyes and ears open, Shawn Kent Hayashi (Shasha) introduces us to many sounds and situations we might encounter later.
Shawn plays all kinds of noises for us, and JSH introduces us to one of his favorite toys, vacuum cleaners — we have a collection of 9 different types! We experience blow dryers, grooming clippers, and anything that could be scary if we don’t encounter it as a young puppy.
We also learn to be well-socialized in many scenarios.
We meet new people! Some big, some very little, some wearing hats, costumes, and others singing…They come to play with us or we go visit them.
In the SVCC Schnauzer Prep School we go for car rides, and we are carried around shops in an outdoor mall, or a park close to where we live so we can be outside and see people and dogs who are not in our pack interacting nicely.
If we have not had our last DHPP shot we are carried or we are in a stroller when we go out in public. We are not allowed to walk on the ground outdoors until after we are have the last DHPP shot.
Happy, Healthy, Thriving Companions!
At 16 weeks old, we have gotten the final DHPP shot from the vet, then we are able to go freely out in the world!
After completing our Prep School training program, a puppy…
Will “sit, down, touch, watch me, come, and stay” on request
Is well socialized to interact with people of all types, ages and sizes
Has grooming experience and is comfortable on a grooming table and being combed
Has experienced household noises and sounds that can be scary to older dogs if they were not exposed to them when they were very young
Is up to date on DHPP vaccines and de-worming
Is confident learning new skills and in new environments
Is potty trained to both outside and a potty pad
Sleeps through the night
Is comfortable meeting new dogs in supervised situations
Please allow your puppy to have nap times as well as alone time every day in a play pen when puppy comes to your new home. Watch our YouTube videos for how to work with your puppy. You will need to be consistent with hand signals and commands and ensure that other people are too.
You will also be invited to join our private Facebook group, where you can stay in touch with us, watch training videos, and connect with our social group for playdates!
We look forward to working with you!
